I'm female! :)
And I honestly wasn't thinning or losing that much hair, but I have thin fine asian hair from stress/pulling out/bleaching/dying my hair consecutively/taking my hair for granted/anxiety etc, but I'm only 19 haha, I was actually starting to feel ok with my hair until my mother's friend paid a visit and gave me the most pitiful look in the whole wide world, and then when I left the room she started talking to my mother about how I have really thin hair, causing my mother to take action with my thin hair. I really honestly can't tell or even know if I had any hair growth from this, I don't see anything or think I have, I mean it's only been around a month so yeah, and I only started shedding like crazy within the last two weeks so yeah!
Oh my god FINALLY, thank you so much for the information Julia, I've been looking left and right for someone with experience like you, I'm lucky I used the weaker version and for only 1 month, but god I did notice that the skin on my scalp felt dead and "artificial" and my undereye area was really dark, but not only that but my face was really bloated and fat looking, I'm really thin, I eat very healthily, and I always sleep on schedule. But after I found all these other people going through the same things I was, I was like, NO, and dropped the rogaine faster than a hot potato. But then I scared myself going through all these forums and posts and only being able to find people freaking out about how much worse their hair was after quitting rogaine and THINKING it was permanently damaged, and then hopping right back on it, ugh. But before you replied I was able to find a formal study done on people that quit the rogaine, they had a MASSIVE decline and shed in hair after they stopped using it , but then by 6 months their hair was back to baseline along with people on the placebo and people that were untreated as well, made me so relieved. I feel like rogaine is really shoddy and didn't do much research themselves on their own product and it frustrates me I had to find answers from terrified and frantic USERS instead of the providers themselves. What's funny is the people on the placebo tricked themselves in believing they had a massive shed after they were told to stop using the product, which is why I feel like another reason people that quit rogaine go back on it without waiting it out and seeing if they get back to baseline, they lose the hair from their own minds making them believe they're experiencing the dread shed, and from all the stress of going through it and expecting it. Anyways I feel so much better in knowing I'll be able to grow back the hair I lose from the initial shed from using this drug, I just need to be patient, and a lot of things in life are always bad before they're good. Yeah I saw a lot of people refuting the whole minoxidil stops collagen from doing it's thing theory and saying stuff like "I'd rather look 50 when I'm 20 than have thin hair" and I was just like..................o.........k...........lol........... But yeah, I'm so lucky I found out in time, I'm such a paranoid worrywart, and I guess that paid off this time since I was able to quit this before it was too late. And for you, I suggest investing in antiaging products and possibly botox if it's that bad? Also, make sure to take Hair, Skin, & Nails vitamins/supplements, and clean your diet, drink 8 glasses of water a day, possibly start being more active! (you'll see your skin improving no matter what!)
Hi Julia! I've just recently used the 2% rogaine for about around a month or a little more, I was aware of the side effects I saw on the packaging but then I started getting like snow ball sized dandruff o___o... and I thought that wasn't very normal, so I was googling it to find out what's going on, only to stumblr upon people and blog posts about how wrinkles is an unmentioned side effect, and other scary ones that lots of people reported having, such as bloated/fatter/rounder face, really dark circles under eyes or heavy/inflamed eyebags and pores. But there were so many people on many forums that reported these side effects, but everyone would shut the people down, and downplay the side effects as aging or stress.. Anyways, so after I found out that wrinkles might be a possible side effect, I threw away the drug.
But now I'm freaking out because I'm scared that I won't grow back the hair I started with before I used the drug.
So I really need the information right now, because everyone I've found that quit this poison quickly got back on it after getting the "dread shed" from quitting it.
I needed to find someone that quit the drug and didn't go back on it, so I wanted to ask you, since you quit using it I'm guessing you lost the hairs you ~gained~ on it, but is or did your natural hair return.
Basically.
Did your hair return to what it was before you used the drug after you quit it?
I'm scared that the natural hair that fell out from the initial shed is gone forever and I can never grow it back to what it was before using the product a month ago.
The drug says that once you stop using the product, you will lose the hair you gained from it.
But in order for the product to grow it's artificial hairs, it had to make you lose your ~weak~ natural hairs first so that it could replace those with artificial hair.
But after you quit, do you go back to baseline, aka what you started with or are you doomed to have thinner hair than you had starting out, forever?
Please reply julia I really need your experience right now!
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