Propecia made me worse

[scaramouche]

I've been on propecia for 5 1/2 months. I was losing hair before, but my hair was pretty thick and curly. Not only is my hair super thin and straight now, but it's further receded. I feel like I paid all of this money to accelerate my baldness. i look 10 yrs older now.

If I stop taking it now, I guess I'll lose even more. Anyone know what's going on.


I know there can be an initial shedding, but this is terrible.

Thanks. :x [/b]

 

[Baldie]

It's called shedding and almost eveyone who goes on propecia, minoxidil etc. will experience a rollercoaster ride for the first 12 months. It's perfectly normal.

To read about it click on this word: propecia
or click on this one: shedding

Stick with it, if it's not better by 12 months, then you're probably a non-responder, but it takes at least 8-12 months before you can see any results. And it gets worse before it gets better. Basically you've shocked your hair follicles into expanding to create thicker hair, this means the thin hair you've got there now will fall out. In 2-3 months you will regrow thicker hair.

 

[Cassin]

I've been on propecia for 5 1/2 months. I was losing hair before, but my hair was pretty thick and curly. Not only is my hair super thin and straight now, but it's further receded. I feel like I paid all of this money to accelerate my baldness. i look 10 yrs older now.

If I stop taking it now, I guess I'll lose even more. Anyone know what's going on.


I know there can be an initial shedding, but this is terrible.

Thanks. :x [/b]

What makes you think the balding process simply hasn't picked up it's pace? I was losing hair very slowly for a long time and my male pattern baldness speed up to an alarming rate seemingly overnight. The finasteride probably hasn't had a chance to kick in. If you stop and lose more hair than that means the finasteride was helping in some way.

If you really think it is speeding up your loss the stopping it would slow it down again.

You need to think through this.

 

[j25]

It's also a possibility that your hairline got hit because of higher T-levels. The hairline seems to be more suscepitable for Testosterone than the vertex/ crown.
There's no evidence for this hypothesis yet, but i've heard from many people (i am experiencing the same thing) who've had an adverse frontal reaction to propecia during the first couple of months (without later regrowth, so we're not talking about a shedding).
Personally i do not mind that much, because this probably indicates that the receeding was destined to happen anyway. As long as it stabilizes at a certain point, i'll be satisfied.