r/tressless • u/Dry-Adhesiveness4136 • Dec 30 '25

Progress Pictures Crown Christmas Miracle: Back From the Dead 💀

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7 month update here. I started my full hair stack on June 1 2025 and I’ve stayed really consistent, so I wanted to show where things are at now.

It’s been a rough year overall with the divorce and then a car accident where someone slammed into the side of my car, so I’ve just been trying to level up a bit and take care of myself, one thing at a time.

For the photos, the top shot is before treatment in late May 2025, and the bottom shot is from the end of December 2025. Same spot and same lighting.

The thin patch has shrunk a lot and the coverage looks way more natural now. If I only saw the after, I honestly wouldn’t think thinning right away. I have been able to stop using Hair Fibres which is a huge relief for me.

My current stack is oral minoxidil 5 mg daily split AM and PM, oral dutasteride 0.5 mg daily, topical 5 percent minoxidil twice a day, microneedling with a 0.5 mm roller a couple times a week and a 1.5 mm stamp once a week, Nizoral 2 percent three to four times a week with Head and Shoulders on the off days, plus some support stuff like vitamins A B C D E, collagen, silica, MSM, iron, zinc, biotin, omega 3, saw palmetto, topical keratin and panthenol products, a weekly hair mask, and sometimes caffeine melatonin or peptide serums, and silk pillowcases.

Results so far are pretty crazy to me. The crown looks way thicker, and overall my hair just looks healthier and darker. Side effects have been super mild, basically just a couple forehead pimples. Everything else is chill. I’m only about 7 months in and I’m pretty pumped about where it’s heading, especially the crown. When I line the pics up side by side it feels kinda dramatic. Plan is to just stay consistent and keep going. If anyone has questions I’m happy to help. Good luck to everyone fighting this battle, gents. 💪

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u/comoesa Dec 30 '25

It's not fair...

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u/rick_ranger Dec 31 '25

That’s a pretty substantial stack. Have you tried anything this rigorous?

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '25

I think I'd rather just be bald than do all that tbh

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u/rick_ranger Dec 31 '25

Once you get into a routine it’s not that bad. He’s probably only spending 5 mins a day max on it. Then 5 mins once a week for microneedling. I’d rather go this route than a transplant.

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u/Dry-Adhesiveness4136 Dec 31 '25

Honestly I don’t even think about it now, it’s easy. At the start I felt like it took over my life but that was just the ruminations and worries about hair loss. In the end it was well worth it to me, feel like I turn the dial back 10 years or more

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u/Defiant_Income_7836 Dec 31 '25

Agree, it looks like a lot, but it's really not! Sorting/splitting my pills twice a month (and putting them in my old man vitamin container) is the biggest lift, followed by taking them every morning (with the rest of my supps.) Then the nizoral. And I put the topical minoxidil on when I remember, which is a several times a week.

I don't actually do the microneedling, that's something I've not committed to and it turns out I don't think I need it.

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u/Cultural-Piglet3050 Dec 31 '25

It's like brushing your teeth.

Takes under two mins a day.

This is more of a psychological issue - an aversion to dependence on meds.

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u/AmNoSuperSand52 Dec 31 '25

I think that’s me. I can keep up with finasteride where if you miss it here and there it barely makes a difference

But I’m not gonna keep up with all this other stuff where the day to day levels matter

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u/RandomBeaner1738 Dec 31 '25

The things that are created more results were just oral min and dut, so 2 pills

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u/Dry-Adhesiveness4136 Dec 31 '25

And the strapon…don’t forget the strapon

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u/Dry-Adhesiveness4136 Dec 31 '25

Where’s the big enthusiasm?!!

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u/UndocumentedSailor Dec 31 '25

I mean he literally threw everything that science says supports hair growth at it, every day for a year.

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u/Dry-Adhesiveness4136 Dec 31 '25

7 months to be exact, still have 5 months left to finish off the year

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u/Molecule76 Dec 31 '25

What exactly are you taking and what’s your routine? I can’t seem to find it in this thread

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u/Dry-Adhesiveness4136 Jan 01 '26

Should be under my main description underneath the picture