I'd love to hear from people too who stopped fin and started lasering a longer time ago, and what their experience has been.

So I'll experiment with it too. But if I start to rapidly lose hair, I'll probably get back on fin unfortunately.

I've been on propecia for over 12 years now. I started back when i was in college, now in my early 30s. I went on propecia as a preventative method as I've always been paranoid about losing hair, since my father is completely bald and so are a few of my cousins. Although, my brother has a full set of hair. I currently still have a full set of hair, therefore stopped using propecia about 1 month ago, as I'm not sure if i ever needed this drug to keep my hair. I've noticed an itchy scalp since i stopped using it, again about a month ago...but haven't noticed any hairloss. same amt of hair fall out during the shower or when i brush my hair, as always. My question to everyone, is this itchness a sign that propecia was actually working to prevent my hairloss? or should i wait it out 6 months to see if i do lose more hair, as other forums have stated? I don't want to lose my hair, so if i need to get back on the drug or other new drug/process that's new I will do that? please advise.

Itchiness is definitely a symptom of the inflammation associated with hair loss, but there's no way to know if that means you are going to lose hair you can get itching for a variety of reasons.  I would say just to watch your hair closely and at the first sign of any hair loss jump back on propecia.  If you do lose any hair it will most likely grow back if you get back on quickly.  It could be you are just lucky and due to a lucky combination of genetics you don't have to worry about hair loss.  Just keep a close eye on your hair and you should be fine.