Yeah, same thing happened to me. I was a couple months into 1.25 mg ed and I noticed a shed hair that was really thick at one end and thinned towards the root. I was happy because I thought finasteride was working until I picked up the hair to realize that the root end was thinner. That was a warning that I should have heeded. Hair is supposed to be even throughout or thicker near the root. This is not a good sign as I'm 2.5 years in and all of my hair diameter is a fraction of what it used to be. I shed hairs that are sickly, white and almost invisible. Before finasteride I used to obsessively analyze shed hairs and I could roll them in my fingers and feel them. I can't do that anymore. This did not get better and finasteride only accelerated my hair loss. You probably never read that finasteride can accelerate hairloss in some people because the online hairloss community is useless. There are only a couple of accounts of this that I've managed to find online about this. "slaines" on hairlosshelp used finasteride for six years and said it slowed his hairloss but made his hair very fine and after he quit it took a year for the hair to thicken up again. There isn't much to go on but if finasteride slowed down my hairloss somehow, though I don't see how, it did so at GREAT expense to all of my hair. I started balding in places I had no problems in, my crown, midscalp, sides and even in the donor area. This is only explained by AR upregulation whereby an insufficient amount of a hormone in the body can be compensated for by increasing the receptor sites, basically making a bigger net. After 15 momths of this sh*t I tapered down to .5 mg for six months and things seemed slightly better, though I'm not really sure. I'd read of several accounts of people who got worse on finasteride, quitting, and recovering somewhat. I tapered down to .25 mg in hopes of quitting the drug and after only 7 days I experienced years worth of hairloss overnight. Pretty scary. If you are on the full dose I would recommend slowly lowering it to .5 mg. I will caution you though, if you ever decide to quit the drug thinking things will go back to normal, there is a good chance they won't. There is no guarantee that receptors "down regulate" when hormone levels have normalized.
