Well I've always had a high hairline even when it was juvenile, went to NW3 between 20-21 and 26 (although it was slowing down a lot at the end) and crown/back of midscalp thinned out along with it, hopped on finasteride and stabilized ever since, thickened up a little bit actually. Been told by multiple top docs that I have excellent hair characteristics and quantity in my donor though, so I got that going for me which is nice. Following family loss patterns and none of them are even close to Norwood 6/7, they are like 4V in their mid 60's.
Nah you said "Norwood 6 pattern", which it isn't. If his sides and crown were much wider then that would be accurate. I've seen them in direct sunlight, yeah you can sort of see scalp with 3-4500 graft numbers from directly above but the guy's look 1000x better then before, this all or nothing attitude is pretty retarded, hair transplant are about a cosmetic improvement and if you really believe that that 3900 example I posted looked better before then you're bat sh*t crazy or just extremely pessimistic and dejected, a bit of thinness in 40-something guys is perfectly natural, no one is expecting a flawless head of hair at that age. But most guys look f*****g awful shaved bald or w/ a tight buzz, I'm jealous of the ones who can pull it off but they are few in number and I'm not one of them, I need hair.
Hopefully replicel takes care of the issue of native loss, we'll get a much better idea next year.