Image 1 — Please help me with your diagnosis and tell me if my current treatment done by finestride and minoxidil good enough? Or am I cooked/it is too late.
Image 2 — Please help me with your diagnosis and tell me if my current treatment done by finestride and minoxidil good enough? Or am I cooked/it is too late.
Image 3 — Please help me with your diagnosis and tell me if my current treatment done by finestride and minoxidil good enough? Or am I cooked/it is too late.
Image 4 — Please help me with your diagnosis and tell me if my current treatment done by finestride and minoxidil good enough? Or am I cooked/it is too late.
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Please help me with your diagnosis and tell me if my current treatment done by finestride and minoxidil good enough? Or am I cooked/it is too late.

Just turned 22, half a month ago. I was facing male pattern baldness since I was 16, hairline recessed very gradually. I didn’t give much attention to this issue until I get into college. I started topical minoxidil 5% along with 1mg finestride every alternate day at the age of 20 and a half.

Thinning has stopped since then. Overall Density has improved slightly as well because of finestride; I suppose. Unfortunately, oral minoxidil wasn’t working for me—I just found out that around 60% of the population doesn’t have the enzyme in hair to make it work.

Consequently, I switched to oral minoxidil 2.5 mg, I take a pill everyday. It has been 1 and a half month, waiting for the results right now (probably this is the reason density is looking bad currently because of being in initial phase of taking minoxidil). Thinking about taking finestride everyday instead of skipping one day, and getting a hair transplant after 25.

So, I wrote all this story just to ask, whether my planning of dealing with this balding good enough and at which of the Norwood stage I am?

u/AdTough8071 — 6 days ago
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1/5 — Avoid Headphone Zone. Wasted 45 days, extra money, and my patience.

I bought the KZ Castor Pro Human targeted version from Headphone Zone 45 days ago. Just 25 days in, one side stopped working properly. That’s when the real nightmare started.
Returning the product meant traveling 15km to a post office and shipping it back on my own dime — Headphone Zone didn’t cover a rupee of that cost. Their “customer support” is a joke: no phone calls, only emails, and even those take 2-3 days for a single reply before they go silent again. I waited 15-20 days just to get a replacement.
And when it finally arrived? They sent me the wrong version — the bass-boosted variant, when I listen to classical, treble, and vocal-heavy music and specifically don’t want bass-forward IEMs. After going all the way home just to check the product I’d waited weeks for, I opened the box to find they couldn’t even get the replacement right. Now they’ve gone quiet again, and it’s still not clear what happens next — I suspect they’ll just tell me to ship it back a second time, at my own expense, again, but at this point I don’t even have a straight answer from them.
I paid extra for these IEMs and barely got to use them before they were stuck in Headphone Zone’s broken return pipeline. This isn’t just bad service, it’s disrespectful of customers’ time and money. If you’re considering buying from Headphone Zone, don’t. Look at international sellers or literally any company with functioning customer support instead. I’ve lost weeks and money for nothing.

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u/AdTough8071 — 7 days ago
▲ 4 r/acne+1 crossposts

I always had insecurity about this, please guide me how to fix this.

Please tell me how can I treat this. I am aware about tretinoin and I fixed these acne by that though they left these scars, and there are still some active acne. How can I fix these scars and get healthy skin? I have been insecure about these as long as I can recall.

u/AdTough8071 — 1 month ago
▲ 6 r/MinoxidilSideEffects+1 crossposts

[Article] Prospective cardiovascular evaluation with 24-hour Holter and 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in men using 5-mg oral minoxidil for androgenetic alopecia (2023)

I am looking for this article everywhere, but could not find it. Is there anyone willing to help?
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2022.05.026

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u/AdTough8071 — 2 months ago

Please 🙏🙏🙏help me identify this music video, it is very important for me

Trying to find an old nostalgic Japanese romance movie / music video — bicycle scene in Tokyo and emotional riverside ending

I saw this movie years ago through a dreamy YouTube music video edit and have been trying to find it ever since.

What I remember:

- Japanese romance/drama movie
- Looked older, not modern cinema
- Warm orange/reddish color grading
- Soft grainy nostalgic cinematography
- Setting looked like old Tokyo or an older Japanese city
- Romantic couple (man and woman, probably late 20s/30s)

Important scenes:
- The man rides a bicycle through the city while the woman sits in the front
- Emotional ending near a river/riverside embankment
- They hug and both seem to cry
- I vaguely remember red clothing in some scenes

The music in the edit was dreamy and melancholic with soft female humming vocals, which made the atmosphere feel very emotional and haunting.

If this reminds anyone of a Japanese movie, please tell me. Even partial guesses could help.

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u/AdTough8071 — 3 months ago

Please 🙏🙏🙏 help me find this Japanese movie, it is very important for me.

Trying to find an old nostalgic Japanese romance movie — bicycle scene in Tokyo and emotional riverside ending

I saw this movie years ago through a dreamy YouTube music video edit and have been trying to find it ever since.

What I remember:

- Japanese romance/drama movie
- Looked older, not modern cinema
- Warm orange/reddish color grading
- Soft grainy nostalgic cinematography
- Setting looked like old Tokyo or an older Japanese city
- Romantic couple (man and woman, probably late 20s/30s)

Important scenes:
- The man rides a bicycle through the city while the woman sits in the front
- Emotional ending near a river/riverside embankment
- They hug and both seem to cry
- I vaguely remember red clothing in some scenes

The music in the edit was dreamy and melancholic with soft female humming vocals, which made the atmosphere feel very emotional and haunting.

If this reminds anyone of a Japanese movie, please tell me. Even partial guesses could help.

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u/AdTough8071 — 3 months ago

🙏🙏Please help me find this heartbreaking dreamy Japanese/Korean song/MV — nostalgic bicycle scene, riverside crying ending, soft humming female vocals

I have been trying to find this song/video for a very long time and it genuinely haunts me because of how emotional and beautiful it felt.

I originally saw it on YouTube years ago. I cannot remember the title, artist, or whether it was from a movie, drama, or an actual music video.

What I remember very clearly is the atmosphere.

The song itself was extremely dreamy, melancholic, ambient, and emotional. There were very few actual lyrics. Most of the vocals were soft female humming like:

“hmmmmmm”
“la la la”
very airy and emotional, almost lullaby-like.

It reminded me of artists like Lamp, Ichiko Aoba, or old Japanese indie/ambient music.

The visuals looked cinematic and nostalgic, possibly from an older Japanese romance movie or indie film edit.

Things I remember from the video:

- A man and woman (probably late 20s or early 30s)
- Old Tokyo or an older East Asian city vibe
- Warm reddish/orange color grading
- Soft grainy cinematography
- Slow emotional pacing
- A scene where they ride a bicycle together, with the girl sitting in front
- The woman may have been wearing red clothes
- The ending was very emotional near a river/riverside embankment
- The man comes close to the woman, they hug, and both cry

The entire video felt nostalgic, lonely, intimate, and dreamlike.

It may have been:
- an actual Japanese/Korean music video
- scenes from an old romance movie used in an edit
- a J-drama/K-drama MV
- indie ambient/shoegaze/folk music

I know this is vague, but if this reminds anyone of anything at all, please tell me. Even partial guesses could help a lot.

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u/AdTough8071 — 3 months ago

Please 🙏🙏🙏 help me find this dreamy heartbreaking Japanese/Korean song with bicycle scene and riverside crying ending

I’m trying to find a Japanese (or possibly Korean) music video / movie scene I once saw on YouTube.

The song was extremely dreamy and emotional, with very few actual lyrics. Most of it was soft female humming like “hmmmmm” and “la la la,” very ambient and melancholic. The whole vibe felt nostalgic, warm, and dreamlike.

What I remember from the visuals:

- It looked like old Tokyo or an older East Asian city
- A man and woman (probably around late 20s or early 30s)
- There was a scene where both were riding a bicycle together, with the girl sitting in front
- The color grading was warm/reddish/orange
- It felt like an old Japanese romance film or indie music video
- At the end, there was an emotional scene near a river or riverside embankment
- The man came close to the woman, they hugged, and both cried
- I vaguely remember the woman wearing red clothes
- The cinematography felt very soft, grainy, nostalgic, and slow

It may have been:
- an actual music video
- scenes from an old Japanese movie/drama used in an edit
- or a Korean/Japanese indie romance MV

The music reminded me of dreamy Japanese artists like Lamp, Ichiko Aoba, or similar ambient indie music.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

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u/AdTough8071 — 3 months ago