What was your starting condition, how long have you been restoring your head hair, what is your current condition and what are you doing?
Starting condition, top of head 85% MPB.
Restoring for 16 months.
Current condition, 15% MPB in various stages of regrowth. Thin in areas of regrowth. Early regrowth matching my current hair color.
What am I doing:
2 months finasteride (self administered) then 14 months finasteride with script,
Oral Estradiol which provides SHGB (14 months),
Spironolactone 14 months total T 24 ng/dl,
1 stem cell treatment May 2014 (I did not think it helped any more than micro needling),
Minoxidial 5% topical 2/day 2 months,
Micro needling 2 times a week with 1.5 mm needles, 1 month, 1 mm needles prior for 2 months)
Pfft. Wigs. All that other stuff is mega-expensive, and I don't want to put finasteride in my body, even if Mr. Finasteride did indeed brain-up Mega Man. Besides, even if I still had all my hair, not only is it prematurely graying, it's also an out-of-control mess.
So wigs are nice.
A cross-post from another thread, but here's where I am:
Thinning temples and crown, receding overall maybe an inch? Could be covered with the right hairstyle, but I don't want that kind of hairstyle!
My strategy is hitting it hard, using every tool at my disposal.
1. Finasteride (from family doc - easy to get a hold of)
2. Minoxidil (from CVS, generic 5%, slather it all over my balding scalp, not just the crown)
3. This took longer to get, but spironolactone from endocrinologist, and estrogen a few weeks later.
4. Iron tablet once a day, along with a multivitamin and 2500mcg of biotin.
4. Hair transplant is on the way for the areas that haven't regrown using steps 1-4.
When it comes to hair loss, I'm throwing every legit chemical I can find at it, no questions asked.
I had some hair loss at the temples. About 4 cm. I had estradiol oral for 16 years. I am not sure if the hair loss was there before or happened in that time. GRS was 14 years ago. Regrowth now for 8 months. I would say 70% and rising. My treatment is : changed my hormone therapy from oral estradiol to transdermal estradiol and added micronized progesterone to it. In addition to that, I use Zink tablets now and probably most importantly I apply progesterone gel 2x daily to the affected area.
No poisons like finasteride or Spiro will enter my body ;)
I dont even know how it feels like to wear a wig, but I imagine it must be uncomfy...
I was very bald (in my opinion) and tried lots of things.
Minoxidil - used for a few months then started to react very badly and had to stop. Now it only takes one application and my scalp erupts.
Nizoral shampoo - No adverse reaction but no evidence it did anything.
Finasteride - been on this for about 3 years
HRT - Over 9 months
Result after about 3 years? Peach fuzz on front third, longer mature hair on crown but still way too thin. Coupled with front, it is a lost cause! I have had a couple of transplant consultations and the best a talented group can promise is an adequate male hairline, no chance of a female one. I would run out of donor material before they finished. Solution is to work with wigs and just be happy that a good wig will look batter than a failed transplant. Remember, a bad one is just plain bad! I have 3, one has lovely hair and the cap is superb. It just needs styling. The one I'm wearing is OK. It is just what it is!
Emma