Hair is not Life but it's Pretty Damn Close; HRT and Pictorial Posts Prove it.
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Thanks for responding @JaneyElizabeth ! About my questions and my thoughts in the second part, do they make any sense at all? (CPA seems better for the AntiAndrogenic effects as well). Although, Estradiol alone could be beneficial as well… Ahhh I really don't know, I am mixing the things so much… Thanks again.
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Yeah. That's been my feeling forever but I thought maybe it might be marginally helpful. Ultimately, as I state often, baldness is hard-wired into whites and Semitic peoples and we are moaning about the equivalent of growing antlers or a mane. Strangely enough because actually a large percentage of humans rarely go bald, when something similar is apparent in certain ape species.
It does in fact, "out" a person as "more male". Not always but the correlation is strong. Historically when troops always removed all or most hair like the Marines, this probably acted as a baldness equalizer along with the fact that hair tended not to be used for expressive purposes among males until the Beatles, who also sported stubble, previously seen as sloppy, hobo facial growth and even beards for Lennon and Harrison. So blame the Beatles all ye who are hair challenged.
By the way, Paul McCartney and the Beatles in general are probably the most well known people in the history of worldwide fame, certainly along with Ludwig, another hero of mine who had pretty great hair too!
As great as the Beatles are/were, Herr Von Beethoven epitomizes the absolute pinnacle of Western (and now all) civilization. Shakespeare is up there but we don't know what his hair status was. Jesus seemed to be exceptionally blessed hair-wise, which is unusual for Semitic types but then again, he had the power of healing.
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As is often stated, to my knowledge, there is no hair loss med that is experimental or among those of extreme cost that is more effective than either minoxidil or finasteride and it doesn't appear to be even close. These meds could work synergistically and Norwoody would be a good one to articulate that but as single shot meds, they are all pretty much a waste of time for most of us.
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If you want to remind us or me via PM, what your current stack and age and extent of hair loss is, I will take a look and see if I have suggestions.
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Hair loss in the Temples As Being Akin To Traction Alopecia
Someone asked about traction alopecia and this is just a thought, but it might be quite similar to hair loss in the temples via male pattern baldness. How so? It appears to me as part of several theories of baldness, that the temples and less so the hairline but also, might bald due to a similar process in which the scalp is pulled backwards due to the over-proliferation of skull muscles from overuse of the masseter muscles. I have mine regularly loosened via botox as per Rob Winter's recommendation. Bruxism is likely to make this worse and worse and I used to suffer from that.
Something that I do often is to gently manipulate my hairline forward while doing so both forward and slightly upwards for the sides. Don't use too much pressure though or you might cause shedding or interrupt with blood flow. I just throw that out as someone who never stops thinking about the various in's and out's of male pattern baldness and hair loss.
Someone asked about traction alopecia and this is just a thought, but it might be quite similar to hair loss in the temples via male pattern baldness. How so? It appears to me as part of several theories of baldness, that the temples and less so the hairline but also, might bald due to a similar process in which the scalp is pulled backwards due to the over-proliferation of skull muscles from overuse of the masseter muscles. I have mine regularly loosened via botox as per Rob Winter's recommendation. Bruxism is likely to make this worse and worse and I used to suffer from that.
Something that I do often is to gently manipulate my hairline forward while doing so both forward and slightly upwards for the sides. Don't use too much pressure though or you might cause shedding or interrupt with blood flow. I just throw that out as someone who never stops thinking about the various in's and out's of male pattern baldness and hair loss.
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Tell us more about that med please....
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Epitestosterone is actually antagonizing the AR/5AR I think, especially in prepubescent kids, teens etc. It prevents balding actually.
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I will certainly frequent it.Cant wait opening my own thread as well with a great recovery!!
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Here's the thing. The surgery for us is easier because we don't have large nipples. Most female nipples are a dead give away because they can be several times larger although many cis-gals have tiny ones two. They have to remove at least some of the nipple in the FtM context. MtF's like large nipples for this very reason; it seems undeniably cis.
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You can get a reduction. You don't need full removal.
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How dare they use Ludwig for their literary and movie purposes.
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@Bridegeburn's Protocols
I try to re-post these frequently since many people seek proven protocols even though all items in a stack are frequently unnecessary:
@bridgeburn Dosage Recommendations:
I am trying to keep up a bit with @bridgeburn's dosing as we know that it will work. He was taking his estrogen sublingually so that means more or less it is three times as potent but has a shorter half-life from what I have read. This is about at his 9 month mark, I think:
2.25mg oestrogel topically
2mg estradiol hemihydrate, buccally
50mg cyproterone
10mg oral minoxidil, every other day
In terms of strength, this would be a pretty standard male to female HRT protocol for someone well into transition or maintaining adult female target levels except the CPA is off the charts. This is puzzling because he was doing fine without CPA but he might be struggling with the temples. He cut back on the oral minoxidil because someone alleged that that was causing some/much of his growth. I highly doubt this because the growth he has simply doesn't resemble minoxidil hair growth in its pervasiveness. I don't think anyone is claiming that oral minoxidil on its own could do anything close to his gains. He mentions that oral minoxidil has a short half-life so I am not sure why he didn't just go to 2.5mg twice a day.
He explains that he decreased oral minoxidil dosage due to excessive unwanted hair growth.
On August 25th, 2018, this was his regimen:
Second Cocktail in his own words, dating from late summer to fall of 2018:
1mg dutasteride everyday, 6mg buccal estrofem (a couple times i took 8mg but mostly 6mg a day), 200mg spironolactone, 500mg sulfasalizine, 10mg oral minoxidil every other day and topical minoxidil every other day on alternating days (I don't really measure just cover the area). He also was taking 100 mg of progesterone orally which is a marginal dose. October 2nd, he added one Diane pill per week.
All he really needs in my estimation at this point is the 6mg to 8mg estrofem. The oral minoxidil might be important also but that isn't a hormonal med. He shouldn't need oral minoxidil and sulfasalizine, just one or the other from what I have read as long as a person is using topical minoxidil with the sulfasalizine. I think by this point the spironolactone is largely useless as is the dutatsteride but he doesn't know this because he doesn't test so he can't be sure he is hitting targets, perhaps, without an AA.
I try to re-post these frequently since many people seek proven protocols even though all items in a stack are frequently unnecessary:
@bridgeburn Dosage Recommendations:
I am trying to keep up a bit with @bridgeburn's dosing as we know that it will work. He was taking his estrogen sublingually so that means more or less it is three times as potent but has a shorter half-life from what I have read. This is about at his 9 month mark, I think:
.5mg Dutasteride
2.25mg oestrogel topically
2mg estradiol hemihydrate, buccally
50mg cyproterone
10mg oral minoxidil, every other day
In terms of strength, this would be a pretty standard male to female HRT protocol for someone well into transition or maintaining adult female target levels except the CPA is off the charts. This is puzzling because he was doing fine without CPA but he might be struggling with the temples. He cut back on the oral minoxidil because someone alleged that that was causing some/much of his growth. I highly doubt this because the growth he has simply doesn't resemble minoxidil hair growth in its pervasiveness. I don't think anyone is claiming that oral minoxidil on its own could do anything close to his gains. He mentions that oral minoxidil has a short half-life so I am not sure why he didn't just go to 2.5mg twice a day.
He explains that he decreased oral minoxidil dosage due to excessive unwanted hair growth.
On August 25th, 2018, this was his regimen:
Second Cocktail in his own words, dating from late summer to fall of 2018:
1mg dutasteride everyday, 6mg buccal estrofem (a couple times i took 8mg but mostly 6mg a day), 200mg spironolactone, 500mg sulfasalizine, 10mg oral minoxidil every other day and topical minoxidil every other day on alternating days (I don't really measure just cover the area). He also was taking 100 mg of progesterone orally which is a marginal dose. October 2nd, he added one Diane pill per week.
All he really needs in my estimation at this point is the 6mg to 8mg estrofem. The oral minoxidil might be important also but that isn't a hormonal med. He shouldn't need oral minoxidil and sulfasalizine, just one or the other from what I have read as long as a person is using topical minoxidil with the sulfasalizine. I think by this point the spironolactone is largely useless as is the dutatsteride but he doesn't know this because he doesn't test so he can't be sure he is hitting targets, perhaps, without an AA.