one more question please help people!!!

JDC4

right my hairlossisnt extremely visible or there is clear indentation at the tmples where there is far thinner hair if i had a shoirt haircut then yes it wud b very visible but i have grown the hairs down at the temples a little to cover but this will not work for long....... and the crown is far thinner then it was a year ago theres no weight to my hair atall nemore it sjust much thinner.... which is y iw as going to try minox aswell. but is it right that i shdnt use minox yet and also will my temples be wiped out by propecia then.... if is topped taking it wud i be able to hold on to the temples bit longer wot do you think please let me know

nobel victim

Hi JDC4

You say "...but is it right that i shdnt use minox yet and also will my temples be wiped out by propecia then"

Do you think that taking proscar has a bad effect on the temple area of your hair? I certanly have never heard that and I cant see any reason why it would be detrimental to your hair. Obviously you can 'lose' hair when you come of minox or proscar, but no more than you would have lost anyway.

I would probaly use both proscar & minox if I were in you.

NV

nobel victim

Sorry, last post should have ended

"I would probaly use both proscar & minox if I were in your boat"

sorry for any confusion!

NV

JDC4

OK THEN.... ITS JUST IUVE HAD MIXED MESSAGES YES U C IVE ALWAYS HAD THICK HAIR AND IN LAST YEAR IT HASNT BEEN THICK ATALL... WELL SOME WOULD SAY STILL NOT WHAT COULD BE CLASSED AS THIN BUT ALOT THINNER.... NO ITS JUST THAT I HEARD WHEN USING PROPECIA YOU CAN HAVE INITIAL SHEDDING FAR WORSE THAN BEFORE WHICH CAN WIPE OUT YOUR TEMPLES... AND OBVIOUSLY THE MEDICATION WILL NEVER GROW THESE BACK ATLEAST THIS IS WHAT I UNDERSTOOD

nobel victim

JDC4

Right, I see so you have heard that if you take proscar then you can get an initial loss of hair through shedding in reaction to the drug, which you never get back after the drug has started to work?

Well I cannot speack for the other posters on this forum, and I'm not an MD, but I certanly didnt see an increce in my own hairloss when I started to take Proscar. (Not much regrowth ether, but certanly no 'shock loss' in reaction to the drug).

This is not a phenomenon I have heard of with regard to proscar. I understand that it works on a hormonal level, by inhiting a chemical reaction in the body to testosterone. Now if that chamical reaction is casuing you to thin, inhubiting that reaction should not cause your hair to shed.

I have had no 'shock loss' with minoxidill ether. I have heard some people say minoxidil can initialy increase hair loss. This is becuse minoxidil is generaly reconed to work as a 'growth stimulent' to the hairs. Now, as at any time some of your hairs are growing, and others are resting (prior to them falling out and growth stariting again) it fuigures that if minoxidil is stimulating your hairs to replace themselves more quickly then for a month or so, you may loose a few more hairs than you may have as the 'resting hairs' will get lost more quickly, but also, presumibly, replaced more quikly too.

Personaly, I woulndt worry about ether drug making you more bald, I think that is quite an unlikely phenomena. As for being disaponted by the amount of hair they regrow well thats another matter!!!!!

NV

PS There have been no other events in your life in the last year that could have contributed to the thnning? Illness or stress perhaps?

JDC4

not really to be honest.... no ilness unless u count chicken pocks.... and as for stress... only beginning university bt i have been very down about my hairloss...... when i say thinning its not as such like scalp thin u cnt c scalp tis just alot thinner............. so minodoxil and propecia is the way forward??

nobel victim

Well Proscar & minox do have the most scientific evidence to support their use. Obviously there are doznes of products out there but these two do have a good track record of at least slowing down hairloss. I would say myself they are the bascis of most peoples programs.

Good luck!

NV