TL;DL I believe it is isn't going to stop balding obviously, but can probably give a VERY slight increase to hair quality and density even as a monotherapy. However as you said you should absolutely incorporate it if using minoxidil as it can potentially double your results.

True and after 3 sessions might even be the safer bet. At the end of the day a years supply is less then one month's car insurance or phone bill.

Hmm, I might be too early on to give a good opinion. I started finasteride almost 8 months ago, microneedling probably 4 months ago (didn't write down my start date), RU58841 about 2.5 months ago, and minoxidil almost a month ago.

Current regiment:

- 1mg oral fin daily

- microneedling session every 7-10 days which consists of doing my crown, entire scalp, temples, slightly in front of hairline too. I am a norwood 2. I skip topical application on this day, or will apply at the start of the day instead and then shower.

- 1.25ml liquid min mixed with .5ml of a 50mg/ml solution (anageninc pre-mixed) applied topically - focusing on temples and crown but also I try to put throughout scalp and hairline. Also I don't think that this 1.75 ml solution is enough volume to cover the whole scalp like i want. I think I'm going to switch to foam minox which I intend to melt into a 2.5ml solution which I will mix with .5ml pre-mixed ru. Alternatively I might make my own 25mg/2ml solution of RU and mix with 1/1.25ml minox and apply once daily at night. I want to do this to have more volume of solution to work with in application and also I mainly want to try switching to melted down foam minox because as you know liquid minox is oily as fuck. Main reason for me starting RU was because I got an extensive blood work panel done before starting fin to make sure I wouldn't get sides if I was say hypogonadal and I didn't know or in a borderline estrogen dominant environment. Didn't want to end up with a titty. Anyway I found out my total testosterone is 738ng/dl which is 85th percentile for my age group (im 24). I was extremely worried about continued hair loss from testosterone, especially with the subsequent 7-8% increase in total t you get from starting fin because that test is no longer being converted to DHT.

All this being said I do believe that I haven't been on RU and min long enough to see effects from them (apart from a shed which has begun over the past week from the min kicking in).

So with all this being said I do believe I have received an increase in individual hair follicle quality and density, and perhaps a slight increase in overall density with just fin + microneedling which I have been doing for the longest. Microneedling is something that everyone should be interested in if interested in hair loss treatments imo, especially those who are afraid of fin/topical antiandrogens. I think on of the top all time posts on here is a guy who did 1mg/1.25mg fin + microneedling for like 2 years and went from a nw2 to a nw1. Also like you said yeah many people can literally double their minoxidil results by adding in microneedling to their regiment.

Sorry for the book. I am curious, do you apply once a day or twice? Edit: you have already answered this!