Rogaine?

[Pinkus23]

My hair started thinning recently and I've been thinking about using Rogaine. From what I understand, when you start this treament, hair loss accelerates for a brief period. Can anyone tell me how badly it accelrates? Also, my hair started thinning right on the heels of me shedding approx 30lbs in 3 months (Atkins). Someone told me that crash diets may affect hair, causing loss. Anybody have experience with this? Is it reversible?

Thanks in advance,
Bob

 

[HairlossTalk]

Bob, if you are losing hair due to male pattern baldness and are experiencing your first thinning, Propecia+Nizoral shampoo is the advised treatment. Its claim to fame is halting thinning, and giving minor regrowth. Chances are extremely high in your favor that popping that pill alone every day+Nizoral shampoo will completely resolve your problems.

Shedding can occur with any treatment that causes a change to the operations of the follicle (see the "Shedding: the Four Letter Word of hair loss article top left corner of this page). It is temporary and those hairs will cycle back in within 1 to 4 months.

A close friend of mine lost nearly 80lbs by crash dieting recently, and she is experiencing thinning hair right now too. Its difficult to tell. From what I've read, hair thinning is associated with the atkins diet, but being a male between ages 22 and 55, you also have a high chance that its just male pattern baldness. If it was the crash dieting, it should begin to cycle back into growth within 3 to 6 months. You may want to just wait it out to see if the shedding continues. This will be your choice.

I advise to wait on Rogaine until you absolutely need it. 83% of the time, Propecia+Nizoral shampoo all by itself will completely maintain your hair and give you minor thickening. You can always add rogaine in 5 to 7 years if Propecia stops working for you.

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Good luck and keep us posted.

HairLossTalk.com

 

[mojo]

HairLossTalk.com gives great advice as usual. I’ll throw in that I think getting on Propecia & Nizoral is easy, so a must. Personally, although my thinning is still not too detectible, I decided to jump onto the Rogaine too, just because I miss my hair being a little thicker. However, I ask this, by using all possible weapons at once, will we eventually lose the battle earlier than if we space them out?

 

[HairlossTalk]

I believe there is a good chance of that, yes. Rogaine showed roughly 5 years effectiveness time. Propecia was still doing fairly well at the 7 year mark. To me, its way more logical to use Propecia by itself for 7 years and know that you can always bet on another additional 5 years ... with the Rogaine.... than to just use both up front and start the clock ticking.

They've never done a study on the two together, yet, so its just an educated assumption.

I always recommend people start small and pace themselves. Its a long fight.

HairLossTalk.com

 

[FuneralforaFriend]

While it is true we can go 7 years on propecia and than 5 years on Rogaine, I know in my case and in alot of the guys on this board, they feel like the Propecia isn't really doing anything for them in certain areas(temple and front mostly) and by just keep popping the pill the front will be gone in 7 years and than the Rogaine won't be regrowing too much because most of it will be scalp. In my case I think it is just smarter to combine the two if your afraid of a frontal hair loss and see it showing through. If I have the hair I have now or a little bit more in 5 years I will be very happy and than if there is a steady progression from that time on I think I should be a settled and making money and it'll be time for the good ol' transplant. Thats my plan right now, who knows if I'm wrong, but it is a scary thought that I won't be able to rely on Propecia and Rogaine in 5 years. But just to make sure HairLossTalk.com, you are pretty certain they stop working around then? That sucks...Seeya

 

[Guest]

While it is true we can go 7 years on propecia and than 5 years on Rogaine, I know in my case and in alot of the guys on this board, they feel like the Propecia isn't really doing anything for them in certain areas(temple and front mostly) and by just keep popping the pill the front will be gone in 7 years and than the Rogaine won't be regrowing too much because most of it will be scalp. In my case I think it is just smarter to combine the two if your afraid of a frontal hair loss and see it showing through. If I have the hair I have now or a little bit more in 5 years I will be very happy and than if there is a steady progression from that time on I think I should be a settled and making money and it'll be time for the good ol' transplant. Thats my plan right now, who knows if I'm wrong, but it is a scary thought that I won't be able to rely on Propecia and Rogaine in 5 years. But just to make sure HairLossTalk.com, you are pretty certain they stop working around then? That sucks...Seeya

To my knowledge, no one has done a long term study on the impact of using the Big Three in concert. It may be that these treatments combined DO NOT diminish in impact on male pattern baldness.

 

[Vanity]

Hold off until you are certain that it is not a result of your diet! MY derm had me do blood tests first to see if there were other possible causes. Drugs should be your last line of defense (in my case, since Im a seasoned shedder, a hair transplant is....yes years of hair loss pain)

 

[canigia]

what about if you started with regaine and have never used propecia? i started taking regaine/ minoxidil before 5 years (at the age of 19) and my hairloss is getting worst extremely slow. after my first year on regaine i cut it down to once a week and also used pregaine shampoo (which is sh*t). but i managed to control my hairloss. the past summer though my hair started to get thinner (my problem was always in the hairline) and i used again regaine twice a day. and the results were positive. before two weeks i started using regaine only in the hairline and (i used to apply it in the whole top and frontal area) my hairline got extremely thick in just a matter of 10 days and imagine i am a veteran minoxidil user. mostly it depends on the individual but i contiously discover that regaine is multi-talented and i don't think it will wear off completely because derms recomment a life use. my only concern now would be how i'll respond to a use of propecia?

 

[mojo]

That's interesting. What occurs when one starts and stops the minoxidil? Once you stop, obvoiusly the regrowth and even maintenence quickly shed. However, is it possible to go back and regain the benefits? Or, is it that once you quit, you're done with minoxidil for good?

 

[shineydome]

That's interesting. What occurs when one starts and stops the minoxidil? ..... However, is it possible to go back and regain the benefits? Or, is it that once you quit, you're done with minoxidil for good?

I've been using minoxidil off and on and off and on since 1986. My experience is, once I stopped I lost all I gained plus all I would have lost during that timeframe...so it "looks" like the minoxidil causes "additional" hairloss. Once I started again, I regained quite a bit, buy not as much as the first time...and when I stopped again, lost it all again etc. etc...so on and so on. This time, I'm determined NOT to stop and hopefully there will be more effective treatments in future. That's my two cents.