Hair loss timeline — need advice

pete_nash said:

Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it.

Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either. Those three things can all be true at once, and most arguments here are two people holding different parts of that.

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself. Four weeks is the usual minimum for anything pharmacological on this board, and two weeks of data has told you almost nothing.

A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:

Did your prescriber agree with that reading, and if not what was their objection?

SleepDoc_PDX said:

If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.

I read this differently from SleepDoc_PDX, on substance rather than tone. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.

SleepDoc_PDX said:

If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.

That is right for the common case. Whether it is right for the case being asked about depends on a detail that has not been given.

I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.