Minoxidil seems to be more effective with derma rolling than on it's own. I think you are not going to find too many people who were able to maintain without losing some ground after 15 years on finasteride. I just think your follicles become more super sensitive to DHT as you age if you have the balding gene. So far I have yet to see someone keep the same amount on hair for over 15 years who has the balding gene.
Has anyone ever contacted the admin or a moderator here? now that Propecia has been on the market for 23 years, there's alot of guys with 15-23 years finasteride use under their belts, I think it could do with having a sub forum for 15+year users to share what the next steps are once you get to this stage rather than having post in some of the forums that are often filled with guys just starting out.
Yes with the exception of a few months when generics first became available. My pharmacy refilled my scribe with the non name brand without me knowing. I ended up going back to propecia because I wasn’t comfortable with where the generic brand was being manufactured.
You’re definitely correct. For the first 10 years I feel like my hair was in better shape than when I first started. Unfortunately genetics are starting to catch up and things are really starting to go down high. I’m still able to conceal the thinning but it’s getting tougher and tougher to do so. It sucks but there are far worse things. Do you use a dermaroller? If so, how many times a week?
That’s a great idea because the search functions don’t really allow you to pinpoint long time users or the “elderly people” in their 40s.
I think something happens after you have been on finasteride 15+years, its just there's not enough people sharing information, i cut back a bit on finasteride while the wife was trying to conceive some years ago. and although my hair started to suffer when I restarted full time the next 4 years my hair looked better than before i had some time off. im not saying that actually works, but im hoping in the future there is some kind of simple solution like that, that reset's your tolerance and stops the results plateauing after 15 years.
Have you ever had a break in your 15 years or have you been on it constantly?
How long have you been on finastride or dutasteride for?
I used to use a combo of finasteride and dutasteride, now its just dutasteride. Its been getting close to 4 years now. I maintained but I wanted regrowth so I added topical minoxidil, it didnt do much but holy hell did oral minoxidil work.
I just started with the Dr Pen Dermapen. I have had 4 sessions so far and it does cause me to shed more. Only time will tell if I get improvement. I am doing it like every 10 days or so.
If you read things like this:
"no improvement" that is the problem, how did you meassure the " improvement " If bald areas not go bigger, it is an improvement. I am telling you this not with sarcasm, I did the same stupid things, thinking that if Minoxidil didn't covert me back into a norwood 0 , It was not working.
The container actually does not have the name of the brand. It just says 1mg FS.
How can Janey help? Hi. I am Janey, genius and hair restoration guy of the stars or at least of the trannies, well not really but I try to make treating baldness less painful while this is serious, just coming on here is correlated with bad hair.
