Hello and welcome to Forever 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves.

I'm Dori Shafrier.

And I'm Elise Hugh, and we are two friends who like to talk a lot about serums.

How's it going, Elise?

Well, we owe our listeners an update on your hair status because last time we recorded a Monday episode,

you talked about how you were going to find out from your dermatologist, whether your hair treatment or the monocidal you've been taking

has worked. So our casual chat listeners already know this because they are part of our

Patreon community. But for everyone else, give us the update. So I've been taking generic monocidil for six months now. And my

dermatologist, like, when I first started, he really wanted to like set expectations. And he was

like, it's going to take several months to see results. Don't get discouraged. It's not like you instantly start growing

hair. And I was like, okay. But I would say like three months in, I started noticing that I was

losing less hair. So that was a big change. Like in the shower, I was losing a lot less hair.

And then I started noticing like little hairs growing in in places that had been very sparse. And I just went back for my six months checkup. And everything seems to be working. Like he said, yeah, he was like, you know, it's, you have growth and you're not losing as much hair and we're just going to kind of stay the course.

Yay!

If you think you might have hair loss, especially if you're like in your 30s and 40s, perimenopausal, menopausal, like, go to your

doctor because also monoxidil is a generic. I just paid $3 with insurance for a month's supply.

So there's no like what there's no reason to not go, although you shouldn't, you shouldn't be on it if

you're pregnant or thinking about getting pregnant.

But other than that, I have had no side effects. Some people, some people do have side effects.

He was very careful to like ramp up my dose gradually. Like we started on a pretty low dose. Now it's a little bit higher, but it's still not the full, like, it's not like a high dose.

So I like that he was sort of cautious. I have seen people who like started on a high dose

report that they had some like weird side effects. So. Huh. Yeah. Well, I'm just glad it works. And then

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