General Maintenance
It's time to admit something that I'm not too proud of, but there is a lesson in it for those of you that may be considering quitting the staple regimen of minox/propecia, perhaps thinking that they are not working for you or that they are not working well enough. If you have checked out the before and after photos, and read the information on my regimen and my goals for treating my hair loss, then you are aware that I was taking the treatment very seriously. I religiously followed my regimen day in and day out, rarely if ever missing an application of a medication. I think that my pics show some improvement, or at the very least maintenance of the hair that I had.
After about the 7th month of treatment, I started to apply the treatments less consistently. I had gotten busier at work, and my life was frenzied for a while, so I would let things slip little by little, until after a while I was doing nothing. It has now been almost a year since I have done anything. And here's the lesson. I LOST A TON OF HAIR. It started to happen about 2 months after I stopped treatment. I returned to where I was before I had started, and lost some more on top of that. I think I am at where I would be had I never treated my hair at all.
So my recommendation to those of you that are considering quitting, even though you have maintained your hair or had marginal regrowth, or even perhaps just slowed your hair loss. DON'T STOP TREATMENT!
Part of why I stopped was because I feel I may have been doing too much and it was becoming a chore. From now on, after I start treatment again (and I am going to do so soon and start recording the results on the site again) I will make sure to at the very least apply the two-punch combo (minox/and prop). The other stuff I will do as time permits. I am convinced now that I have lost so much more hair after I stopped that the treatments were working. And I am convinced that if I hadn't stopped I would have made significant progress in regrowth. Hence, I will take this as a positive lesson, and start all over again.
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