Why are females more beautiful than males? It's not fair. The last photo says it all.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I often see men who I think are beautiful in a masculine sense. In my case I definitely feel I make a more attractive woman than I ever did as an attractive man, though.
I went from cute boy -> ugly man -> decent looking woman. Weird progression indeed.
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Recedingyt, could you tell me how long were you bald before the start of your ever treatment ?
How many years had you yourself NW5 state, one year, two years, three or maybe longer has lasted your baldness ?
I'm asking because I know that it's possible to recover lost hair even since last 5 years and at least since the last three years, but need to use hardcore regimen.
Well I guess I would say I noticed the first signs of recession at around 14-15 but didn't think much of it until I was about 16 when I noticed my temples had significantly receded and I was definitely balding. It went somewhat slowly over the next 2 years, then at 18 I very rapidly went from NW2-NW4. Sometime over the course of the next 4 years (18-22) I lost enough hair to qualify as a NW5, but that went mostly unbeknownst to me since I was shaving my head by the time I was 18. So, at the time of treatment I'd have been balding for 6-7 years, with most of it happening within the last 4 years leading up to treatment. The areas I'm still struggling to recover are the temples, and some of my crown is still a bit thin, which was the areas where I first started noticing thinning at 14/15. I assume that is playing a part in why it is taking so long to recover in those areas, but I'm still hopeful they will eventually recover whether that be through my current regimen or new advancements. All the hairs I need to recover my hair fully are there, they're just stuck in vellus form or somewhere in between vellus and terminal. I just need something to thicken them up.
As an aside, I wanted to make a note on here that I am considering changing my regimen significantly upon my next doctors visit (assuming he will go for it).
I wanted to drop spironolactone in favor of bicalutamide. Reason being, bicalutamide is known to have significantly less effect on sexual function than something like spironolactone, which is kind of important to me at this stage. I don't know how this will effect my hair, since bicalutamide does not actually technically speaking reduce androgen levels in the body, but rather it blocks it from interacting with the receptors. I'm hopeful this will not mean bad things for my hair but who knows. If it does I will definitely switch back to spironolactone I suppose.
I also wanted to switch from estradiol pills to injections because I hate having to take a million pills per day plus there are anecdotal reports of there being better results from using them. This will mean that my levels will be more consistent, and higher the majority of the time, which I believe should be beneficial to my hair.
I was also going to see about possibly swapping out my medroxyprogesterone pills for a shot version as well, because again I hate pills. Idk if that will matter too much as far as hair goes, I assume not.
And finally, I'm going to be switching from finasteride to dutasteride finally. I don't predict this will do much for me, but who knows. Can't hurt/every little bit helps, right? Could be the thing I need to see a higher terminal hair count.
