I am mostly convinced that a person who wants to regrow or maintain hair has to throw gyno/breast growth concerns to the wind. You will be looking over your shoulder the entire time wondering when gyno is coming or whatever side effect. People who worry about gyno more than hair are not wrong at all to do so but I don't consider them to be serious in their attempts to regrow hair. Maintenance, maybe but finasteride doesn't grow much hair; what it does is it gives you something like a baseline so you don't have to worry the rest of your life and getting a transplant without finasteride is not recommended. To me, the guys mixing all the stuff up in the basement, it never pains out, ever, to anything worth noticing in terms of cosmetic significance. You can stack 20 experimental and hope so-meds like castor oil and zix and it won't be close to as effective as finasteride for maintenance and estradiol is the only thing that regrows hair although some on microneedling can if they use finasteride but otherwise, microneedling is a waste of time. It will all blow away when you quit microneedling and I am at 24 months now. Anybody else made it to two years? If not, then why don't you want this?
I wanted hair and I wanted to regrow hair and I had no qualms about finasteride since I was considering estrogen since I was 20, 36 years ago. But this needy bit about "oh, I will use a diluted topical for this and RU486 for birth control and maybe hair too" or whatever is defeatist from day one. Are you going to be mixing things for 60 years? Just take the pill or don't do it but I feel the same about the guys who try low-dose estradiol and you try to tell them and of course, it never works except to grow boobs or cause gyno since hair requires higher levels of estradiol by far but neither MtF's nor guys just in it (HRT) for the hair understand the concept that less can be more and vice versa but it depends on the circumstances.
If you go NW7 though, at least you won't have flabby boobs albeit with no chicks caring since you'll be the bald guy, in your mind, more than hers. Going on MtF HRT is a very tough decision. If using finasteride in .5mg is upsetting, then drop out now cause there's very little here for you. People who don't microneedle once a week have no business even asking questions but they won't do that for five minutes while they spend all this time ordering junk from China and keeping it at the right temperature and not a one of them ever grows any hair. Just me and that guy named Bridgeburn. I just copied him and dropped the AA and added microneedling and poof. It worked perfectly and I had been balding for well over 30 years but everyone else wants to re-create the wheel; then they end up shedding and freaking out and they stop. I shed to NW7 and I got my beard removed and put on a wig. You have to plow through sheds to baldness and hope or there's no hope even with oral minoxidil and for some people, maybe microneedling. You have to want hair more than you want to breathe or this site is a complete waste of time. We know what works: oral minoxidil, finasteride/duta, Estrogen above all, some times AA's slightly and microneedling. These all grow hair if people would just shut up and do them or take them.
Day after day, the same questions about "oh, I won't use minoxidil; I won't microneedle cause I have a tender scalp"; I won't use finasteride because I might trip out and see a flying saucer or lose the wood that I never will use as a bald man anyway. Keto is too harsh for my hair? Well your hair looks like hell anyway so you need to worry about DHT first and not so much for a way to avoid using Keto. I am an old head and if finasteride caused trips, I would be seeking it out for that effect on it's own but all of these guys who claim to hallucinate when they used it one time or whatever; I simply don't believe that happened unless a sugar pill can make you hallucinate too. But I don't care; go off finasteride; it's your hair, not mind but don't think that you can come on here and use say Alpha Estradiol, RU and some other experimental med and have it add up to finasteride, eh, I highly doubt it but again, it's your hair not mine. They might stack for maintenance or sort of work for that but they don't grow cosmetically significant hair ever.
Nothing works then but those mentioned above and maybe Keto a tiny, tiny bit. If they do work a tiny bit, it's usually for the under 30 crowd and even then usually the guys are still in college or that age from what posts I read. Nothing works to regrow male hair in a cosmetically significant way so don't waste your time if you aren't even going to do maintenance and take your pill like a man and this is not to anyone in particular but the whining on here is incessant. I have to take finasteride for life, wah! I was thrilled when finasteride came out and finagled a prescription that was covered for my prostate. Can't tell I am on it or the duta that I added five years ago. finasteride feels like zero; nothing; dutas the same but it made me really horny maybe and finasteride probably did too since they raise T and DHT is not, contrary to what some claim, essential to anyone's health. You guys just hear that finasteride lowers the more powerful type of T and freak out and that's not how receptor sites work. We don't even have it fleshed out completely what T and DHT do except we know that DHT causes dandruff, acne, severe dermatitis, contact rashes and um, hair loss. I think I will double down on T and sell my faith in DHT unless there's some more news about T doing bad stuff and it might contribute to hair loss and yes, it can be converted at times to DHT but DHT is already DHT and is the suspect in female versions of acne, dermatitis, dandruff and hair loss.
Estrogen is a mind-f****r psychologically and few can handle it who are invested in being XY's but there's nothing wrong with that notion but estrogen at least does something besides just maintenance potentially but eh, virtually no one on here has any hair prospects so it's turned into incel posts and lace systems posts almost entirely without one person on the entire site posting impressive recovery pics except me and while I am proud of my recovery, I look and look on here in vain for even one other guy whose results are impressive who is past the age of 25.
Sigh. Not using finasteride/min or microneedling is like tying your hands behind your back before you begin. Don't waste your time, guys and if any experimental meds worked well, they would have gotten word out on the black market but again they do little to nothing, same as Zix, same as Castor Oil. I post weekly pics and all thanks to Goddess for Her blessings but this is a lot of work. Tranny folks know this area better than most and some of it is instinctual but if anything experimental worked we would be using it too. Stacking meds only works with the so-called big three and really, it's a big two and if someone only uses topical min then poof, he is down to maintenance only with finasteride. Try anything else and more baldness is coming and without reductase inhibitors, it's a waste of time as is putting different junk on your scalp except for minoxidil or Estrogel and Estrogel only works in feminizing amounts. I tried low dose for several years and it was lackluster at best. Laser caps or comb? Nope. PRP? Nope. Massage? Only if you do it forty hours a week from what I have read and that's literally massaging your scalp always when watching television or something and I do plenty of that too because it does potentially work a tiny big when "stacked" with other things as do finasteride and microneedling.
Most people, I beg you. Just take the regular finasteride and min and have a beard and relax. If you do HRT then copy Bridgeburn and read his posts carefully instead of just willy-nilly starting and stopping. He was already shed-proof when he began and that's actually an advantage compared to most guys who drop out immediately whenever they see ten hairs come out in the comb. Wigs are socially acceptable in my peer group so I had that as a back-up. People need to have a plan to make it through sheds and if you don't then indeed, you might be making your baldness progress more quickly. Nobody shed on minoxidil two percent so I try to tell people what we used in the olden days when nobody shed but nope, they all want five percent in the non-pink bottle.
