Are the side effects of oral minoxidil that bad ?

[billymidnight]

Title, I assume they’re not as risky as lattise side effects

 

[Sachlichkeit]

why would you use a drug intended for hairloss systemically instead of applying it to your hair

 

[slaters]

You turn into a balloon

 

[Zeekie]

Title, I assume they’re not as risky as lattise side effects

At lower doses it is mostly safe and the only prevalent side effect is mild headaches (and too much hair growth in certain areas). In some randomized control trial, oral minoxidil (5 mg daily) was found to have similar efficacy to topical minoxidil (5% solution applied twice daily) after 24 weeks, meaning that down the line the effects are pretty much the same.

Oral minoxidil requires a prescription and may give you some side effects, if you wanna use it purely for preventing or reversing AGA, you can stick to topical and do just fine.

 

[Copercel]

Title, I assume they’re not as risky as lattise side effects

Yes. It depends on how you tolerate it (duh) but you can nuke the sides by taking amiloride for the bloat it cause and by taking GHK-Cu to prevent any collagen loss. This won’t block the sides by 100% but it will prevent them good.

 

[billymidnight]

At lower doses it is mostly safe and the only prevalent side effect is mild headaches (and too much hair growth in certain areas). In some randomized control trial, oral minoxidil (5 mg daily) was found to have similar efficacy to topical minoxidil (5% solution applied twice daily) after 24 weeks, meaning that down the line the effects are pretty much the same.

Oral minoxidil requires a prescription and may give you some side effects, if you wanna use it purely for preventing or reversing AGA, you can stick to topical and do just fine.

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I’m using it for mainly eyelash growth,

I’m using it mainly for eyelash growth so would you still recommend it ?

 

[billymidnight]

why would you use a drug intended for hairloss systemically instead of applying it to your hair

It’s not for hairloss I need eyelash results

 

[Zeekie]

I’m using it mainly for eyelash growth so would you still recommend it ?

If you're not too scared of the side effects and stick to a relatively low dose (less than 5mg for example), I think it's completely fine

 

[Sachlichkeit]

It’s not for hairloss I need eyelash results

Latisse is $11 a vial

 

[billymidnight]

Latisse is $11 a vial

Yes with the risk of orbital fat loss no?

 

[Sachlichkeit]

Yes with the risk of orbital fat loss no?

Idk tbh when I get it ill do more research but if ur good at applying it to your eyelashes losing eye fat shouldn't be a problem kek

 

[hej1377]

Not as risky as latisse chose minox, less than 5% get some collagen loss vut not hard to reverse, juts have some ghk cu and youll have mogger skin anyway