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

[JaneyElizabeth]

Interim Castor Oil Review:

It's been a couple of months I guess that I have tried castor oil. The good is that it is cheap and relatively tasteless but I recommend that it be used externally unless you are sure that you can handle it. Even very small amounts seem to unsettle me gastrically. It might be a good adjunct but I doubt it is a primary therapy but I only recommend taking small quantities ~ 2ml or less orally.

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

More Bald Superheroes, Sort of: The Guardians of the Universe all have some sort of pattern baldness:

 

[Depression]

More Bald Superheroes, Sort of: The Guardians of the Universe all have some sort of pattern baldness:


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Bald superheroes are monsters, they have a blue or green skin color lol.

Do you know Mr Clean? It's an ad (I don't know if only French).

Housekeeping ad based on a bald guy, do you know why they made him bald?
Because guys shouldn't be jealous of the guy from the pub because this ad was aimed at women.

Lol shows what people think of bald people

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

Bald superheroes are monsters, they have a blue or green skin color lol.

Do you know Mr Clean? It's an ad (I don't know if only French).

Housekeeping ad based on a bald guy, do you know why they made him bald?
Because guys shouldn't be jealous of the guy from the pub because this ad was aimed at women.

Lol shows what people think of bald people

Yes. We have Monsieur Propre ici aux etats unis:

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

In Brighest Day, in Blackest Night; No Evil Shall Escape my Sight; Let Those Who Worship Evil's Might, Beware My Power, Estrogen's Light.... The Goddess Extends Her gifts upon all who are willing to kneel before Her and receive Her Substance, all hail the Estrogen molecule!

 

[Gergely]

I am happy to inform the cohort that after much search, I have located a bald superhero and he's fairly impressive:

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dr manhattan is basically a god, and he chooses to not have hair

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

dr manhattan is basically a god, and he chooses to not have hair

Is he DC or Marvel or other?

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

Question from Reader:

Thanks for commenting. I see that you're a senior member. With your experience on this forum, could you perhaps help me out a bit?

I very much suspect that Finasteride made my hair much worse and that it may have induced a case of Telogen Effluvium (or maybe even "Reflex hyperandrogencity"). Maybe you could look at my post:

"Hair gotten much thinner after 4 month on Finasteride (What should I do?)"​

What would you recommend me to do?

You probably won't like the answer but many times sheds come about because they are benevolent, meaning the body is shedding hair so that it can replace it with better hair. It might be more efficient for the body to essentially replace all hair at once and synchronize the anagen phase and hopefully lengthen it.

I never had any issues with any "male" treatments in terms of sheds but with spironolactone and estrogen, I had massive Telogen Effluvium over the course of say a month, down to a NW7 and I had pretty good coverage before that. It all grew back much better and nicer than before everywhere but it is a slow process and I am more or less in month 18 post-shed now. Being non-binary, I have a big advantage because estrogen in large quantities is pretty much proven to assist in large hair recoveries but then the person has to endure sides related to feminization.

The fact that hair outside of the typical horse shoe areas are also subject to Telogen Effluvium in terms of benevolent hair fall followed by improvement hopefully means that all of the shafts are increasing in diameter. The theory is that increased diameter which is good, cause the shedding because the body tends to want strands to have the same diameter all along the strand. After the shed, this is facilitated and the anagen phase which is ultra-important might then be greatly increased. Women tend to have several times the length of the anagen phase as do males and while this is related to appearance, it differs from regrowth in terms of whether dormant follicles are being awakened.

For now, your best bet is to get Keto 2 percent shampoo and also a blue dandruff shampoo like Selsun Blue or Head and Shoulders. These will reduce inflammation and hopefully help minimize shedding:


https://www.hairlosstalk.com/news/education/understanding-shedding-hair-loss-treatment/

I have a hair and transition blog but the main hair pics are here:

Oh Well ​

A funny thing happened to me on my way to the ball. I don't disavow anything prior to this and deep down, I knew that this was probably goi...

inpursuitoffeminity.blogspot.com




I also have my own thread on here:


https://www.hairlosstalk.com/interact/threads/hair-is-not-life-but-its-pretty-damn-close-hrt-and-pictorial-posts-prove-it.130425/page-42#post-1959345

Anything further please ask.

Janey

Reader:

Thanks!

Whats worrying me is that I seem to have the same side-effects of those that claim to have had relfex hyperandrogencity. Basically the reverse of those that seem to respond well to finasteride.. I feel I'm at crossroads and better make the right choice now before I have to cut it all of at age 24...

I added a couple of things to the prior response.

I don't know what to say about reflex hyperandrogenicity except that if there is such a thing, then maybe such folks are doomed regardless. I mean with standard male treatments outside of the college age, hair never improves in terms of coverage or count or if it does, only slightly. The goal is maintenance and to hope for regrowth but it's not that common. I maintained from the age of 26 to about the age of 48 using regular min and finasteride and that was pretty amazing in itself but then they started working less and less. I tried to use estrogen in non-feminizing quantities but there really aren't any quantities that regrow hair without at least the possibility of feminization which often is not much at all. I got "lucky" in terms of experiencing a huge amount of feminization and since people responded to me better, I just went with it.

Estrogen promotes youth and great skin and hair in general and a slight bit of facial feminization promotes attractiveness in most males in my opinion but there are difficult psychological aspects to deal with (who am I? male or female or both or neither) and for some, but not often, breast development can be robust and it was for me. For many people breast development turns out being a feature and not a bug but that just depends. I had already married and raised a family and you don't want to hinder your reproductive capacity.

You might just have to bite the bullet and endure the shed because you would have gone bald anyway and as in the article I linked, shedding should be a positive theoretically but I know it's not much fun to go through. I just was so certain that high doses of E2 would work that I stayed the course. I post pictures every couple of weeks and my improvement from completely bald to now has been staggering and one of the highlights of my entire life. I often ask to post questions on my thread without identifying info so if you don't mind, our exchanges might benefit others in your situation.

Janey

Reader:

The thing is, I was having gains with minoxidil alone. But then added topical finasteride to it, without consulting my derm. From what i had read by them, it provided either stabilization or improvement. And minoxidil would do nothing in terms of adressing the cause of male pattern baldness. Only now I find out how finasteride can worsen hairloss dramatically...
I must have been too greedy... Looking what's left of my topical finasteride, I must've used 2 months of supply in just three weeks... So more than 2mg ED. From what I know the dose response seems to taper off when it comes to blocking DHT right? But does this also apply for other workings of finasteride?

All things combined, my hormones must've taken a blow. Hoping it is Telogen Effluvium and I recover. But not sure if I should stick to microdosing finasteride to try and get back the same thickness of hairs.

Janey:

I did something similar with spironolactone. I exceeded my prescription, figuring that "it can only help" and this was true but it accelerated my shed. The goal is slow steady progress in terms of avoiding sheds. Topical finasteride is supposed to be less strong, isn't it? I would advise that you shampoo alternating Selsun Blue with Keto 2 percent and lower your dosage of finasteride to see if that helps. You could temporarily try topical estrogen and see if that works to lessen hair loss or right the ship in terms of shedding but as you can see from that article, we don't have much in our arsenals to deal with sheds but reducing inflammation.

Reader:

If it were a normal finasteride shed, then I wouldn't see literally all the hairs getting thinner right? Also getting thinner before the shed.

Glad to hear how you've achieved success in your journey. Sure, info should be shared for everyone to improve their situation, as long as it is anonymous.

That's a good question about the hair being lost. I notice now that the hair that comes out in the brush is often misformed and less robust so maybe those are the hairs more likely to be lost. My other suggestion is to try to find an endocrinologist who deals with hair loss with experience using things like spironolactone for XY hair loss. I know it sucks. I decided for myself that HRT was my only path to being able to enjoy the rest of my life as a generally (I think) attractive person but that is everything to me because as we have seen, isolation sucks and we simply know that attractive people tend to have superior results in life in terms of marriage and material success and having friends and acquaintances.

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

One thing about using science to change genes or whatever to prevent or relieve hair loss is that who knows what else we might set off in terms of a cascade of effects. I can imagine a future historian lamenting that the caucasian race disappeared because of an excessive quest in terms of vanity and seeking to be attractive:

https://iai.tv/articles/the-rise-of-god-like-beings-auid-1756?_auid=2020

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

New PIcs: I thought that I would try to provide some different angles with some shots from the back and crown and towards the hairline. In the front, any thin areas are still from the temples needing to fill in more. From the crown, the flash sort of obfuscates but the whitish areas are all grafts which actually don't look so bad in real life but upon very close observation they don't quite have the same pattern as the surrounding hair. On the sides, there is still a bit of curl which is sort of the last bit of the mullet effect as I call it. The curls are changing direction from upwards to downwards which is more female in character. I have had to trim a bit to get rid of the last bits of "male" hair in the sideburns and on the sides. I wish the crown pics came through better but those are some dangers of transplants, they often are different colors in terms of skin and eventual hair and some of the hair is darker. The great thing to me is that they all pretty much blend in and even someone who knew I had had some work done would struggle to find them whereas before, there were certain angles that could look a bit pluggy.

The crown pics show two main areas. At the bottom where the hair is combed downward and not forward, is the place of the lowest grafts which are reflective. There's one tiny streak to the left where I continue to micro-needle and it gets less and less noticeable. All of the rest of the crown has filled in completely. It's better now than it was when I turned 20 and it's not even close. I had an incipient bald spot for like 35 years that finasteride and min sort "stopped time for" but now time has reversed. It's uncanny and thrilling.

Is hair recovery as great as you guys might think it would be? Yes. This is not a case where someone pines for something and then takes it for granted. I brush and comb frequently and I love getting up in the morning because it looks better every day. Talk about second puberty! My 2nd puberty includes a reversal of first puberty hair-wise. It is all like a dream. Goddess bless....

 

[Fontaine]

So, who would you rather be, Ken, the baldest man on the planet in this video or Barbie? This is assuming that somehow Ken is in a non-cuckolding relationship with Barbie? More succinctly expressed, would you rather be a hot chick or bald? I made my decision and I stand by it....

I like having a penis but I wouldn't mind looking feminine. So I'd go femboy mode to get my hair back

I am happy to inform the cohort that after much search, I have located a bald superhero and he's fairly impressive:

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One of very few "people" who look good bald and he's not even real

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

I like having a penis but I wouldn't mind looking feminine. So I'd go femboy mode to get my hair back

One of very few "people" who look good bald and he's not even real

I found another bald super-villain and he is ultra-cool:

This is Darkseid, a Jack Kirby creation.

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

I like having a penis but I wouldn't mind looking feminine. So I'd go femboy mode to get my hair back

One of very few "people" who look good bald and he's not even real

There are several of us who are ready and able to provide input if you decide that this is for you. It's a difficult decision but it is possible to regrow most of one's hair without looking too femme-y. Our MtF motto is YMMV though, meaning your mileage may vary....

 

[Pls_NW-1]

Janey, do you spot any difference in your scalp since HRT? like, androgenic/estrogenic -wise ?

 

[Fontaine]

There are several of us who are ready and able to provide input if you decide that this is for you. It's a difficult decision but it is possible to regrow most of one's hair without looking too femme-y. Our MtF motto is YMMV though, meaning your mileage may vary....

Well, hopefully practically nuking my DHT with dutasteride will be enough

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

Well, hopefully practically nuking my DHT with dutasteride will be enough

That won't be feminizing, trust me, regardless of what some imply. Total T usually goes up and if anything, so did my libido which for me was a bug, not a feature at that point. I mean when finasteride came out, we all just took it. We didn't b**ch and moan and cry, "oh, I have to use this for life". I am not sure that most of us even knew exactly how it was purported to work. Now, it's hard to even do a double-blind test because all guys know that it decreases one type of testosterone which must mean it is feminizing and will impact on prowess, etc. I just don't believe the vast majority of the people who b**ch and moan and try to ruin it for everyone else. Many (most?) of us don't even know that we are on it in the sense that you feel exactly the same and not different at all. I know humans differ in tolerance to meds but I steer clear of all threads that are mostly composed of the anti-finasteride folks, including the experimental threads. They seem to be obsessed that they are going to find something that works better than finasteride or duta and except for estrogen, they aren't going to find it, unless it is oral min and they b**ch and moan about the sides of that as well.

 

[Norwoody]

That won't be feminizing, trust me, regardless of what some imply. Total T usually goes up and if anything, so did my libido which for me was a bug, not a feature at that point. I mean when finasteride came out, we all just took it. We didn't b**ch and moan and cry, "oh, I have to use this for life". I am not sure that most of us even knew exactly how it was purported to work. Now, it's hard to even do a double-blind test because all guys know that it decreases one type of testosterone which must mean it is feminizing and will impact on prowess, etc. I just don't believe the vast majority of the people who b**ch and moan and try to ruin it for everyone else. Many (most?) of us don't even know that we are on it in the sense that you feel exactly the same and not different at all. I know humans differ in tolerance to meds but I steer clear of all threads that are mostly composed of the anti-finasteride folks, including the experimental threads. They seem to be obsessed that they are going to find something that works better than finasteride or duta and except for estrogen, they aren't going to find it, unless it is oral min and they b**ch and moan about the sides of that as well.

The one theory about a diet making DHT go to your penis and estrogen going to your scalp was great lol

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

The one theory about a diet making DHT go to your penis and estrogen going to your scalp was great lol

Half of MtF's at least are seeking diminution in the size of genitalia and if reductase inhibitors did this, we would be all over it and recommending them on MtF boards for this feature and not just for the hair improvement part. RI's do not decrease penis size nor does estrogen. They might have effects on tumescence but RI's don't have much of an effect in my opinion but tumescence is overrated in my view to begin with for guys. Tumescence is more for females and females might be more interested in their man using v**** or cialis.

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

Why is biagra blocked as a word but not cialis, lol. Cf. *** and sh*t and shitty as an adjective.

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

I have a friend who runs the reddit site /r/estrogel. I have asked her if she might be interested in discussing her site or speaking on her viewpoints related to the topical utility of Estrogel in general. She's an intellect and knows much of the MtF HRT science cold. But folks can check that site out and also ask questions there since there is such a current interest in Estrogel both for hair and as a parenteral medication for MtF's and feminization.

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