@Hugh mellor
Hey guys, OP here.
Don't really have much productive to add on clasco, but had an inbox and as I don't come on here any more really, just decided to post it here in case it could be of any help to anyone.
Hard to say what kind of effectiveness it had for me.
I started off at ~2% which was probably too low, and then came off and on a few times in quick succession which may have played with my hormones. Anyway, after that it didn't seem to be working, so I just stopped using it - around this time I noticed my hair had receded further - hard to say whether it was due to the ~2 month period I was off treatments, or not.
Went back on a couple of months ago, and the insane itch was once again reduced to zero (which has to be a good sign in some respect, right?), but I do still shed a lot of hairs when I wash my hair, but in saying that, when I was originally on it and felt I was having success with it, I was shampooing every second day (instead of once every 3 weeks now), and also I have since developed a scalp condition which requires me to wash my hair quite aggressively for an extended period of time.
What I would say is, is it's probably worth a try, BUT, you need to buy one of those USB microscopes things to track your progress, and also probably make notes if you make any adjustment in dose, so you can refer back if anything changes in terms of hair loss.
I'm still using only 5%, so in all reality, seeing as I'm a finasteride non-responder I should prob be using 10%, but can't afford.
Over the last 6 days I have stopped using, in favour of darolutamide, which has seen my itch progressively return, which I'm guessing will also result in an increase in shedding/ hair loss (probably not as effective as clasco, somehow).
The daro could be bunk (the buying arrangement was a bit suss), but it is meant to be much, much stronger, and yet somehow is seemingly proving to be much less effective, but time will tell I guess...
Another thing to look out for is I started experiencing stomach pains on and off which may be linked to kidney damage or something, although I cannot at all put it down to the drug, as I have significant gut issues with microbiome and may just be a coincidental progression of that.
I can't get blood tests at the moment to check on kidney health due to Corona sh*t clogging up pathology centres, so I am in the dark with that one, but just something to watch out for if you choose to use it, but is a good chance to be unrelated...
TL/DR: Might have worked/ might not have (think definitely did early on, at least to some decent extent), definitely pretty much entirely eradicated insane itch to zero, people using need to buy USB microscope to monitor hair progress of maintenance drugs, may have given me kidney damage (related to some AAs I believe?) - but most likely unrelated.
