I really have enjoyed sort of proceeding through the history of baldness cures. Every time you try a new one, you have that anticipation that this is going to be the thing that finally does it and most of the ones I have used, sort of worked so I never gave up and kept trying and people on HairLossTalk.com are really not folks to ever give up which is one of the great human characteristics as detailed by Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus.
Ouch on that son comment, reiterates that indeed hair is youth more so than wrinkles or getting fat.
I take dutasteride but thanks for reminding me. CPA is probably not for me. I forget what you are all taking, Mr. Marky, the mysterious one. Bridge and I, in different ways have sort of blown the doors off in terms of certain dosages. At least I test a couple of times a year. I wonder if he is still taking those big doses without testing. I think I saw him give a like in early February on one thread. I wonder if he lurks or if you can actually get this interest in hair loss out of you after reaching one's goal.
I'll post my cycled regimen when i return from holidays next week. But generally in a 4 month cycle i use cpa for the first month to jump start things. I dont like cpa either, it seems to disturb my sleep. But as i said its the most powerful from expeience.
Insightful thread on it here:
Well you are doing something very different. I hope you will explain your methods.
I've got Eucapil from Bonanza. I believe there were clinical trials that approved it in the Czech Republic. It's only a 2% concentration so it's pretty weak. But it seemed to be effective at maintaining and combating the itch. It's recommended to do 2ml once a day, but since there are virtually no side effects I used it two times a day, or sometimes even three if I felt an itch. I only needed 1ml each time though since I only used it on my hairline. As far as RU, I've been using a premixed formula from Anageninc, 5% KB solution, 0.5mL twice daily (50mg per day). Its half life is about 5 hours topically.
I don't know the extent of your previous hair loss. Has it improved enough pictorially? Do you have any thoughts on this meds for male pattern baldness vs. diffuse hair loss?
)I've very gradually gone from NW2 to NW1.5 over a few years, so nothing significant pictorially. If I get to a NW1 I will definitely post results.
I need to actually learn all of those Norwood pics. For some reason I find them and the Tanner pics to be creepy to look at plus with diffuse thinners, often none of those balding archetypes seemed to fit. I seemed to have a combo of male pattern baldness with slight crown and hair line recession but all of my hair especially on the sides was affected and experienced a sharp diminution in quality more so than coverage, of course, I have been remarkably lucky in terms of maintenance even before HRT. That's a fascinating and detailed exposition of the different balding areas and using different approaches. Part of the "expertise" many of you have is that we have just looked at hair lines for years, male and female and sometimes I feel I can predict what might bald next for certain people when I see pics but it's more anecdotal I suppose at this point than scientific.
Yeah I'm actually not big on the Norwood scale. For one, it's well acknowledged in this community that there's a lot of "halfsies" (1.5, 2.5, etc). The shapes of hairlines sometimes really do not fit the model.
That's right. What I can't find an answer to is whether the more straightforward MPA which actually lowers testosterone without interfering with specific receptors might be a better approach. I think that because CPA. bica and spironolactone hit some receptors more than others, it might be jarring to the system and unsettling to the user in a way that neither estrogen nor MPA or progesterone might be. Thus estrogen and MPA might be said to have much smoother overall systemic effects while the others seem to be heavily side effect specific for many.
