That Feeling When You Are Not Even Maitaining On Finasteride

[michel sapin]

that feeling when you have started finasteride at 21 despite all the fearmongers , and that you get no result . Seeing your harline receding each day, and you whole scalp thinning.
And extra bonus you get all the sides of fina !
dat feeling of peace man

 

[whatintheworld]

Dude sorry to hear that, I've been on finasteride for a year and I have no sides, but I'm not sure I'm maintaining necessarily either...losing slower for sure though.

Have any before and after pictures?

 

[michel sapin]

almost 4 year on it bro.
started Norwood 2 , even less , now nw3 and that keep miniaturizing

 

[davesmith420]

Dude, can you post some pictures of your baseline and current hair? I feel like your hair is nowhere as bad as you make it out to be.

I remember @dralex always used to talk about how his hair got "worse" on treatments, then he posted pictures and his hair literally looked the same if not a little better.

 

[whatevr]

When you have aggressive hair loss, Finasteride is like the first step of a long set of stairs that you will climb. Either you will keep climbing, or fall off, no other option.

I was on Finasteride for one year. I kept losing my hair, and grew some puffy nipples along with it. Later on I started using Alpicort which helped me regrow everything that I lost but I couldn't keep using it due to estrogenic side effects. After that I switched to RU58841 which has much fewer side effects than Finasteride and is very close to maintaining but not quite, so I keep very slowly losing hair but at 1/5th of the pace that I did on Finasteride. The next logical step is to bump up the topical regimen, so now I am moving to experimental anti-androgens and those are going to be enzalutamide and darolutamide.

Also during this whole time I keep using Minoxidil. I recently added the dermastamp as well. I used Ketoconazole for a year but found it to be totally worthless.

Bottom line is as I said, if giving up is not an option, and you are not afraid of experimenting with things that are untested and potentially unsafe, there is always something next to try...

 

[Johnmpb]

When you have aggressive hair loss, Finasteride is like the first step of a long set of stairs that you will climb. Either you will keep climbing, or fall off, no other option.

I was on Finasteride for one year. I kept losing my hair, and grew some puffy nipples along with it. Later on I started using Alpicort which helped me regrow everything that I lost but I couldn't keep using it due to estrogenic side effects. After that I switched to RU58841 which has much fewer side effects than Finasteride and is very close to maintaining but not quite, so I keep very slowly losing hair but at 1/5th of the pace that I did on Finasteride. The next logical step is to bump up the topical regimen, so now I am moving to experimental anti-androgens and those are going to be enzalutamide and darolutamide.

Also during this whole time I keep using Minoxidil. I recently added the dermastamp as well. I used Ketoconazole for a year but found it to be totally worthless.

Bottom line is as I said, if giving up is not an option, and you are not afraid of experimenting with things that are untested and potentially unsafe, there is always something next to try...

Do u have any pics of ur progress? I know u posted a series b4

 

[buckthorn]

you're wrong. finasteride works for 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of people. These are facts. It's in your head.

 

[michel sapin]

@whatevr ; i have already climbed this ladder
fina 025 mg to fina 1 mg to fina 5 mg to fina 5mg + minoxidil to fina +duta 0.5 mg once every 5 day + minoxidil .
And no sides to no morning wood to ED+no morning wood to puffy nipples to lump under nipples
depression crew checking in

 

[michel sapin]

what i don't understand is the dude who start fina with Norwood 2.5 or 3 and who get crazy result and are back to perfect Norwood 2
and dudes like me who start early but keep worsening.

 

[michel sapin]

and reach 2032 messages on a hairloss forum .
those with good results leave this place

 

[ElTioLaBota]

When you have aggressive hair loss, Finasteride is like the first step of a long set of stairs that you will climb. Either you will keep climbing, or fall off, no other option.

I was on Finasteride for one year. I kept losing my hair, and grew some puffy nipples along with it. Later on I started using Alpicort which helped me regrow everything that I lost but I couldn't keep using it due to estrogenic side effects. After that I switched to RU58841 which has much fewer side effects than Finasteride and is very close to maintaining but not quite, so I keep very slowly losing hair but at 1/5th of the pace that I did on Finasteride. The next logical step is to bump up the topical regimen, so now I am moving to experimental anti-androgens and those are going to be enzalutamide and darolutamide.

Also during this whole time I keep using Minoxidil. I recently added the dermastamp as well. I used Ketoconazole for a year but found it to be totally worthless.

Bottom line is as I said, if giving up is not an option, and you are not afraid of experimenting with things that are untested and potentially unsafe, there is always something next to try...

If i dont have agressive hair loss but got sides from finasteride (gyno) will i be able to maintain with 5% RU once daily?

 

[g.i joey]

and reach 2032 messages on a hairloss forum .
those with good results leave this place

I really thought I'd be gone from here by now man... 13 months and I'm worse off too... worst part is we're young and supposed to be "good responders"

 

[BaldyBalderBald]

Well this is not a cure, i'm not even sure it can perfectly halt hairloss for the best responders, some studies suggests that some people were able to maintain for 20+ years, but at which Norwood ? It might just really really slow it down
I definetly not have the same Norwood i had 10 years ago despite being on finasteride all this time

 

[Finjunkie]

You guys are stoking my deepest fears . I've maintained on finasteride for 5 years and have been considering a small hair transplant to fill in the triangles... Starting to wonder how long it will hold out for me. Will I be one of those guys that maintains forever or am I just delaying the inevitable?

 

[LocoRoco]

Go 5mg dutasteride or total cast... Permanent solution


rip btw

 

[whatevr]

Do u have any pics of ur progress? I know u posted a series b4

I need to upload a bigger version of the timeline but my hair right now is more or less the same as in the last picture from May... which I guess is a success in it's own right considering I'm only using RU and minoxidil.
I'm really waiting to start these next-gen treatments which should hopefully give me some improvement in the NW2 - NW1 area

If i dont have agressive hair loss but got sides from finasteride (gyno) will i be able to maintain with 5% RU once daily?

It's possible. Some people say that RU is weaker than Finasteride but in my case it is stronger and with fewer side effects. The only way to know is to try.

 

[vegetassj]

almost 4 year on it bro.
started Norwood 2 , even less , now nw3 and that keep miniaturizing

Went from Norwood 0/1 to 3 and diffuse 4. no Joke in 2 years.

Finasteride did not help oh no It gave me sides haha

 

[Dontwannabeabetabob]

WE NEED PICS MICHEL

 

[DHTpolice]

PICS!!!