rogaine poll

[hairisthinning]

im afraid to start rogaine cause i hear lots of people saying their hair has only worsened since starting rogaine. i figured we'd start a poll to see how many people have improved their situation, or made it worse. This is after six months of using rogaine.

 

[DudeInNJ]

http://picasaweb.google.com/DudeInNJ/NewSpudsOfHair

I have been using the foam for almost exactly 3 months now. I may have had some shedding at first, but quite honestly, my hair was so thin that i don't think I would have noticed.

It has really thickened up all around well -- lots of new hairs popping up, which you can see from the front shot.

 

[IBM]

but you have one less testicle.

 

[DudeInNJ]

Number of testicles is not the issue (for those wondering, I had testicular cancer 2 years ago) -- it's the testosterone level.

Also, my hair loss has become much worse over the last 2 years. It's not as though I just had a testicle removed 3 months ago and saw my hair grow back. It got steadily worse in the last 2 years.

Now, it's true that perhaps if i had two nuts I'd have a higher testosterone level, but experience in the TC survivor community has shown that the remaining nut picks up the slack -- it actually grows in size and creates more testosterone and sperm. By two years on, my testosterone is very close to my baseline from before the cancer.

In other words, I was thinning dramatically before the rogaine.

 

[lain]

8 months on minoxidil, 3 of them on the foam. The left temple (and hairline) has gotten worse, right temple remained the same if not a little thicker.

Overall I'd say it ain't working.

Keep in mind I'm also 7 months in on Propecia, which could be having a negative impact on hair too.

 

[Finish line]

I've used minoxidil liquid once per day for three years, and while I definitely responded and it did help, it was a big pain in the *** and I often skipped.

So instead of the recommended 2X per pay I was maybe getting in .6 X per day if that makes sense.

After starting foam, been almost a month and a half now, it is BLOWING MY MIND.

I think I'm one of the really, really good responders because I use the foam 2X per day, front and back, and my hair is already looking amazing, explosive, thick growth.

In a couple months, I think nobody will ever be able to tell I was going bald at all.

And three years ago I was horribly limp, receded, diffuse norwalk 2.5 with increasing thinning in the back.

Under foam, the back of my head and the front of my head have been my biggest barometers.

The back is filling in like I can't believe, the front is solidifying into a solid hairline, liquid produced an okay result up front, but with foam, the hairs coming in are THICK, and STRONG, dark, dark hairs. It's really crazy.

Plus the overall appearance is very solid. I was shaved but I've begun to grow it out and my hair no longer requires the gimmicky "Caesar" cut as before, it just looks solid.

I mean, it's not perfect, but it's rocketing towards that.

Scouts honor, I did not expect this at all.

I say, finasteride, and my lackluster liquid minoxidil regimen got me back to 80% of 100% hair. I started with 65% hair, I think.

(refering to diffusion, not coverage, I've always been Norwood 2 in terms of coverage, just thin and nasty)

Three years ago, and before, in my early 20's, people would mercilessly ridicule my hair. (I think it's because I have a good looking face and body, and so people attack you. You never see ugly people who are balding getting made fun of to their face. They're just accepted)

Now, people tell me, and more importantly, people I've not known before, tell me that I have a nice head of hair.

Things like that are very telling.

With foam and finasteride, 2X per day, in very short order, I would say I am 90% of where I want to be.

Just 10% more thickness, all over, will be perfect until a "cure" comes along.

I couldn't be happier. Here's to the next six months.

 

[Guest]

finish line, thanks.

very encouraging.

i am a diffuser like you, with an nw1.5 hairline but thinning into an nw4 area. just started rogaine foam today after being on avodart for 10 months.

 

[Finish line]

if you're anything like me, get off that scary Avodart crap, finasteride is bad enough..

honestly minoxidil kicks the pants off both of them, I just use finasteride to have at least something attacking from below but I will drop finasteride the SECOND I can.

I really hate how it messes with my hormones. I mean, it's nothing major, but I definitely feel, you know, just kinda different. It would be nice to drop it.

I couldn't imagine Avodart, plus the fact that it ages your skin.

Anyway, yeah, if you're like me, a dark haired diffuser that responds to minoxidil, foam is going to be like a Michael Jordan slam dunk.

I still can't get over the fact that application is so easy and transparent, and how strong it is.

So cool to see my hair beginning to reinforce itself with more hair underneath. I may just grow it out in half a year because I probably could.

Anyway, foam is (finally) a chalk one up for the good guys scenario.

 

[Guest]

yep i have very very dark brown hair and i'm diffuse with a pretty intact hairline. so you're saying i can probably expect good things from minoxidil? i've had some solid regrowth and thickening from avodart.

does it concern yout hat it seems to evaporate so much? i applied it today for the first time, into my 3/8th of an inch buzz cut, and when i was applying it it just evaporated or absorbed in like two seconds. it just turned from foam into liquid and then dried. it concerned me cause it was so fast. it's like a second after it touches the skin it's gone.

 

[Finish line]

No, it doesn't concern me; the Versafoam is some super high tech stuff. I know it looks just like shaving cream but I can't pretend to understand how this stuff really works, all I know is it does. But that's the best part about it, it's like brushing teeth or tying shoes, instead of the private, three hour ordeal of before.

Yeah, your hair sounds exactly like mine.

I woke up this morning, and it's grown out to about a quarter inch now, and straight off the pillow I grabbed a mirror and looked around and my hair looks really solid.

I mean, this is only the first 1.5 mos after transitioning onto this stuff so the improvements over the next half year to a year are pretty much going to kick major ***.

Here's what's been the coolest aspect for me. See, I've been thinning out slowly for the past 13 years. Started very early at 17, and I thought I was going to be totally bald by 20, but that didn't happen. It just slowly thinned.

By 23 it was pretty noticeable, and through my 20's, life was miserable. then, around 29, I started my regimen of finasteride and minoxidil, and it brought me from, as I said, 65% to about 80% over a couple years. But this was with less than perfect (!) minoxidil application.

I still wasn't "in the club".

But now, simply over the past 1.5 mos from going to foam, my hair has exploded in thickness (my temples are now almost as solid as the top of my head, which is just crazy) and this has happened:

People with full heads of hair make fun of other balding people in front of me. It's like I've crossed over.

So.. yeah, pinch me. I want to know who's face I'm supposed to plant a big, sloppy kiss on.

Stuff is awesome, and you will love it.

 

[Guest]

You should probably thank the big bad evil drug company Pfizer for making such a great product. Damn I hate when they do that.