Shed first month. Deciding to stop- will my hair come back?

nachos

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Will the hair I lost from the shed come back if I stop? People say if you stop the hair will get even worse, but I see no sources to back this up.
 

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Unlikely to return to baseline, since your baldness is still progressing. So you might have lost a couple of months of "better hair"
 

JaneyElizabeth

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Will the hair I lost from the shed come back if I stop? People say if you stop the hair will get even worse, but I see no sources to back this up.
Yikes! No sources? What about the millions who go bald without using any meds? It is more confusing if you are using two treatments at once since finasteride probably carries most of the water for topical min but oral min make be more effective either alone or in combo than either. Also, meds like Keto can diminish inflammation and might halt hair loss without reversing it. You have a few options that are likely to work but if you mess it up, then eh, there's no recovery save estradiol.

Sheds do differ in terms of being benevolent while hair loss tends to be permanent but you are in a stage where distinguishing the two might be quite difficult and if your balding is aggressive enough, probably only finasteride/duta will suffice and then with oral min, you might get all of it back but it's a lot of i's to dot en route....
 

nachos

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Yikes! No sources? What about the millions who go bald without using any meds? It is more confusing if you are using two treatments at once since finasteride probably carries most of the water for topical min but oral min make be more effective either alone or in combo than either. Also, meds like Keto can diminish inflammation and might halt hair loss without reversing it. You have a few options that are likely to work but if you mess it up, then eh, there's no recovery save estradiol.

Sheds do differ in terms of being benevolent while hair loss tends to be permanent but you are in a stage where distinguishing the two might be quite difficult and if your balding is aggressive enough, probably only finasteride/duta will suffice and then with oral min, you might get all of it back but it's a lot of i's to dot en route....
No I mean the ones to say here that if you stop the medication you will lose a lot more of your hairDue to the stoppage not due to male pattern baldness. Is that accurate? That’s stopping the medication can cause your hair to fall out because you’re stopping the medication, not because of male pattern baldness?
 

JaneyElizabeth

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No I mean the ones to say here that if you stop the medication you will lose a lot more of your hairDue to the stoppage not due to male pattern baldness. Is that accurate? That’s stopping the medication can cause your hair to fall out because you’re stopping the medication, not because of male pattern baldness?
No. I know know what you mean. It's like you unleashed more havoc than having done nothing at all. This isn't true and you won't be worse off post-shed, except for starting over. I had a shed to baldness and it turned out to be exactly what was best in my situation overall but being bald for several months wasn't part of my original plan.
 

nachos

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No. I know know what you mean. It's like you unleashed more havoc than having done nothing at all. This isn't true and you won't be worse off post-shed, except for starting over. I had a shed to baldness and it turned out to be exactly what was best in my situation overall but being bald for several months wasn't part of my original plan.
Well I mean, I hear of others going on it for years and their hairline gets worse. Not just normally, but much faster than normal. Most stories I hear in fact are akin to that tone.

so what you’re saying is, if I stop it now, it won’t get worse from the medication? Like there won’t be some “shock” or something? If it gets worse via male pattern baldness, fine. I just want to ensure dropping the meds won’t cause some disastrous sh*t, as many here have said.

And do you think it would regrow what I lost from dutasteride, if I stop it?
 
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