Is this it for my hair?

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I didnt know back then but my hair had bald spots in middle school too when i was 12-13, before that everything seems normal, or better at least. I never had luscious thick hair to begin with anyways im straying from the path. I first started combatting baldness in general, went to ton of dermatologists, i did mesotherapy for hair , prp and red light therapy by themselves. all of them being a huuge waste of time and money.

Starting highschool at around 15-16 i started minoxidil. And a year later i started finasteride 1mg at 17. for personal reasons i wont include any photos older than this but the first photo is age 15, right before starting minoxidil and doing all that prp shit. i am 19 now and i switched to dut this summer, been 3 months. Current stack is minoxidil 5% everyday once, 1.5 mm dermaroller every 7-10 days. dut 0.5mg every day I took the second pic last night, obviously there are improvements but it is nowhere near something like when i was 8-10 and there seems to be no improvements this last year. I refuse to believe this is the max i can get from medications. It’s coping but any reply is appreciated . I want to try consult a hair transplant doc explaining my problem because it feels unique. everyone on internet or any forums seems to either benefit from minoxidil and fin. even if this doesnt work they switch to dut and Bam, everythings okay. Any help or idea appreciated thanks for reading this long ass post.

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now that i look back i dont even know if there is notable improvement at al in these pictures ( 5 yr apart)

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You probably have an aggressive form of AGA, what’s your family history ? You clearly need dutasteride and it’s only been 3 months that you’re on it, check 1-2 year from now to see if there is any gains. Due to how aggressive your AGA is, I would say that finasteride would just stop progression of your HL but not reverse it, so that maybe explains why you don’t see that much improvement. You should probably go for the nuclear option, 2.5mg dutasteride and the 5% minoxidil, check with your doctor. And props to you for hoping on treatment early, you would have been so bald at 19

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First of all thanks for the reply. Say my male cousins and uncles are all bald from my mothers side. My father lost his hair around his mid 20’s i think. For dutasteride, i started first the weeks with 2.5mgs because i heard it was accumulative and i didnt wanna lose any extra hair switching from fin to dut. Itll be kinda pricier but i will look into the 2.5 dut

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