If you hair doesn't look worse from when you started, the Finasteride is working. It can a lot longer than three months to gauge how well it is actually working.
Just FYI, you posted your name with those photos. I don't know if you really care.
With your hair, it does look like some slight regrowth. But if you really want to optimize regrowth, you really have to add Finasteride.
My opinion isn't based on anything scientific, so I could be wrong. But the fact that there is such a large amount of people that buy Proscar and cut it into 1/4 ths, yet still experience a benefit from it makes me think the physician doesn't know what he is talking about. Either he is ignorant...
Unless you live in a third world country, where you don't eat for days, I have very high doubts that the hair loss is due to diet. Even if you have no family history of hair loss, I believe male pattern baldness is a common enough genetic trait that it can happen to anyone.
People get in this way of thinking that the side effects won't go away even if stop taking the med. Try Finasteride for 3 months and if you get sides drop the med. Same goes with the Minoxidil. I would try the foam over the liquid solution being that the liquid is a little more harsh on the...
Honestly I think your hair looks better now than it did at age 22. Potentially, you could be experiencing a shed right now because you just got on treatments. The hairs have to fall out in order to grow back thicker. Gets worse before it starts getting better. Keep up with the treatments...
It makes me a bit mad that these girls, who probably aren't bringing a whole lot to the table, can request all these things from a guy. But if I wrote, no girls over 150 lbs. They would call me a pig, filthy, etc. Kind of a double standard.