ROGAINE EXTRA STRENGTH (FOR MEN) Reviews (MINOXIDIL)Average Rating: 1.6 (311 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 |
| 3 | Hair loss | The very first time I used I had racing heart feeling. I used it in the night. I stopped after that and left it in the garage. After like 8 months or so I decided to try again but this time I use only once and in the morning. I use 1ml all over the scalp and so far it seems to grow small hair in many areas of the scalp, though they havent gone bigger or thicker yet. I will wait for 6 months or so and see how it works. Off late I am having lots of itchy scalp and dandruff. One more thing is I use only during the week days. | Once I skipped for a whole week and I had quite a lot of hair loss. It stopped within 2 days of using it again. For sure it helps stop hair loss and grows new ones, for me so far. I will continue using it in low doses till I see some serious side effects. So far havent had any sexual side effects. I will be happy if I can maintain what I have for another 30 years :-). I use it in such low dose that I have been using the same bottle for almost 2 months now and I still have quite a bit left for 2-3 weeks. | M | 32 | 2 months 1 1X day | 8/9/2010 | 1 | hair loss | anxiety, palpitation, blood pressure swings | I'll advise, never use this.. Even after discontinuation I'm having these side effects. Don't know what to do.. side effects worsen after stopped usage.. | M | 35 | 2 years 5 2X day | 8/2/2010 | 1 | thinning hair | anxiety, insomnia, panic attacks, restlesness, depression, feeling of hopelessness. | I am not a depressed or anxious person at least for the first 20 years of my life. When i turned 20 my derm prescribed me minoxidil 5% and told me there is virtually no side effects. So i started taking it every day 2 times a day. For the first 8 months i didnt have any of these feelings. After about 8 months i will never forget it started with this really heavy pressure in my chest. As time progressed i started ruling out all of the things in my life that could potentially be causeing these feelings. I am a really healthy conscious person, eatting organic taking supplements since i am a child. I went to a full liver detox, colon cleansing, and still i experienced these side effects. This website really opened my eyes as to what the side effects of rogaine can be. it took me almost 2 freaking years to figure out that it was, what i thought to be harmless rogaine. I thought i was going crazy. I stopped doing all drugs, and started detoxing getting blood work to check my health, and yet i could still not figure it out. I thought i was going insane. I started becoming depressed and exhausted, yet not being able to sleep. I would never recommend this to anyone. I have never in my life felt so bad!!!!! It is horrrible. It made me start thinking i was hypochondriac. Let me tell u something all of these side effects were very real. I really was about to lose it. Be VERY CAUTIOUS it ruined 8 months of my life. For all those idiots out their that think that people with side effects ar | M | 22 | 2 years 2X day | 7/19/2010 | 1 | Thinning of hair | Heart palpitations, anxiety, and general feeling of uneasiness. Mild yet constant panicky feeling. | I'm really disappointed to have these side effects. Rogaine worked for my dad and I was excited to use it, but I cannot live with these side effects even just one more day. For those who think that this medication cannot enter the bloodstream since it is topical, that's exactly what they want you to think. | M | 25 | 4 days 5%solution 2X day | 7/5/2010 | 3 | Rogaine Extra Strength for Men | Slight to moderate recooperation of hair on the crown; darkening of the hair color. One or twice people commented that they did not recognise me from behind. Nice, eh? Well... At about the 5th month, I began to notice weight gain, a general feeling of uncomfortableness o bloating, not confortable in my clothes; redecution of sexual desire over time and general lethargy and languidness. | I have decided that the side effects, in my case, outweighed the benefits. A closely trimmed haircut on a partially bald SLIM man will have a healthier social life than a lazy rolly-polly fellow with a full head of hair! | M | 43 | 1 years 100 2X day | 6/27/2010 | 1 | thinning hair | heart palpitations, loss of sex-drive, loss and soft erections | This drug causes these side effects 100%. I did not even know about the fact that it could cause impotence until I started having problems out of the blue after about 6 months of use. I researched it specifically afterward and found that it is more common than you would think. I stopped using it and was back to normal a few weeks later. I'm a paramedic and work with a lot of doctors, they don't know everything about the drugs they prescribe. Pharmacists know a lot more about the individual drugs. As far as the racing heart, that is a well documented side effect from the pills. The fact is that the foam is the same medication just in a weaker form. Most of us who use it do not use the recommended dosage, we use a lot more and cover the whole top of our scalps. This brings the dose way up from what is recommended and can increase side effects. It did work to regrow hair but when I got off my hair loss accelerated to the point of being scary. | M | 31 | 1 years 0000000000 2X day | 5/2/2010 | 1 | Thinning Hair | Could not fall asleep. Literally I just took it 3 hours ago and I feel kind of like how I felt when I took adderall two times in college. It's not a full on panic attack but there is a for sure uneasiness and restlessness in me. | Much too strong of an effect for me to consider taking again. Please don't listen to people who says it can't make you sleepless or anxious bc I sleep easily ALL the time and this stuff no joking has me on edge. Please take care of yourself and avoid this product. | M | 24 | 1 days 1X day | 3/28/2010 | 1 | hair loss | Severe anxiety and mood swings, dandruff | I took this medication 6 years ago and now, 5 years since last using it, the side effects are still here. I need to take 3 types of psychiatric medication just to feel close to normal, but the anxiety, though greatly reduced on medication, is still near enough constant at a low to moderate level. | M | 32 | 1 years 2X day | 2/13/2010 | 3 | Hair Loss | I experienced lack of sex drive, weak erections and loss of size of penis over 3 month period. | Nobody seems to be commenting on shrinking of penis. Is this because of embarrassment or am I the only one experiencing this? I've lost about 2 inches off a full erection and about an inch when not errect over the 3 month period I've been using Rogaine. It has significantly regrown my hair though. I assume it is Rogaine that is causing this but I would like to see if others are having this penis size loss issue from using Rogaine before I stop using it. | M | 35 | 3 months | 1/7/2010 | 4 | Thinning Hair | Itchy scalp, initial shedding, flaky scalp | All you people who say that Rogaine causes "heart palpitations", "anxiety", and "low libido" are just paranoid hypochondriacs. DO NOT believe EVERYTHING you read. I too feared these side effects after reading these comments so I saw my doctor and he reassured me that these side effects are RARE and do not occur unless perhaps taken orally. In fact, he told me that I WANT some of it in your system so it could actually work. A couple of months ago, I had thicker hair because of this medication and was even getting compliments; yet I stopped because became paranoid when reading the negative reviews on this page. This stuff is not for everyone, but if it works for you USE IT. If you're worried about side effects, see your doctor, but do not become a hypochondriac. | M | 19 | 4 months | 11/15/2009 | 3 | hair loss | I have been using rogaine for almost six month and don't see any problems other than not seeing whole lot of results yet. I hope it will have some results, if nothing, i like to maintain my current hair. I think it works differently for different people. So, if i loose my hair at one point its not a big deal since its all hairadity.If I don't like I don't use it! Unfortunately there is no real help for hair loss yet in this world. Hope one day there will be one but probably not in my life time. Good luck to all of you out there. Nothing is wrong to be bold remember!! | It's better than nothing but it's not everything. | M | 31 | 6 months | 11/10/2009 | 4 | thinning hair at crown and hairline | swollen hands and feet on occasion, headaches, and huge erections | undecided on weather or not it is working, but my pictures appear to show some improvement i think in overall thickness. the biggest benefit has been the side effects - the size and hardness of my erections is ludicrous! rogaine=hair+massive penis! | M | 27 | 10 months | 10/16/2009 | 1 | Balding | None | I didn't notice any improvement. Was a waste of money. | M | 29 | 4 months | 10/7/2009 | 1 | Observed slight thinning on crown | I've had a full head of hair all my life. I'm in very good physical condition. Used Rogaine foam and had itchy scalp, sever flakiness, blisters and eventualy sudden extreme hair loss. Living in NY I was able to see top Dr's including a scalp specialist (at $850 a visit) plus every kind of exotic blood test. Result is I lost 99% of my hair and lost hair all over my body including pubic hair. Dr's concur it's because of a severe allergic reaction which caused alopecia. I have contacted McNiel Labs and they have been of no help. I CAUTION ANYONE WHO IS ABOUT TO TRY THIS PRODUCT!!! I am now shaving my head - Dr's believe it may take years for my hair to grow back - if at all. | M | 62 | 60 days | 6/18/2009 | 2 | thinning | Not taking it yet, but have bought the product and intend to try it. | For those who are saying that this medication is not absorbed into a person's "system," your wrong. Many medications are given topically, haven't any of you heard of "the patch?" The medication in that product is absorbed topically. Do a little research, many people have overdosed on a patch with fentanyl in it, so it is completely possible to absorb medication through your skin. | M | 25 | 0 days | 6/9/2009 | 1 | receding hairline | diagnosed with a right bundle branch block(heart condition), blood pressure problems, erection problems, low sex drive, pituitary gland problems. | this is poison. do not use it. the fda cares nothing about your health or wellbeing. they just make sure things dont kill you instantly, allowing things to slowly kill you is okay with them. for the douchebag below who is calling everyone a moron for saying rogaine has caused them health problems, keep on taking rogaine you tool, hopefully you will die from taking it and the world will be a better place. | M | 27 | 3 years | 5/19/2009 | 1 | Reduce/reverse hair loss | The medication seems to have made little or not improvement to my thinning hair. However, over several months of use, I have noticed a progressive reduction in sex drive that coincides with Rogaine application. It has become so bad that I am discontinuing the medication. My libido is almost down to zero. I realize that a topically-absorbed, low-dose medication of this type would not be expected to have this effect. But it is not even understood how the drug works on hair growth(when it does), and it must be absorbed to be effective, so clearly it enters the bloodstream. My experience may be rare, but I do not believe it is some sort of placebo effect. I was unaware of this possibility until AFTER I used Rogaine, noticed a sex-drive change, and looked up such side effects. | I would not recommend Rogaine based on my own experience and the poor reports of others in many surveys and studies. | M | 4 months | 4/25/2009 | 1 | starting to lose hair in the back | Loss of hair, anxiety, heart palpitations, restlessness. | I received my Rogaine this afternoon. Took it at 3 and 11pm. It's now almost 10am and I can't lay still and I'm so anxious I feel like I chugged a pot of coffee. My hair grows extremely fast so I'm going to try once a day and hope it grows back soon so I can stop taking the foam. I'm used to getting palpitations I get from smoking marijuana but this is not even close to the same. No matter what the Dr says, palpitations when you're trying to sleep make you think you're going to die right there. But these are pot palpitations on roids and do not take Rogaine unless you know what to expect from palpitations and are prepared to deal with them. PS my balding spot is already a full on bald spot so I'm hoping it works just as fast to grow back. | M | 25 | 1 days | 4/11/2009 | 1 | Thinning hair | Sleeplessness, loss of sex drive, weaker erections, increased anxiety | Not worth it! | M | 29 | 24 months | 2/4/2009 | 1 | Balding | huge loss of sex drive. Went from wanting sex 3x a day to not wanting it at all. poor erections. chest pain. and i even stopped having dreams. Could not figure out what was causing these changes for 8 months but then finally relized it was the rogaine so i stopped immediately. Now 2 weeks after stopping my side effects of greatly disapeared. These side effects were so bothersome and upsetting that I am considering starting a class action law suit against rogaine! | Do not use Retin A at the same time. Retin A increases the absorption of the minoxidil into your system. If people can die from ingesting minoxidil you should not apply this to your scalp. And yes eventhough this is a topical treatment it DOES, FOR SURE, WITHOUT A DOUBT, ENTER YOUR SYSTEM! Even the MAYO CLINIC has proved that Rogaine can be absorbed into you system and cause sexual problems. | M | 25 | 8 months | 1/27/2009 |