My Oral Minoxidil beard growth. CRAZY

[Grim]

I couldn't grow a beard before oral minoxidil. However the beard hair that grew in is almost a random color. Some of the hair is brown, blonde and even red. Perhaps this is a option for someone. I'll show my before and after pictures. Im looking for more pictures, so expect more pictures to be added. To note, the before picture was all I could grow. My cheeks were empty. Now there is some hair. All from oral minoxidil. 1st pic before. 2nd pic after. Its still a bit thin on the cheek area but still. Normally I shave, but I've gotten lazy due to the pandemic.

 

[michel sapin]

well getting beard / eyelash/ eyebrow growth is positive, but butt hair/ lower back/ shoulder/ traps / nose / ear is another story...

 

[michel sapin]

do you think laser hair removal would help for minoxidil body hair? for me this is tricky, because arm/ leg hair are dark and long because of the drug, but i also get a tiny lentigo hair everywhere because of the drug and i don't think laser woukd help

 

[Grim]

do you think laser hair removal would help for minoxidil body hair? for me this is tricky, because arm/ leg hair are dark and long because of the drug, but i also get a tiny lentigo hair everywhere because of the drug and i don't think laser woukd help

It will definitely help remove the excess hair.

 

[michel sapin]

bro i ask several laser specialist in paris and they told me that i had to stop minoxidil to do laser because it would regro again and again. Are they retarted ( many french doctor are retard).

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

It will definitely help remove the excess hair.

Will it offend you if I tell you that it reminds me of an FtM beard? I also worry about a few folks using minoxidil for their beards who then reported concomitant scalp hair loss but it might have happened anyway, post hoc ergo propter hoc and all but eh, I wouldn't do it because we know that beard growth/facial hair growth and scalp hair growth are negatively correlated in youths, men, women and all races but especially for whites. The less beard growth in a given race, the less incidence of hair loss. Some groups like Native Americans, Siberians, Asians and African Blacks, have very little beard or body hair growth and abundant hair to the point where there is no pubertal nor male/female distinction in terms of hair or hair growth patterns.

Yes, there are exceptions among whites especially but this is probably related to the different reductases and how they interact with different androgen/DHT receptors in terms of scalp hair, beard hair and body hair.

 

[Grim]

bro i ask several laser specialist in paris and they told me that i had to stop minoxidil to do laser because it would regro again and again. Are they retarted ( many french doctor are retard).

I think they are, I know some people from this site that had laser hair removal, who were on oral minoxidil.

 

[Grim]

Will it offend you if I tell you that it reminds me of an FtM beard? I also worry about a few folks using minoxidil for their beards who then reported concomitant scalp hair loss but it might have happened anyway, post hoc ergo propter hoc and all but eh, I wouldn't do it because we know that beard growth/facial hair growth and scalp hair growth are negatively correlated in youths, men, women and all races but especially for whites. The less beard growth in a given race, the less incidence of hair loss. Some groups like Native Americans, Siberians, Asians and African Blacks, have very little beard or body hair growth and abundant hair to the point where there is no pubertal nor male/female distinction in terms of hair or hair growth patterns.

Yes, there are exceptions among whites especially but this is probably related to the different reductases and how they interact with different androgen/DHT receptors in terms of scalp hair, beard hair and body hair.

Its ok, I expect a beard that normally wouldn't grow to look a little different. I shave anyways but I thought I'd see what it looks like after oral minoxidil.

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

I think they are, I know some people from this site that had laser hair removal, who were on oral minoxidil.

It definitely retards progress in areas of denser hair growth like the beard and the pubic areas because laser eradicates but doesn't destroy the actual follicle the way that electrolysis does, which I have also had on my face partially but electrolysis can be even more painful and it takes forever. The boredom factor is huge. I did three weeks for two hours a day of electrolysis for my non-pigmented beard hair before starting minoxidil orally and there still was a ton. I have no grey on top but my beard did. Facial hair removal is quite painful compared to the rest of the body, whether laser, IPL or electrolysis but generally I only would recommend electrolysis to people who are obsessive about being clean all over.

Laser removal is good enough for most and it was for me on my face before oral minoxidil but all of this is about weighing sides and what matters more. I know that laser removal will work again and it's not cheap but not the worse either and the pain becomes less and less as the area's density goes down. Oral minoxidil, for some, though is all but miraculous, perhaps especially in a female/estrogen context and once the hair is back then I can worry about not having to at least use an electric razor once daily. I couldn't shave at all before because my dermatitis, coarse skin and wiry beard hair was all but impossible to remove cleanly and it was too dense to really be left attractively as stubble for very long.

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

Its ok, I expect a beard that normally wouldn't grow to look a little different. I shave anyways but I thought I'd see what it looks like after oral minoxidil.

Admit it. Just having power over your appearance like that is at least a little bit intoxicating.

You went from a kid look to almost an adult beard thereby achieving my slogan: "Better living through chemistry". Actually, that's a Dow Chemical slogan which the hippies ripped off but it still applies. Steroidal use for bodybuilding has always been addictive and intoxicating accompanied by the T-fueled rage that resembles amphetamine so closely. It's no different than estrogen and the question becomes, how much hair can I actually restore? Could it possibly match or exceed my teen hair? Hair makes a person look younger generally but how much younger can in my case, beard removal and microneedling, retin-A and estrogen make me appear facially?

 

[michel sapin]

It definitely retards progress in areas of denser hair growth like the beard and the pubic areas because laser eradicates but doesn't destroy the actual follicle the way that electrolysis does, which I have also had on my face partially but electrolysis can be even more painful and it takes forever. The boredom factor is huge. I did three weeks for two hours a day of electrolysis for my non-pigmented beard hair before starting minoxidil orally and there still was a ton. I have no grey on top but my beard did. Facial hair removal is quite painful compared to the rest of the body, whether laser, IPL or electrolysis but generally I only would recommend electrolysis to people who are obsessive about being clean all over.

Laser removal is good enough for most and it was for me on my face before oral minoxidil but all of this is about weighing sides and what matters more. I know that laser removal will work again and it's not cheap but not the worse either and the pain becomes less and less as the area's density goes down. Oral minoxidil, for some, though is all but miraculous, perhaps especially in a female/estrogen context and once the hair is back then I can worry about not having to at least use an electric razor once daily. I couldn't shave at all before because my dermatitis, coarse skin and wiry beard hair was all but impossible to remove cleanly and it was too dense to really be left attractively as stubble for very long.

i ask electrolysis specialist who said i was not a good candidate if i take oral min ( because of regrow again and again). The issue is that oral min cause me vellu hair ( small blond hair) litteraly everywhere... And dark terminal hair on leg/ arm.

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

i ask electrolysis specialist who said i was not a good candidate if i take oral min ( because of regrow again and again). The issue is that oral min cause me vellu hair ( small blond hair) litteraly everywhere... And dark terminal hair on leg/ arm.

I feel for you. I had a gay boss, although I didn't know he was gay at the time and he invited me on a camping trip. I was like sure, I love to hike. Anyway, he had a perfect head of hair, if one likes hair helmets but hair was covering him on every single cm of his body to the point that shaving and even waxing would be pointless. Removal of a situation like that, from what i have read, even if one keeps the under arms and pubic region and arms, might run $25,000 and take forever to accomplish. That wasn't my situation even starting out so I forget some times why some MtF's and XY's like you are so hesitant to touch oral minoxidil. And yes, blond, grayish and white hairs do not respond well or at all even to laser but electrolysis is supposed to remove everything permanently if one has the means and the time. Someone from Holland mentioned to me a clinic in the Czech Republic that is supposed to offer full body below the neck hair removal over two days for $4,000 which for some people might be an incredible bargain. I might have spent $3,000 on hair removal by now but I am getting closer to being done and high dose estradiol probably helps a lot compared to low dose estradiol in avoiding recurrences if one goes with laser.

 

[michel sapin]

damn, but does electrolysis kill the follicle forever when it target it? and never regrow despite using oral min?
I was almost hairless before minoxidil , so this is unlucky for me. It really stimulates all the hair on my body even those which were microscopic before