About 2 years ago i decided to give finasteride a shot. I wanted to prevent for further hair loss so i started proscar. So about the second month on finasteride i experienced a massive shed, it never really stopped shedding just kept on continuing, on my sixth month on finasteride i experienced a rare side effect the finasteride was not just making me lose my hair on my head but all over my body i lost all my leg hair, chest hair and even my beard thinned out. I had a small hair transplant of 1000 grafts in Dublin on march 2013 it grew in prefect the hair was really thick while i was on finasteride my hair transplant hair even thinned out along with my body and facial hair! i was shedding so much of it, it was making it worse! I never got any of the sexual side effects on finasteride. I stop finasteride 15 months in cause it was destroying my hair transplant it made it thin out so bad that it didnt look like i even got a hair transplant.
I know people are going to say shed is good thing but when you are on finasteride for 15 months straight without missing one day and you shed about 200 hairs a day well that's not normal!! It honestly did thicken my hair up but because of the fact my beard hair. body and hair transplant hair all thinned out i had to stop. It did thicken the hair on my actually head though, but losing 150-200 hairs form the new thicken hairs a day drove me crazy my sink would be full of hair. While off finasteride though now 7 months i can say im not shedding as much hair in the way i used to when i was on finasteride, my hair transplant hair has gotten a tiny bit thicker, my body and beard hair is way thicker. But the hair on my head is gone back to the wimp dead straw like telogen hair it once was also my head itches like crazy some days.
Ive very fair brown hair and have DPA but when taking finasteride it cause such a shock to my system i personally believe it caused telogen effluvium and any time i try to argue with my doctor or my hair restoration doctor about it. They say finasteride cant cause an imbalance which is why im asking is there anyone out there that has really fair thin hair and while taking finasteride caused telogen effluvium?? i have a picture below on how finasteride thinned out my hair transplant hair the top picture is after finasteride and the bottom one it before finasteride. I haven't a clue what to do i need help i dont want to lose all my hair ??Anyway i can treat this?
I know people are going to say shed is good thing but when you are on finasteride for 15 months straight without missing one day and you shed about 200 hairs a day well that's not normal!! It honestly did thicken my hair up but because of the fact my beard hair. body and hair transplant hair all thinned out i had to stop. It did thicken the hair on my actually head though, but losing 150-200 hairs form the new thicken hairs a day drove me crazy my sink would be full of hair. While off finasteride though now 7 months i can say im not shedding as much hair in the way i used to when i was on finasteride, my hair transplant hair has gotten a tiny bit thicker, my body and beard hair is way thicker. But the hair on my head is gone back to the wimp dead straw like telogen hair it once was also my head itches like crazy some days.
Ive very fair brown hair and have DPA but when taking finasteride it cause such a shock to my system i personally believe it caused telogen effluvium and any time i try to argue with my doctor or my hair restoration doctor about it. They say finasteride cant cause an imbalance which is why im asking is there anyone out there that has really fair thin hair and while taking finasteride caused telogen effluvium?? i have a picture below on how finasteride thinned out my hair transplant hair the top picture is after finasteride and the bottom one it before finasteride. I haven't a clue what to do i need help i dont want to lose all my hair ??Anyway i can treat this?
Hopefully the answer is yes. And if the answer is yes, hopefully I actually have Telogen Effluvium and not something else!