DHT blockers after surgery???

[gillenator]

If you don't have severe balding, would you be able to fill in enough DHT resistant hair follicles to quit taking finasteride?

crummygenetics,

That depends on the extent of MPB in your genetic makeup. Only a very small percent of men with MPB have it mild. For most of us, it contnues to progress with hairloss throughout our lives. I do know of some guys getting by without using Propecia, but thay are far and few between. Their family history with MPB is the same. The men have minimal loss, mild recession.

Most men will progressively lose more than their donor supplies can replace and why staying on Propecia or some other form of finasteride like cutting Proscar is so critical.

There is no question I would have ended up a true Norwood class 6 had I not started taking finasteride in 1996.

Present day I sport a pretty good restored look with a thinning crown. It took nearly 7,000 strip grafts to get me to that point. Had I stopped taking finasteride, I would have needed far more grafts to achieve the same look.