Why do i keep getting worse without getting any better !

[NicholasLim]

I started propecia hoping to maintain whatever i have on my head, but now propecia is destroyting my hairline like nobody business ! i have went through a lot of sheds , but what i see is just minituarized hair on my hairline instead of healtier hair ! My hairline just keep getting worse and i really dont know what to do now !

Can it be propecia is making my hairline worse? And I was hoping for the " take a step back before can go forward 2 steps " kinda thing but i have already gone so many steps back. and each shed on the hairline , there will be minituarized hair along the hairline and the next time it shed ,the minituarizewd hair is gone and that area is bald ! Is any new hair gonna just grow from the bald area?!!?

PLS comment , i am feeling really down now

 

[DoctorHouse]

When I read so many posts like this one, I always feel there has to be some tiny little bit of truth to the fact that these hair loss treatments can accelerate a condition that may have gone slower without treatments. I have lost more hair in the last 2 years than in my life time. Does this mean anything? This all began when I started taking Propecia. And I am at an age where hair loss does not usually accelerate so fast. I only had very minor thinning when I decided to take Propecia. That saying that hair loss treatments will help keep what you still have is nonsense. I have lost more hair in such a short time. I do not doubt that these hair loss treatments may help some cases but I think only cases not considered minor. My hairline is really thinning out again and my diffuse thinning down the middle is increasing again. I am hoping this is a synchronized shed because I remember last year around this time, I did notice this too. I was doing just fine with the lasercomb and Revivogen and starting reading these forums and decided to get my doctor to give me a prescription for Propecia. I thought it was going to keep what I had but like so many posts I read now, I was wrong. Here is some logic too. If a hair loss treatment causes a so called shed, then why the heck do you not get the hair back later on the next cycle. For me, it caused certain areas to lose hair permanently in just one cycle. That makes no sense.

 

[NicholasLim]

So what should i do now ? should i stop propecia or not?!

 

[DoctorHouse]

You should not stop it. You have to keep taking it now that you started. You have to give it a year to see if its of any benefit. I am too afraid to quit just in case my hair has become dependent on it. And if I am going to have a minor hair transplant in the future, you still have to take it.

 

[NicholasLim]

My god , am i like stuck to it forever , i should have touched this poison in the first place !!!

 

[DoctorHouse]

Well, you do not have to take it if you do not want to. It was your choice. Just like it is my choice to stick with it. I have read some people did not see their best results until 3 to 5 years on Propecia. That is maybe why I keep taking it too.

 

[NicholasLim]

I have experienced what you experienced , i had a shed on the hairline and the hair minituarized , then by the next shed the are is bald ! so in this case, does anyone who experience this before regrowth hair on the bald area on the hairline? Or is the hair on the area gone forever? My main concern is my temple and hairline

 

[NicholasLim]

I also have this scalp soreness on the temple and crown area after i started propecia, i heard that they should be gone when are on propecia but for my case , it sort of become worse ( i couldnt remember how bad it was before i started propecia but now my scalp can be really itchy at time but scrathing it wont help at all , it's like itching from the inside ) do you experince this as well ? Pls reply asap

 

[DoctorHouse]

No, I have never had problems with a sore or itchy scalp. If you are using a topical too, it might be that. The problem with hair loss treatments is that are not supposed to really be too beneficial to the hairline or receding temples. However, I do notice that my areas suffering the most are where I tend to concentrate with my topicals. Regardless, it should of helped me at least maintain what I had and not dip below my baseline in such a rapid amount of time. This idea of reflex hyperandrogenicity scares me because it can make your androgen receptors more sensitive to DHT and cause an increase in hairloss. The fact that this is even possible makes me wonder if people like you and I have done this to our receptors. There is no way of testing that. Its pretty scary to mess with the hormones and not really know for sure what is really happening in your scalp. And I did cut my dosage to half a dose of Propecia every day but I am back to full dose again due to noticing more thinning. Rassman says cutting the dose to half is only 80 percent effective. I need 100 percent to feel things are working. I don't care about the results of the one study that says only .2mg of finasteride is almost effective as 1mg. I want to see a big study with real people and then I would believe it. Unfortunatley, we have to just try treatments and see if they work.

 

[Eureka]

How long have you been taking propecia?

 

[ghg]

Newsflash: the current treatments don't work for everyone!

 

[NicholasLim]

I am very depresssed now , my hairline has just receeded to a very deep U shape especailly on my right temple , i am just 21 and what can i do now?

 

[Naltima]

Are you guys using just Propecia, or Rogaine as well?

 

[NicholasLim]

just propecia , i might go into rogaine if this gets worse ! is it even a good choice to get to rogaine if you are getting negative effect on Propecia ?

 

[metalheaddude]

Its not only DHT which causes hairloss but testosterone (I read it in one of Michael Barry's posts) and there has been a suggestion the hairline hair is much more sensetive to testosterone that other regions of the scalp and we all know that Finasteride reduces DHT but increases testosterone. So this is one possible explaination for the our hairlines continuing to slowly thin out. My hairline has also continued to thin on Propecia, sometimes I really question if it would be this bad if i was off the finasteride. Its such a gamble. One im not willling to take now. I will be getting a hair transplant in the next 24 months for my hairline, so im commited to finasteride for life at this stage.

 

[vipergts]

Read my old posts - I had the same experience with finasteride. Some people just don' respond well to finasteride. Wean yourself off of finasteride slowly. Your scalp will probably feel better and the rate of shedding should go down. I think for SOME people their hair is more sensitive to Test than DHT. Since finasteride increases T, this could explain why some folks report accelerated loss while on finasteride.

I started propecia hoping to maintain whatever i have on my head, but now propecia is destroyting my hairline like nobody business ! i have went through a lot of sheds , but what i see is just minituarized hair on my hairline instead of healtier hair ! My hairline just keep getting worse and i really dont know what to do now !

Can it be propecia is making my hairline worse? And I was hoping for the " take a step back before can go forward 2 steps " kinda thing but i have already gone so many steps back. and each shed on the hairline , there will be minituarized hair along the hairline and the next time it shed ,the minituarizewd hair is gone and that area is bald ! Is any new hair gonna just grow from the bald area?!!?

PLS comment , i am feeling really down now