r/minoxidil

I'm a guy with long hairs and receding hairline. Its hard for me to apply minoxidil as I've never done it before. How many days i i should shampoo my hairs ? After applying minoxidil my hairs get dry and frizzy and need wash the next day.

Hey guys

I have been using topical minoxidil for over a year now, but I’d like to try switching to oral minoxidil mostly for convenience and also better results.

I plan on taking 5mg daily.

I’ve looked into websites that sell it on Tressless, but I couldn’t figure out which product contains blister packs and which comes in a plastic bag (like the loxidil one from Thailand), as I’m looking only for blister packed pills to avoid humidity and oxidation

Does anybody know of a product? Also, would French Customs seize the product?

thank you very much

Hi guys so I need a bit of advice on how I should move forward.

About 3ish years ago I started noticing a lot of shedding whenever I'd wash and style my hair. My overall hair density was fine but in general my middle part looked a little wider than usual. Recently I (F18) noticed a lot of thinning around my crown area and a significant decrease in my overall hair density and my scalp has become more visible (my part resembles a christmas tree pattern when it's greasy). In addition to that, my hair sheds ALOT in the shower but not much when it's dry and some of the new growth is thinner then other hair strands. I had a doctor’s appointment and got some bloodwork done to check my vitamin d, iron, ferritin, thyroid and b12 levels. Everything was fine besides my ferritin which was at a 5. My doctor said this might be a potential cause for my hairloss but she said she isn’t going to rule out other causes. She told me to start taking iron supplements and come back in two months to get some more bloodwork done to see if my ferritin levels increase and if the shedding stops. My question is, while I'm waiting for my next doctor's appointment and taking iron supplements, should I start using topical minoxidil in the meantime? Or should I wait until I get an official diagnosis for my hairloss?

Not fully balding or anything but noticed things feeling a little thinner lately and shedding more than usual my hairs feel fragile and like they come off so easily so I’ve been looking into minoxidil as an option. The stuff seems to work based on everything I’ve read but the part that nobody really talks about is what it actually looks like to commit to it long term.

Like I get that you have to stay on it or you lose whatever you gained, that part is well documented. What I want to know is from people who have actually been doing it for five, ten, however many years, does it just become a normal part of your routine or does it stay annoying. Does the twice a day thing ever stop feeling like a chore. Are there older guys in here in their 50s and 60s still applying it daily and is that just fine or does it get weird at some point.

Also genuinely curious if there’s a point where most people decide to just stop and accept it instead of continuing to manage it. Like is there an age or a threshold where people just tap out and feel fine about that decision.

Not looking for medical advice just want to hear from people who are actually living with this long term because most of what comes up when you search is just the basic clinical stuff about how it works. Want to know what it’s actually like as a lifestyle thing years in.

I have been taking topical minox for about a year. It doesn’t really work. Maybe lack of enzyme?

Starting taking 2 drops of topical orally in morning and 2 more at night to go systemic. For a few weeks. This Does work. Baby hairs present.

Just had a bout of severe abdominal pain that sent me home from work. It got much worse after eating. The whole bout lasted about 10 hours.

Hurt to breath, hurt to move. Couldn’t realistically stand fully upright or stretch out.
Tucking my legs up against body helped.

Anyone else experienced this?
I know topical is supposed to be used topically….

If this was minox, I’m not sure if being bedridden for 5 hours is worth more hair….

So I’ve been on oral Fin and topical Minoxidil since August 2024.

I’ve noticed the crown of my head appears less thin, my overall thickness in general is better but my temples appear to have slightly worsened. I do have e some very fine “baby hair” around the temples since I started treatment but other than that there’s no noticeable difference.

I’m not expecting miracles but since I’ve read a lot of things that oral Min is far superior, I’m wondering if I may aswell switch? I’m obviously going to be on the two for life anyway.

I didn’t have much shedding when I started on the oral and topical combo so my biggest worry is the switch will cause a massive shed.

Any advice?

I use finastrate and minoxidil mixture tropical serum and seen good result . I switched to oral finastrate with tropical minoxidil. I started to loose my gains after that . It been 20 days I can see visible losses . I don't know what to do . What happening now .

Hello,
I'm currently on oral minoxidil, I've been on it for about 2 months. I think there is some regrowth (hard to tell though, I *think* my side part might not be as wide as before).

I don't like it too much though, i don't like how much hair i have everywhere now, i have to shave my cheeks and my temples, and I don't like it. I'm thinking about switching to topical minoxidil. Will I go through another shedding phase? And: should I stop minoxidil and just switch to fin?

everyone else? i sleep around 10-12h if i don't set an alarm (normally 8), but every now and then, since when i started minoxidil, i'm literally not able to close my eyes and i stay like that, lurking in the dark, until someway hours and hours later in the complete silence i'm able to close them for 1-3h before my alarm (if it's a working day). i think it might be related to tachycardia because while i'm bored in the bed i can clearly feel my heart beat. is it something that i get used to, with time, so i will sleep easily as time passes by?