WangMQ
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Here's my story in short:
I started finasteride 7 years ago and it worked great for a couple of years. I had slight sexual side effects back then but no big deal anyway. I've also been on minoxidil until now but it doesn't seem to keep my hair when using it alone.
However, the sides from finasteride started to build up through the years. In year 3 I started to have slightly noticeable sleep problems. In year 5 I got fatigue. Plus brain fog, depression, more severe sexual and sleep sides, you name it. I also went through a major breakdown of health with electrolytes disturbances, which I never thought could have had anything to do with finasteride until I realized that it happened after a typical day of finasteride-caused extreme fatigue and nausea. Anyway, in retrospection I'm pretty sure that these problems were all caused by finasteride. But I didn't blame it on finasteride back then because the sides built up so slowly.
From Feb this year, I tried to lower my dosage of finasteride to 0.5 mg per day, but the sides persisted. I lowered the dosage to 0.5 mg every other day, still got sides. It was so obvious, the day after taking finasteride I always feel like **** and the day without finasteride would be much better.
In April I quit finasteride. I've already quit it for 20+ days now. After that I've been on topical RU 5% 1 to 2 ml EOD, in KB solution. It seemed fine in the first few days but now I get very similar sides too.
Yesterday night I felt so exhausted and I told myself no you can't be doing this anymore...So I applied only less than 0.5 ml RU solution, which would be less than 25 mg RU. And today I feel so refreshed, like I'm a reborn man! No exaggeration. I went though a day of high working efficiency, which I seldom had for a long time.
Then I did a little experiment: I applied around 0.5 ml RU solution to my head in the middle of the day, around 3 pm. In less than 20 minutes brain fog and fatigue rose up, and all the motivation, productivity, and optimism I've felt earlier today went away. It's just so ridiculous!!!
(But, RU does seem to work hair wise. And the effects come as quick as the sides: every time I applied RU, the itch and inflammation in the applied area goes away in seconds.)
So I guess after all these tries, I'm pretty certain I'm unluckily among those guys who are so super sensitive to any AA. I wasn't when I first started my treatment, which makes it even more annoying!
I am completely at a lost now. I had high hope on RU with KB solution but it proves to be another drug with heavy price. What else options do I have to keep my hair? Should I just give up any treatment, wait for my male pattern baldness to stabilize and get a hair transplant? I'm not so optimistic about that considering my family history
maybe my hairloss will never stop...But I really don't want to keep fxxking with my body with these unproven chemicals anymore.
Please, any comments and advises are welcomed. And I believe I'm not alone here after coming across so many unluckily sensitive guys.
I started finasteride 7 years ago and it worked great for a couple of years. I had slight sexual side effects back then but no big deal anyway. I've also been on minoxidil until now but it doesn't seem to keep my hair when using it alone.
However, the sides from finasteride started to build up through the years. In year 3 I started to have slightly noticeable sleep problems. In year 5 I got fatigue. Plus brain fog, depression, more severe sexual and sleep sides, you name it. I also went through a major breakdown of health with electrolytes disturbances, which I never thought could have had anything to do with finasteride until I realized that it happened after a typical day of finasteride-caused extreme fatigue and nausea. Anyway, in retrospection I'm pretty sure that these problems were all caused by finasteride. But I didn't blame it on finasteride back then because the sides built up so slowly.
From Feb this year, I tried to lower my dosage of finasteride to 0.5 mg per day, but the sides persisted. I lowered the dosage to 0.5 mg every other day, still got sides. It was so obvious, the day after taking finasteride I always feel like **** and the day without finasteride would be much better.
In April I quit finasteride. I've already quit it for 20+ days now. After that I've been on topical RU 5% 1 to 2 ml EOD, in KB solution. It seemed fine in the first few days but now I get very similar sides too.
Yesterday night I felt so exhausted and I told myself no you can't be doing this anymore...So I applied only less than 0.5 ml RU solution, which would be less than 25 mg RU. And today I feel so refreshed, like I'm a reborn man! No exaggeration. I went though a day of high working efficiency, which I seldom had for a long time.
Then I did a little experiment: I applied around 0.5 ml RU solution to my head in the middle of the day, around 3 pm. In less than 20 minutes brain fog and fatigue rose up, and all the motivation, productivity, and optimism I've felt earlier today went away. It's just so ridiculous!!!
(But, RU does seem to work hair wise. And the effects come as quick as the sides: every time I applied RU, the itch and inflammation in the applied area goes away in seconds.)
So I guess after all these tries, I'm pretty certain I'm unluckily among those guys who are so super sensitive to any AA. I wasn't when I first started my treatment, which makes it even more annoying!
I am completely at a lost now. I had high hope on RU with KB solution but it proves to be another drug with heavy price. What else options do I have to keep my hair? Should I just give up any treatment, wait for my male pattern baldness to stabilize and get a hair transplant? I'm not so optimistic about that considering my family history
maybe my hairloss will never stop...But I really don't want to keep fxxking with my body with these unproven chemicals anymore.Please, any comments and advises are welcomed. And I believe I'm not alone here after coming across so many unluckily sensitive guys.
