Ticken said:
A female hair loss segment for mtf and cis-females would be lovely!
I'd be very keen to hear your ideas on regrowing cis-female hair. There may be at least two hair loss approaches for cis-females, one for younger cycling (with moderate to high e and moderate to high androgens) and another for older non-cycling (with low e and low androgens). I haven't come across any cycling cis-females in the forums so far. As a non-cycling cis-female (low e and low androgens), my main disadvantage in using higher amounts of e2 for hair loss is a uterus that's continually at risk of thickening on static e2 replacement. I'd love to use higher amounts of e2 than my current 1.0 patch but I'm using static dosing and need to make sure I'm fully protecting my uterine lining as the lining no longer sheds. I've not recently tested but I'm guessing my 1.0 patch puts my e2 level somewhere around 100-130 pg/ml which is not very high but a big jump up from the <10 pg/ml of 5 months ago!
Eventually, I'd like to try cycling my hormones where I'd keep e2 static and cycle p (use only part of the month) to induce a uterine shedding (pseudo period) every month. The cycling would allow for higher e2 dosing without any concern of uterine thickening.
Many of the discussions re reducing androgens and dht in the mainly male threads do not quite apply to late 40's and older cis-females with very low androgen levels. My treatment options seem to be limited to only estrogens, progesterone and minoxidil.