I had shedded very low to almost none visibly prior to my AGA-related hair loss. For context I am 20 and a diffuse thinner and on 2.5mg oral minoxidil for the past 16 days. Is this too early to tell or should I up the dosage? No visible shedding in the 16 days, does it mean that the 2.5mg won’t work on me? I am 6 feet and 180 pounds. Also, while rubbing my hand across the scalp I usually see 5-10 hairs but not more than that in the current situation. I don’t remember the number for pre-hair loss times as I had begun to lose hair at just 17.
Quick details:
-20 year old
-6 feet, 180 pounds
-Diffuse thinner, Norwood scale non-applicable. Though no hairloss on back of the scalp so not DUPA and more likely AGA esepcially given that I had early beard growth (inverse correlation with dht).
-Diffuse thinning began at late 2023.
-Current stack: Oral minoxidil 2.5mg/day, Oral dutasteride 0.5mg/day(avodart), Oral finasteride 1-2mg/day^ (will use fin for only a few months until dutasteride takes effect properly aka “dut kicking in”. ), ketoconazole 2% 2/week. No biotin etc. supplements I use, as I believe those are bullshit for AGA (maybe can thicken already existing hair but does not affect MPB much.) I canNOT unfortunately use microneedling/dermaroller as I have malassezia since very early times (dating back to early childhood) and am afraid it may get worse.
^(I divide proscar to 4-5 pieces with a sharp razor blade on a paper towel and wash the blade with soap&water for a minute and trash away the paper piece. Don’t worry about sanitization, I keep everything clean. propecia here (Turkey) is 5x more expensive than proscar and lasts only 1 month instead of 140 days or roughly 4 and a half months).
^Do NOT suggest me to use RU58841/Pyrilutamide, you only need them if no 5ARIs work for you (eg finasteride/dutasteride) and even then quite dangerous for you as for one they are topical and second as they block not only DHT but T too for they are antiandrogens and not DHT inhibitors. Also quite expensive and canNOT find any ru58841 powder here produced locally.
I have no time to lose with dumb dermatologists here who don’t even know that MPB is caused by DHT. So please don’t recommend me to check in with them, they are nothing but a waste of time in my view. Thanks for reading my post, have a great day and bye!
I have no vitamin or nutritional deficincies to speak of too per my blood tests, thanks.
shorter posts=less info to judge. I will just up the dose to 5mg or go topical if nobody answers it. If you don’t add details than somebody will say oh just get a prescription for loniten for instance, when in Turkey it is unobtainable, you have to add that info my man. You need to add height, weight etc. as it is related to dose too. If reading is not your thing, you could always go back to 1st grade where they will gracefully teach it to you 