I started December 3. So about two weeks until i hit 6 months.
I needle at 1.5-2.0mm once a week.
I have done 23 sessions.
I use minoxidil twice a day and i do it directly after needling as well.
I quit an 8 month period of dutasteride just before i started to needle, before that i've done finasteride on and off for five years and it helped me maintain my hairline and kept the slowly thinning top/front of my head between the widows peaks quite thick. Had little to no actual regrowth though of fully lost areas.
Results so far.
I have kept getting thinner i think but my bald areas seem affected in so far as that the vellus hair are getting longer just outside and within my hairline. I'm probably not a good case though because i quit dutasteride so my hairloss isn't the most stable one i imagine also i started minoxidil which probably caused me to shed quite a lot.
However the reason i'm posting today is that two actual healthy hairs just popped out of my skin in my fully bald area 1cm out from the hairline today. I know for a fact they haven't been there before because i obsessively watch my temples everyday to look for progress. So microneedling does create or revive hair follicles. Just for some their bodies just might not do it enough to cause cosmetic results.
I'm going to continue the year out and see what happens, that the hairs broke through shows that there is some validity to this crazy experiment, perhaps follica have found away to actually make sure it works on a larger scale than one or two hairs