Shedding hair with whispy tips and hicker roots [PIC]

[EricGerard]

Hey guys,

I've been on finasteride for a year now and minoxidil for just over 3 months. Recently I've been noticing that most of the hairs I shed are thick and pigmented by the root but thin and whispy at the tip. Before I started using minoxidil, practically none of my shed hairs were this way. In fact, most of the hairs I shed when I was on finasteride alone were thinner and less pigmented at the ROOT and thicker at the tip!

So I've had an apparent reversal in the appearance of my shed hair. These new hairs with the whispy tips clearly haven't been cut off but a pair of scissors.. so they should be fairly new hairs, right? Is this a good sign that the minoxidil is starting to reverse the miniaturization process/regrow new hair? Or... is this a sign that DHT is destroying those hairs and creating shorter and shorter growth cycles?

Here's a picture of one.

 

[jxlegend]

Sorry for bump, but this post is the most comprehensive illustration of one of my concerns. Anyone have experience with this? Is this a good sign that finasteride is working at 9 months in?

 

[Roberto_72]

thinner and less pigmented at the ROOT and thicker at the tip!

That did not look like healthy hair. It should be thicker at the base.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_follicle

This new hair you are shedding looks indeed wispy but it could be because of excess sebum, which in its turn is at times a byproduct of Androgenetic Alopecia. Do you ever feel hair is oily? If so, ever used a shampoo to reduce sebum?

 

[jxlegend]

That did not look like healthy hair. It should be thicker at the base.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_follicle

This new hair you are shedding looks indeed wispy but it could be because of excess sebum, which in its turn is at times a byproduct of Androgenetic Alopecia. Do you ever feel hair is oily? If so, ever used a shampoo to reduce sebum?

I use Regenpure DR every other/third day. I was just wondering if, after 9 months of using finasteride, they would still be a part of the "healthy" shed that indicates finasteride is working... like the weak part (top, whispy part of the hair), is making way for stronger (thicker root) of the hair, and new, good cycles of that hair will start. If that makes sense (that's what I HOPE for... but they are thin tipped, and I know that it could also be a sign that the hair themselves are bad and will stop growing eventually... but since it's thicker at the base, it gives me a possible false hope that they could be stronger hairs)

 

[pegasus2]

It should be the opposite. When a new cycle become the hair is tapered at the top. That hair should not fall out until it had has been there long enough to be cut, which would eliminate the thin tip. Secondly, the hair should get thinner at the root, during the catagen phase, as it prepares to be ejected. You appear to be leaving anagen early and going straight to telogen.

 

[jxlegend]

It should be the opposite. When a new cycle become the hair is tapered at the top. That hair should not fall out until it had has been there long enough to be cut, which would eliminate the thin tip. Secondly, the hair should get thinner at the root, during the catagen phase, as it prepares to be ejected. You appear to be leaving anagen early and going straight to telogen.

So they aren't "weaker" hairs leaving to be replaced since I'm on finasteride for 9 months now?

 

[pegasus2]

So they aren't "weaker" hairs leaving to be replaced since I'm on finasteride for 9 months now?

I don't think so, but that's just my opinion based on personal experience.

 

[hairblues]

Maybe the link at bottom will help...They debate short cycling and male pattern baldness and being on finasteride.

The pic you showed is how my hair looks when it grows uncut and I have not noticed this type of hair shedding maybe here or there but not enough to notice.

My very short hairs that shed like crazy when i started Keto 2 %. They were very short very thick with white gooey bulbs....that was first 2 to 4 weeks..Since then when i shed short hairs it's not as much and they are super skinny and weak looking..Im on keto for 4 months now..I see about 4 short skinny hairs and about 10 normal long thick hairs per shower on average. In beginning of shampoos it was like 20 short thick hairs each shower..It was scarey. I had these hairs before starting shampoo and they never fell out BUT if i touched them with fingers they just came out easily..no 'pull' feeling it was like they were not anchored in..I asked my hair loss Doctor and he said this was not a bad sign the shedding...Now the hairs i see growing start off super thin for first 1 to 2 inches and grow thicker as they proceed. So they sort of look like the hair on my arm at first then grow thicker...Like yours in pic...i have not noticed these fall out..I have long hair (I am a woman) so most of my very long hairs are cut. My hair was not cut in about 6 months..and i dont plan on cutting it for long time so i can see how my hairs look when shedding.

I hope any of that helps if i learn more from my hair loss Doctor in September about shed hairs and whats good vs bad i will come back and share.

https://www.hairlosstalk.com/interact/threads/i-dont-post-a-lot-but-i-have-to-say-this.15021/