FYI - tried this on one of my temples. I took a skewer burned it and immediately placed it on the edge of my right temple. Held it for about 5 secs. I burned myself in that area pretty bad but nothing to the extent of a third degree burn or anything that required medical attention.
Fast forward 3.5 years... Not a single hair grew in that area. See my attached pics. Maybe no regrowth because the severity of the burn was less compared to the 80 year old BBQ man? Have no clue.
I know there was something about the burning element that comes up in some of the micro-needling literature if I recall correctly. But dude, I lost indirectly myself over my quest for hair which was completely intertwined with my gender issues and I had no idea how to come out and put my non-HRT life into shambles; another guy castrated himself who was on here for a while. Others have had some issues, I think. Two or three of the influential folks who posted have been banned and I don't want to rev up any sort of, I don't know--Goddess knows; maybe we all want this too much. My goal was to help create new interest because HRT saved my life and rejuvenated me and I do regard the expression of the divine in the feminine; I felt called to get into an HRT program after prayer of a sort or revelation but Goddess knows; I don't know.
I get excellent face to face and now zoom care several times a month and I receive this psychological care as part of my HRT requirements because my insurance requires it.
I did consider going on estrogen at 20 but I went on to get married to a beautiful accomplished cis-female and have several children and my law degree.
Please anyone, hair is not worth "extreme" measures and I am going to stop referring to the thread that way and maybe the name of the thread is simply inappropriate as the founder clearly articulated although not seriously, but still he articulated that life without hair is not worth living and this
is not true.
I am at the point of seeing my crown fill in--I micro-needled tonight and hopefully near my dream of restoration and still I look better in this wig than I am likely to ever look with my own hair given that I am 56 years old because now it won't be a coverage issue but it still will be a volume issue. My wig feels great; warm in the winter and it moves and blows and I never ever would have worn a toupee and I only donned the wig once I verified this past February that my crew cut was filling in. Makes no sense, I know but otherwise in my mind, I would have been cheating the brethren; if I have my own hair, then that made it alright to wear, sigh.
The wig experience is much better than I ever would have thought and I never, ever considered the hair club after one visit but things are better now.
I counsel people on how to obtain DIY hormonal medications but only if they don't have access to a doctor or clinic or live in a country where it is dangerous to be trans but otherwise, I think that it might be psychologically dangerous for people to do this, ingest powerful hormonal medications when not under medical care/supervision, gatekeepers or not.
I have no medical credentials so anything that I say or have said should be considered as nothing more than informed opinion by a person with a mind that catalogs virtually everything and can recall it at will.
I appreciate the forthrightness and maybe we needed to hear that so thank you. It was pertinent to my comment and to the stresses we all feel.
But testosterone is controlled for a reason; it is what drives life but it is also a powerful medication that changes a person and fills the world with aggression. I assume that estrogen is benign relatively and it is, but still let's remember Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde. Hormones are serious business and there is no doubt in my mind, none, that they fundamentally change a person when used for extended periods and that's sort of the point. I sought this because I didn't want to be subjected to testosterone any longer. It was ruining my life and I won't go into how and why but you guys can imagine. Maybe this just isn't for cis-folks fundamentally.
Anybody can contact me at any time if they feel that things are more than they can handle; they are for me at times but I have my weekly Zoom session with my therapist and a monthly one with my psychiatrist and many of us are isolated by Covid19 and it's been a long hard slog of a year unlike any other for any of us. Let's stay safe and healthy and discuss reasonable expectations. Thanks for sharing that; I know that it was heartfelt.
Goddess bless.
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