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I’m posting this is the male section because I’d get diddly-squat from the women.
So I already knew about these types of hairloss “DUPA” and “retrograde” but until recently hadn’t put myself into these categories. My hairloss is 50 shades of f**ked up. I get diffuse all over thinning with some emphasis on the top and crown, but the WORST part is that I get vertical hairline recession of my entire line hairline - sides, temples, above and behind ears, nape... the whole shebang. The whole lot becomes miniturised badly and looks month eaten and starts to almost evaporate from the outside in. I also get thinning of eyebrow and eyelash hair. Up until recently I’d thought the hairline thing was due to low estrogen, because you see this is women sometimes who have gone through aromatase inhibition chemo, menopause etc. Thing is, even before minoxidil when I started taking HRT (the pill), it never helped my situation and still isn’t. Now, I will say that minoxidil does grow my hairline back in 2-3 month bursts, but then it recedes again back to a freakish level.. and so that cycle has continued for 2.5 years since starting minoxidil. My density everywhere has only gotten worse and worse. I tried spironolactone with no luck, I’ve been on avodart for 3 months and I haven’t seen any changes, only the same progression of hairloss and currently the “receding process”. I had low iron and got an infusion, I also take the highest dose ferretin/iron tablets available. Didn’t change sh*t. I’m on the verge of trying Sulfasalazine to see if this crap is an acutr inflammatory response, because no one with this kind of hairloss can seem to figure out how the f*** to fix it.
My questions are:
People with DUPA with retrograde recession, has ANYTHING worked? Like consistently. I can say minoxidil works.. SOMETIMES. But this 3 month hair growth cycle crap just isn’t doing it for me. Anyone? Anything? Am I just totally screwed?
So I already knew about these types of hairloss “DUPA” and “retrograde” but until recently hadn’t put myself into these categories. My hairloss is 50 shades of f**ked up. I get diffuse all over thinning with some emphasis on the top and crown, but the WORST part is that I get vertical hairline recession of my entire line hairline - sides, temples, above and behind ears, nape... the whole shebang. The whole lot becomes miniturised badly and looks month eaten and starts to almost evaporate from the outside in. I also get thinning of eyebrow and eyelash hair. Up until recently I’d thought the hairline thing was due to low estrogen, because you see this is women sometimes who have gone through aromatase inhibition chemo, menopause etc. Thing is, even before minoxidil when I started taking HRT (the pill), it never helped my situation and still isn’t. Now, I will say that minoxidil does grow my hairline back in 2-3 month bursts, but then it recedes again back to a freakish level.. and so that cycle has continued for 2.5 years since starting minoxidil. My density everywhere has only gotten worse and worse. I tried spironolactone with no luck, I’ve been on avodart for 3 months and I haven’t seen any changes, only the same progression of hairloss and currently the “receding process”. I had low iron and got an infusion, I also take the highest dose ferretin/iron tablets available. Didn’t change sh*t. I’m on the verge of trying Sulfasalazine to see if this crap is an acutr inflammatory response, because no one with this kind of hairloss can seem to figure out how the f*** to fix it.
My questions are:
People with DUPA with retrograde recession, has ANYTHING worked? Like consistently. I can say minoxidil works.. SOMETIMES. But this 3 month hair growth cycle crap just isn’t doing it for me. Anyone? Anything? Am I just totally screwed?
