I lost all my hair from dermatitis
In my opinion, dermatitis and hair loss are highly linked and possibly more so than just in terms of genetics. I had periodic sores under my scalp that made me miserable plus I had red splotches all over my face which left me bleeding and looking horrible after shaving. I had my beard removed and that finally halted the dermatitis but HRT hadn't, at least at the low estrogen doses that I was on prior to beard removal via laser. I cringe every single time that I hear someone worried about baldness stating an intention to grow a "minoxidil beard" which is a likely dermatitis vehicle from which to infect the scalp and then back and forth. Topical minoxidil has been implicated in dermatitis and using it to try to grow a beard appears "too smart by half" to me.I lost all my hair from dermatitis
It wasn’t super thick before but it was somewhere between normal and thick. If not for dermatitis, I could of went another 5 - 10 years without worrying about hair. The plaque, inflammation, skin stiffness just devoured everything overnight.
Do you think that microneedling primarily increases minoxidil absorption and growth factors? It’s supposed to also increase sulfation to some extent but maybe not enough. Do you think retinoic acid increases sulfation a lot more? When I was using minoxidil with retin-a I swear I was seeing something (3-4 month mark) but it got to expensive. Now I found an affordable alternative and plan to restart minoxidil plus retin-a.
I can't speak as to the relative efficacies because so much depends on genetics and one might need to microneedle first without minoxidil and then with to verify. I am using all three methods of minoxidil (with DR, topical and oral) and I have used minoxidil since the 80's though and it never regrew any hair for me that I could see but along with finasteride, it worked nicely for maintenance for many years. I encourage all "female" beauty treatments and there are some like hyaluronic acid and retinols that really work well. You might consider botox to relax your chewing muscles which have been implicated by some to cause hair loss. Botox is fairly cheap and not especially painful.
Once they turn terminal yes they are generally permanent
EXACTLY. People still can't tell I'm balding. I still can fake a NW0 hairline somehow, but not for too long. My right temple is DESTROYED, but behind the hairline. Untill it falls of completely no one will notice.
Beard hair in general is that way in the absence of some hormonal event. My father lost the ability to grow a beard after a vasectomy which I always found weird but he kept all of his hair up top.
But they probably still react to you differently. I was late to realize that I had an incipient bald spot in my crown (age 20) but I had noticed that my hair simply wasn't managing as well and it was getting frizzy and it didn't look good long. So, no, I hadn't realized I was balding and probably no one else did but the loss of attractiveness is still apparent if articulated. You can look at slow balders among the famous like Bruce Springsteen and yeah, there is a point where it affects their looks that is prior to anyone being ready or able to say that they are going bald. Because baldness and hair attractiveness is highly correlated with age, that is another thing that can mislead. Is the person less attractive because he or she is older or is it because he or she has lost hair or both?
Not yet, but they will. I have not reached the loss of atractiveness yet. Sure, I could change it very quickly. A buzzcut would expose my receded temples and thinning overall, but I don't know in what extend and I won't pay the price to find it out. But my forelock must be pretty bad.
I don't know much about you and your goals or limits but I will do whatever I can to try to provide information and choices.
I understand this feeling. But I really do think it's better to do something about it rather than try to ignore the elephant in the room, as it were. It gives me some mental relief knowing that I'm at least doing something about it. The problem with not caring means that you won't do anything about it, which in itself is fine if you don't care at all ever again, however the issue comes in if you ever do start to look in the mirror and care again once you've lost even more ground - then that can put you in a place of even greater despair and leave you with regrets. So by taking some action now (at least for me) I believe is a better approach because I can sleep at night knowing I'm doing the best I can.
Yes. I'm not able to start treatment yet, but I'm looking forward to It. It's been a tough week, I've reached my lowest point in terms of hairloss. The shedding in the last 2 days are unbeliavable. I've lost a lot of ground in a matter of days.
What is the cause of your shedding?
Just the natural process of hair loss. And maybe stress related
Yeah, it's 210mg. (my bad). But what would the oral equivalent of 210mg applied topically in terms of efficacy? It can't be as low as 6.3 mg or so, can it?