Hahahaha, love sunchyme nohomo.
Someone speculated earlier in this thread that transplanted hair might fall, too at some point. I guess that made Fred's day.
What I don't like about this forum is, that everybody talks permanently about how fucked they are. But there is no information about what you can do. If not for the German forum I might have lost my hair waiting for Brotzu.
I attached the first study I found.
If you add up the numbers of patients who worsened you arrive at about 10% non responders on finasteride.
For those 10% adding dutasteride would have helped in 90% of the cases. (Google yourself.)
The remaining 1% is guys like Fred, but even he made it work with a transplant.
Annother study payed by the pfs-foundation showed that only a small single digit number of patients got serious side effects that didn't go away.
Finally
@hellouser, who had super aggressive thinning in his early 20s (I guess) is maintaining now for years on his side - free regimen of RU, minoxidil, dermarolling Seti and Licl.
So it's very probable that you maintain if you hit hard now.
I don't know exactly how aggressive your thinning is (i, too thought I would be bald by now six months ago), but I think it's too early to throw the towel.