Am I losing my hair too quickly? - Page 3

i suggest a vacation lol

http://www.baldingblog.com/
Serious info, questions only answered by doctors.

The LaserComb is snake oil and doesn't work. The laser's class has been FDA approved that it won't hurt you... but it won't help you either.

All the "all natural" products out there promising to fix your hair loss or block DHT are BS, they simply give you a placebo effect. That's not to say some can't help. Selenium, Zinc, Fish Oil, eating better and taking a good multivitamin can all be helpful, but are not treatments.

Propecia (or Finasteride) and Rogaine are the only FDA approved treatments that do show results. Your mileage may vary, but they've only been shown to work on balding from the back and not from Male Pattern Baldness from the front... however it's better than nothing and some results have been shown.

I've used both, plus fish oil and vitamins for a few years and my hairloss stopped. I began losing at 21, but since then I haven't lost anything. I started using just Rogaine and then switched to Propecia for less mess. Maybe it was just general thinning (that happens too), and I don't actual need the meds, but why rock the boat now?

Another thing that can help is Nizoral 2% shampoo. It's a prescription anti-fungal shampoo, but some research suggests that it can help to use it about twice a week.

Wow, so much misinformation in this thread...

- The amount of hair you see in the shower or on the brush or whatever is meaningless. Everyone is "losing hair", that's part of the normal behavior of hair follicles. The only thing that matters is whether it grows back. For example, I remember when I was in high school and I would shower in the morning after my sister, there was always a massive amount of hair in the drain even when her hair was short. Her hair was then and still is very very thick.

- Propecia (Finasteride) actually *increases* the amount of testosterone in the body. Testosterone is is destroyed by interacting with 5-alpha reductase (and DHT is produced), and finasteride prevents this interaction, therby causing the amount of testosterone in the body to be higher than without finasteride.

- Male pattern baldness is caused by a combination of several genes, not just one. Just because other men in your family have or haven't lost their hair doesn't mean you will or won't. Sure, there is some correlation, but it's not guaranteed either way. (Note to the OP: you're going bald, you can either start treating it now and keep what you've got or maybe even regrow some, otherwise it will just get worse... it's your choice)

- "All-natural" treatments probably don't do much, if anything. Sure, it can't hurt to be healthy overall, but humans have been consuming things like green tea/fish oil/fruits and vegetables for literallly thousands of years. If any of these actually cured baldness, it would have become common knowledge a long time ago.

Bingo! +1!

On the other Baldness thread we get pretty in depth there too.

Some things that weren't mentioned here were cosmetic things like the skin/hair color ratio. The lighter your skin and the darker you hair, the less dense it looks, therefore, if you darken your skin/lighten your hair, you will look like you have more hair. Get a tan, you'll see what I mean, it's less obvious.

So, for cover-up's of "spots" there are products like Topix and other's out there that can provide a quick fix to areas that might be bothering you.

Also, using a caffeine topical solution (other thread) can help "wake up" follicles. This one actually has hard science and clinical trials behind it. Johnson and Johnson is actually seeking approval for this.

My dad has gone the Rogaine route and it has actually grown hair on his head... I have heard from some friends that Nioxin products at your local hair salon has worked out pretty well for them though it seems to thicken hair rather than regrow it...

I myself have decided to just play the hand that I've been dealt... After having a full thick mane that I once grew all the way down to my posterior, I'm letting it shine...

wow anti- DHT products are really becoming the most talked about in hairloss.

my hair has thinned quite substantially year upon year (for about 5-6 years) at an increasing rate but only recently have i been reading around for different ways to slow down the process and concealing (my crown is almost bald).

im not afraid to try anything but at the moment im looking for some simple ways to conceal my thinning crown.

has anyone used nanogen nanofibres or toppik concealers? opinions?

if im not satisfied with concealer i think i'm going to go for a more medicated (but not invasive) approach. i've heard good things about rogaine and nizoral shampoo alongside other products that nanogen sell such as nanocaps (anti dht non-drug tablets) and nanoguard anti dht shampoo.

sorry to steer the topic away from the science but im more interested in the actual products i should try and then understand the biology behind them.

thanks to anyone who can give me some adivce on any of those points. WW