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Hello there, so before I get into the crux of the matter of where I am with being a young person using finasteride you must understand my background first.
My hair loss "started" when I was 14. That sounds insane but that was the true first sign of it all. My hair texture started to change but I never thought anything of it until 2 years later when I cut my hair short & realized the top of my head was thinner then then everywhere else. I spent that entire summer researching hair loss & evaluating my risk for it. Essentially I am a big candidate because my father was completely bald as were all of his brothers & his father. My mothers father actually had pretty decent hair so it was kind of a crapshoot. Spoilers.. I lost.. kind of. I've always been a proactive person, wanting to take things into my own hands & not going down without a fight. At the time I acted I was 17 about to go into senior year of HS. I started with Saw Palmetto & used that for around 2 years until my freshman year of college. Reason being is becuase it is much harder to get finasteride than it is to go to a store & buy a $5 bottle of SP. So I used that for a while & whatever you believe about the effectiveness of SP is fine. Honestly I maintained what I had that whole time but the question that I will never know is where I would have been without it. I ended up dropping out of college to pursue something I love more. At this time I was 19 going in 20 in 1 month & I finally got around to going to a derm & getting finasteride. Since I said earlier I spent a lot of time on these forums, I've seen the good bad & the ugly when I comes to the internets thoughts on finasteride. But I've decided to take the plunge see how the drug affects me. At the time of me writing this I've been on it for a month. Side effects:
•watery semen (I think) but It didn't bother me & stopped after 3-4 days
No mental sides, no sexual sides other than listed above & slight ball ache which basically happens to everyone from time to time.
Point being is I'm perfectly fine. Please don't let people discourage you from trying. I know the side effects are real but they are severely blown out of proportion.
What really concerns me is some people are to afraid to even try something like Saw palmetto. I've read stories where people say it gave them impotence after 3 days or some sh*t. There a whole debate about wether saw palmetto even inhibits the 5-AR type 2 that's prominent in hair loss. I say personally SP will help buy time when you are in the beginning stages of hair loss but you should use that time to work up to finasteride. I was on high doses of SP for 2/12 years & not once did it affect me sexually in a negative way. When I was at my peak dosage per day I could still have sex with my (ex)-girlfriend multiple times a day. With finasteride I feel the same. So all of you stuck of the fence about starting finasteride, you can count me as one more young person doing just fine so far on it
I know you guys want to see pictures of my hair, I'm going to update this thread as the year goes on with pics, I'm only a month in so far & there's nothing really much to see yet in terms of regrowth. Also, I'm using finasteride primarily to maintain as I still have (most) of my hair. I don't have it as bad as some others out there & if your younger than me with a worse head of hair than me my heart truly goes out to you. & one more side note, I'm thinking it may take me 2 years to see the full effect of the big 3 because I have pretty long hair & usually wear it in a bun or wear it down & with a hat or something. My biggest trouble area is my left temple hairline area where it has thinned more than the middle or right side. If finasteride can rethicken that section a bit & just keep what I still have I'll be beyond happy. So I'm not gonna bother with pics until at least the 3 month mark & we will go from there. Feel free to ask me any questions about anything stated here
My hair loss "started" when I was 14. That sounds insane but that was the true first sign of it all. My hair texture started to change but I never thought anything of it until 2 years later when I cut my hair short & realized the top of my head was thinner then then everywhere else. I spent that entire summer researching hair loss & evaluating my risk for it. Essentially I am a big candidate because my father was completely bald as were all of his brothers & his father. My mothers father actually had pretty decent hair so it was kind of a crapshoot. Spoilers.. I lost.. kind of. I've always been a proactive person, wanting to take things into my own hands & not going down without a fight. At the time I acted I was 17 about to go into senior year of HS. I started with Saw Palmetto & used that for around 2 years until my freshman year of college. Reason being is becuase it is much harder to get finasteride than it is to go to a store & buy a $5 bottle of SP. So I used that for a while & whatever you believe about the effectiveness of SP is fine. Honestly I maintained what I had that whole time but the question that I will never know is where I would have been without it. I ended up dropping out of college to pursue something I love more. At this time I was 19 going in 20 in 1 month & I finally got around to going to a derm & getting finasteride. Since I said earlier I spent a lot of time on these forums, I've seen the good bad & the ugly when I comes to the internets thoughts on finasteride. But I've decided to take the plunge see how the drug affects me. At the time of me writing this I've been on it for a month. Side effects:
•watery semen (I think) but It didn't bother me & stopped after 3-4 days
No mental sides, no sexual sides other than listed above & slight ball ache which basically happens to everyone from time to time.
Point being is I'm perfectly fine. Please don't let people discourage you from trying. I know the side effects are real but they are severely blown out of proportion.
What really concerns me is some people are to afraid to even try something like Saw palmetto. I've read stories where people say it gave them impotence after 3 days or some sh*t. There a whole debate about wether saw palmetto even inhibits the 5-AR type 2 that's prominent in hair loss. I say personally SP will help buy time when you are in the beginning stages of hair loss but you should use that time to work up to finasteride. I was on high doses of SP for 2/12 years & not once did it affect me sexually in a negative way. When I was at my peak dosage per day I could still have sex with my (ex)-girlfriend multiple times a day. With finasteride I feel the same. So all of you stuck of the fence about starting finasteride, you can count me as one more young person doing just fine so far on it
I know you guys want to see pictures of my hair, I'm going to update this thread as the year goes on with pics, I'm only a month in so far & there's nothing really much to see yet in terms of regrowth. Also, I'm using finasteride primarily to maintain as I still have (most) of my hair. I don't have it as bad as some others out there & if your younger than me with a worse head of hair than me my heart truly goes out to you. & one more side note, I'm thinking it may take me 2 years to see the full effect of the big 3 because I have pretty long hair & usually wear it in a bun or wear it down & with a hat or something. My biggest trouble area is my left temple hairline area where it has thinned more than the middle or right side. If finasteride can rethicken that section a bit & just keep what I still have I'll be beyond happy. So I'm not gonna bother with pics until at least the 3 month mark & we will go from there. Feel free to ask me any questions about anything stated here
