Personal experiment: tretinoin and diffuse thinning Treatment 6/4/2023
User experienced hair growth with finasteride and minoxidil, but after using tretinoin, faced aggressive thinning and hair loss. They plan to stop tretinoin for two months to see if the problem improves.
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