Hair Transplant Blog

…I am quiet worried. For over two months, I am using Minoxidil twice a day as my Doctor recommended me to do. I have the clear impression that I am losing more hair than in the past. Is it normal?

Sometimes, and in a few cases only (around 5% of the patients using the treatment), a hair loss may occur in the part treated with Minoxidil. Usually, it is just a transitional loss which often starts between two weeks and two months after the beginning of the treatment. It may be due to the acceleration of the loss process of those hair which where going to fall soon. I advice you to wait for two more months and then the beneficial effects of the Minoxidil should be visible. If this does not happen, you will have to stop it and possibly start to use Propecia.

I am on minoxidil 2% (regaine) for two years and I am two months pregnant. My gynaecologist asked me to stop minoxidil but I am afraid to lose my hair again…

There are no studies on women about the effect of minoxidil on the foetus during the pregnancy, on the animals there isn’t any teratogenic effect. Nevertheless, it is beacuse a little part of Minoxidil can go through the cutaneous barrier when it is used on the skin that we recommend to stop the treatment during the pregnancy. Finally, until the childbirth, hormonal changes will compensate the eventual hair loss due to minoxidil cease.