Does anyone know the cause of their initial hair loss?

General Discussion
#1

I’ve seen a pretty steady trend among people that when they had a recovery, they had a itchy scalp with hair falling out. I’ve gotten this at random times as well more recently and what I am wondering is what is the initial, underlying cause of this hair loss. I know hair loss can happen for a variety of reasons and it’s not just if you lose the genetic lottery. What I’m wondering is if members of this forum, we have had a certain form/condition which caused the hair loss and by using Propecia, it made our side effects not go away.

And please only constructive feedback in this thread. I really don’t need people coming in here and saying things like this is impossible, doesn’t make sense, etc etc. No one really knows the exact mechanism going on and if we did, we’d be a lot better at treating it.

#2

Sorry, I don’t know the answer. Supposedly hair can initially shed when guys FIRST begin propecia (or a DHT blocker) but the hair returns thicker!

I’m just surprised you weren’t firmly chastised for talking about hair-loss at all!!!

#3

the hair loss question had nothing to do with something superficial… more of looking at a potential underlying health issue that could be investigated.

#4

I had a lot better and thicker hair before sides.Now hair is thinner, fine, dull and lifeless.No natural shining. My hair used to be straight ,easy to comb now a little bit curly.

#5

This is one of my big regrets with fin. My hair was totally fine, just receding a bit at a slow pace. I’ve always had very bad anxiety, and this caused it to seem much worse than it was, which eventually convinced me to get on Fin despite my better judgement. Now my hair is falling out at a very rapid pace. Had I never touched fin, on top of not being impotent, I would have enjoyed a fairly full head of hair for many more years. It’s really frustrating because going into Fin I had an inkling of what I was getting into as far as sexual sides, which had me VERY on the fence, but I had absolutely no idea about the mental sides or the rapid hair loss. Were I fortunate enough to read about that beforehand I wouldn’t have touched it with a ten foot poll. I spent days and days researching the stuff before I finally took it. I don’t know how I missed that.