Np brutha - Ive found the best ways to alleviate scalp irritation is to use a good hair thickening shampoo and conditioner right after the Nizoral. If it persists, rub skin lotion right into your scalp at night. It will make your hair greasy as hell but who cares, you'll wash it out in the AM and your scalp will feel great.
BV
Great, any particular hair thickening shampoos and conditioners you recommend?
My problem is weird. At first, a few years back, I noticed that my hair line was starting to recede in the temples and a tad in the front, but not much at all...basically my temples concerned me the most. So I was easy on the sauce for awhile and used the mino/aa combo and it actually grew hair back in the temple region and eventhough I quit using the mino/aa for like 1.5 years or so, to this day, I STILL have tiny new hairs growing back in the temples.
As you can see in my avy, I recently shaved my head (usually fade myself up pretty descent if I'm just too busy to go to the barber, but this time I cut it, I messed up, lol).
Now, eventhough like I said above my temples are still as good as ever, I noticed a SHlTLOAD of thinning in the upper front (vortex?) and on the very back crown, where that swirl is. I was shocked! Like you BV, I also have black thick Italian blooded hair type. And eventhough the actual HAIRS are thicker than most peoples, the problem lies in the number of hairs on the scalp, and this is why I just really noticed, not until I shaved it bald and it grew back a little.
I also noticed that my hair has a strip in the middle of my head (going ear to ear, not forehead to back) that has a lot more hair than the front and back.
Also, after getting done shaving my head, I noticed I had a fungus on it (can't remember the name atm) and had these tiny scabs and redness and irritation all over it. Went to the docs and he gave me some topical called Loprox gel. Said it was from sweating all day and then itching my head throughout the day?? Used that for a few days and it seemed to clear it up a bit and now my scalp is just peeling from the dryness of washing it more and the gel. (stopped the gel due to sweating at work and it getting in my eyes)
So I think w/ the combo of the fungus, MAD STRESS this past year, and AAS, and a lot of dairy, my hair is just getting it's azz kicked, so I decided to try the mino/aa and niz to help somewhat alleviate the problem. What do you (BV) and other guys think, any more suggestions, comments?
Sorry for the long post, but I thought some might have some of the same problems as me and we can all learn by learning from each other.