The shed just means it's working. Also, anti-androgens can sometimes backfire for females. I assume you're a cis woman since you're not on HRT. FPHL pathogenesis is a little different from male pattern baldness, and not as well studied. Testosterone injections can actually improve hair growth for some women. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3380548/ You should get your levels tested to see if your androgens are low. Ideally androgens should be in the normal female range, not below.
Very Impressive Dermarolling And Minxodil Results - From Tressless
The shed just means it's working. Also, anti-androgens can sometimes backfire for females. I assume you're a cis woman since you're not on HRT. FPHL pathogenesis is a little different from male pattern baldness, and not as well studied. Testosterone injections can actually improve hair growth for some women. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3380548/ You should get your levels tested to see if your androgens are low. Ideally androgens should be in the normal female range, not below.
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But spironolactone kept my sheds to a minimum. My hair just don’t seem to grow anymore. Hence I wanna try minoxidil again but this time combined with spironolactone and microneedling.
Testosterone induces cell proliferation everywhere but on the top of the head. It also does not inhibit proliferation in scalp hair until it reaches a certain level. A small amount of T may be necessary for proper hair growth in males and females. It could be that if your T is less than 10 ng/dL your hair won't grow as well. Just something to think about, if your hair wasn't shedding or growing on spironolactone that means your T wasn't too high, but it could still have been too low.
https://academic.oup.com/endo/article/138/1/356/2987722
Hi Samantha, I (re)started minoxidil in early June (and microneedling in early July), and I did go through a shed during July, which freaked me out, but I feel that now it has stopped. I have noticed some new and stronger hairs at my hairline (first picture early June, second one last week - my hair is the same length in both pictures), and the texture of my hair seems a bit better.
I am also on a low dose of spironolactone (50mg daily) and dutasteride (0.50mg every other day since July). My hormone levels are perfectly normal for a woman.
I am also on a low dose of spironolactone (50mg daily) and dutasteride (0.50mg every other day since July). My hormone levels are perfectly normal for a woman.
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Does he just mean the minoxidil you can buy from minoxidilmax? https://www.minoxidilmax.com/products
Good results regardless
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Dark circles and wrinkles on forehead.. nothing is ever as simple
You don't even know what age he is yet blame his forehead lines on minoxidil? I had forehead lines by my early twenties, needled them away in the span of 6 months but this was long before i started losing hair and used minoxidil etc Some people just get unlucky.
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Any pics of your pre and post lines? I’m interested cause I need to get rid of mine
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I've had forehead lines since I was a teenager, some people just have them when raising eyebrows. You can't see what it's like when relaxed because he's got them raised in his pictures, and there's no before /after for it.
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This is amazing, almost unbelievable.
Re: forehead lines - clearly the guy is raising his eyebrows, anyone would have lines if you do that.
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Do you have the link for this guy?
It is unbelievable. He's using fibers
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That is honestly the hardest part about taking other people's results to figure out a routine... anyone with a little hair on top can have a full head with concealers.
I have pretty advanced diffuse thinning, yet people compliment how thick my hair is to the point of it being very uncomfortable due to using concealers.
People that lie about results are just hurting the community.
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Whoooa, prize idiot! You must have a very small brain
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Dermmatch is very tricky to get right. When I first bought it I tried it for a week and each time washed it out because it looked chalky and fake. It took a lot of playing around to figure out how to make it look good... I wasted about half of my first disc just figuring it out.
If you use too much it looks bad. If you apply it too wet it looks bad.
Game changers for me were applying it dry and then making it slightly wet by patting it with a slightly wet applicator and using a blow dryer. The annoying part is that a new disc won't really go on dry, the disc needs to be somewhat broken in first.
With your current regrowth you should have perfect looking results with concealers. Your post inspired me to look into topical dutasteride.
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I put water in the disc itself, just a few drops, whenever I get a new disc. It helps soften it up a bit. My whole application process is down to about 10 to 15 minutes now and it doesn't come off on my hands or look bad if it gets wet. I live near Orlando Florida and go to Universal pretty often, I couldn't imagine riding anything with fibers, but with dermmatch I can ride anything, even water rides.
The only other thing I'd suggest is SMP or microblading. That should give similar results, but more expensive.
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Page 666, if we don't argue here - I don't know where we will. 
btw, on topic, I'm still doing it, around once per month + oral min, didn't lose any ground, but still didn't see huge results, except on the part near the eyebrows, but that doesnt really count.
btw, on topic, I'm still doing it, around once per month + oral min, didn't lose any ground, but still didn't see huge results, except on the part near the eyebrows, but that doesnt really count.
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666 pages! Damn. We all have our hair back? Some of you guys must have pony tails too by now? Maybe it is time to update my old photo results thread.
I haven't been needling for over a year.. just been using Minoxidil. Probably lost a little ground, but am considering starting back up again. I quit when the summer months came around in 2019... I didn't want to have sun exposure while needling, but then just never started up again in the fall.
Looks like there's still the outlier cases who see exemplary results popping up which is good to see.
Maybe it is time to update my old photo results thread. I haven't been needling for over a year.. just been using Minoxidil. Probably lost a little ground, but am considering starting back up again. I quit when the summer months came around in 2019... I didn't want to have sun exposure while needling, but then just never started up again in the fall.
Looks like there's still the outlier cases who see exemplary results popping up which is good to see.
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Hey new poster here,
One guy that has a dietetic/healthy way of life channel on youtube was asked was his opinion was about dermarolling (in this case it was not for hair but just for skin apperance and the one asking had good results).
He answered that it was not really his field and that he wasn't the best one to answer but that, from his perspective, he wouldn't use it cause although the concept made sense to him, skin cells had a limited number of lives and that the process of rejenerating them constantly was like emtying the reservoir of lives you have before its time. And people doing that were exposing themselves to have their skin suddenly ageing faster at some point.
Has that issue been raised or observed around here ? Sorry i haven't surf through the whole thread, it's too long now
I'm currently on dutasteride (plus Nizoral and essential oils) but it's killing my fertility and i'm looking for something to add to my regimen when i switch back to finasteride
One guy that has a dietetic/healthy way of life channel on youtube was asked was his opinion was about dermarolling (in this case it was not for hair but just for skin apperance and the one asking had good results).
He answered that it was not really his field and that he wasn't the best one to answer but that, from his perspective, he wouldn't use it cause although the concept made sense to him, skin cells had a limited number of lives and that the process of rejenerating them constantly was like emtying the reservoir of lives you have before its time. And people doing that were exposing themselves to have their skin suddenly ageing faster at some point.
Has that issue been raised or observed around here ? Sorry i haven't surf through the whole thread, it's too long now
I'm currently on dutasteride (plus Nizoral and essential oils) but it's killing my fertility and i'm looking for something to add to my regimen when i switch back to finasteride