sometimes i wonder what's the point of these "treatment

[iostream71]

ok, so you stopped your hairloss with propecia and you grew some back with rogaine. (x) years down the road it quits working and you're right back where you started. i would be even MORE depressed with those kind of results. somebody please tell me i'm wrong :?

 

[bubka]

geez man, having your youthful hair and appearance for a few extra years, probably more not worth it... i mean thats like saying you don't see a difference in going bald at 20 vs 35....

 

[iostream71]

i wouldn't want to be bald at 25 equally as much as i wouldn't want to be bald at 35. so you get a few years of hair...big deal. in the end you're still gonna be bald. i'm just hoping i can hold on to things until a real cure comes along :hairy:

 

[bubka]

ok, well i think it helps with a lot of things, job, women, etc... but hey, maybe thats me, and probably a very important time in your life too where hair is a little more significant

 

[hairwegoagain]

It's likely that today's treatments will help you hold on to your remaining hair for a period of time...but not forever. Mother Nature will eventually win, all other things being equal.

If screwing around with pills and potions isn't worth it to you, there's no shame in saying "screw it" and moving on with the more important things in life. I assure you that hair is not a prerequisite to anything you wish to accomplish.

Good luck.

 

[Guest]

You're wrong, and it's easy to see why, at least if you think like I do:

All the treatments that we use right now have come out within the past 20 years. If you thin 15% as fast on finasteride as you would have otherwise, you can keep a reasonable head of hair, like below NW4 for 20 years. 20 years- two decades.

finasteride, dutasteride, minoxidil, spironolactone, all have come into being within the past 20 years. finasteride and dutasteride within the past 10 years. Imagine what will be out 20 years from now- probably third-generation HM by then which will be affordable, probably under 5k in present value dollars. Have a good shot at keeping what you have or most of it until then. If you're concerned about keeping what you have for the longest period of time then be on dutasteride 0.5 mg per day which should allow you to keep your present hair for decades. It is super strong. You're buying time with these meds- until new and better treatments come out, ones which should make baldness a choice.

 

[MPBWarrior]

it's the rate of loss that's important here. u might still lose hair on finasteride or dutasteride but at a MUCH slower rate than without it, even after the 'regrowth years'.

 

[NYVic20]

If you're 50 yrs and have no chance at a sex life or have a lot of money and can afford a trophy wife; then fine. But, if your like most here (and some very young like me) ; you'd want to give it your best shot and try to maintain your hair for as long as possible. 8)

 

[iostream71]

i've been slowly thinning for the past 10 years. 35 now and norwood 3, so i'm still in decent shape. i just don't want to get my hopes up on these current drugs

 

[bubka]

well all i can tell you is that you will never know if you dont use them...

 

[JayBear]

It would be one thing if the medicines were extraordinarilly expensive or difficult to use. I just started fincar which is amazingly cheap, and although splitting pills is a bit of a pain in the ***, its not that bad. minoxidil is pretty cheap too and takes really about 30 secs to apply. I just don't really see any reason not to try whatever is available.

 

[iostream71]

oh, my point isn't the cost involved.....it's the false sense of hope. if you grow tons of hair on meds and then a few years later it quits working....wouldn't that kind of be like going bald twice?? kind of like a roller coaster :freaked:

 

[MPBWarrior]

oh, my point isn't the cost involved.....it's the false sense of hope. if you grow tons of hair on meds and then a few years later it quits working....

they never stop working. its just that your hair loss becomes more and more aggressive so their effectiveness goes down, but what u have to understand is that you'll be losing a lot more hair without finasteride or dutasteride than with them, no matter how long you've been on them-the rate of loss is a lot slower on them. u say you've been thinning for the past 10 years and now you're an NW3. if u were on finasteride during that time u mightve still been an NW2 or NW2.5. and in ten years time, if you're not on finasteride or dutasteride, you might be an NW4 or 5, whereas on them you might be an NW3.5.

 

[iostream71]

i'm gonna keep using the meds. i've been on them for 3+ months now. just hoping something a little more permanent comes around soon

 

[MPBWarrior]

3 months is nothing for a hair loss treatment. give it a year.

 

[Hans Gruber]

Re: sometimes i wonder what's the point of these "treat

ok, so you stopped your hairloss with propecia and you grew some back with rogaine. (x) years down the road it quits working and you're right back where you started. i would be even MORE depressed with those kind of results. somebody please tell me i'm wrong :?

you are wrong,these treatments keep your hair until something better comes along :hairy:

 

[iostream71]

i'm hoping to god that hm stuff works. so, until then, i'll keep eating propecia candy 8)

 

[Nathaniel]

Its really not that meds stop working, a lot of the time people just give up on them or just don't use them correctly. I'll give you an example, I keep reading about guys complaining about how minoxidil doesn't work or doesn't work THAT well, then you read their regimen and you find out that they only apply it once a day. Then you keep browsing the site, find another post from them, and find out they sometimes even skip applications and even when they apply it, they land most of the liquid in their hair instead of the scalp.

This is just an example of the few things I've been reading so far. A lot of guys are NOT consistent with their treatments and you have to be in order to be successful.