With the 1.5mm there wasn't too much redness, it mostly looked normal after a shower with just some light redness although with these more intensive sessions I've been experimenting with it can be red for up to 2 days and sometimes with some light redness on day 3. I usually have hair covering my temples so it's not really something that people would notice, at worst it just looks like a light sunburn. In most cases it's usually fully healed after 4-5 days.
I have two different brands but neither say the exact concentration on anything but the retinol, one of them has hydrochloric acid second on the ingredient so it appears to be one of the bigger ingredients. These are the two exact products I've been using, I'll be using the Environfields one first though since I don't like the packaging.
Nah the acid should be perfectly fine, you might be thinking of the chemical compound.
hey @MyThinningConfidence I have the exact same vellus and sparse hairs around the corner points and temples which I guess are growing out new..Do you think it takes some cycles to get as my original hairs or it will stay like that??I want your opinion like that are those sparse hairs around hairline are going terminal,or shedding and then again regrowing thicker??
I assume you mean these hairs?
Do you take internal supplements?
I've heard of it but I've never actually looked into it, I'm also in the nootropics community although only fairly lightly, I'll be shifting my focus there slowly as my hair regrows. I've actually found a bunch of drugs there that have an impact on DHT or possible indirect positive effects to hair. Which is probably the least expected place to find it. I'd probably need to look more into it before supplementing, is that something the Ray Peat community is using? I went down some of the Ray Peat science route at one point, it all seems credible but it can get pretty complicated and time consuming. I do present a lot of the symptoms for hypothyroidism, like probably 80-90% of symptoms. I was actually meaning to ask my doctor about it last time I went but I was worried I wouldn't get my finasteride prescription in case he wanted to deal with one thing at a time. I'm fairly sure they are pretty big on the thyroid over there.
I wouldn't take a thyroid drug. It suppresses your natural hormones, and T4 meds contributed to my recession.
A doctors diagnosis would at least be the first step into seeing if I actually have hypothyroidism, supposedly the recommended way to go about it is diet by that community but I've never looked into it intensely enough to find a solution via diet. I also don't have the luxury of choosing my own diet yet as I still live with my parents. I'm surprised to see Fish Oil is actually listed as 4th on this random natural hypothyroidism remedies list. I mainly still take it because I've noticed it helps with my depression/brain fog a little bit, I don't know if it's placebo but I doubt it is for a few reasons.
Yeah I know how much he hates PUFAs but personally I've found benefit from it and I haven't found any decent replacements from it. There are studies on Fish Oil that propose it's actually the ratio of EPA to DHA that matters but honestly there are so many conflicting studies and opinions on Fish Oil I'm unsure what to think. Personally I'm still using it because it has appeared to give me some perceived benefit.
I don't blindly believe peat, however I'm confident it at least lowers test in me
That study is a really odd one being taurine and finasteride being tested on a worm of all things. The major issue in my case is this is directed at stress induced alopecia when my alopecia is clearly androgenic alopecia which is evident from my heavy temple recession and crown thinning. The title of the thread is also misleading as taurine isn't more effective than finasteride, actually finasteride was better at reducing stress in the worms. Rather it helped the worms recover from stress more effectively.
lol well yeah some of those posts are bullshit.