jeffsss, hold in there, i was like you before and thought finasteride was making my hair worse. My hair looked good like 2 months into finasteride, then it took a turn for the worse (as i thought). I started March of 2005. Then like 3 weeks before Christmas i buzzed my hair, and out of nowhere it came back in so much faster and thicker, and even grew some terminal hairs at hairline. It was amazing. My hairline was striaght across again, just some temple loss. So that would be at about the 10th month mark. Then shortly after i started to get some bad sides, and i tapered off of finasteride. I was off for a good 2 months, but i was using anti-androgens to retain my resultls. I may have lost a little density. Im going to re-start finasteride. I was also not worrying about hairloss at all, and not visiting these forums, which i think helps a lot. Do yourself a favour and give finasteride 2 solid years, and dont visit these sites, and dont think about hairloss. Cut your hair short in the meantime and let the meds do their thing. If i would have sticked with the finasteride, my hair probabbly would have been better, but i maintained it,and im jumping back on it, so i probabbly didnt lose too much and will most liely get the thickness back. I was also using Xandrox 5, Xandrox 15, and Proxiphen. But i was missing minoxidil applications, and sometimes i applied Xandrox 15 only once per day, and sometimes twice per day. So finasteride was the definite cause for my big improvement, and it came out of nowhere. STICK WITH IT!
in less than 8 months time... 
