I have a good amount of hair, but I noticed my temples receded just a little bit. I’d consider myself maybe a NW 1.5. I went to a dermatologist last Friday and he agreed that my temples had receded and offered Finasteride. I agreed. Now that I have the medication in front of me, I’m having second thoughts. Am I really losing my hair or no? I wish I had a magic way of knowing if I am going to go bald or if my hair will never recede past this point. I’m afraid if I take Fin, it will create a problem. Like if I stop taking it, I will go bald. Even though I may not have if I never took it in the first place. My dad’s side of the family all have hair. My mom’s side is iffy. Grandfather on my mom’s side had hair before he passed. My grandmother on my mom’s side has some bald/balding brothers. My uncle on my mom’s side has hair but it has receded. Last few days people have been telling me “you don’t need fin, you have nice thick hair”. So I’m just conflicted on what to do.  

Before committing a lifetime on finasteride, get a HAIRCHECK test ( https://baldingblog.com/haircheck-test-how-it-is-done-video/ ) to get a metric on your balding process. You must know where you are starting and where you are going on the treatment plan.

So I can currently see some of my scalp and gave receding hairline at the temples.  Is it too early to try transplantation? I’m thinking Rogaine alone should be enough to get more volume in the scalp but it only seems like it will buy time until you need surgery I also heard that you can still do FUE transplants after FUT, but can’t do FUT once an FUE has been done

If your pattern is clear and you have a doctor who can build a Master Plan for your balding future, 25 is a minimum age to do a hair transplant as long as you know what is going to happen to you. A good doctor will help you with that process. Here is a good example of what you don’t want to happen: https://baldingblog.com/had-a-hair-transplant-at-21-now-at-22-he-has-more-hair-loss/

Even Kings have hair problems! Actually the hairline he is showing is not bad! Also, many men have changes in their hair character as they get older, for example the curly haired Harry might become a straight haired “Harry” when he is 60.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16781295/

This article demonstrates that finasteride has more of a beneficial effect on the thickness and length of hair growth than on the number of new hairs

I’ve been on finasteride 8 months. Hair is great. Freaked out about sides for the first few months but eventually calmed down and stopped visiting this forum. My sex drive is fine; however, I do have what seems like it could be the start of gyno behind one nipple. Its either that or just a swelling of tissue there (i mess with them a lot and could have squeezed too hard once). Its sometimes has a dull pain when i press on it, but the nipple isn’t sensitive.

See a doctor for an examination as that will identify and hopefully solve the problem.

When I see such pictures of hair transplant results, I realize that both the doctor and the patient have some responsibility to this. The patient had a veto of the hairline as it was drawn on his head prior to the transplant being done. The patient also probably didn’t research his doctor because had he done so, he would not have selected this doctor.  The doctor clearly didn’t understand hairline design for men (as this was a female hairline design), did not put enough grafts to give it a full look (that was fortunate for the patient as it will be easier to remove these grafts) and the surgeon (or the technician) who did this, put multi-hair grafts at the frontal hairline, making it look pluggy.

I put dots on the left side of this man’s hairline to show where his hairline probably was when he was 12 years old.  The movement of the hairline upwards from this dotted line is where the mature hairline develops.  The juvenile hairline would extend from the bottom of the widow’s peak to the temple points.  The widow’s peak is a genetic remnant of the juvenile hairline which shows nicely in this photo. IF this man got photos when he was 12 years old, I suspect that he would see a rounded concave hairline as I just described. Now what we see is a mature hairline with a gentle V-shape that hopefully will stop receding here.