Recovery From A Norwood 5a Status?! ^.^

[recedingyt]

Hi Receding... how've you been holding up? Hair looking any better?

I'm good. Fighting my personal demons as usual. My hair is looking better. I had been worried about my crown density for a while, but it seems to have gotten considerably thicker. I don't know if hair count is significantly higher or if the hair that was there just got stronger/thicker or what... kinda leaning towards the latter. Either way, it's no longer see through even in harsh lighting, so I'm happy with it. Hairline had been stalled out for like 6-7 months at least but it seems to be coming along nicely now that I'm doing my weekly dermarolling/Lithium Chloride again. I've also just started applying Minoxidil 15% on the temples once a day, in addition to my daily Minoxidil 5% (so I'm hitting my temples/hairline twice) but it's too early to tell if that is helping or not. I have noticed an uptick in the amount of hairs I'm shedding around that area, which I usually take as a sign of good things to come, but time will tell. I have vellus hair extending down to literally a NW0 now. I'd say my terminal hairline is still about a NW1.5, but I have hairs in the NW1 area which are at some stage in between vellus and terminal. They're cosmetically significant, I think. When I can afford to do so, I was also going to add Stemoxydine and Valproic acid into my regimen and see if that helps. Worst case scenario, none of this pushes my hairline where I want it to be and I either wait for something like Histogen or I get a small FUE of 1000-2000 grafts to fill in my temples and create a female hairline. I'd rather not have to do that though.

 

[CopeForLife]

no homo but you look nice with buzzcut (serious)

 

[Dnpuntold]

OTE="CopeForLife, post: 1359485, member: 125187"]no homo but you look nice with buzzcut (serious)[/QUOTE]
Nah man its just camera angles and poor quality pics I look like sh*t irl atm my head is huge as f***,but ty anyway

 

[tylerduren]

Look a bit like lorenzo becker without the roidz

 

[Dnpuntold]

 

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[whatevr]

That looks quite a bit better than your initial photos. Is it the same hair length?

 

[tylerduren]

looks like loads of regrowth

 

[Dnpuntold]

Uh for some reason no text was added to the picture posts.At the bottom of page 4 you can see a picture of me and my sister ,that pic was from the period before any treatment ,hairlenght is pretty much the same.Only update to the regiment is that I upped my monoxidil dose to 3ml daily so I can cover hairline and crown

 

[whatevr]

I'd say you're definitely getting regrowth. Any side effects?

 

[Ruby]

This regimen takes balls. Literally.

This has become my favorite in-context reply to any discussion thread ever.

BTW, @Dnpuntold , that regrowth looks fantastic!

 

[DHTpolice]

Are you alive?

 

[dustovshio]

Does anyone have a good online source for low dosage topical estradiol? Also is there a difference between this and estriol?
Thanks

Its called biestro-care on amazon

 

[GiveMeAccessToMyAccount]

Be careful. Probably in one month or two you'll have no sperm. Don't be scared this. This is normal at using CA, and it's not any side. CA always work in this way. Sperm always comes back after dropping CA, but sometimes it lasts even a few months.
Remember! CA is not any ''candy'' like a finasteride, dutasteride or even spironolactone, just it's one of the most powerful and one of the strongest known anti-androgens. Besides this CA is also anti-gonadotropin and has working gestagenic.

No sperm? Jesus christ that sounds scary.

 

[Dnpuntold]

So it's been a while,that above is the current status of my hair.
Dropped everything
The only thing I'm on is 1mg of finasteride/Ed
for about mby 4-5 months ,currently I'm considering giving minoxidil another shot with my temples .If all else fails either a small transplant or a partial hair system

 

[DHTpolice]

I can see extra density on crown, but it's seems like your hairline is the same as it was on your last pic.
What was your dosage of cyproterone and estro and why did you drop them? Sides? All your regrowth is just from cyproterone and estrogen, right?

 

[Dnpuntold]

Off of everything since last post .
Emotional rollercoaster 2 months apart

 

[DHTpolice]

So, the second photo is your current state of hair?

Cypro did a great job. You could simply switched to spironolactone (150-200mg) and still maintaining this regrowth if the possibility of hepatotoxicity is a main reason of your decision. Honestly, you look much better with hair.

 

[Dnpuntold]

So, the second photo is your current state of hair?

Cypro did a great job. You could simply switched to spironolactone (150-200mg) and still maintaining this regrowth if the possibility of hepatotoxicity is a main reason of your decision. Honestly, you look much better with hair.

I've run into some health issues and had to drop the stuff gradually to determine if it was caused by one of them.But ya that's my current hair situation .But since I dropped everything one by one gradually I can tell biggest shed was after I dropped minoxidil