Oral minoxidil to treat hair loss

Elizabeth_Kirby · August 22, 2022, 11:54am

desertshores · August 22, 2022, 2:06pm

I found a site that has 1mg pills for a reasonable price:

RapAdmin · August 22, 2022, 5:25pm

Lots of discussion and links to related research papers on this topic from an earlier post in the Rapamycin for Hair and Skin thread:

Rapamycin for Hair Growth, Hair Pigmentation, Skin Anti-aging

A new NY Times article on the topic of hair: (as a side note, minoxidil tablets are available from many of the companies on our list of reliable online pharmacies, for very little money - i.e. $1 for a strip of 10 tablets of 5mg, which would need to be broken up to deliver the much lower dose used in the study). The doctor is quoted as now giving patients “effective doses of one-fortieth of a pill and began routinely prescribing the drug. That first patient still takes it.” But there is a cheap treatment, he and other dermatologists say, costing pennies a day, that restores hair in many patients. It is minoxidil, an old and well-known hair-loss treatment drug used in a very different way. Rather than being applied directly to the scalp, it is being prescribed in very low-dose pills. Al…

Joseph · August 20, 2022, 10:02pm

Conclusion

Oral minoxidil 5 mg once daily effectively increased hair growth in our male patients with AGA and had a good safety profile in healthy subjects. However, oral minoxidil should be used carefully with men who have severe hypertension and increased risk for cardiovascular events.

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