Hair is not Life but it's Pretty Damn Close; HRT and Pictorial Posts Prove it.

[JaneyElizabeth]

I cross-post this to create discussion possibly. I see many problems with this article but what he says about most using alternative treatments with estrogen is usually true but it's the E2 levels and T levels that matter most, not just whether someone is using Estrogel on the scalp and I have maintained that although I think psychologically scalp application is helpful and much more likely to block T than he asserts. If a person wants mere absorption from Estrogel, then the testicles are several times more efficient than the scalp.

Anecdotally many people claim localized effects from Estrogel in terms of facial improvement, scalp improvement, breast enlargement for those seeking that and promotion of lower body fat, i.e. pear fat and cellulite which many MtF's seek on purpose. And strangely enough, the more one becomes hormonally female, the better Estrogel might work due to changes in fat in the scalp and changes in micro-flora. This is a coverage guy more so than a hair improvement guy and different guys fit into different categories. I love my Son of Sam pic and reference because visually it is so stark a reminder that ultimately all of us want to be more attractive whatever that means to us. Some guys want to regrow hair and then cut it into a crew cut and more power to them. Loss in the temples is far less cosmetically significant for males and this area is very hard to restore for everyone so some of us largely ignore that area and look for overall and crown improvement instead.

Some MtF's probably want to do exactly what @bridgeburn did because we know that his protocol fully restores hair (he still didn't like his temples). If I am successful without an AA, others might try to emulate that. It's a lot easier than re-creating the kitchen sink which is pretty much what @bridgeburn used and someone might say this about my approach as well and how do I know derma-rolling works.(it's because it eliminates scar tissue and that is visibly apparent even for someone with most of coverage like me. I see the scars scab over several times until they disappear or at least start growing hair and blending in again. One issue for people who have had transplants is that the color of the skin from the sides and back of the head might vary significantly and not blend well. Sometimes when I look in the mirror and think I see thin spots, when I look with the hair mirror, things look fine, it's just that there are rows of transplanted plugs that even when growing fine, might not blend in or might reflect light differently which is another reason that I generally advise against transplants.

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[Almas]

We have a few people who post using bica and if you look two posts up, I do an extended analysis of what we do known and what we don't know. Although this seems like an easy concept, many of us, even me, forget about titration of medications. 50 mg of bica daily seems like a lot to me. The finasteride is fine since very few seem to experience sides from that. Some allege that bica acts less on strength and acts less on libido/potency and is to be preferred for that reason but if I were you, I would start at 12.5 mg daily or every other day for at least three to six months because AA's can be jarring to the system. They are good for hair but they might link catagen for essentially all follicles very quickly which few people, even MtF''s want, although such sheds are probably benevolent in the long-run for folks using estradiol and AA's and having most of one's hair in the anagen stage for longer seems to be an end result from AA-induced sheds. Estrogen seems to be gentler and not jar the system or the hair the way that the three main AA's do with their highly complicated modes of acting.

So I had a complete shed to baldness about 16 months ago and it has taken this long for me to get my initial hairline back (kind of eh but mostly complete coverage with poor hair quality) with the improvements now in coverage and hair quality which we know when we experience it. This is why some folks with full heads of hair still aren't attractive and they cannot grow it long because it ends up being a rat's nest. Examples might include John Belushi and Robin Williams, rest in peace and also Son of Sam who I suppose is still with us. Very little can be done with his example of full Mediterranean-type coverage.

Ein used to be involved on the @bridgeburn thread and I think that they is female. That usage sounds just horrible to my ears, MtF or not, by the way and I usually avoid it. I don't see his or her medications listed anymore but the hair in the pic is very nice. Folks from India seem to be a combination of Mediterranean, Dravidic and Indo-European so characterizing hair loss in India can be difficult but for the most part they seem to bald similarly to Europeans with a Mediterranean aspect. I wish that I knew more about Dravidic culture but it is often overshadowed by the Indo-European history and the period of the Islamic, well either conquest or immigration into India depending upon one's point of view.

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I have bad English, I didn't understand all the points. I want to say that all Bicalutamide users use at least 50mg. I spoke with one of them, he said that this is the optimal dosage, and using less is a dubious idea. Unfortunately, I have not heard the arguments. I also heard that in low doses it can have the opposite effect. Therefore, it is easier to use 50mg, it is psychologically easier: you are sure of the effect. Although it would be tempting to use a lower dose and not resort to breast surgery
This dosage should not cause too much feminization, I will remain a man. However, I am concerned that Bicalutamide has an increased risk of heart failure, metabolic disorders, and crosses the blood-brain barrier. But in return, he will save me from the Androgenetic Alopecia problem and I can finally live without fear for my hair. Calm is a great luxury

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

I have bad English, I didn't understand all the points. I want to say that all Bicalutamide users use at least 50mg. I spoke with one of them, he said that this is the optimal dosage, and using less is a dubious idea. Unfortunately, I have not heard the arguments. I also heard that in low doses it can have the opposite effect. Therefore, it is easier to use 50mg, it is psychologically easier: you are sure of the effect. Although it would be tempting to use a lower dose and not resort to breast surgery
This dosage should not cause too much feminization, I will remain a man. However, I am concerned that Bicalutamide has an increased risk of heart failure, metabolic disorders, and crosses the blood-brain barrier. But in return, he will save me from the Androgenetic Alopecia problem and I can finally live without fear for my hair. Calm is a great luxury

Some people use 50 mg daily but I don't recommend it especially for a cis-male. One of the tenets here is titration. Another is to avoid sheds and especially sheds related to AA use. I went quickly on pretty much the highest dosage of spironolactone plus low dose estrogen and I immediately had a massive shed. Reading @bridgeburn, there were many sheds there on AA's. Most of the guys blamed their genetics or whatever but it has come to me that maybe all of these sheds were benevolent but these guys just couldn't stay the course and wait it out the way that I did. @bridgeburn never had a shed and things seemed to always work perfectly for him and he feminized like a dream although that was never his stated goal in the early stages. When I had my shed and I was just coming out, I just cut it all down to the same length, what was left, which even in the back and on the sides wasn't much and I just plowed forward with beard removal and other treatments and all of a sudden, I felt that I could pull off passing as a female with a wig and that gave me security until the New Year where I haven't been wearing it, which was always the ultimate plan.

Anyway, for cis-guys who can stand it, I am wondering if a temporary hair system to get through sheds might make a difference for you and help you stay the course. Guys basically drop out either because of breast development, which can't be helped without really expensive Serms, and the other guys drop out of HRT therapy for hair because of sheds. So, I have invented a term called "benevolent sheds". I know that mine was just part of my body's adjustment to hormones and a big, sudden load of 200 mg spironolactone daily.

This is what I conjecture might happen during sheds. Particularly with AA's, the scalp becomes essentially "female" overnight. The body gets feedback and "thinks" this is a female with crappy hair and genetically it should be far better all over her (his) scalp. What's the best, most efficient way to fix this hair? Dump it, as Gordon Gekko said, "Dump it all". So instead of months, if not years of trying to "fix" bad male hair, the system just rejects it all at once and starts over. Areas that were actually bald before the shed then also gradually recover. Hair might then actually recover in a Female Pattern Loss Recovery far less focused on the temple areas meaning significant improvement in quality all over the head. Now with younger MtF's and MtF's who never have lost hair, the transition seems usually more orderly as the hair mostly changes in texture, anagen, sheen and "niceness". The frontal hairline though becomes more oval-ish and the hair in front of the ears appears to move forward of the place where it is located generally even for men with full heads of hair. Some guys, like Brad Pitt, do have oval hairlines and that might be related to genetically not losing hair but who knows what these guys in Hollywood are using; all of a sudden they all have perfect hair: Pitt, DiCaprio, Cruise, Damon, Affleck, Lowe, Downey, Jr., etc. In the past, guys in Hollywood often wore toupees or had slight to moderate temple recession. Even Cary Grant had this slight recession which is generally not deemed cosmetically significant for men. So why is all of the hair getting better? Probably finasteride, starting young and then who knows? PRP? Estrogen? Weekly derma-rolling in a salon too expensive for the rest of us?

Anyway, I digress. OP, you have to decide your dosage ultimately. But why not start slow and gradually titrate upwards? It seems kinder and gentler to the hair you have remaining and I know many folks who only use 12.5 mg daily of bica and even every other day or every third day. This cannot be a race or you will fail and you won't improve your results by starting at final dosages. The one and only good thing for cis-guys who start off, essentially on a final dosage, of say spironolactone, because I know and I have used that one, is that it might actually minimize breast growth which is an important factor. For MtF's still in hormonal transition, using high initial dosages is associated with smaller breasts and more conical breasts, most likely from the body realizing that puberty has been essentially bypassed and someone went straight to womenhood, hormonally.

 

[Almas]

Some people use 50 mg daily but I don't recommend it especially for a cis-male. One of the tenets here is titration. Another is to avoid sheds and especially sheds related to AA use. I went quickly on pretty much the highest dosage of spironolactone plus low dose estrogen and I immediately had a massive shed. Reading @bridgeburn, there were many sheds there on AA's. Most of the guys blamed their genetics or whatever but it has come to me that maybe all of these sheds were benevolent but these guys just couldn't stay the course and wait it out the way that I did. @bridgeburn never had a shed and things seemed to always work perfectly for him and he feminized like a dream although that was never his stated goal in the early stages. When I had my shed and I was just coming out, I just cut it all down to the same length, what was left, which even in the back and on the sides wasn't much and I just plowed forward with beard removal and other treatments and all of a sudden, I felt that I could pull off passing as a female with a wig and that gave me security until the New Year where I haven't been wearing it, which was always the ultimate plan.

Anyway, for cis-guys who can stand it, I am wondering if a temporary hair system to get through sheds might make a difference for you and help you stay the course. Guys basically drop out either because of breast development, which can't be helped without really expensive Serms, and the other guys drop out of HRT therapy for hair because of sheds. So, I have invented a term called "benevolent sheds". I know that mine was just part of my body's adjustment to hormones and a big, sudden load of 200 mg spironolactone daily.

This is what I conjecture might happen during sheds. Particularly with AA's, the scalp becomes essentially "female" overnight. The body gets feedback and "thinks" this is a female with crappy hair and genetically it should be far better all over her (his) scalp. What's the best, most efficient way to fix this hair? Dump it, as Gordon Gekko said, "Dump it all". So instead of months, if not years of trying to "fix" bad male hair, the system just rejects it all at once and starts over. Areas that were actually bald before the shed then also gradually recover. Hair might then actually recover in a Female Pattern Loss Recovery far less focused on the temple areas meaning significant improvement in quality all over the head. Now with younger MtF's and MtF's who never have lost hair, the transition seems usually more orderly as the hair mostly changes in texture, anagen, sheen and "niceness". The frontal hairline though becomes more oval-ish and the hair in front of the ears appears to move forward of the place where it is located generally even for men with full heads of hair. Some guys, like Brad Pitt, do have oval hairlines and that might be related to genetically not losing hair but who knows what these guys in Hollywood are using; all of a sudden they all have perfect hair: Pitt, DiCaprio, Cruise, Damon, Affleck, Lowe, Downey, Jr., etc. In the past, guys in Hollywood often wore toupees or had slight to moderate temple recession. Even Cary Grant had this slight recession which is generally not deemed cosmetically significant for men. So why is all of the hair getting better? Probably finasteride, starting young and then who knows? PRP? Estrogen? Weekly derma-rolling in a salon too expensive for the rest of us?

Anyway, I digress. OP, you have to decide your dosage ultimately. But why not start slow and gradually titrate upwards? It seems kinder and gentler to the hair you have remaining and I know many folks who only use 12.5 mg daily of bica and even every other day or every third day. This cannot be a race or you will fail and you won't improve your results by starting at final dosages. The one and only good thing for cis-guys who start off, essentially on a final dosage, of say spironolactone, because I know and I have used that one, is that it might actually minimize breast growth which is an important factor. For MtF's still in hormonal transition, using high initial dosages is associated with smaller breasts and more conical breasts, most likely from the body realizing that puberty has been essentially bypassed and someone went straight to womenhood, hormonally.

I know a crazy person who takes 150mg of Bicalutamide and Dutasteride. He did not regain growth, only stopped the progression of the disease. To rebuild the temples, he needed minoxidil. For temples of the industry, you either need to add minoxidil or add estrogen and become a woman. Bicalutamide alone will not make hair perfect, it will only stop the progression of baldness.
I will try to slowly increase the dosage:
1 week 12.5, 1 week 25 and then 50
Perhaps 25mg is enough to stop the progression. Nobody knows about it. Nobody has tried such low doses without estrogen or talked about progress. I can be a pioneer. It would be great if I got the result without gynecomastia. But then I will have no guarantees that it will help me. The baldness will continue to worsen and I will regret using too low a dose. So it's a tough choice ...

 

[tato123]

I know a crazy person who takes 150mg of Bicalutamide and Dutasteride. He did not regain growth, only stopped the progression of the disease. To rebuild the temples, he needed minoxidil. For temples of the industry, you either need to add minoxidil or add estrogen and become a woman. Bicalutamide alone will not make hair perfect, it will only stop the progression of baldness.
I will try to slowly increase the dosage:
1 week 12.5, 1 week 25 and then 50
Perhaps 25mg is enough to stop the progression. Nobody knows about it. Nobody has tried such low doses without estrogen or talked about progress. I can be a pioneer. It would be great if I got the result without gynecomastia. But then I will have no guarantees that it will help me. The baldness will continue to worsen and I will regret using too low a dose. So it's a tough choice ...

I would like to make some points to some questions that may be relevant to other members of the forum

Any AA in this class (Flutamide, bicalutamide, among others) will end up increasing your T levels far above normal, this will be impossible to maintain for a long period of time, you will start to demonstrate other problems, a big problem with these drugs that they are just receptor blockers, your body understands that it has no circulating hormone and will throw your T at a level you can't imagine.

Regarding estrogen in super low dosage.

This has been discussed many times here, in hormonal issues your body does not know that you want hair growth, it will femilize your body as a whole, so do not expect regrowth in this way without other signs of feminization because it is crazy, and how to take a remedy to lose weight and hope that you will only lose fat just in the calf, it makes no sense, your body is a closed environment the effect will tend to be systematically the same throughout your body.

You will get results, but be prepared for what may come along, you may not have gynecomastia, but you may have it, you do not need a high dose of E2 to develop breasts on the contrary, apparently low doses for long periods can make your chest grow more, we are not here to create illusions, be aware.

Thank you my friend .

 

[tato123]

This is somewhat contradictory, because many CIS guys like me, arrive here and hope to find a cure without any "price".

The great truth is that before you see hair growth you will see other systemic effects regarding the increase of estrogen in your body, the hair cycle takes a long time to occur and you need to leave adequate levels of E and T in this period otherwise you will not have growth , and it will be inevitable to feel feminizing effects due to the time that the body will be in another state for hair production.

The question goes back to the beginning of the topic, until when are you willing to arrive?


I hope it was clear

 

[Almas]

I would like to make some points to some questions that may be relevant to other members of the forum

Any AA in this class (Flutamide, bicalutamide, among others) will end up increasing your T levels far above normal, this will be impossible to maintain for a long period of time, you will start to demonstrate other problems, a big problem with these drugs that they are just receptor blockers, your body understands that it has no circulating hormone and will throw your T at a level you can't imagine.

Regarding estrogen in super low dosage.

This has been discussed many times here, in hormonal issues your body does not know that you want hair growth, it will femilize your body as a whole, so do not expect regrowth in this way without other signs of feminization because it is crazy, and how to take a remedy to lose weight and hope that you will only lose fat just in the calf, it makes no sense, your body is a closed environment the effect will tend to be systematically the same throughout your body.

You will get results, but be prepared for what may come along, you may not have gynecomastia, but you may have it, you do not need a high dose of E2 to develop breasts on the contrary, apparently low doses for long periods can make your chest grow more, we are not here to create illusions, be aware.

Thank you my friend .

I am also from the CIS.
I know that there will be no regrowth if estrogen is not added. My goal is to stop progress, not grow. I assume that Bicalutamide in a dose not exceeding 50mg in combination with Finasteride is the golden mean of feminization / effect. At such a dosage, as far as I know, gynecomastia appears, which can be removed from the surgeon once and for all without any problems. Other side effects are decreased sebum production and other small changes that won't make you a woman
Эстроген я юзать не собираюсь. Ищу вариант, который не приведет к сильным последствиям, но при этом остановит прогресс. Я лысею с 16 лет, в таких случаях даже Дута как аскорбинка

 

[tato123]

I am also from the CIS.
I know that there will be no regrowth if estrogen is not added. My goal is to stop progress, not grow. I assume that Bicalutamide in a dose not exceeding 50mg in combination with Finasteride is the golden mean of feminization / effect. At such a dosage, as far as I know, gynecomastia appears, which can be removed from the surgeon once and for all without any problems. Other side effects are decreased sebum production and other small changes that won't make you a woman
Эстроген я юзать не собираюсь. Ищу вариант, который не приведет к сильным последствиям, но при этом остановит прогресс. Я лысею с 16 лет, в таких случаях даже Дута как аскорбинка

As I said, stay in this treatment until you get the result, you will get the expected result and do something to get out of it, you cannot stay in AA for long periods of time.

 

[tato123]

In my opinion and I think yours looks like mine, it is worth risking gynecomatics for a full head, a gynecomatics surgery is much simpler and cheaper than a hair transplant.

 

[Almas]

As I said, stay in this treatment until you get the result, you will get the expected result and do something to get out of it, you cannot stay in AA for long periods of time.

I think I can. After removing gynecomastia, the problems will be settled. If I use 25mg and it doesn't even appear, there won't be any problems at all. Of course, AA is not an Iherb vitamin, it is harmful. But I don't think I will get serious consequences. After all, even this forum has people who have used it for a long time. @Ein check

 

[Almas]

In my opinion and I think yours looks like mine, it is worth risking gynecomatics for a full head, a gynecomatics surgery is much simpler and cheaper than a hair transplant.

Totally agree with you. It's great when money can solve a problem. Gynecomastia is a solvable problem. Baldness is a sentence.

 

[tato123]

Go slowly, start with a low dosage and increase, I think it can take from 6 months to 1 year to get the expected result, reach the result and think about maintaining doses of E2 and other AA like Finasteride or Duta.

You said everything, I make your words mine, keep us informed.

 

[tato123]

If you have some time afterwards to research on CPA(Ciproterone Acetate), we had a user who exchanged BICA for CPA in his treatment and obtained incredible results.

 

[Almas]

If you have some time afterwards to research on CPA(Ciproterone Acetate), we had a user who exchanged BICA for CPA in his treatment and obtained incredible results.

This is a bad choice. The side effects are so significant that even a madman like me would not use it. It makes sense if you're trans and you use it with estrogen. But like I said, I don't plan on becoming a woman

The only question that interests me is to what extent should I increase the dosage. 25mg, 50mg? Unfortunately no one has tried 25 or less. I am honored to be a pioneer and contribute to the problem of baldness. But I would not want to get worse because I missed the dosage.
I know that 50mg + finasteride stops Androgenetic Alopecia progression 100%. This is a guaranteed solution to the problem of baldness. But we do not know if this dose is excessive. Maybe 25mg is as good as 50? Given the significantly lower incidence of gynecomastia, 25mg is potentially an ideal solution. Perhaps we were hoping for new treatments like topical antiandrogens. In the meantime, the solution to the problem with low side effects was under our noses.
If 25mg is effective, I believe we have overcome the problem of baldness. Maybe I'll become the hero who will make the "discovery"?)

 

[Gergely]

Totally agree with you. It's great when money can solve a problem. Gynecomastia is a solvable problem. Baldness is a sentence.

Since you are 18, be on the lookout for any pain in your hip area. If you get womanly hips from elevated E2 that's not something you can fix with surgery

 

[Almas]

The next problem is that because Bicalutamide preserves, rather than grows, we cannot know if it does its job for the hair. Baldness progresses nonlinearly, there is a plateau, even if nothing is done. I might think that I have no progression throughout the year thanks to Bicalutamide 25mg, but in fact it will be a coincidence. And then I will feel much worse and I will understand that I was wrong. I already ran into this on Finasteride, added Dutasteride and again I don't know if it stops. I doubt
Therefore, taking 25mg and not having research on this dosage for hair, I run the risk of getting worse. And when I jump to 50mg, I will not return the loss, because Bicalutamide only preserves

If I could initially know what circuit I needed, I would have saved Norwood 1 without any problems and not wasted time and hope. But unfortunately, I slowly increase the power of the healing and, mistakenly, pay for it with another Norwood without a chance to fix it. I paid dearly for my mistake, so I am tempted to use 50mg in the end. But I am also tempted to get the effect of 25mg and not get gynecomastia. I will fear for my hair, but this risk can help my followers. I consider myself a follower of @Ein . It's a shame he doesn't visit this site. I would like to ask him questions

 

[Almas]

Since you are 18, be on the lookout for any pain in your hip area. If you get womanly hips from elevated E2 that's not something you can fix with surgery

In theory, 50mg is too small to cause significant changes in the thigh area. Nobody reported it

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

I know a crazy person who takes 150mg of Bicalutamide and Dutasteride. He did not regain growth, only stopped the progression of the disease. To rebuild the temples, he needed minoxidil. For temples of the industry, you either need to add minoxidil or add estrogen and become a woman. Bicalutamide alone will not make hair perfect, it will only stop the progression of baldness.
I will try to slowly increase the dosage:
1 week 12.5, 1 week 25 and then 50
Perhaps 25mg is enough to stop the progression. Nobody knows about it. Nobody has tried such low doses without estrogen or talked about progress. I can be a pioneer. It would be great if I got the result without gynecomastia. But then I will have no guarantees that it will help me. The baldness will continue to worsen and I will regret using too low a dose. So it's a tough choice ...

Welcome and I hope you will continue to post and some day, post pictures. Raloxifene might reverse breast growth/gyno but it is very expensive and opinions vary related to its safety. Just be careful with the AA's. I don't know for sure what happens but one, they are jarring, two, they are associated with heavy sides the more you use, and three, it might be that AA's have a tendency to put all or most hair immediately into catagen. Such sheds are benevolent for those who stay on HRT meds but they can also be a disaster psychologically and for those who quit HRT, they might be difficult to recover from. My thought is that they place us at high doses, immediately into catagen by linking most follicles in terms of phase timing. This is great for females and it should promote a fuller head of hair with most of the hair in anagen at the same time and with a longer anagen phase. In a male context, it seems sheds in general often combine with male pattern baldness and that is why we don't understand Min/finasteride sheds really and virtually all guys on Tressless stop treatment when they have significant sheds.

I also encourage folks experimenting with wigs. In my case, I didn't sweat too much a shed to baldness because I knew that estrogen and spironolactone and proscar all promote hair growth and restoration but I had a wig to hid under and I easily express as either gender and have no shame or compunction about being "female" so I just went with it and essentially on January 1 of this year, I graduated out of the wig but it took 16 months which is either really fast or really slow depending upon the perspective but for cis-guys being bald for ten months (I needed to let it achieve length and further restoration which accounts for the last seven months) might be a psychological and presentation disaster, at work say. I try to lay out all of the positives and negatives but I strongly encourage gradual titration and only after 3 to 6 months. The exception is for cis-guys experimenting to see if the breast growth phase can be completely by-passed which fascinates me but to my knowledge, folks have only discussed this, not actually tried it among the esteemed group which post regularly.

Goddess bless.

 

[Almas]

Welcome and I hope you will continue to post and some day, post pictures. Raloxifene might reverse breast growth/gyno but it is very expensive and opinions vary related to its safety. Just be careful with the AA's. I don't know for sure what happens but one, they are jarring, two, they are associated with heavy sides the more you use, and three, it might be that AA's have a tendency to put all or most hair immediately into catagen. Such sheds are benevolent for those who stay on HRT meds but they can also be a disaster psychologically and for those who quit HRT, they might be difficult to recover from. My thought is that they place us at high doses, immediately into catagen by linking most follicles in terms of phase timing. This is great for females and it should promote a fuller head of hair with most of the hair in anagen at the same time and with a longer anagen phase. In a male context, it seems sheds in general often combine with male pattern baldness and that is why we don't understand Min/finasteride sheds really and virtually all guys on Tressless stop treatment when they have significant sheds.

I also encourage folks experimenting with wigs. In my case, I didn't sweat too much a shed to baldness because I knew that estrogen and spironolactone and proscar all promote hair growth and restoration but I had a wig to hid under and I easily express as either gender and have no shame or compunction about being "female" so I just went with it and essentially on January 1 of this year, I graduated out of the wig but it took 16 months which is either really fast or really slow depending upon the perspective but for cis-guys being bald for ten months (I needed to let it achieve length and further restoration which accounts for the last seven months) might be a psychological and presentation disaster, at work say. I try to lay out all of the positives and negatives but I strongly encourage gradual titration and only after 3 to 6 months. The exception is for cis-guys experimenting to see if the breast growth phase can be completely by-passed which fascinates me but to my knowledge, folks have only discussed this, not actually tried it among the esteemed group which post regularly.

Goddess bless.

I will definitely keep the forum updated. People as rare and desperate as me are rare. Any information is very valuable. I can save other people, it inspires me

I have a suggestion that the so-called "sheds" on Finasteride are simply the progression of baldness. In any case, I will be ready for this and will not stop treatment.
Bicalutamide is hard to get in my country. Perhaps I will only sit on it in September. Wait for news at the end of 2022. I will start saving money for breast surgery and pray that I will not get worse before the fall. I am using Dutasteride, but I think it is helpless. Finasteride has already proven that it cannot stop the progression. Duth is unlikely to be much different

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

I know a crazy person who takes 150mg of Bicalutamide and Dutasteride. He did not regain growth, only stopped the progression of the disease. To rebuild the temples, he needed minoxidil. For temples of the industry, you either need to add minoxidil or add estrogen and become a woman. Bicalutamide alone will not make hair perfect, it will only stop the progression of baldness.
I will try to slowly increase the dosage:
1 week 12.5, 1 week 25 and then 50
Perhaps 25mg is enough to stop the progression. Nobody knows about it. Nobody has tried such low doses without estrogen or talked about progress. I can be a pioneer. It would be great if I got the result without gynecomastia. But then I will have no guarantees that it will help me. The baldness will continue to worsen and I will regret using too low a dose. So it's a tough choice ...

In my opinion, for folks not yet close to 200 pg/ml, improvement will only be slow and gradual without oral minoxidil. I only started that in October having never seen regrowth, just maintenance from topical min. Oral minoxidil could be a game-changer and slightly change my aphorism that estrogen is always needed to awaken dormant follicles. I am only about three months in so I shall see but again, I already see a lot of new blonde hair coming in and folks using oral minoxidil, derma-rolling, estrogen and either an AA or testosterone blocker, and dutasteride like me, might struggle to attribute results. In an MtF context, who cares as long as the hair is back but cis-guys need to know much more precisely what does and doesn't work for them to make decisions related to HRT and continuing on that course. Incremental growth is the goal when starting out at least without oral minoxidil or lack of results on the scalp from oral minoxidil, which might still happen in ten percent of men or so. Once a female scalp environment is achieved, then things should go better with improvements in micro-flora and quality if not actual regrowth.