6 years, still norwood 1.

[jimmystanley]

yes, it's true. i was looking at a pic 5 years back (man, looked so thick) but it was still the same hair line....u could tell i was loosing hair. However, i am a diffuser and so u can see the horse shoe pattern under certain lights (but i cut my hair shorter on the sides so it is undetectable) I attribute 60 percent of the hair loss i've had to frequent out of control seborrhea. anyway, i just wanted to point out that i think diffuse male pattern baldness is better in a 7 to 8 year term, since u can still pull off a natural hair line and amount on top. Norwood after 4 or 5 years gets too noticable that u are going bald. however, probably after that 8 year mark us diffusers are screwed...i see some guys who have it bad and i'm like ....ahh, that's me in another 4 or 5 yrs. anyway...any comments, opinions???

 

[Bone Daddy]

good post, gives me hope.

Now if I can just fill in that damned line at the back of my head.

 

[ginner]

Can I ask you a finasteride question jimmystanley? How did you arrive at 0.3mg? I'm about to start finasteride and I'm not sure about dosage. I was planning to start with 1mg / day and then adjust this depending on how I was going.
Can I ask what you did? How you experimented, how you adjusted the dose?

Cheers.

(Glad it's worked out so well!)

 

[jimmystanley]

well, ...side effects were bumming me out, so i lowerd it to .5 mgs....then after a month i started cutting the 1mg pills into thirds.... .333333 mgs... but some is lost in powder. so it's not exact.

 

[Ams99]

yeah, i agree, i cringe when i see full blown diffused thinners walking around. i'm 26, and think to myself (that'll be me in next year). of course, i've been saying this every year for the past 3 or 4 years. i'm a Norwood 1.5, with noticeable baseball sized thinning on top. i think i'd look into aggressive methods of hair transplant or completely shave my head before i walk around with just thin hairs all over top.