Do I have any hope?

[chippy]

Finasteride is proven to work. Some guys have resistance for DHT reasons. We have to do what we feel comfortable with.

Use the Minoxidil all over the hairline, even though the box says vertex only. It will work there if there is recently lost hair. After some time, unfortunately, hair might not grow back. (Same is true for both hairline and vertex).

There are guys in their mid twenties who have bounced back from Finasteride and Minoxidil. They actually jumped down a couple of scaled on the Norwood.

Look up hair loss experiment, or from Date Line on youtube. They have men who used the products over a year. There are identical twins who used different hair loss methods. Both jumped a lower number on the Norwood scale. But one twin clearly had better results than the other.

Good luck.

I have heard that Finasteride may decrease libido. This is why I did not want to try...