Anyone experience hairline regrowth on big 3?

[Cincinnati Kid]

So I'm approaching 3 months on finasteride and 5 months on 5% minoxidil and keto. I know hair regrowth, if any, is a long and slow process. Since being on treatment, my crown and overall scalp have slowly gotten a bit better to the point where I can go out without toppik in my hair and not worry. It's not yet as thick as I'm hoping for, but still an improvement from when I began treatment and I am confident that it will only get better in the coming months. However, I have experienced no regrowth at the hairline...none. No vellus hairs or anything. I just have a few scattershot terminal hairs that remain from where the hairline used to be. I know this is completely normal. Hairline regrowth is very rare. Once it's gone, it's gone for good -- aside from getting a transplant. Has anyone experienced any regrowth at the hairline, aside from that super lucky Asian dude zeroheat that I read about? If so, at what point during treatment did you see any regrowth? I'm just asking so I can finally stop holding my breath and learn to deal with the hairline that I have until I can afford FUE. On the bright side, I have not experienced any excess shedding aside from the usual 100 or so hairs a day.

 

[GoldenMane]

Hairline regrowth usually happens, but it's very minor, some vellus hairs in your hairline have probably been restored, maybe you've already experienced hair line regrowth and just aren't aware. Yes don't hold your breath for any drastic changes in your hairline, it probably won't improve much from where it is now.

 

[zzzzz]

I am experiencing some very good hair line regrowth on dutasteride + RU + minoxidil, first it started out as lots of vellus hairs but by now it looks as if they are clearly going terminal. The area you would lose if you went from a nw1 to a nw2 for me had many thin villous hairs to start with, my hair line was receeded about 2/3 of an inch or 3/4 of an inch on either side with these villous hairs filling in the receeded area. Everytime I look at my hair line now when I pull my hair back I am quite surprised by how dense the new hair is. Ironically the shedding at my hair line has stopped (and I mean stopped dead in its tracks, it seems easier to pull out hairs from the sides and back of my head then it is here) but my mid scalp is still shedding, which is where my hair is most dense except for the island at the front. My mid scalp still holds a lot of terminal hairs. My crown shedding has come to almost a complete stop, where almost entirely miniaturized hair exists. Still shedding in this area although a fraction of what I used to, presumably because the hair is so weak there and can only continue a cycle for so long even if it is not being attacked by DHT anymore. Been on dutasteride for 10 weeks RU for about 6 and minoxidil for 7 months. My hair loss is much more severe at crown than hair line

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

I am experiencing some very good hair line regrowth on dutasteride + RU + minoxidil, first it started out as lots of vellus hairs but by now it looks as if they are clearly going terminal. The area you would lose if you went from a nw1 to a nw2 for me had many thin villous hairs to start with, my hair line was receeded about 2/3 of an inch or 3/4 of an inch on either side with these villous hairs filling in the receeded area. Everytime I look at my hair line now when I pull my hair back I am quite surprised by how dense the new hair is. Ironically the shedding at my hair line has stopped (and I mean stopped dead in its tracks, it seems easier to pull out hairs from the sides and back of my head then it is here) but my mid scalp is still shedding, which is where my hair is most dense except for the island at the front. My mid scalp still holds a lot of terminal hairs. My crown shedding has come to almost a complete stop, where almost entirely miniaturized hair exists. Still shedding in this area although a fraction of what I used to, presumably because the hair is so weak there and can only continue a cycle for so long even if it is not being attacked by DHT anymore. Been on dutasteride for 10 weeks RU for about 6 and minoxidil for 7 months. My hair loss is much more severe at crown than hair line

Awesome, dude. I am going to give the big 3 at least a year before I consider any other treatments, and even then I believe I caught my hair loss early enough for the big 3 to be very effective going forward. I doubt I'll need to jump on the dutasteride train because my body and hair are responding fairly well to finasteride. I'm just tired of having to pull a Christian Bale in 'American Hustle' every day to cover my receded areas. In all honesty it's not THAT bad, but it's clearly slightly receded. If I was 40, I wouldn't care as much about a slightly receded hairline as long as the hair behind it was thick, but at 25 I don't l can feel comfortable about it so I was hoping for at least a little regrowth but I knew it was highly unlikely. I'll just live with what I have, and hope it doesn't get any worse in the next few years before I can afford a transplant.

 

[zzzzz]

Another thing that happened is about 8 weeks in I started noticing miniaturized hairs along the front of the area that goes up from your sideburns to my temples. At first I thought my side burns were receeding during initial shed but upon looking at pics from months before I started minoxidil I realized this area in front of my ears was not receeded backwards but now is growing forward. I am regrowing the little area that juts forward above your ear for like an inch below your temple that is in the nw1 picture on the diagram, if you know what I mean. Before this area running down from my temple to my sideburn was pretty much straight vertical, but now these are growing forward.

 

[Plan C]

Another thing that happened is about 8 weeks in I started noticing miniaturized hairs along the front of the area that goes up from your sideburns to my temples. At first I thought my side burns were receeding during initial shed but upon looking at pics from months before I started minoxidil I realized this area in front of my ears was not receeded backwards but now is growing forward. I am regrowing the little area that juts forward above your ear for like an inch below your temple that is in the nw1 picture on the diagram, if you know what I mean. Before this area running down from my temple to my sideburn was pretty much straight vertical, but now these are growing forward.

Can you tell us your exact regime please?

 

[zzzzz]

Can you tell us your exact regime please?

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