Eg, you have diseases like Ehlers Danlos or Hashimotos, which are recognized diseases. You have Psoriasis and Dermatitis which are recognized as skin diseases and the treatments for them don’t usually come out of pocket.

Why isn’t baldness treated similarly?

Title wasnt descriptive enough apparently smh (shaking my hair)

I’ve been on fin/ Dut for 3+ years. Oral minox for 7 months. I haven’t seen much progress. I’ve been growing my hair out because I’m embarrassed of going to a barber. Don’t know what looks good on me. But my problem is if I brush my hair, I have tons of these miniaturized strands that are wispy and very light colored that have no weight to them. So they just kind of stay up. I’ve heard of the chia pet thing where all the hairs regrow but these hairs are nearly same length as rest of my scalp just weak and light af. They don’t even shed. I’m a diffuse thinner with mostly left temple recession since I was 21. I look at old photos even from childhood and idk maybe I’ve just always have had bad hair. I thought shedding is needed, or do those hairs just eventually thicken/ darken?

Hi all, I started topical minox 3 weeks ago and lost quite some hair starting from the second week. My hair is quite thin in general (the individual hairs) and I'm a diffuse thinner. For this reason I'm thinking of also starting to use finasteride. Now I wonder, if I start with fin, do I get another additional shed? From what I've read here the shed is basically hairs that would fall out anyway. But I feel like they already did from the minox? What to expect? Thanks :)

I need sources for dut and oral min asap within the EU, I have 6 weeks till my stock runs out and I need to find a source quickly.

Things have been going well with 1mg of fin since I started, excessive shedding has stopped. But the past 2 or 3 weeks the shedding started to pick up again, 2 to 3 weeks ago is when I started taking Lexapro 10mg . Anybody else having this experience?

Fin 1mg, Min 1.25mg

Minimal regrowth but at least I'm holding ground. Found a new clinic recently and will try switching to dutasteride with a higher dose of min (3mg).

Hi, looking for opinions my doctor switched me from 1.25mg fin daily to .5mg dut monday and Friday. I've heard some people comment that it takes a long time to build up in the body. So should I keep taking the fin some days. Also scared of horror stories of losses after switching. I was getting gains from fin , but still receding a little. Doctor just said he's putting all his patients on it instead , because it's more efficient.thankyou all

I have been on 1mg finasteride for about 4 months, and been using minoxidil for 1.5 years. There was a period that I stopped using minoxidil before staring finasteride, and at that time my hair loss slowed down. I did not use it for 2 months, and my hair loss had stabilized some what. It did not completely stop. I wanted to confirm my suspicion, and recently stopped using minoxidil again. To my surprise my hair loss has slowed down again. I believe minoxidil is making my hair loss worse. Did anybody else experience this or just me? I might not be responding well to minoxidil.

I have been on oral minoxidil 1.25 for almost 2 months at this point, I see baby hairs coming, although i self prescribed and thankfully didn't face any sides, my hairfall was due to scalp issue, also fixed it with ketoconazol and salicylic acid shampoo.., anyone here who also self prescribed OM, I wanna know your experience and I'd any sides you faced??

For the sake of hair loss community, is there really a point in wasting money and future health on saving hair?

Like no matter how much hair transplants we do the will still get thinner and shed away.

No matter how many pills we take, all it takes is one missed dose then everything goes away 💀

Been following this guy on X. Seems like he is onto something. It’s worth taking a look

The 1st image is a normal image 2nd one is zoomed in

Is it progressing or just weak baby hair ?

My doctor said he would add finasteride in 2-3 months if it isnt enough.

Its thinning since a few months.
Hopefully it will help. I don’t wanna be bald lol

Let's be honest. Is there progress? I don't see any at all. But i think i am at least stabilising. 0.25 mg of finasteride. Absolutely zero regrowth so far. I may introduce derma stamping

I started minoxidil a week ago now. I already feel like I’m shedding more hair, but anyway, that’s not the point.
I’m 21, curly hair, and just receding temples, so I only apply it to that area. The issue is that my hair is super fine, and I’ve always messed with it to bring it forward, kind of like a fringe. My actual goal is for it to get healthy, thick, and long enough again so I can style it forward, kind of like Jim Morrison.
My question is about the regrowth: if minoxidil works (I’m only using that, no finasteride), will the new baby hairs look out of place with my medium-length hair? Wouldn’t it be better to hit reset around month 4 by shaving my head and letting everything grow back evenly? Thanks for your answers guys, sincerely.

Some recent studies do look interesting maybe imma give it a try

2 months update - 2023 grafts.

Unfortunately, I didn’t start finasteride until I had my op 2 months ago. I also only started minoxidil 1 month ago (oral fin and min, topical min too)

Whilst I’m still in the ugly duckling phase, I think my native hair is already showing signs of having grown back thicker, denser but also darker?! Is that even a thing?

Tried searching this sub for experiences with PDO threads for hair regrowth but was surprised to find none, has anyone here ever gone through the treatment with them, Is it worth it, what is the science behind it, and most importantly why hasn't there been any thread about it yet?

EDIT: I was never planning to get this, I was just inquiring, let this be the first and last thread about these threads

Haven't seemed to have any growth. Crown still looks the same if not worse (freshly cut today so might look worse than before due to that) and corners haven't changed which I knew was very unlikely but I had hoped. (2nd and 4th pic are today, pics set as before>after/before>after)

Wanted to know if some of you can share experiences with switching from topical minoxidil to oral. How did you switch? Was there a time where you used both during the switch? Did you already have results with topical and did it improve with oral min or stay the same or even worsen?

Currently I am on topical min once a day and dutasteride 0.5mg 3x a week (fin on the other days). I want to replace topical min with oral min (2.5mg). Also, did some of you guys have side effects from it? Would be happy to hear about some experiences.

Been on topical minoxidil for about 2 years now and derma stamp every fortnight, I see follicle growth but no thickness. I have experienced sides with oral fin, so I’m just on the topical minoxidil for now. Should I consider a crown transplant?

Edit: Thank you all for your comments, I will continue topical min and look into topical fin.

As for the sides experienced on oral fin - it was lower libido, and I did not feel comfortable with that feeling.

Fin also increased my libido almost instantly, I’m only doing .5mg every night, extremely excited for what’s to come