Can you help with sudden hair loss after almost three months of treatment?

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I'm a little bit concerned because this is the second hair loss treatment I'm trying (first, it was with Minoxidil 5%; now, Minoxidil 5% + topical Finasteride 0.5% in Finastopic). It's been almost three months since I started the second treatment and after one month and a half I started to see less shedding for a bit. Then, at the end of September, suddently, I started losing a lot of hair again. I had a septoplasty in October the 1st and I'm losing around +150 hair strands a day. Is it normal?

Jason Emer, MD · Answer

Start Theradome now and in office PRP/acell, you can do early transplant if you want. 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 most people with early hair loss have telogen (stress related) and/or androgenetic (normal aging) and both can be treated with in office treatments like steroid injections, PRP/acell, Exosomes and at home treatments like oral medications, oral vitamins like Viviscal, topical exfoliating sprays like Restorsea, and weekly growth factors like anteagemd. See an expert for an evaluation. If hair loss is significant it may requires hair transplant (follicular unit translation)

Epameinondas Bonaros, MD · Answer

Finasteride may cause hair shedding a few weeks or months after beginning treatment. It is caused by the reactivation of the dormant hair follicles, and it is a positive sign that finasteride works. Shedding will subside within a few months as hair regrowth becomes more evident.

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