1.5 years of medication progress and the road to a hair transplant

[Participant]

Hi all. Bit of background...

- 42 male, started at NW5+ in March 2021 having decided I wanted to give meds a shot. Previously had been shaving head / kept it very short and it was quickly get worse.

- Started balding slowly around age 21.

- I started on 1mg of oral finasteride once per day and 2ml or liquid minoxidal topically once per day. After 8 months I had no sides from any of it and wanted to expedite recovery, so swapped the fin for 0.5mg of oral dutasteride every other day.

- I'm going for a hair transplant in Turkey next week. My hair is fine gauge and my donor is not spectacular, but the meds have allowed me to recover to the point where I'm optimistic for a good outcome with 3.5k - 4k grafts.

Hope this is interesting / useful to some.