How to Buy Hair Loss Treatments for Men in the U.S.

Introduction

 

In this article, I will introduce how to purchase men's hair loss treatment in the United States without visiting a doctor.
You can purchase a treatment for about $30 a month by purchasing a treatment through an online prescription.

 

Telehealth providers

 

Representative US telehealth companies are hims (https://www.forhims.com/) and roman (https://www.getromen.com/) (Figure 1-2).

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Figure 2.

 

While regular pharmacies or online pharmacies require separate prescriptions, telehealth companies are linked with prescriptions and orders by remotely issuing doctor's prescriptions through online diagnosis.

Through this, you can purchase without paying for treatment and treatment through a doctor visit.

 

Hair loss treatment available for purchase

 

Currently, FDA approved hair loss treatments include Finasteride and Minoxidil.
Both of these are available for purchase in hims and roman.

To briefly introduce the difference between the two treatments, finasteride is a treatment for preventing hair loss, and minoxidil is a treatment for hair growth.

 

However, if the hair follicles are not alive, minoxidil will not cause the hair to grow.
Minoxidil promotes hair production in living hair follicles.
However, even if the hair grows, there is a limit to the generation of thin and weak hair.

So, the fundamental hair loss treatment is finasteride.
Finasteride prevents the hair follicles from shrinking, thus maintaining their ability to produce lasting hair.

 

Minoxidil was initially developed as a treatment for hypertension and has the ability to dilate blood vessels.

Therefore, it is to expand the blood vessels around the hair follicles to improve the supply of nutrients to the hair follicles so that the hair grows.

Finasteride works by inhibiting the production of dihydrotestosterone (DHT), which is responsible for male hair loss.

 

How to buy hair loss treatment by hims

 

In order to purchase a hair loss treatment, a doctor's prescription is required, so in the process of purchasing a hair loss treatment from hims, you must do an Internet questionnaire about your current symptoms, take a picture of your forehead line, back hair, face, ID, or upload a photo.

If a doctor diagnoses and prescribes a prescription based on the uploaded photo, it will be possible to purchase.

 

There are some discounts depending on the purchase quantity. Minoxidil + Finasteride costs about $32/month based on a 12-month supply.

 Competitor roman is also not significantly different in price (Figure 3).

Figure 3

 

Other purchasable item

Shampoo and nutritional supplements can also be purchased in connection with hair loss treatment (Figure 4-5).

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In addition, it is possible to purchase drugs that can be purchased through remote diagnosis, such as erectile dysfunction drugs and depression drugs.

 

Outro

 

In this article, I introduced remote diagnosis and purchase of treatment through hims and roman, US telehealth companies.

I hope this information will be useful to those who need it.