ROGAINE EXTRA STRENGTH (FOR MEN) Reviews (MINOXIDIL)Average Rating: 1.6 (319 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ROGAINE EXTRA STRENGTH (FOR MEN) with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ROGAINE EXTRA S | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Beard growth | 8 days of topical use.. | I used Topical 5 percent minox foam to fill out my beard that became a bit patchy. Probably used once a day for about 8 days. One night I couldn't sleep and felt like my heart was about to jump out my chest never had that sensation before. But didn't think anything of it. That was probably day 4 of minox. After that I noticed that I wasn't getting morning wood anymore like zero not even a twitch. Which was a bit odd and didn't think anything of it. That seemed to continue and continue day to day which is definitely not norm for me. I managed to shoot a few times since stopping but it's been ridiculously semi and pointless and numbish. I thought whats changed recently that may have caused this as this is totally new for me. Then thought the minox was only new thing been using recently. But the leaflet doesn't note this anywhere as a side effect. I stopped at day 8, just in case and that was 2 months ago. But annoyingly symptoms have persisted. Anyone else experienced this? | M | 44 | 8 days 5% 1X day | 3/11/2026 | 5 | Mpb | None. If anything a higher libido. | no side effects to me mentally, strength wise or libido. Possibly slightly higher libido if anything but I'm probably just imagining it. | M | 24 | 10 days Daily rec 2X day | 10/14/2025 | 1 | Hair loss | Tachycardia, Heart palpitation, anxiety. | I have exercised my whole life and have always ate healthy as well as proper sleep. Never had heart issues or blood pressure problems. After taking topical minoxidil for a week I noticed a dramatic increased heart rate, palpitations and anxiety. I took it for about 3 days longer as I first did not connect the dots. It has put me in the ER 3 times to which they found no issues (EKGS, chest x-rays, blood tests). I of course stopped the medication immediately and the symptoms have slowly been improving but still have episodes of increased heart rate (while sitting) for 25 days after stopping. I am hammering vitamins, moderate exercise and getting extra sleep to try to bounce back quicker. This stuff is poison and these symptoms were dismissed by doctors. I pray my body continues to heal and nothing is long term as I am still young. I feel horrible for others on here as well especially that have taken this for years and experienced long term effects. All I can say is take every cardio vascular vitamin you can, workout if possible and stay very hydrated, your body typically does a good job at recalibrating as long as permanent damage was not done. I have researched this quite a bit and when your cardiovascular system gets thrown out of wack this dramatically it can take months for it to recalibrate. I don't believe I took it long enough to have any ED or loss of libido thankfully but man did it mess up my heart. My increased heart rate at first would get up to 150 bpm at times and | M | 29 | 10 days 5% 1X day | 8/25/2025 | 1 | Male Pattern Baldness | Looks like there has not been a review posted for this stuff lately, so i better contribute one, because i do believe this drug might be bad. Surprisingly not too many ED side effects for me, and i am very thankful for that. Based off the reviews of other men on here, there is tons of ED side effects! The side effects i experienced were none at first, and i did maintain the hair i had and grew a little bit back maybe. After taking it for a while though, i started getting lightheaded, especially in the sun, which was very strange and alarming, and i actually blacked out once and it felt like i had vertigo! Not kidding. Whoa scary! Recently i also started having chest pains here and there. After quitting, they went away. | I will discontinue use for sure, and if i am bald, so be it. At least my body is healthy. If you don't have your health, then life can be really bad. So just be bald, and healthy without this poison i think is best. I am realizing there are lots of bald men, and being bald does not correlate to your overall health. I need to just exercise regularly and eat well, like some of the men on here have suggested. Thank you ask a patient for providing a non biased platform for others to share their experiences, and help wake some of us up to this drug. | M | 37 | 3 years <1ml 1X day | 8/10/2025 | 1 | Baldness | testicular pain, difficulty ejaculating, headache, weak erection, no morning erection | I used minoxidil for 13 years, tolerated it well for many years, but in the long term I had quite a few side effects. After one to two weeks of stopping treatment, everything returns to normal. | M | 30 | 13 years 1X day | 12/25/2024 | 1 | Baldness | I'm no longer taking this medication. | M | 30 | 1X day | 12/22/2024 Patient History | 1 | Hair loss | I'm no longer taking this medication. | M | 30 | 5% 1X day | 12/9/2024 Patient History | 1 | Hair loss | Decreased libido. No sex drive. Hormonal imbalance | If youre looking to be cured. Reach out to Dr. Irwin Goldstein. He's the only person that will actually listen to you and prescribe medication to make improvements | M | 33 | 1 days 1X day | 5/30/2024 | 3 | Hair Loss | Brain Fog, Decreased Libido, Heart Palpitations, Depression and Anhedonia | This stuff technically works as within a bottle or two you'll see some of your hair grow back, but the amount of side effects I've experienced and have finally correlated with this drug aren't worth it at all. Heart palpitations for the first two weeks, afterward I began experiencing creeping feelings of depression. It's as if everything I was passionate about doesn't interest me now. Brain fog initially came on as forgetfulness, now two months in I feel perpetually stupid. I can't daydream or think outside the box anymore. Trouble focusing too. I'm quitting this crap for good and hopefully I'll be back to normal sooner rather than later. | M | 24 | 1X day | 4/11/2024 | 1 | Hairloss | I'm no longer taking this medication. it's 4 years and 3 months since I have dropped minoxidil due to extreme side effects that include severe ED and libido loss, anxiety, sleep problems, panic attacks, urination disorders and many other health issues. Don't take this drug. You will find more details and adverse reactions reports on r/minoxidilsideeffects sub-Reddit page | M | 31 | 4 months 2X day | 3/22/2024 Patient History | 4 | To combat hair loss | Slight headache, chest pains sometimes even though I cant tell for certain if it is due to this | I think its a great medication. However I would advise to try and take it early in hair loss as well as not having too high expectations | M | 26 | 10 months 1 ml 1X day | 9/18/2023 | 1 | Hair loss | Ed, no sex drive, cant maintain erection , back pain, peeing more frequently, | I actually used finasteride for around 3 years but its been 2 years since i came off it and thought id try regain foam instead. I had to issues at all for 3 years whilst using finasteride but stopped because i didn't want to take it all my life. After being off finasteride for 2 years i decided to use regain foam for hair loss. When i first started regain i didn't notice and side effects but about 3 weeks later i couldn't get erect and i straight away phoned the GP and got my blood tests done. Once the blood tests came back everything was normal apart from very slight cholesterol, so i waited 2 more weeks hoping things will be ok, but i was wrong and the problem was still there. I had no idea what was causing these issues and then i realised only thing I've changed in 5 weeks was just applying this foam. After reading reviews online i realised that there are many people who have the same problem i have because of regain so i stopped using it immediately. I was very scared after reading reviews saying the side effects may never go and i would have to live like this. This really worried be for the next few days because i did not want these side effects to linger on in my life, so the first few days of stopping were the worst!!! i would suddenly snap and was very fidgety and anxiety started to creep in. 7 days after stopping the foam i started to feel slightly better and my mood was improving, 2 weeks later i was feeling a lot better and started to get my libido back | M | 28 | 1 per day 1X day | 7/16/2023 Patient History | 2 | Hair thinning | So the good: This stuff did somewhat stop my hair loss. It basically freezes time on your hair, you arent likely to grow much back but you will keep what you have. The bad: Ive used this stuff on and off for years and the main thing I noticed is that this stuff will reduce libido and weaken erections to maybe 50 to 75% of what they would be without the stuff. I think it may also cause headaches on and off around your temples. The good news is that after a few weeks of non use the erections seem to improve but I guess I will never know if they are what they wouldve been if i never used the stuff | M | 31 | 4 years Half cap 2X day | 6/24/2023 | 1 | Aga | Erectile dysfunction, and testicle pain that hasnt improved after 2 1/2 weeks. Only used it 6x. | M | 19 | 3 days 5% 2X day | 5/21/2023 | 1 | Hair Loss | It has been over 6 years since I’ve stopped taking rogaine, and the horrible effects are still with me. Throughout that entire time I have been in exceptional physical shape, but erectile dysfunction has played a role in close to every sexual encounter I’ve ever had since. If I masterbate one time, the erections I get for the rest of the day will be pretty soft. The first erection I get in the day will usually be hard, but after a minute or two it’ll typically become too soft for sex (or at least initial penetration). This means that sex has to be carefully timed so that I penetrate very soon after getting an erection or else I’ll become too soft and once that happens it’s almost always impossible to recover. This plus adding a condom makes sex an onerous choreographed chore, and if it doesn’t work out then it’s really embarrassing. ED has cost me a multiple relationships, and overall has just ruined the spontaneity and enjoyment of sex. Whenever I am planning on going out with a woman I have to make sure not to masterbate for at least 24 hours before just in case it leads to sex, and instead of just enjoying the process I think of all this. Also, women typically won’t tell you that they want to have sex on Wednesday March 8th at 11:00. They want to just be embrace the moment and see what happens - reasonable of course, but it makes things so frustrating for me because I have to get all this timing right. | Continued: Like everybody else here, before taking rogaine I had morning wood almost every day and strong sexual thoughts. Pretty soon after taking rogaine all of that went away. I kept taking it (3-4 months) because I didn’t understand how this lotion could cause this stuff. I still don’t understand what physiological mechanism could possibly underly such devastating and persistent symptoms. Minoxidil relaxes blood vessels and I believe was originally used to lower blood pressure. I have no idea how it could cause persistent ED, but I and everyone else on here have experienced it first hand. In the 6 and a half years since I have stopped taking this poison, I may have recovered a little bit - but not that much. Like I said before, I used to have morning wood and strong sexual thoughts almost every day. For a year or two after I stopped taking rogaine, it was like I was neutered. I could go almost a week with no sexual thoughts, erections, or urges to masterbate. Now if I eat perfectly healthy and don’t masterbate for multiple days then I might sometimes wake up with partial morning wood, and have better erections. Still pretty lousy compared to what I used to get, and recovering a lost erection is almost impossible. Final note: This is personal stuff. I gave a lot of gory details with a very intimate part of my life, which I don't typically like doing, but it's a serious issue. Apparently many other men have the same issue. I wish I had an e | M | 28 | 4 months 1X day | 5/5/2023 | 5 | Hair loss | Same as everyone else really, f*ckd | Avoid | 30 | 4 days 2X day | 1/15/2023 | 1 | hair loss | While using I did not attribute my loss of erections and loss of libido to this terrible drug since this was not listed anywhere on the side effects. | The real nightmare started after I stopped using this poison. It has been 15 months and I have not had morning wood, nocturnal erections, spontaneous erections and I have a nonexistent libido. I used to be very sexually charged and perform 5x a day a now I have weak erections that are tough to get and my penis is in pain after having sex once in the day and that too with lousy erections that I can barely maintain. I have pain in my penis and prominent veins that were never there before. I have penile shrinkage and the skin is all wrinkled and shriveled. I am considering ending it all since this has taken a huge toll on my health and hence my mental health as well....No point in living without being able to feel love, being in a relationship, having human primal desires, and ball aches all the time... FML!!! | M | 29 | 14 months 1ml 2X day | 10/3/2022 | 1 | Hair Thinning | I experienced ED, difficulty maintaining an erection and loss of libido, heart palpitations, increased blood pressure, fast weight gain and depression. Side effects started 2yrs ago and sense then, I have seen some recovery. Still not 100% and I have been taking sea moss to increase libido. Erections are now 80% and can be maintained. Will get to 100% during sexual activity. | Please never take this poison if you can avoid it! The benefits are TEMPORARY but the side effects are either permanent or long lasting. I'm still 2yrs from recovering so I'm not sure if I'll ever get back to normal | M | 32 | 1 months 5% 2X day | 9/29/2022 | 4 | Aga | No side effects | M | 26 | 6 months 5 mg pd | 9/20/2022 | 1 | Beard | ED, , impotence, penile shrinkage. No morning wood. | Was on it for 6 months. At month 4 my sex drive decreased drastically. I went from going two times a day to barely once a month. It was really hard to get and maintain an erection while on minoxidil. After a month of quitting, I still had ED. I tried Blue Chew (Sidenfil) and it did not work. Girth and length was decreased and no vienes were visible like it once was prior to minox. Scared my thing would fall off from no feeling and blood flow I took actions into my own hands by researching supplements. I started to take (one a day) multivitamin, 1500MG L-Citrine, 1000MG L-Arginine, and 1 Table Spoon of Organic Beet Root powder, I felt better and my erections were back in two weeks. I regained my natural size and feeling and morning wood. I took the pills everyday and mixed the table spoon of beet root powder into orange juice every single night without fail. Even though my drive is back, I still do this everyday for maintenance. This method did not work over night. Make sure your multivitamin contain b6. | M | 26 | 6 months 5% 2X day | 9/1/2022 |
ROGAINE EXTRA STRENGTH (FOR MEN) (MINOXIDIL): Minoxidil is used with other medications to treat high blood pressure (hypertension). Lowering high blood pressure helps prevent strokes, heart attacks, and kidney problems. Minoxidil works by relaxing blood vessels so blood can flow more easily. (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA) FDA Approval Date: 1997-11-14