Not exactly because of the 12 accounts of accelerated loss but I meant that most people have an easier time maintaining their crown then their hairlines when they are losing ground. I'm less surprised when a NW4 maintains or improves over 4 years then when a NW1.5-2 does.A dozen people on forums claim dutasteride made their already thinning hair lines worse so now this is what dutasteride does? Their hair loss was probably already accelerating and that's why they finally got desperate enough to use dutasteride. I have never used dutasteride as a monotherapy, but I did use it with only minoxidil and very low dose estriol, and my hairline certainly improved during that time with new hairs appearing in slick bald temples