Hi everyone.
This is a thirteen-year update from a long-term finasteride user. I never visit the site anymore although I posted a fair amount (under a different name) and read posts several times a day way back in 2000-2001. (The message-board archives going back that far were blitzed out of existence many years ago.)
Anyway, I thought I would check in to relate my condition under long-term Finasteride treatment, so folks considering it have one more point of comparison.
The basic update on my condition is simply that I’ve been a stable "maintainer" now for nearly 13 years on 1.25mg finasteride per day. Hairloss that exists is about the same as it was during my first year of finasteride treatment (thinning vertex visible under bright direct light but not in normal indoor light; some minor temple recession; in total, no hairloss visible except with close examination). In other words, finasteride by itself stopped my hairloss. I started treatment in my early 20s. Then I shed a ton for almost a year and almost stopped treatment. And then I began a long-term maintaining pattern. I’m now in my mid-30s and you wouldn't think I had really suffered any loss unless you took a close look. Side effects from finasteride (acne is all I can remember) resolved within a couple weeks or months of treatment onset.
I wrote a much longer ten-year update in the post linked below. What I wrote there in August 2010 is pretty much exactly the same as my condition right now after 13 years:
http://www.hairlosstalk.com/interact/showthread.php/49249-Ten-year-update?highlight=jay79
The community that was here and posters' willingness to answer questions when I was first panicking and becoming depressed over early hairloss, way back in 2000-01, was really helpful to me. So thanks to any of them who might still be around here now -- and good luck to everyone!
This is a thirteen-year update from a long-term finasteride user. I never visit the site anymore although I posted a fair amount (under a different name) and read posts several times a day way back in 2000-2001. (The message-board archives going back that far were blitzed out of existence many years ago.)
Anyway, I thought I would check in to relate my condition under long-term Finasteride treatment, so folks considering it have one more point of comparison.
The basic update on my condition is simply that I’ve been a stable "maintainer" now for nearly 13 years on 1.25mg finasteride per day. Hairloss that exists is about the same as it was during my first year of finasteride treatment (thinning vertex visible under bright direct light but not in normal indoor light; some minor temple recession; in total, no hairloss visible except with close examination). In other words, finasteride by itself stopped my hairloss. I started treatment in my early 20s. Then I shed a ton for almost a year and almost stopped treatment. And then I began a long-term maintaining pattern. I’m now in my mid-30s and you wouldn't think I had really suffered any loss unless you took a close look. Side effects from finasteride (acne is all I can remember) resolved within a couple weeks or months of treatment onset.
I wrote a much longer ten-year update in the post linked below. What I wrote there in August 2010 is pretty much exactly the same as my condition right now after 13 years:
http://www.hairlosstalk.com/interact/showthread.php/49249-Ten-year-update?highlight=jay79
The community that was here and posters' willingness to answer questions when I was first panicking and becoming depressed over early hairloss, way back in 2000-01, was really helpful to me. So thanks to any of them who might still be around here now -- and good luck to everyone!
