What's the difference between the two. If a person is experiencing side effects from Finasterine why not just switch to Rogaine? Don't they both do the same thing? If both Rogaine and Finasteride serve the same purpose, why wouldn't you just use Rogaine and not have to worry about any side effects of Finasteride? Any info would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

Jrbrass,

Technically they both do different things to accomplish a similar purpose.

Finasteride is a DHT inhibitor whereas Minoxodil increases circulation to the scalp sometimes causing new hair to grow or strengthens existing miniaturized hairs.

Finasteride works from the ground up, combating the root cause of hair loss DHT, whereas minoxodil works from the top down, stimulating hair follicles via increased circulation, but does nothing to stop or reduce DHT.

Many people find that combining finasteride and minoxodil is the BEST possible treatment of one's hair loss condition.

But clearly, if one is experiencing side effects with one of the medications, it is best to continue to use the other. Treatment may not be as effective, but it's better than nothing.

I hope that helps.

Falc

Finasteride stops the DHT from damaging your hair follicles in the first place.
Minoxidil only prevents your body from executing the follicles that DHT has already damaged.


Let's suppose you use finasteride for a decade and then decide to quit. What happens?
Your scalp will take almost a decade longer to go bald than it naturally would have, even if you never take finasteride again.
That's truly some PREVENTION of baldness.

But if you use minoxodil for a decade and then quit . . . The DHT was still damaging your hair follicles during that whole decade.
So once the minoxidil is discontinued, then your body will immediately begin to execute ALL the hairs that you would have naturally lost during that decade. It won't take another decade for you to lose the decade's worth of hair, it will all be rapidly gone in a matter of weeks/months.


Minoxidil is much more of a "life sentence" than finasteride for this reason.


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