it definitely worked and i couldn't notice any side effects. i was on it for like five years. the first half of that i def had good growth in places it had almost completely fallen out from. then there's like a year and a half/two years where growth stops but you don't lose again and then by the five year mark you're back where you started. more of a bandaid than anything else.
Going to Outback Steakhouse tonight, probably haven't mentioned that yet. Then I'm going to play Anno 117 all night. Can't wait.
Honestly though I haven't talked about it much yet outside of "I like it" but being bald is the happiest I've been in so damn long. For the first time I'm not insecure about how I look outside of like, wanting to lose some weight here and there but I feel like it's actually worth pursuing that because it doesn't feel hopeless where I'm like "oh well my hair will just look bad anyway so why try". I had been eaten alive by my own insecurities about my hair and that just projected itself onto how I felt about my looks in general and going bald has completely changed that and I could not be happier about it. If it's something you've been thinking about doing I highly suggest you talk to your barber (or a barber if you don't have one) about the possibility and go for it
yeah honestly the jokes kinda suck but i feel way more comfortable in my skin buzzed and the frustration from looking in th emirror and prep time to try to make what's going on there look halfway presentable is just gone