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I know that Rogaine, Propecia etc are no good after hair loss, but help to prevent it.
Does anybody know whether any of these drugs help the hair to continue to grow beyond (in time and therefore in length) the natural terminal length?
If you don't NEED to use these products, don't.
From the research I've read, once you start using these products, you can't stop. If you aren't experiencing hair loss and use them, there is no real benefit. However, once you stop, you begin to lose hair. This is true even if you weren't experiencing hair loss before.
Don't ever try something that isn't necessary to start with.
Just my .02!
Hello Baldie,
There is some regrowth reported by others but on my guy it has been limited to a sweetly fuzzy bit of wispy bits where it had been totally bald before beginning the drug. (I wonder if that got counted in their reported 48% of people in their trial who regrew hair.) If it was my head I'd save the money but I know his hair is important to him so he feels it is worth it to prevent the chance of his hairline slipping back further. That is the hard part, you never know if there would be more loss or not. It could be he is as bald as he will get and stopping only would mean the fuzz drops off. Though if he did stop and lose more "real" hair it would be gone for good and so he continues.
I am betting no on this question. My Bill has been taking Propecia for three years and after growing his hair out six years it only reaches below the shoulderblades. This is his truncated maximum due to aging, formerly Bill had waistlength back in college so Propecia has not apparently done anything for length.
While I am mentioning Propecia I should add for other readers the stern warning I got from Bill about me never touching his Propecia pills directly as there is a specific birth defect risk. Checking with the Propecia site it mentions the pills have a coating so they will be safe unless broken or crushed so Bill was overly dramatic but I agree that it is not worth chancing if I was pregnant and not yet aware of it.
Elizabeth
.. for the replies. That is more or less what I expected, but its interesting to have confirmation.
