I have been using finasteride for over 5 years.
I do not work for Merck nor do I own Merck stock.
The straight up experience I have had was this:
I went from a situation where my frontal hairline
was receeding enough so that I could notice a difference
from month to month.
After starting finasteride, I do not appear to have lost any hair.
I would say my hairloss stopped after 4-6 months and I don't think I have had any regrowth. No regrowth is fine by me, I am happy as hell not to lose any more hair.
I don't really care about hair per se, but I am somewhat addicted to poontang (snatch, red snappper, fish taco, glory hole, ...) and thought that since I have an ugly
head, more hair covers it up and thus increases the chance of luring my prey.
I started with a script from my doctor but since PN started carrying it, I buy it from them, it's one hell of a lot less expensive. I can tell no difference.
Hope this helps,
viking