This is a reader response to my blog posting from way back in May, 2005 — When Will I Go Bald?

My question to you is the following: Per your last line [note: "There is no doubt that the hair loss will still pick up again (even on the drug) but it will be a slower process."], even if i take Propecia, and stay on it forever, then at some point I’ll begin losing more hair anyway? Is that what you mean by your last line? Thanks.

Let’s say that you start off with 100 hairs prior to the Propecia (finasteride). Then with the Propecia you go up to 130 hairs after year one. You also have an identical twin brother (100% exactly the same as you), but he decides not to take Propecia. Now let’s see what happens to the hair count for the two of you…

  Hair Count - You
(with Propecia)		 Hair Count - Twin
(without Propecia)
Start 100 100
Year 1 130 98
Year 2 127 95
Year 3 120 89
Year 4 112 85
Year 5 106 82
Year 6 101 78
Year 7 98 74
Year 8 93 70
Year 9 88 68
Year 10 85 64
30 years later 75 62

 

Note that you may be coming closer together. Maybe not. Obviously, this is just an example to illustrate a point, but I hope that makes things a little more clear. Simply, Propecia does not stop hair loss completely or forever, but it does modify the course of the hair loss over time.

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