Where am I on the Norwood scale? Can you recommend anything that may help alongside finasteride?

[louis feeney]

Hey everyone, just wondering what your thoughts are on my hairline within the Norwood scale?

I've been on oral finasteride for 2 years now. I originally started taking 0.5mg everyday and converted to taking 1mg every Monday / Wednesday / Friday instead. Is this a good way to take finasteride?

I would like my hairline to be better than it is and was hoping finasteride would respond well and regrow what I originally lost. I got some thickening in the crown area and slightly more density in general but can't say my hairline regrew it just got thicker to where it originally tapered back to.

Thanks guys.

 

[losingbattle88]

Jesus be happy as hell for what finasteride has done. Your hairline is great why you care so much? Are you a little princess or a man? If you are so damn insecure about your slight recession get a transplant thats a permanent fix, and no need to add other treatments, or dont comb your hair back, its easy to hide a hairline.

 

[NickyA]

There's always Minoxidil and microneedling if you want regrowth. Keep in mind that you'll have to stay on it for life if you use it for more than a year, tho, because some of your current healthy hairs might end up becoming minoxidil-dependent, and you would face a big shed thst might place you in a worse spot hair-wise down the line if you quit.

Your hairline seems like a NW1.5 or a dense NW2 to me. It is hard in general to get regrowth in totally bald areas, that's why diffusers tend to be better responders to meds than receders.

 

[hair2stay]

Your hair is perfect. Norwood 2.2? Anything below a Norwood 2.5 is perfect and even some Norwood 3 are great Others are still good. You're solid.

The 1mg per day MWF is what 'hair loss talk' docs ( you tube) said is sufficient after 1000s success stories