See my advice will be that get off finastride for 20 days and let it flush out of your system and after you are done with your family planning or whatever start taking finastride for 3 times a week for the next 3 weeks and then start your regular dosage.
Now coming to your question of...
Ya you are Norwood 1 now and will soon approach 2 if you don't start your treatment now.
My advice will be to start topic 5% minoxidil with finastride (topical).
Don't use oral finastride before you turn 17.
If you have dandruff then get
ketoconazole 1% .
And hairloss looks like common...
Well I have been taking 5 mg for a few months now , ya I feel they have been pretty effective on my frontal areas specially
But if u have a heart condition then i would definitely say no
And yes it's not a miracle or something.
I ask u again has there really been no improvement in ur state of hair by mino or finas- show me some photos or write a detailed explanation for me to get a idea. Coz what u are saying only happens rarely in a verv few unlucky patients
And yes pls stop smoking not even 1 puff , if u truly want...
irritation comes from an ingredient in formulations of the minoxidil solution known as propylene glycol. So to counter this u can maybe can try out this things-
1. Shampoo (ketoconazole or zinc pyrithione or selenium sulphide based shampoos) hair everyday to remove the minoxidil that is present...
Mate maybe the hair loss is coz u discountinued using minoxidil and again if that's not the case then Isotretinoin just accelerated ur already receding hair line.
Now coming back to your hair looking good , it's just that ur hair is right now at catagen stage . After few months they would look...