I wish I felt that I could believe that... I mean, it's perfectly possible for it to be true, but I need more personal accounts of long-term male pattern baldness fighters to be sure. My personal 'game plan' is to use finasteride until a better mass market hairloss treatment emerges, whether a proper PGD2 blocking topical, or a legit release of CB-03-01, or 'big guns' like Histogen et al.You will mantain your hair for at least 10 more years with finasteride/min
Kirby, as long as his male pattern baldness progression is very slow he will maintain long term. If you have slow progression, you will maintain. I have seen your hair and I definitely think as long as you stick with finasteride, you will maintain. You may not get back to baseline. I never did, but at least I have maintained for over 7 years. You have to understand age is a factor too. As we get older, hair density is slowly lost due to aging too. Supposed the mechanism behind thinning due to aging differs than genetic male pattern baldness. The only thing that may happen is his hairline might get thinner and recede higher slightly because these meds don't fight the hairline too well. I looked at some older pictures of myself and I definitely had signs of thinning way earlier than I thought. I never paid much attention to hair until I got older and really noticed it. I think I showed my first signs in my earlier 20's, never chose to use treatment until late 30's only because I thought nothing was wrong with my hair. The OP's hair and my hair are very similar so he has great chance to maintain for 10 years or more as long as he keeps taking finasteride. Minoxidil really won't help as much but it will be the icing on the cake as I mentioned in another thread. Kirby, your hair looks thicker or coarser than I ever had. I wish I had hair like yours as it makes great hair to transplant with less grafts. However, like you said, in the future we should have more treatments that could work at a different angle than finasteride, and help fight hair loss too. My suggestion, don't quit finasteride.
I'm still not hoping miracles but as long as I can keep my current hairline I will be satisfied. In the future when finasteride may stop working or if that ever happens I can smile in my mind and think I did everything I could and not everything can be postponed forever.
