You appear to have nice fringe hair so use duta instead of finasteride and see if it stabilizes but if it does, you could have decent transplants perhaps but the irony is that you need to be on finasteride/Duta for any respectable surgeon to operate. I know this must be terrible as the "sides" of baldness, for many of us, far outstrip anything even to be contemplated compared to rampant hair loss. It's a mystery of Goddess's how MtF's maintain their libidos when they seek to do so but that finasteride causes impotence and loss of libido for "males" and for some, purportedly forever. So either finasteride's sides are systematically under acknowledged or the placebo effect can be huge since you allege things far beyond what I allege for Estrogen and I am on finasteride and Duta both since 2015. Only spironolactone gave me sides which it is wont to do for XY's but this aspect is absent in XX's apparently.
I’m 26, I’m not sure entirely but after about 6 7 months it seemed to just go down hill for my sex drive. Minoxidil is so messy is there any tablet form of that or is it just direct to scalp?
Yeah, fk idk what to do I can’t lose all my hair rn, it’s so stressful, I’m not too sure what duta is, is that similar to finasteride? Idk what to do man
There are two ways to use oral minoxidil instead of topical. You can get a prescription or look off-shore--HRT.cafe-- for it or you can stick it to the man, like Janey does by carefully measuring out topical fluid in a dropper and then drizzling it down your throat. Far cheaper, easier to get and aside from any calibration difficulties, it works fine. My issue is that I was on mega doses so I am now down to 6.25mg daily because the hair everywhere, including my head, is growing quite fast and if oral min restores body hair then I need electrolysis since it's stronger than laser removal but if my hair is restored, the rest is all just noise and there are no sides from any male meds even remotely comparable to the side of not using them, which is either slow, faster or rampant scalp hair loss but now progressed past the abilities of any and all male hair loss treatments.
Yes. .25ml of dropper minoxidil is roughly equal to 12.5mg of Loniten although maybe less since Loniten has fillers that might affect dosage a tiny bit. I could tell that liquid min worked great as a Loniten sub or at least a placebo substitute from day one. Right now, lamentably, my legs are really, really hairy and I had them completely done already. My beard is coming back but no hair under my arms. That stopped via HRT and females usually have underarm hair but not me. I had my arms done and they still seem fine. My brows appear to be growing back or looking more male but I never had them done except for plucking. It's bizarrely hit or miss and so when guys ask, it's not a short answer. For most XY's, none of the peripheral hair growth issue is known to be necessarily unwanted, that of thicker beards and chest hair but luckily, not much is growing on my chest and it's all hard to see but I have to do something about these legs or wait for fall.
Or one like it since it is not calibrated except for minoxidil topical dosing. Yes, oral minoxidil can cause something called hypertrichosis which is essentially how we discovered it when it was tested as a blood pressure med taken orally. Then they reverse engineered it apparently for topical use, instead of oral use. Topical use wouldn't set many people to noticing much of anything since it is much less circulated systemically since an enzyme called sulfurotransferase is needed to help induce growth and oral minoxidil does this via the liver. Topical use has to depend on whatever amount of sulfurotransferase is available in the scalp for it to work well.
thanks for that, I don’t really understand anything about it, I just heard finasteride and min are the best things. I’ll take a look into this tomorrow and maybe try it. What do you think of micro needling does that work, if so do you think I’m late for that?
Being brutally honest here but you have advanced stage of balding. I don't think finasteride/ dutasteride + rogaine is guaranteed to regrow everything. I am 31 and I noticed recession at 30. Been on finasteride for 3 months and I shed and still see no signs of regrowth. Keep in mind that my hair loss is nowhere near as aggressive and I'm still losing ground.
So basically you’re sayin I’m just fkd?
Without extreme measures... probably.
No. You're not too late but:
I will dm you soon, busy this week but hopefully I can try and start something next week, and hope for the best.
In fairness you have more to gain the more you have lost. It is rare to see people succeed up front (hairline and temple) but I have seen some crazy good crown recovery.
You are 26 you might get lucky who knows, only thing you can do is try treatments and be patient without this you need to accept the inevitable.
My hairline bit isn’t so bad but as I keep losing hair it’s gonna look fkd
Thinkin bout that but skeptical on finasteride. Getting married within 8 months so have to keep some cash for that so maybe if nothing works right now I’ll do it after that. I’ve been getting a lot of things I can do like micro needle, head excersies, 20,000 iu d3 and K2, minoxidil etc just need to know which one I’ll have a good chance with and stick to it for a while and see what happens
