Thread 18463202

It's LITERALLY OVER

How can I salvage this?

Finasteride. People will tell you about the side effects but it works for about 70% of people and only 2% get side effects (most of which are minor and temporary) according to studies so it's up to you to weigh the risks and rewards. Nothing else really works.

>>18463204
What about Minoxidil 6%? It's much more accessible and cheaper for me. I called my local drugstore (I live on a remote island) and they have Minoxidil, but Finasteride requires a prescription.

>>18463202 (OP)
Redeem the fin, saar

>>18463208
Not Indian (I'm a SEA Pinoybro)

>>18463202 (OP)
That's not bad. The hairline has remained strong but there's some minor thinning. I think your hair looks worse in the 2nd pic because it's longer and the weight of it emphasises the space.

>>18463221
I wish thinning wasn't so hard to diagnose

Looks fine lah.

>>18463202 (OP)
That's not a bald spot, it's literally the hairstyle. You know how people do that side parted hair? It's the best at mimicking a hairline since it basically creates a roof over your hair. You expose the thinning to the camera by giving it volume.

Still, you should stop caring about your hair. I'm going through the same, I'm counting hairs every morning and evening, I lose from 30-50 every time I comb. Though I'm hoping it's temporary from some prednisone treatment i took a few weeks ago. But giving a shit about hair is tiresome.

>>18463207
You will always lose it finasteride or minoxidil or not, you will lose it when you get tired of those medications. If you have a wife already and don't give a fuck about sex, don't give a fuck about bulking, get finasteride, it will help your prostate piss better too. Go to a derm and get it prescribed. If you have pets DON'T get finasteride, it's a cardiovascular drug, it's a useless cardiovascular drug in humans but it works on animals and is concentrated enough to kill cats. If you don't care about that get minoxidil. Some formulations have both as foam that's the best possible vehicle but i guess it's expensive. Others crush finasteride tablets into the minoxidil foam.

>>18463202 (OP)
1mg fin
5mg oral minoxidil

daily for as long as you want to keep having hair

>>18463202 (OP)
literally no other cure to this shit besides dht blockers
there's study on pp405 to revive dead follicles, but it's yet to be commercially available, most likely won't be since they love screwing over baldcels

>>18463253
thinning is the worst
at least with receding hairline, you hair density is still okay
but thinning makes your entire scalp look like you just got out of an intense hair pulling competition
fucking hate it

this is a shill thread made by bots
https://www.reddit.com/r/PhHairloss/comments/1laeqds/how_bad_is_it_kaya_ba_isave_ng_minoxidil_6/

this is a shill thread made by bots
https://www.reddit.com/r/PhHairloss/comments/1laeqds/how_bad_is_it_kaya_ba_isave_ng_minoxidil_6/

this is a shill thread made by bots
https://www.reddit.com/r/PhHairloss/comments/1laeqds/how_bad_is_it_kaya_ba_isave_ng_minoxidil_6/

the bot steals posts from reddit, then it replies to the thread with bad medical advice >>18463204

>and only 2% get side effects
2% is considered a common side effect.
you would never ever ever hear anyone with an actual background in medicine call a 2% chance of a severe side effect as "only", anything over 1% is considered common.

>(most of which are minor and temporary)
2% is the rate of severe side effects, not the rate of minor side effects.

1 in 50 people get severe side effects from finasteride which include erectile dysfunction and libido loss for life.

>>18463309
>>18463307
5AR inhibitors are the weakest form of anti-androgen, they target one specific pathway to block DHT, which isn't even useful in men anyway, leaving testosterone untouched.

Years and years of people shilling creatine on /fit/ yet no significant studies that spiking your serum DHT levels to unsafe gives any meaningful performance enhancing effects, it's completely useless in men and all it does is make you go bald and give you prostate cancer.

>>18463383
my problem is with you acting like a 1 in 50 side effect isn't considered common. be honest with people and let them make their own mind up. i'm not anti fin/min, i've taken both for over a decade -- some guys can bald gracefully and go on with life unaffected. if you're not that guy and you start going bald you probably should try it.

>>18463383
modern science has come a long way but we don't fully understand endocrine systems or even close. you don't study this stuff, the more you know about biochem generally the more you understand how much we don't know and how much just doesn't get looked into for profit driven reasons. "experts say X on 6/13/2025" is subject to constant change as our understanding grows and more studies get done/replicated.