Well, you know what I had to do. With severe thinning and the medical system telling me "It's urgent and you are going to respond well to DHT blockers, but since the government has reduced our personnel, you will have to wait 6 months for me to check your analysis and give you the approval. You could go to a private dermatologist, bue we are the only ones than can prescribe it here. Deal with it". Sometimes you have to take risks.
Maybe it is the autumn shedding, but dutas is making me lose a lot of hair to the point where I think my condition is getting worse. But hey, I am still on the first month and the results don't appear until the third. But... This could be placebo effect, but maybe minoxidil is doing something. I was using it incorrectly, but after three months of changing the application method, I have hairs in my hairline that don't match the rest (shorter, as if they had started growing recently), and they were there before I started with the DHT blockers.
No side effects from the DHT blockers, though. The only change is that my hair has become much dryer. I needed to shampoo it daily to combat the excess of oil (damaging it even more), and know I am back to only doing it half of the week.
But, you know? The first time I crossdressed, it was not the clothes, fake books or makeup that made me feel different: It was the hair (the wig). At that moment I was not even worried about my gigantic nose and the rest of face defects that will need FFS. Since my hair situation has been bad for years and I had to deal with the classical ("If you leave your hair long it will fall quicker, all your family is bald, etc"), I just kept it short, just delaying every haircut the longest I could (until I had to cut it because of irritating family pressure).
If the DHT blockers start working, the hair gains health and the shedding is reduced and get a bit of regrowth, I may consider letting it grow. But since my GD therapy starts in november, it wont matter a lot...
BTW, don't make a lot of issues or you will run into BDD, same as me. My bad hip may not let me develop a good walking gait, my slight upper scoliosis may not let me move my arms properly, my voice may never work, my posture will always be stiff, my bad eye that needs that ptosis to be fixed, all the other face problems... All of these things can get on top of your head if you don't have a good starting point, and yours is probably better than mine already.
So, my final decision: One thing at a time, I still have 6 months of GD therapy to work on other thing. Hair counter measures are addressed for now. Hip is checked for safety and can be fixed with physiotherapy and exercise. The next time I visit my doctor I will ask how the cause for the ptosis can be investigated before having it fixed (it was probably a Lasik surgery side effect. I can repair it for around 1600-2000€, but surgeon told me to find the cause first). In the meantime, keep the good diet, level of exercise and keep looking for a home to rent. Setting things in a linear fashion is less stressful than trying to take on all of them at the same time, failing and getting depressed.
