My Progress so far! (pictures)

[jiminy465]

Hi I just joined thought I would share my success story so far. I have been losing my hair since about 16 a medium to slow progression, at this stage 25 now, I am certain I was meant to be very bald. However through the years I have only been able to slow the progression. I then tried dutasteride for about 3 months, results were great but the sides were insane don't think I have ever been so depressed in my life. Anyway fast forward after that 3 months I decided to stop that and just use spectral until sides wore off. It took a long time 2 months and still was there a little. I did try finasteride when I was younger and that gave me sides as well, I probably should have known.

I then added in spironolactone 2% 2 times per day, upped spectral to 3 low doses a day and added in folica or copper peptide. Results were coming back like on the dutasteride it was great. I also have been doing skin needling on scalp once every 3 days or so. Here are my results after 6 and a half months. I had much longer hair in the first pictures and the tilt of my head is very close to the same, I also made sure the lighting was very similar except for the grease head.
First is the second month I didn't take any from the top down view first month, the second pic is the first month.
6 and a half months later and regrowth is still occuring, no sides to note either which is a plus.

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Sorry forgot to add I was taking procerin for the whole time before dutasteride.

 

[kthxbi]

looks good so far bro, congrats! have you considered minoxidil at all or a lower dose of finasteride?

 

[jiminy465]

Hi kthxbai thanks, yeh I did use straight minoxidil at the start 5% years ago but switched to spectral which is 4.5% mixed with other stuff. Not keen to try finasteride or dutasteride for risk of my bad sides again. Think spironolactone is the strongest dht blocker I can take.

 

[Quantum Cat]

great regrowth!

what sides did you get with dutasteride?

 

[Kev123]

Very good regrowth. Thanks for sharing. Always good to see new success stories to keep the section fresh.

 

[jiminy465]

Hi thanks, sides from dutasteride were testicular atrophy luckily just temporarily, literally water semen and just a general depression sex drive wasn't that bad surprisingly. Also there was a fair bit of pain like I had been kicked in the balls but not as severe.

 

[bornthisway]

'I then added in spironolactone 2% 2 times per day, upped spectral to 3 low doses a day and added in folica or copper peptide.'

Do you attribute the majority of growth to 2% spironolactone then or the synergy between spironolactone + spectral? I was considering picking up Spectral DNC-S, but I noticed on forums people are really critical of them so haven't decided yet (others make it seem like their products lack quality control).

 

[rwhairlosstalk]

looks great!!!! if you haven't start keto 2%. it will accelerate all of that.

 

[jiminy465]

Hey bornthisway, I would say you can probably use whatever minoxidil is good for you. I just found the regular spectral dnc worked better on my frontal hairline than normal minoxidil.

I attribute most of it to all 3 to be honest the folica is pretty cheap lasts a long time. spironolactone is also quite cheap, I wouldn't say quality control is bad for spectral although they have changed the formular a few times. You have to find a good supplier maybe? I never had a problem I just get it off eBay.

 

[jiminy465]

Just thought I would clear something up, I am using folligen not folica got the two confused.

 

[Nickel]

Hey!

Where do you buy your spironolactone from?

 

[jiminy465]

From ******* I use the 2% stuff

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Gen hair

 

[IrishFella]

Gen hair is banned from this site I believe. Unreliable and/or shoddy stuff. This is just hear say, but I thought I'd let you know. As for your results, looks a lot better, congrats! =]

 

[skyghost]

where do you buy your spectral dnc from? amazon?

 

[Korean Wave]

Looks great, but how do we know your hair loss success is legit. I mean hair concealers are very good at creating a natural hair look and by the looks of your hair before the treatment it seems unlikely you could have regrown so much hair in the space of 6 months.

 

[jiminy465]

Ok I was not aware that gen hair was dodgy, my batch was still from a long time ago different bottle to what they have now. I buy my spectral dnc from ebay just from any of the reliable sellers. Korean Wave you probably won't know but I assure you no concealer was used. It will probably be more convincing when I post more pictures, the treatment is still going well. Although it is taking a long time to thicken up, my hairline however is recovering quite quickly.

Here is the list of things I take for hair loss:
spectral dnc 3x a day
spironolactone 2% 2x a day
folligen 1x at night
ecklonia cava 1x a dose day
tococaps 1x a dose day
I also do skin needling on scalp 0.5mm roller every 3 days.

 

[JDW]

Ok I was not aware that gen hair was dodgy, my batch was still from a long time ago different bottle to what they have now. I buy my spectral dnc from ebay just from any of the reliable sellers. Korean Wave you probably won't know but I assure you no concealer was used. It will probably be more convincing when I post more pictures, the treatment is still going well. Although it is taking a long time to thicken up, my hairline however is recovering quite quickly.

Here is the list of things I take for hair loss:
spectral dnc 3x a day
spironolactone 2% 2x a day
folligen 1x at night
ecklonia cava 1x a dose day
tococaps 1x a dose day
I also do skin needling on scalp 0.5mm roller every 3 days.

Great results, I'm interested how much you think the scalp roller does for you and where you purchased it

 

[skyghost]

Ok I was not aware that gen hair was dodgy, my batch was still from a long time ago different bottle to what they have now. I buy my spectral dnc from ebay just from any of the reliable sellers. Korean Wave you probably won't know but I assure you no concealer was used. It will probably be more convincing when I post more pictures, the treatment is still going well. Although it is taking a long time to thicken up, my hairline however is recovering quite quickly.

Here is the list of things I take for hair loss:
spectral dnc 3x a day
spironolactone 2% 2x a day
folligen 1x at night
ecklonia cava 1x a dose day
tococaps 1x a dose day
I also do skin needling on scalp 0.5mm roller every 3 days.

do u use 1ml of spectral dnc each application?

i saw that its not on ds labs website anymore. i think theyre stopping production on it.

 

[Mr White]

Excellent results and very impressive, considering you're not taking finasteride or dutasteride.

 

[jiminy465]

Hi the scalp roller I think is quite important, just going from my observations. My backyard theory is that the copper peptides and wound process more than likely works synergistically. I probably use around 1ml of spectral dnc each application. Oh that sucks didn't realise production had stopped. In that case I will soon be switching to their new product spectral dnc s and add in my own minoxidil from a good source maybe with retin a added.

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Also for anyone interested, I think it is absolutely critical that applications of any minoxidil based topical you are using are not missed. Once a week absolute maximum, can set you back half a week or more if 2 are missed in succession, all opinion based.

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Here are some updated pics from today roughly 3 months from the other pictures, not the best comparison as my hair is a fair bit shorter in these pictures. Will try to find some better comparison shots from side on for later.

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Here are some comparison pics from the left side, 1st picture is a little bit of a different angle makes it seem like I have more hair loss. Still can see the improvement though I think. Pictures are roughly from 0 months(of starting new routine), 6 months and 9 months all brushed back, hair also gets progressively shorter.