for the past two years i've been on a journey to potentially stop and reverse some of my hair loss
with my current routine consisting of topical minoxidil micro needling dht blocking shampoo and
now finasteride and boy i wish i started taking it sooner finasteride is an oral medication used to
treat benign prostatic hyperplasia in men as well as androgenic alopecia aka male pattern bones it
is sold under the brand names proscar and propecia and with over 30 years of research behind it i
decided to give it a shot to see what it can do for my hair loss and hair regrowth journey
so i got my prescription for finashra it's one milligram daily from a telemedicine pharmacy here
in toronto around this time last year end of march to beginning of april and i started taking it
pretty much as prescribed every single day and for the first few weeks there wasn't really anything
of note no hair growth no additional hair loss with any type of oral or topical treatment you're
using for hair regrowth and to stop hair loss it will take a few months for you to actually notice
different but in the first few weeks i started to notice a pain a pain in my nuts and this is
actually so common with people who are taking finasteride and are new to it that they don't even
label it really as a side effect anymore it's just in the info manual that comes with the medication
what this basically is is your body getting used to that dht inhibition dht being an androgenic
hormone it's primarily produced in your testes so you feel that deep pain in your groin or even
in your stomach that is basically the medication starting to take effect and this started around
the third or fourth week of the first month and i noticed by the end of the second to third
month it completely cleared out and i have not experienced any of that lately but enough about
my aching nuts otherwise what i noticed in these first three months was that there was a lot of
valles hairs that were beginning to shed valley's hair is basically very infantile not mature hair
on myself it's very easy to notice inside of blonde hair they usually come in very white and
very thin i noticed from when i was previously doing all the natural microneedling stuff there
was different st different hairs were at different stages of the hair growth cycle and i noticed
when i started taking the finasteride that a lot of these began to shed a lot faster now was this
from me also pairing it with nanoxidil which is like a newer updated version of minoxidil
or was it potentially the finasteride i couldn't really tell in this case but with a lot of hair
loss stuff to get an effective treatment a lot of times in the first few months even six months
it needs to look a little bit worse before it can look a little bit better within the three to
four month time frame i really began to research people's results with finasteride added into a
microneedling and topical minoxidil or minoxidil routine and the results looked pretty promising
from a lot of different guys who suffered similar issues like myself the typical nor
were two to three as well as that classic m shaped hairline and it looked quite promising this got me
wondering why so many guys who are suffering from hair loss especially a little bit on the younger
side are just giving up and not doing something about it even at least making an attempt with
something like just taking oral finasteride hair loss is an incredibly personal issue and it can
kill your confidence no matter how confident of a guy you are having to go into the doctor's office
to get a prescription sitting there having to answer you know a bunch of questions about your
hair loss it's incredibly personal and even the most confident men out there will struggle with
this and it is quite embarrassing and then having to stand in line at pharmacies every single month
to get your prescription it can be a big waste of time it can be really awkward when you're
picking up a hair loss prescription there it's not the most confident environment that you're
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if you guys are interested to get started after the first four months is when i really started to
notice a change in my hair quantity and just how important having finasteride in your hair protocol
is i'll be honest with you guys i was a little inconsistent with the micro microneedling and
the minoxidil use for a few weeks but the ease and the convenience of taking finasteride can really
help pick up the slack if your growth factor stimulation is not really there you miss a few
days you miss a week or two of micro kneeling one of the most important things i saw was that
you cannot have a good hair growth protocol if you just have growth factors stimulants like
nanoxidil minoxidil micro needling without having something that is going to stop
hair loss in its tracks you're always going to be fighting an uphill battle for how much
hair you are regarding how much hair you are shedding and it's always going to be a necky
neck battle if you don't have something that crushes what's causing the hair loss that will
make all the growth factors you apply that much more effective because it doesn't need to first
surpass the hair loss for it to be effective so i believe finasteride should be the first thing you
start with on your hair regrowth journey and actually not the growth factors because you may
be able to get some hair growth out of it just by reducing the rate at which your hair is shedding
i wouldn't recommend starting it the other way around because it will always be an uphill battle
when it comes to my hair regrowth after the first four months is really when i started to notice a
change my right side was responding a lot better because they had a lot more vowels hairs even
from before taking finasteride i believe this is about the timeline where they began to shed and
really more mature hairs began to come in my left side was not doing so hot because the left side
had a much worse recession even to begin with so there it took a little bit more time and i noticed
more balanced hairs appearing and other ones shedding in coming in a little bit thicker
i started to notice this when i would really buzz and shave my head since my hair comes in a very
dark dirty blonde having those really light like platinum blonde or even white vowels hairs at the
front of my hair it really noticed that something that i'm doing is completely working now my left
side did start to respond a little bit better in the past few months because it lines up with a lot
of physiology out there with how long it takes to turn and balance hairs into terminal mature heads
which is around that three to six month mark that's why i believe now today it's looking a
lot better than when i took my recent update video about it because it was in that three to six month
timeline every time i would shave my head which would be about once a month i did notice that
those ballast hairs were coming in a little bit thicker and some were actually coming in as fuller
mature hairs in these last four to six months is when i really had a noticeable difference in my
hair quantity and the number of mature hairs and this again aligns up with that time frame from
going from balance to terminal hairs that predated when i was taking finasteride start of march
of last year as well as i believe incorporating finasteride into the routine
really helped speed up this process because we're minimizing the amount of hair loss and i honestly
think i made double the progress in these last six to eight months than i did in my previous year
can i chalk that fully up to just finasteride or as well as some of the natural physiology going on
it is really up for debate because there's so many variables for every single thing that i'm
doing that it'll be really hard to isolate what is giving me the results the reason how my hair
is looking today i try to keep my hair the same length for this video as i did in my previous
update video a year ago and i genuinely am happy with the products that being made hair
hair regrowth is a very slow process when only you can really see noticeable changes in a three
to six month time frame and i'm quite happy with how it's going right now i'm keeping my
hair still buzzed quite short it just makes putting anything topically on absorb a lot
easier as well as micro needling it's less painful to the scalp than you don't have the risk of
pulling or breaking any hair i'm actually quite happy with the how the products has been going i
haven't been noticing any side effects you know i don't have any gyno i don't have any reduced
libido everything just you know is working pretty well and i think this will be a regimen that i'll
be sticking to and i can't wait to give you guys more updates about it in the following
months or even year to come there you guys have it for me that is my one year finasteride
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