I am sorry to hear.My experience is that having hair requires suffering, and there is no way around that. There is literally not a single substance that worked even remotely that didn't cause me side effects or suffering of some sort. If you have baldness in your cards, this is the MO of your body. You have to introduce a significant enough amount of a powerful chemical to disrupt this effect, and the required dose always, invariably, **** up some other system.
I've been experimenting with compounds for 7 years and have not found a single thing that worked that I could tolerate in the long run. I'm not saying that such a compound doesn't perhaps exist, but I haven't found it, and I must've tried several hundred. It seems that if you want to keep your hair with the methods presently available, you must accept some kind of compromise to your quality of life, whether you're aware of it or not.
In my experience the only thing that has worked rather effectively besides finasteride is botox injections in the scalp perimiter muscles. This eliminated my scalp tension for 2 months and my shedding decreased by 70% (measured with a hair catcher). Since it is such an expensive therapy I couldnt continue with it and it seemed it got less effective over time since I suspect my body developed antibodies to it.
I am reading into the skull expansion theory by Paul Taylor which has me pretty convinced right now. I mean every severe balding man I see has a prominent bulge to his head. He recommends doing comoression exercises which I will try for 3 months before evaluating.