Thinning hair -Nioxin

[MrsDrudge]

My hair looks as though it’s thinning in patches. It doesn’t seem to be falling out but follicles are failing and it’s not growing.
There is a special offer on Nioxin at Boots - has anyone had any success with it? Or can recommend any other treatments or shampoos (Plantur or caffeine). I’m reluctant to try minoxidil due to potential side effects.
Thank you!

I have got thinning hair and have had for some years....did all the due diligence and the research and did try nioxin among other stuff. It wasn't great for me, no regrowth but did mak my hair more wirey which I guess was intended to make it look fuller but wirey hair in a thin spot is not a good look....like a teeny weeny sparse forest! The sad honest truth is that NOTHING is guaranteed to work apart from minoxidil and that may not work enough to make a difference also only works if you use it forever. The thing with hairloss is that its often due to telogen effluvium which will self right if its going to so people think whatever they were using at the time worked when in fact it would have self righted anyway. it is possible to make your hair look better though but for that you will need to do your own trial and error. I am liking elvive dream lengths at the moment (bit longer than shoulder length hair) So sorry but apart from a healthy diet and maybe multivit support, that's the whole story.

oh and don't bother with plantur.....in fact listern/read the claims really carefully all of them except minoxidil are realkly careful not to claim to make haior grow or regrow...plantur is especially bad for this!

Thank you @godmum56 - you have saved me a lot of money! I’ll just continue with good diet etc and hope for the best, although I will give the Dream Lengths a whirl.

Its a horrible thing for a woman, if you haven't experienced it, it can be seen as irrelevant of fuss over nothing but to me its the worse part of aging.

Tried biotin supplements? High dose, every day for 3 months. See if that helps

I will give biotin a try too - maybe a vitamin B complex as biotin is part of that (B7 iirc). Thanks for the suggestion @NoToLandfill.

Wow is biotin B7? I never knew that

I've found a biotin with collagen supplement little Britsh company on Amazon I'm going to give a go.

I found Nioxin a waste of money - it made my hair very dry and difficult to style, as did Plantur. I've also wasted £200 on Viviscal tablets. I've been taking a large dose of biotin (10,000) for 6 months and something seems to be happening (don't want to spook it!) as the hair loss seems normal and I can see some very fine baby hairs. I buy them from Purolabs, the package goes through the letterbox and they often have special offers. I've also upped my protein intake (poached eggs 3 times a week) and take a general multivitamin that includes iron. I'm also more aware of my scalp and nurture it - the night before washing it I gently massage some oil in (Aldi's rosehip, it doesn't need to be expensive) and I've cut right back on drying and straightening.

I started viviscal in January and had good reults around my hairline, quite a bit of regrowth where I didn't realise hair had been missing. I don't think it needs to be viviscal as such, just the same stuff which I think is mostly biotin.

Regain is proven I assume due to it having minoxidil as the active ingredient, but I haven't used it... yet.

Thanks everyone for suggestions. Off to get biotin tomorrow and will try the oil massage too. Hair is also very dry so I’m hoping this will help