Rogaine / regaine help please. How do I know if it has lost effectiveness?

[Ahab]

Yes im the same but its so hard to tell if the hair i do have is because of it or not. Clearly on the crown you can see its lost the effectiveness and although there are some dead looking threads of hair .. if thats what rogaine has maintained then well its of no real use.

Eventually i will get a transplant but people say you should stay on rogaine but what's the point? Why not stop rogaine let the dht effected hairs fall out and replace them with transplanted hair and at least those will likely not fall out as they are immune to dht. And if like we all know rogaine often looses its effectivness over time then well if those areas arent addressed by transplanted hair they will fall out leading you to get another possible transplant.

I guess we never know just how much more hair will fall out but maybe my father's hairloss is a good indication. His is more or less the same as mine accept of course being 80 years old and alot greyer.

There is no guarantee that transplanted hair will not fall out eventually. I had transplants 40 years ago. I am now experiencing senescent alopecia. Look it up on Google. If a transplant doctor tells you transplanted hair will never fall out, he is flat out lying to you.

See for yourself: look around at old bald guys--take a close look at what would be their donor area had they had transplants, and you will see that for many of them their donor area is see through, even though they never had transplants. Also in my case, after my transplants grew in they looked OK for a couple of years. But after that I lost more and more hair, so every year things got worse and worse. Although I still technically had some donor area left and could have gotten more transplants, I wasn't happy with what my donor area was like after the transplants I had, so I didn't get any more transplants. And now that senescent alopecia has set in, it's a wreck.