This is a comment left by a reader in response to Propecia being under patent protection… And that is exactly why we need to see the end of Patent laws as we know them today, companies are given way too much time to bleed us. Its evil. Especially when medication has been Government funded or approved. The real issue is that patents stop other companies from innovating. In fact while I’m thinking about, we should all be lobbying against... 

I have used the “cover-up” product, Toppik, for a couple of years with pretty good results. I have recently read — albeit online, so of course I am quite guarded in my reaction — that there is aluminum in this keratin fiber product which may actually clog pores and cause or speed up hair loss/miniaturization. While I have  Read More →

Snippet from the article : Dr. George Q. Daley sits at his keyboard and types “stem cell treatments.” In less than a second he gets 13.4 million Google hits. “Here’s a website where they claim over 1,500 patients treated,” says Daley, one of the world’s foremost stem cell researchers. “That doesn’t mean they’ve been treated successfully. It’s ‘buyer beware!’” But …... 

Dr. Rassman, you have said before that minoxidil works for about half of men. The box says that minoxidil has only been proven to work for men experiencing hair loss at the apex/top of head and not for men that are balding from the front. Are these clinical studies made up of men that are already “good candidates”, meaning they have the right kind of balding for the drug to work? Or are all types of balding patterns included in the trials?... 

Hi Doc. Right know I’m on Propecia for 3 years, but I’m noticing some thinning in the frontal area. Would it be effective to start to take 2 mg a day? Thank you. Increasing the medication dosage will not necessarily slow down or help stop the hair loss process. Propecia is a good medication, but it is not the magic bullet. It does not completely stop hair loss and different people have different results with the medication. As Propecia... 

Dr. Rassman, Thank you for taking the time with this blog and the questions you have answered for me over the past year. I’m 30, I take Propecia and have been on it a year for crown thinning. I’ve gotten very good results but have a question that has been bugging me. Last year, after a month on propecia, I read  Read More →

I just got the results from a scalp biopsy. My doctor had some interesting conclusions. I was wondering if I could run them by you. She said that the results from the biopsy were able to differentiate between MPB and a maturing hairline. Is that possible? She said that the biopsy did indicate MPB. I find this confusing considering I have only lost hair at the corners of my hairline. I just assumed it was a mature hairline. She prescribed Propecia.... 

I’m an 18-year old male showing the first stages of male pattern baldness. My doctor has prescribed me 1-tablet of Proscar 5mg, per week. Is this a common dosage? All the literature indicates that 1mg/day of Propecia is the correct dose. If I persist with one tablet of Proscar 5mg/week, is it enough to do the job, considering the short half-life of finasteride? It seems you already know the answer. The dosage your doctor recommended is incorrect... 

Hey thanks for your time. I had been using rogaine 5% solution for about 2 years. I only used it once a day.. but I used a lot more than the recommended dosage(all over my head). I have had a lot of regrowth even on the hair line. I quit using rogaine about a month ago due to face bloating and loss of libido. I started taking procerin about a week after I quit using rogaine and I started using nioxin about 2 weeks ago. I am still experience a lot... 

(female) I recently saw a dermatologist for my thinning hair. I’m not familiar with the medical terms he used, but he has me on clobex spray twice daily and spironolactone twice daily. I so desperately want something to work! I use hairmax lazer comb and rogaine. I am seeing hair growth on the sides near the temples but not much on top.Please guide me in the right direction. Thank you There is a difference in wanting something to desperately... 

Hi Doctor! I am very happy that I found your great site! I am 24 year old male with about a Norwood 2. Here in Hungary I dont think we would have good doctors being expert in hair loss treatment. I visited one of them (advertised by the spectral dnc site), but she stood against taking pills for my hair loss at such a young age (and  Read More →

Doctor reading this really scared me. Its from hairlosshelp.com This is what someone posted regarding propecia “Yes. I barely had any recession, it honestly looked like maturing of the hairline, and me having my dads hairline, it looked like thats what was happenning. Eight months in 2/3 of the front of my head fall out, I end up shedding 100+ hairs a day for 5 months, where as before Fin I only shed 15 a day. I was in so much denial I  Read More →

hi doc, A few months ago i was studying for exams, which was obviously stressful. Around that time i ran out of propecia for a week, suprise suprise, i then realised my left hairline had taken a beating which wasnt there before. my question is, is it possible that i lost hair by stopping propecia for a week? if i lost hair because of stress when can i expect to see it grow back? thank you  Read More →

Hi I recently had a direct implantation and I was told to use minoxidil 5% which I am not sure if is something I would like to use because of its many, quite weird for me,side effects. Is it essential after implantation? or is there something else I could use that could be safer? thanks Minoxidil (Rogaine) isn’t essential  Read More →

I belong to an email group of hair transplant physicians who communicate regularly to share information. Most recently, the group was polled to determine the side effects that these doctors see with finasteride. Most doctors reported sexual side effects (range from 2-5%), breast enlargement (very rarely, seems like substantially less than 1%), reduction in ejaculate volume (substantially less than the 20% I have seen when … [ visit site...