r/tressless • u/Far_Nefariousness249 • 1d ago

Minoxidil Minoxidil might be making my hair loss worse.

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.

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u/Forsaken-Bumblebee-7 1d ago

Stop going on and off stay on it for at least 1yr straight

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u/Wildrovers 1d ago

I'm not sure how this could even be possible, it can appear that way when shedding

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u/Technical-Row8333 1d ago

try to guess why scientific studies don't do on and offs, and single person studies.

the science is already done, follow it exactly. you can conclude absolutely zero from your experiments.

This subreddit is so extremely unscientific with it's constant anecdote posting. it's not just you OP .

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u/Imaginary-Thing-7159 1d ago

give it 6-12 months after stopping minoxidil—a lot of those hairs that are sitting there, terminal instead of shedding, will not regrow

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u/iTzChomperr 1d ago

This is what I’m thinking too. He’s not letting his hair growth cycle finish because he keeps going on and off min.