03/20/2008

Side Effects of Finasteride

Question :

Dear Dr. Mohebi, Hair Restoration Los Angeles
Dr. I had a question: say I would use proscar now and took it for a while, after how long based on studies is it possible to see adverse side effects, if any? The reason why I ask is because when I went and read the messages on the forums, I saw positive and negative feedbacks. One person used proscar for 7 years and saw nothing but great results at hair implant Los Angeles . I would like to give it a shot and see if I am lucky, hopefully.
Answer:
The side effects of finasteride (Propecia/Proscar) could be seen anytime from right after starting it to months after starting finasteride. If you read the articles on Los Angeles hair restoration adverse effects of finasteride you can clearly see that there is a small difference between the rates of side effects from the people who took placebos to the ones taking finasteride.
Let’s face it; you are prescribing a drug to a patient telling him that it works through altering your male hormones. What do you think the chances are that the patient will have problems with his sex drive?
The good news is that the side effects of finasteride are few and the most problematic one (decreased sex drive) is only seen in one out of a hundred patients. The other good news is that even if you are in that one percent category and you decide to continue using finasteride anyway, after one year of using finasteride the rate of side effects decreases to about the rate that was shown in the people who only took a placebo.



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Maturation of scalp hair line

I saw an 18 year old patient today who was worried about the recession of his hairline. We mapped his scalp hair to analyze the degree of miniaturization using a digital microscope.

You can see significant miniaturization in the frontal area. When Los Angeles hair restoration doctors examined a few centimeters behind his frontal hairline the miniaturization rate dropped sharply to less than 20% which was consistent throughout the top and crown area of the scalp. The patient’s father lost his hair at an early age. Patient started taking finasteride a month before his visit with hair implant Los Angeles and topical Rogaine about a week before this visit.
What hair restoration Los Angeles observed was the maturation of his hair line, which occurs between the ages of 16-25 in most men. Hair line maturation is when the hair line migrates 1 to 2 cm higher than its normal position as when we are child (kiddy hairline). It is more significant in the corners but could be seen in the midline too. As Caucasian men go through the maturation process, the hairline rises, but many non-Caucasian men never experience hair line maturation and the hairline stays flat and low.
The best way to distinguish the maturation of the hairline from the early stages of baldness is by comparing miniaturization in different scalp areas. If you are experiencing early hair loss, your miniaturization could be seen behind the first centimeter of the frontal hairline, but if the rate of miniaturization drops sharply it could indicate that the hair line is going through maturation and the hair loss may stop shortly after maturation is complete.
We stopped all anti hair loss medications that the patient recently started, and we recommended another miniaturization study in 6 months to a year to follow his hair loss progression .

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