Regemin Advice

[KEVING]

Hello All

Im just wanting to check my regimen, need some advice again.

I am currently taking finasteride (Proscar) 1mg a day for the last 3 months. I was using Nizoral 2% and T-Gel but i stopped them because i have a terrible itch constantly and pain of the scalp when pressed.

To try and beat this Itch ive been using Tricomin shampoo and conditioner, i have also just bought Tricomin Spray for overnight. I am also going to try and use Inflamil to see if its inflamation of the scalp causing the pain.

I still have about 85% of my hair but ive noticed over the last few months the top of my head is thinning more and the front has receeded more. I lose about 150 hairs a day, which is scary but i dont think it matters.

I thought about apply minoxidil to my receeding hairline now to try and catch things?? What do you think, think i should wait to see if the finasteride brings it back??

Does it matter that nizoral is not in my regimen at all??


All advice greatly received, may thanks.

 

[VWdude]

Stick it out with finasteride for a while, and then if needed down the line, add minoxidil. You never know, you might not be needing anything more than finasteride/nizoral.

 

[KEVING]

Is there anything wrong by just using minoxidil on the temples? Dont use nizoral by the way, is that wrong, was given me a terrible itch i think.

 

[VWdude]

Nothing wrong with using minoxidil on the temples and as for Nizoral itch, I havent experianced that and I have been using it for a few months now.

 

[hardcastle]

How necessary is nizoral? I know there are people who swear by it, but my impression was that it was for scalp conditions. I haven't noticed any scalp conditions (yet), such as inflammation.

Also, maybe this is a stupid question, but is its 2% minoxidil concentration enough to make follicles minoxidil-dependent? I've seen enough horror posts about minoxidil to be a little wary of this.

 

[Johnny24601]

re:

I would say I have about 85% of my hair and I have been using finasteride and minoxidil for about three months and I believe I have seen improvment. I had used nizoral early on but I stopped because I have no scalp issues and the nizoral left my hair very flat.

 

[dead]

My scalp itched and flaked like alaska for around 2 - 3 months after starting finasteride / minoxidil but eventually settled down (it had never been an issue previously)

I have not experienced itchynes, redness, inflamation or flakeyness for almost 14 months now, absolutely nothing.

I used T/Sal - Nizoral and T/Gel, they took along time to control finasterides influence on my scalp.