Your hair is very similar to mine but I think yours is a bit thicker. I’ve been following your thread and I think your hair is improving, it looks healthier and I bet when you style comb your hair no one would suspect a thing.
I don’t recommend switching to topical or RU finasteride is clearly working well for you. What kind of sides do you have? Has your girlfriend said anything? Just make sure, you’re not psyching yourself because it happened to me so I just continued to take it, hit the gym, cleaned my diet and now absolutely no sides.
As for me, honestly, I haven’t noticed any change in my hair or shedding. I did notice that recently my hair is a lot easier to style and hiding the diffusion does’t take much effort as compared when I started, although this can be because I grew out my hair.