I am 28 and have noticed that the edge of my hairline is starting to thin/recede. I think this is pretty normal for my age and I am not balding at all on the crown or anything but frick getting older. I'm not going down the norwood hole without fighting for every single follicle.
Applying topical minoxidil seems like a quick and easy thing to work into my morning and evening routine. Anyone used it to stop your hair from receding? I have heard you lose a bunch of hair the first two months as the minoxidil forces your follicles into the growth phase and pushes out all your hair that's in the transition phase.
I bought that same shit but from sams club, for some reason when I do it morning and night like it says I get super dandruff. Once you get to bottle 4 you start getting lazy about it so make sure to be consistent. I started losing some of the hairs due to getting lazy
Don't use minox it completely destroys the collagen in your face and ages you like 10 years
I thought that was the minoxidil pill. Does topical have the same effect?
No, because it only acts where it's applied. Unless you use it for beard growth, obviously.
The effect of minoxidil, applied or not is general as it is metabolised in the liver.
That is why you see hair growing in other places for people despite just using topical.
Topical isn't the same as oral, oral litteraly turns you into a monkey and makes your eyebrows thicker by alot i've seen it online, topical doesn't do it by that much at all as i've tried it, not to mention the real heart risks that come with oral, topical at most gives you slight pains or temporary dizziness.
i'm using it for beard growth!
Minoxidil is a hair growth stimulant, but it doesn't really do anything to address the underlying cause of male pattern baldness. That's to say, it's not a long term solution. What you ought to do now and before your hair starts coming out in clumps is hop on finasteride 1 mg a day, 3 days a week. Don't wait until it gets bad, because there's very little regrowth once lost.
You're going to hear nonsense about how the stuff gives you a prolapsed ass, but there are anecdotes. If you're worried, read actual studies about its usage, effectiveness, and risk of sides. A good youtube channel to check out is HairCafe.
*they're anecdotal
Like this anon says
Minoxidil won't stop hairloss, take finasteride if you want to keep it.
1mg a day 3times a week is a shit ton holy frick. 1mg a week is doing well for me.
? 1mg daily for fin is a standard dose
Instead of wasting money eat onions and put the onion juice topically on scalp
It has stronger effect than minoxidil by 30% one study found
I did minoxidil but it just slows down thw hairfalling
>Young man chemically castrated himself
>More at 11
Min doesn't affect hormones
You need to get on finasteride too.
It's already a crapshoot when you use minoxidil and finasteride together, so no point lowering your chances of success even further with minoxidil monotherapy.
Many dudes take dutasteride off-label, which should in theory block more DHT conversion than finasteride, but for some reason, everyone I know who's tried both swears that finasteride is more effective. Dunno why that is.
Brootal
Topical anti androgen of your choice + min. Yes liquid minoxidil gives you "dandruff" but it's literally the product caking to your scalp. Use a rubber scrub in the shower and massage it out with your fingers. Nizoral
It made wonders to my "beard" and I wasn't even consistent with it. I'm thinking of doing another cycle to fill what it can fill one last time and never look back on my beard again.
Any brand recommendations, it's been years and I don't even remember what I used
Kirkland or Berkeley Jensen
frick man I tried min on my beard and it made my face so fricking itchy and irritated
Hmm yeah I remember it made my cheeks real dry and itchy but never to the point of irritation. You got to moisterize when using this shit. Some have ever worse side effects so it's not for everyone
Thanks
Do you have to do your entire scalp or just the fringe and crown? There's no long-term gains, right
You need anti androgens with it. And yeah just apply it where it's thinning only
>You need anti androgens with it
leaving my hormones alone > take steroids lose hair >>> take troony pills keep hair
Topical my friend.
32 and finally hit a point where I became self conscious. I'd been thinning for years in the hairline slowly and then on the crown, but the day my dad pointed it out in front of everybody and they all just awkwardly laughed kinda fricked me up. Now what really got me is my room mate constantly making bald jokes to give me shit. Didn't care for a while but now I'm kind of over it.
Tried topical minoxidil alone for a while, got nothing out of it so I stopped. Seems like it had been slowing the loss because after I stopped it got worse fast.
Now I'm doing a saw palmello supplement and minox only back on it a couple weeks, wish me luck. I can't afford finasteride and don't wanna risk a broken dick if I don't have to, so woo.
Grow your hair out. I used to think buzzcuts were the only way out but there's a lot you can do to make hair look fuller. The possibilities are endless.
There's an awkward short-mid length phase where you can't do much with it and it looks like shit, you just have to persevere it's all downhill from there.
Topical anti androgens.
You can't afford finasteride? It's about £30 for a few months worth. Never buy branded meds, waste of money.
I'm on minox for 5 years
I feel like i've kept it still for that said 5 years, which is nice
also
try to shampoo less as natural oil makes your hair look thicker and go to a high end barber who knows how to deal with this shit