nope no medication. That is why I thought it weird that someone would say I have new hair growth. I do see some stragglers hanging around in the front that looks like new hairs but I think its the follicles that haven't been affected yet. Does this look like male pastern baldness, or am I just being self conscious about my hair? On a side note, I have been reading that there could be the Male Pattern Baldness recessive gene on my mothers side. Though going back 4 generations of family pictures I am not seeing any baldness on that side of the family so I am confused as to where this would be coming from, unless it also can come from the father, which in that case he had the horse shoe by the time he was 21.