My experience has been weird. Got the sheds of all sheds to begin with, then enormous regrowth after 3-4 months. However, since 2015 when I began using it, I have experienced only synchronised growth and loss. So it grows my hair for like.. 3 months, then just stops working. My hair rapidly falls out and miniturises, then the cycle repeats maybe 9months later. It also causes facial bloatin and rashes when it does work. I believe overall because my hair is put into this hyper state of cycling through growth and loss, my shedding is increased exponentially because of it. I lose a lot of hair man. A lot. I haven’t heard of anyone else with this same reaction though. Most people get great results from oral minoxidil.