I’m 27 years old. At this moment I’m using oral minoxidil 2.5 mg and finasteride 1 mg/day. I started finasteride the 31th of may 2019 with minoxidil 5%. Finasteride causes me very heavy sexual side effects but I can't stop. In the last few months I've been getting worse despite the treatment. I should probably resign myself to it. I don't think a transplant is possible because of my donor. I was evaluating the body hair transplant with a beard but even that would be useless.
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This is one of my favourite subjects and I could go on forever about this. I can’t offer all that much because I don’t have enough information (Your story is left out). There are a few key points. First if you are losing hair equally all over the scalp, TE is possible. If it seems that it’...
You need a formal evaluation to see what type of hair loss you may have. when you have hairless its best to do a full hormonal workup for internal optimization plus scalp biopsies or scrapings to rule out any stress related, inflammatory, autoimmune or infectious causes of hair loss. In general...
It really depends if the biopsy was taken from a representative area or not. It sounds like this is some type of TE but it would be a mistake to completely assume with 100 % confidence there’s no AGA. However it certainly does not seem like it. If you have AGA in the crown, a biopsy up front w...