Ok i'll just post some pictures of the Snooker player John Higgins, to illustrate what im talking about incase its not 100% clear
John Higgins is a similar age to me and has been loosing his hair for a similar amount of time as me.
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This is him around 1996, he is about 21 and looks to have been already loosing for around 3 years
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age 23 - 1998 loosing hair for 5 years
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age 30 - 2005 loosing hair for 12 years
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age 40 - 2015 loosing hair for 22 years
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age 46 - 2021 loosing hair for 28 years
He still hasn't reached his final norwood pattern yet, you can argue if you want that this is non-aggressive hair loss, as he is only loosing 10 or whatever percent every 3 years, because its taken him 28 years to get there. but At the end of the day he is bald.
If he had started a hair loss regime in 1998 there is a very high probability that he would have been able to maintain the majority of his hair until now, the same like I have, so where as I look about 35 he looks closer to 60.
This is why people need to stick to there regimes for decades. and this why the people who do have success.