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I’ve just recently after 3 years of light testosterone used noticed my hairloss. My hairline on the left and right side is pushing back. I’m not balding anywhere else on my head. My chest and back is growing crazy amounts of hair. I’ve read up on monoxidil and figured I may give that a try. Just looking for those with experience on this product. Does it work for you? Or is hairloss just part of the game.
 

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Depends on alot of stuff, may not even be gear related. If your hair loss due to androgen binding via 5a reduce then yes, it would help. So would durastride, finastride, ru588.
monoxidil takes months to work and if you stop, any hair regrowth will be gone.
 
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I found finasteride and minoxidil stopped the progression of my thinning and filled a little in. Was no match for 8 months of a slowly increasing anabolics load though. Somewhere around 300-400mgs/week I noticed it thinning again.
Pulled back to 100mg/week for a while to see if it helps. The earlier you start intervening the better.
People warn about finasteride but I didn't notice negatives. I use test/hcg if that matters. I find it odd that most of the hysteria around it started more recently and is only associated with it's hair loss treatment and not BPD.
 
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I found finasteride and minoxidil stopped the progression of my thinning and filled a little in. Was no match for 8 months of a slowly increasing anabolics load though. Somewhere around 300-400mgs/week I noticed it thinning again.
Pulled back to 100mg/week for a while to see if it helps. The earlier you start intervening the better.
People warn about finasteride but I didn't notice negatives. I use test/hcg if that matters. I find it odd that most of the hysteria around it started more recently and is only associated with it's hair loss treatment and not BPD.
Yeah I may give one of them a try. I’m currently just cruising for a while but I’ve noticed since I started blasting and cruising that my hairline has just been moving back. At the end of the day if it’s just part of it, I guess I will just accept it. But if I can help it I’d like too. I’m doing about 200 a week on my cruise. My try and dial it back some to see how if it fixes it.
 

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Just be careful with finasteride. It killed my libido for years. Might not hurt you on test but I wouldn’t risk it. Bald and jacked is a good look
 

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I’ve just recently after 3 years of light testosterone used noticed my hairloss. My hairline on the left and right side is pushing back. I’m not balding anywhere else on my head. My chest and back is growing crazy amounts of hair. I’ve read up on monoxidil and figured I may give that a try. Just looking for those with experience on this product. Does it work for you? Or is hairloss just part of the game.
I have used it in the past and back on it, it works great but if you stop it will fall back out. It takes months to be fully grown, like about 6 to 8 month.

It works best paired with thinning shampoos, I use Bosley. I only use it at night, applied once a day, it works.

Minoxidil is very cheap if you look on Amazon or Costco with the Kirkland brand. Make sure it's 5% not 2%, 5% for men and 2% for women.
 
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Stop it , just stop. Here man.

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SFG has your covered.

You could look into Him or Ro. They have a topical, finasteride and minoxidil. Not real cheap but they do run a starter special.
 
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GHK-CU is a peptide that is gaining popularity for improving the quality of hair follicles protruding out of the scalp.


I have no experience with finastride but many people warn against it
 

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Try it. It may stop further loss but you'll be on it long term. Depends on how much you care. I eventually decided it wasn't worth the effort.

I mainly couldn't stand having that oily crap in my hair. You can get topical minox/fina that dries quickly but that's more expensive. I didn't respond to Microneedling or RU-whatever but you may.
 
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Finasteride worked great for me, and I haven't personally noticed any side effects.

Only problem is I like to run Nandrolone sometimes, and 19-nors will make hair loss worse while on 5-alpha reductase inhibitors. So my solution is to stop finasteride and use topical RU58841 when I know i'm going to be blasting a 19-nor. As far as I can tell, the RU58841 works for me, again without side effects.

Minoxidil does help in general, as it increases blood flow to the hair follicle... however, IMHO you should be combining it with something to control DHT at the same time. Ive always figured that if you increase bloodflow *while* your body has elevated DHT due to steroids, you run the risk of actually increasing the mechanism which causes balding. I don't have any scientific research to back that up, it just seems logical to me.

I tried microneedling and got very poor results. Lots of people swear by it, but it seemed to stress my head and actually cause a lot more thinning/hair loss for me. As soon as I stopped, my hair recovered.

With all of that said... if you're genetically predisposed to male pattern baldness, this stuff helps but it'll catch up to you eventually. I personally have been stashing money away into a fund for a trip to Turkey to just get hair transplants eventually, after I'm done with another heavy blast or two. Thats definitely the final solution, so to speak.
 
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