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Want To Start Taking Finasteride At 24 Y.o
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If you are afraid of sides starts with a very low dose or even safer, low dose topical.
You seem to have a lot of hair left so there is a good chance for recovery if you respond well to finasteride, don't read too much into sides, very rarely will you get severe sides, just start at 1mg a day along with your minoxidil and dermarolling and give it 12 months, as for dermaroller size 1mm or 1.5mm, i would suggest 1.5mm but that's just me.
-Start doing Finasteride ONLY if your dermatologist asks you to.
-If he does, take it and just forget. Sides are pretty rare, less than 5%.
-If you get sides (which is very rare), you'll notice within the first month. If that happened I'd drop it as soon as I could, but some people ride them out and are fine. But as I said, it's pretty rare.
-Give it a full year before assuming it's not working.
-You probably will have a shedding the first 2-3-4 months. It's normal and actually a good sign. Ride it out. It's the old, weak hair leaving room for stronger one.
-I use a 1 mm dermaroller. You could use the 1.5 though. There is almost no difference. Use it once per week, and wait a day before using minoxidil.
-Start taking hair vitamin supplements, from the pharmacy. Good shampoo and Ketoconazol as well.
-Give yourself a scalp massage everyday, 5-10 minutes long.
-Start eating good food: meat, fish, vegetables, cheese, milk, fruit, eggs, water, etc. Drop fast food and sugar.
Give it all a year and come back and show us how it's been.
-If he does, take it and just forget. Sides are pretty rare, less than 5%.
-If you get sides (which is very rare), you'll notice within the first month. If that happened I'd drop it as soon as I could, but some people ride them out and are fine. But as I said, it's pretty rare.
-Give it a full year before assuming it's not working.
-You probably will have a shedding the first 2-3-4 months. It's normal and actually a good sign. Ride it out. It's the old, weak hair leaving room for stronger one.
-I use a 1 mm dermaroller. You could use the 1.5 though. There is almost no difference. Use it once per week, and wait a day before using minoxidil.
-Start taking hair vitamin supplements, from the pharmacy. Good shampoo and Ketoconazol as well.
-Give yourself a scalp massage everyday, 5-10 minutes long.
-Start eating good food: meat, fish, vegetables, cheese, milk, fruit, eggs, water, etc. Drop fast food and sugar.
Give it all a year and come back and show us how it's been.
Waste of money
Dairy is not good food. Most supermarket meats are neither and overconsumption of eggs is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Also too much fruit is too much sugar.
I am done being a snob now.
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Nah, not a waist of money. It won't do much against Androgenetic Alopecia but it's actually important to get the necessary amounts of Biotin and other vitamins.
Don't know where you are from, but I'm Spanish. Food on the supermarkets is actually pretty good around here. Meat and fish is as natural as it gets. And I'm not saying eating eggs everyday, but it's one of the most important ones. And I meant "artificial" sugar, don't know thw word in english.
Nah, not a waist of money. It won't do much against Androgenetic Alopecia but it's actually important to get the necessary amounts of Biotin and other vitamins.
Don't know where you are from, but I'm Spanish. Food on the supermarkets is actually pretty good around here. Meat and fish is as natural as it gets. And I'm not saying eating eggs everyday, but it's one of the most important ones. And I meant "artificial" sugar, don't know thw word in english.[/QUOTE]
Biotin deficiencies are extremely rare. And I lived in Spain as well and if you think that most meats in the supermarket are 'natural' (whatever that means, natural does not imply good) you need to do some research on the industries behind them.
OP, I advise checking out this YouTube podcast series by two Australian doctors. It's short and worth watching to get some general information on their experiences prescribing it. Other than that, the preponderance of studies on finasteride demonstrate that it is an extremely safe drug, despite the bitter cries of some who have negative side effects, and then fail to accept they're simply in the unlucky 5%.
That's not to say I'm telling you to take the drugs, get informed and perhaps try topical finasteride. That being said, if you seriously wish to prevent your hair loss, blocking the DHT pathway with Finasteride/Dutasteride are basically necessary. If you make a decision now to not take them, make sure you're fully comfortable and at peace with losing your hair, because I delayed as many others did, although I am still at a point where people can't tell I'm balding, I could have potentially saved more hair if I hadn't been scared by the stories earlier.
Good luck.
That's not to say I'm telling you to take the drugs, get informed and perhaps try topical finasteride. That being said, if you seriously wish to prevent your hair loss, blocking the DHT pathway with Finasteride/Dutasteride are basically necessary. If you make a decision now to not take them, make sure you're fully comfortable and at peace with losing your hair, because I delayed as many others did, although I am still at a point where people can't tell I'm balding, I could have potentially saved more hair if I hadn't been scared by the stories earlier.
Good luck.
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In my country, doctors are skeptical about putting on finasteride. I think this is due to the lack of experience. In fact, I decided for myself what to try. I really hope that everything will be fine (without side effects and that it will affect me). Thank you all for the answers. I will keep you in the know