What Should I Do?!

[pinkfloyd7]

New here. 18 and Norwood 2. Been applying rogaine and Dr. Lee's spironolactone for maybe little over a month. Also propecia, nizoral, msm, and healthy diet. My hairline is my only problem. I apply rogaine around the temples and frontal hairline. Then sprio ten minutes after. Problem is my hairline has been receding drastically ever since. It feels like I'm having an invisible shed .

I already had a minor shed with propecia and gotten out of it. I've been on propecia for 3 months and experienced the shed 2 months in. I've had no visible shed off the rogaine and spironolactone. But every morning it feels like my front is less dense and recedes a little more. My whole hairline is long hairs with very weak small hairs in the front. Before there were many and even some large ones. Now there all gone! What should I do ? My hairline is most important to me and I want to maintain it. Is this a bad sign or is this just a shed. The rest of the top of my head has thinned out too where i apply the rogaine. My main question is will my hairline regrow and is the rogaine and spironolactone shedding out my whole hairline. Theres no hairs where they used to be. Or am a suffering from genetic hairloss that i can't stop. Please help.

 

[The Gardener]

You need to keep in mind that the treatments will either work for you, which means that you will have positive results... or if you are in a minority of people they will not work, which means that you will end up having a hair pattern similar to one as if you never took the treatments.

One thing that you can be sure of is that the treatments will not make your hairloss situation worse than it would have been if you never started them at all.

I think any of us long timers will tell you that these treatments take time, and patience. You really need to give them a year before making judgements. And, I think all of us long timers will tell you that these treatments are kind of a roller coaster ride. You will have good months, and you will have bad months, but you need to keep your chin up and ride this out... knowing that no matter what your hair does, you are using the treatments to fight it that are the best tools that modern science has to offer, and keep in mind that in order to get to the good stuff, there is going to be some waiting and patience required.

Stay positive, you are probably going through a shed, which is normal and reparable, and quite common in the first 2-4 months of minoxidil usage. Also, stay diligent with your regimen, and make a point of not skipping any applications so as to leverage the maximum benefit out of them. But most of all, keep in mind that judging ones hair from day to day is a subjective thing. You will look at it in certain conditions and under certain lighting and swear that you are looking terrible... but a week later, under different conditions, you'll swear that you are seeing improvement. Just try to stay on the level, stick with the plan, and give it the required 6 months to a year, to give it a chance.

All the best!

G

 

[pinkfloyd7]

thanks for the support and the reply

 

[pinkfloyd7]

but has anyone experienced what i'm going through?

 

[Sean68]

haha. everyone on the forum mate.