This all depends on your expectations. Medication can’t grow hair where there is no hair, only surgery can achieve that, but medication can improve existing hair and at a minimum help prevent further loss. If your goal is to keep what you have then medication is your answer. If you would be satisfied with a modest improvement then perhaps just medication may be your answer. If you want dramatic results (and there may be no way to realistically meet those expectations) then a combination of drugs and surgery may be your answer.

Yes. Finasteride can now be prescribed generically which, depending on your pharmacy, will cost you around $10/month. Minoxidil can also be purchased generically from Prime Hair Clinic at around $25/bottle.

If you discontinue using the medications for a sustained period of time, you can expect to lose any benefit gained. In effect, your hair will revert into whatever it would have been at the present time if you had never been on medication from the beginning. It’s a myth that you will lose more hair than you otherwise would have. Whatever hair is lost would have been lost anyway. For optimal hair restoration, we recommend that you remain on medication for the rest of your life.

It may be taken with or without meals and with or without other medications. If you miss a day, there is no need to take an extra tablet the next day. Just take the next tablet as usual. This drug will not work faster or better if you take it more than once a day.