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Originally Posted by mlmpetert
I was in an accident that required 2 reconstructive surgeries on my face and temple. In order to minimize the incisions on the face the surgeons made incisions in my hairline. I have one going from the bottom of my ear lobe to over the top of my head so they could pull my face back a little. I also have one that goes almost perpendicular to it on my temple. When the doctors went over what they were doing they told me i have to take propecia for the rest of my life…..
Ive looked into this stuff pretty good and this would be my recommendation. Don’t do rogain, at least to start off with. Rogain acts like a fertilizer or steroid of sorts for hair. It doesn’t actually prevent or stop balding, rather it just stimulates hair and makes it grow. So at some point it will wear off, simply because you wont have any hair follicles to stimulate. Youre purely delaying the inevitable.
Propecia actually stops what causes male balding, dht. By preventing your body from building up dht it stops the killing of hair follicles. Theres also Advodart which does the same thing as Propecia but only better. From everything ive heard the most effective course of action is to get on a pill first to prevent balding and only use rogain as a supplement if you need to in later years. However starting early is the most important part, as theres nothing out there that will really regrow hair, most things just prevent more loss.
Whats funny about rogain, propecia, avodart and anything else out there is that they were all discovered completely accidental. They don’t even really know what causes baldness, they think in most cases its dht but no one really knows for sure.
My suggestion would be to skip the rogain and try and get on propecia or avodart if you have insurance. Ask your doctor for finsteride (generic propecia) which is 10x cheaper. Avodart is expensive and is only available as a name brand and probably will be for some time. I think the sexual side effects are more for old timers. I havent noticed a thing, and I don’t think younger people will because of how much testosterone we have.
My plan is to take avodart or propecia for as long as I need to, with the hope that in 10-20 years from now they’ll discover a cure for balding. I mean 50+ percent of US males go bald??? That’s 25% of our population. The economics to find a cure is waaaaayyy to strong for it not to happen, well, unless you know we get socialized healthcare.
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When I frst started to notice that my hair line was receeding, I got on propecia. One of the side affects can be loss of libido- and I had that side affect big time. Like couldn't even get it up sometimes. And shortly after stopping the propecia I was back to normal sexually. So yeah, I'd rather be bald and viril than have a full head of hair and be, well, you know, limpy.