Propecia: six months later with no progress

[tony50]

Hello everyone, I'm 50 and started to lose my hairline in my late 20's. By 40 my crown was almost completely bald and becoming nearly impossible to comb-over. I have the same baldness pattern as my father but he seems to have as much, if not just a little more hair than I right now. I used Minoxidil on & off for over 10 years and only saw my hair-loss slowing down a bit.

I have been taking Propecia for six months now and has not given me any negative side-effects at all. I take my pill every morning with breakfast.

After 2 months of Propecia I noticed 4 new coarse hairs (where there was only one thin hair) coming from my center forehead (where my hairline was 25 years ago), but I have noticed absolutely NO hair regain since. Then I recently started to take saw palmetto twice per day, and since Minoxidil cost 5x as much here in Europe I haven't added that to the stack (yet).

Question 1: Is there any likely added benefit in hair regrowth by adding saw palmetto (or saw palmetto plus Minoxidil) to Propecia?
Question 2: With all this being said do I have any reason to suspect this whole expensive hair-regrowth programme is likely not going to work, stop the prescription, and save 70.CHF ($60.USD) per month?

(Honestly, what are my probable chances at having a much fuller head of hair again in another 6-12 months? <5%?, >60%?)

thanx-

 

[Patrick54]

You may want to look into Dutasteride it's much more powerful than finasteride. I'm having very good luck with it, it started regrowing hair at 2 months but I took a loading dose of 1.5 mgs for the first 10 days, at almost 4 months its turned the hair clock back 10 to 15 years and still regrowing hair.

 

[Rutt]

you can't regrow hair generally speaking. you can only prevent it from further miniturizing/balding

 

[Patrick54]

you can't regrow hair generally speaking. you can only prevent it from further miniturizing/balding

Try Dutasteride and get back with me. unk:

 

[mothernature]

pro/dutasteride are designed primarily to STOP HAIR LOSS. Look at their mechanism. They are not growth stimulants. They will just stop miniturizing. Any "regrowth" u might get will be from a lack of androgen miniturizing a hair that was already growing.

 

[Patrick54]

"Dutasteride's results were the "best" that has come to date, and even getting 50% hair counts better than Finasteride is great. Just think of the fact that this was only at 6 months.

Many expect that numbers will be even higher as the study continues to 12 months, 2 years etc. It's possible that over 50% of men will be getting moderate to dense
regrowth on Dutasteride, compared to the less than 25% of men who experience these results with Finasteride."