It is not unusual for some men, even older men like this 48-year-old male, to find finasteride reversed his hair loss in just 11 months.  I have seen this far more often than seeing any frontal hair loss reversal in men over 30. Many men who have never tackled their crown loss and are willing to try finasteride may get a reversal of the crown balding, as shown in these photos. 

Dutasteride is not FDA-cleared for use on hair loss. It also has a very long half-life of 5-6 weeks in the bloodstream and many, many months in your body. That means if you develop side effects and stop the medications, the side effects can last up to a year. Finasteride, on the other hand, has a bloodstream half-life of 4-6 hours, and if you stop it, it will be out of your system in weeks, not months. The FDA also cleared finasteride for hair loss use.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12804951/Stop-balding-process-injecting-body-fat.html

Although this is not a scientific paper, we know that body fat contains stem cells, so it is not unreasonable to expect that injecting fat cells into a scalp might stimulate hair growth.  I would imagine, however, that these hairs will require continuous injections to keep them there.  The hair that grows is indeed the original native hairs whose stem cells were still present.  Unlike a hair transplant that brings genetically lifetime hairs to the balding area, these hairs will likely require continuous injections to keep them growing.

Man on here I only see „3 months progress fin/min“ and those guys always transform from nw6 to a full nw1. I am currently 3 months on fin about 5 on min and I am not sure if I have any results (diffuse thinning). Maybe I am shedding maybe not i dont even fking now anymore diffuse thinning your hair looks one day great and the next day like you are bald as fck. Just wanted some reasureance if anyone of you still saw great results afterwards bc I am becoming insane.

Many times, it takes up to a year to see the results from finasteride. Finasteride always works either by slowing, stopping, or reversing the hair loss.  Be patient.

This man wants advice on which medications and actions he can take to get hair to regrow.  This was my response:  “Without knowing your age, I can’t tell what is the best approach to trying to regrow your hair. If you are over 30, it would be unlikely even with oral minoxidil in combination with finasteride would be my suggestion.  I would add microneedling weekly to this mix. The miconeedling produces a very different stimulus for hair growth and this combination has grown hair on even men over 30 at times. Even if you are successful, what we don’t know is how long this success will last.

A hair transplant remains an option as well, but you have to have your donor density and your hair mass measured before you will understand what is possible for a man with your hair loss pattern.”

hi i have been on 1.25 mg finasteride and 10 mg oral minoxidil (liquid), and i got really great results but I decided to stop oral minoxidil and continue using finasteride minoxidil gives me muscle pain and damaged my jawline.  If I stop the minoxidil, will there be shedding? How long will it last?

The dose of oral minoxidil is too high, so if you are getting side effects. I would reduce the dose to 1.25mgs. It is stopping minoxidil entirely which produces the risks of losing all of the benefits, which might be the hair that grew due to the medication. High doses of minoxidil produce many risks to your health and your present problem is included in this assessment. 

How do you tell the difference between “age related thinning” vs diffuse thinning from genetic balding?

You can tell the difference because the hair shaft thickness exists everywhere uniformly with ‘age-related thinning’, even those hairs in the back of the head.