Well thank you for confirming my doubts. The dermatologist really brought up those nutritional supplement as a (literal quote) "miraculous new treatment for those who don't respond well to finasteride". I mean, he really spit this thing that sounded like complete nonsense to my knowledge of years of researching on Internet forums. I'm all about listening to dermatologists, but it really felt bad when he tried to sell me "nutritional supplements" as a "miraculous treatment".
I think I'm heading there yeah. I'm aware that I can't get a hair transplant without at least slowing down the hair loss as I said in my original post. So you think there is really no way for me because I responded badly to finasteride ? What if I do a hair transplant after losing all the hair ?
I tried and shaved my head once years ago. People, including my friends and the university teachers couldn't recognize me and had to check twice or thrice before engaging a conversation with me. What was I supposed to think ? Obviously, my depression increased back then. Now I'm good though. Depression went away within a year, but it killed my self-esteem.
I contacted HLC in Ankara who told me to apply topical minoxidil and see results before thinking about a hair-transplant. They also told me that topical finasteride "exists", but the thing is that it isn't available in Europe. And the dermatologist I saw even went further and told me that "efficiency of topical finasteride wasn't proven and only 1mg of oral finasteride works for hair-loss, nothing under". But anyway, this dermatologist seemed to have a scientifically conservative approach so I don't really believe much in what he said.
I might try a toupee first. I know people think it's ridiculous, but I'd like to remember what I looked like before clinging on my hair with a potential expensive hair transplant.