Did bicalutamide do something? Has he stopped the progression of baldness? Or do you continue to go bald? Maybe you noticed a slight thickening?
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I'm beginning to realize that for most people, Bicalutamide hasn't helped. And Ein, DHTcel, Maave are just isolated lucky cases. And Jacob Williams proves it. When I found out about Bicalutamide, I thought that we had defeated baldness. But it's not that easy ...
I sometimes begin to mentally prepare for the fact that I will become bald. It seems that I subconsciously understand that I will not emerge victorious ...
I sometimes begin to mentally prepare for the fact that I will become bald. It seems that I subconsciously understand that I will not emerge victorious ...
Bicalutamide should work. It works in women and works in mice with Androgenetic Alopecia, there is research on that. In theory, this is the perfect medicine. But in practice, we have people who continue to go bald while using Bicalutamide. I don't know how this is possible, but it happens and we cannot do anything about it.
I am Norwood 0. All I need is to stop the progression and slight thickening. If Bicalutamide stops, it will already be a victory, because then I can temporarily add E to thicken, and then continue to maintain the results on Bica. But in this thread, we have at least 4 people on whom Bicalutamide had no effect.
You should have a result like Bridgeburn. At this dosage E, you should completely restore your hair. This is HRT
@Itsnoahkennedy as you can see, a person cannot restore hair even on HRT. You succeeded, but he does not succeed, although he does everything right. I don't know how to explain this sh*t.
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2 months done on the bi-estro and nothing to report apart from itchy nipples and an initial shed which hasn't recovered. I have added topical dutasteride to the stack along with peptides so if I don't get results in another 2 months I will slowly back out and start saving for the fight to Turkey.
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You are injecting estradiol? Do you know your levels?
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I am baffled. Every morning I wake up with more hair and I am 56. Maybe oral minoxidil might get things rolling?
Minoxidil can help well, but that's just an illusion. It is temporary and you will be dependent on it. And if you grow on E, then you can maintain results on supportive therapy, like Noah
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Now it's coming back to me. You had impressive progress pics back in maybe November?
I really hope that you will be fine. You have ceased to go bald further - this is already good. You have begun to grow your hair - this is doubly good. I hope that over time, progress continues and you get all the hair
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Minoxidil dependence should not be a thing in HRT since the follicles are woken up from dormancy and therefore healed. There's no evidence that minoxidil is temporary provided sufficient sulfurotransferase is available. I don't believe any sort of dependency is a thing with HRT. How would you attribute the dependence? To estrogen? To finasteride? To bica? I think the idea that certain hair is dependent is completely wrong even in a male context. That's just what all of the fanboys on Tressless claim. "Poor me. I don't want to use minoxidil because my hair will become dependent"
I think the idea is crap. But the second part is right possibly but minoxidil can be used for maintenance just as well.
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You and I are almost at the same stage but your hair quality looks better. Hopefully, I don't get stuck but the temple corners are tough even for @bridgeburn. You hair is pretty damn good for an XY but MtF's tend to need something even past pretty damn good to not need to wear wigs.
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My hair parts in the center now naturally. That doesn't create more hair of course but you might be able to obscure the temples by parting in the center and doing that thing where you use the fingers to sort of push the hair to either side. I think you are still at a good stage because the corners sweep back nicely and not jaggedly. Mine are somewhat jagged.
I know someone who gets results on Minoxidil and Bicalutamide. When he stops Minoxidil, his hair becomes thinner. I don't know how it works, but I just see this trend in other people: Minoxidil works temporarily and E grows forever if you have a supportive therapy working.
Thus, because of Minoxidil, you may think that the situation is better than it actually is.
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Your density looks fine in the crown. Lol, people might start ignoring you because your hair is too good.
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Well, that's not exactly the same as hair being dependent but yeah, I guess if we get to a really good stage, then minoxidil could be involved with shaft diameter but that's different from losing actually hair counts which is what I assume most people are alleging as part of minoxidil-dependency. From my perspective, I have used min for 30 years and I will gladly use it 30 more if necessary. The other thing is that when we desist from certain meds, we know it so there could be a reverse placebo sort of thing going on.
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I have my low-tech method of testing density called the reverse comb-over. A comb-over attempts to style the hair to obscure thinning areas. Try doing the opposite, meaning brush the hair in the crown so as to expose as much thinning as possible and then take a pic. There have been times where I have thought things were perfect but nope, using the reverse comb-over until recently still showed reflective thin areas. I try to encourage the "am I balding" folks to do this.
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Do you remember your age, or more well stated, remind us of your age and balding history?
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I get that about the pics. I used to just watch tv and click my phone from different angles during my shed to record it but not to have to look at it. The fact that you (and I) are able to post pics on the biggest English language hair site shows great healing psychologically on your part. Even if you stall, you are one of the few where refinements of just a few grafts might carry you the rest of the way. My hope is to do this without transplants and I probably wouldn't go that route now since there are so many permutations that MtF's can try and it could be that if you pushed even further into high E2 levels that that might be the final break-through.
The temple and crown are the last places for children where they fill in as well. These areas have a high surface tension and perhaps reduced blood flow.
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Have you thought about using tretinoin and derma-rolling on your scalp? (and face, because it does great things to improve looks facially). Also, consider massaging your forehead and temples and getting botox on your masseter muscles. I have that done every six months and it will both feminize your face and lower tension on the sides and back of the neck. Rob English cited to a study where this increased hair counts by about 20 percent.
I will probably write about the masseter treatment on my thread. My doctor says that he is doing much less cosmetic surgery because they can achieve many goals using only botox and filler to feminize the face. With the results potentially on hair, botox relaxation of the masseters is like a two'fer. Some of these young guys on here might want to consider the botox of the masseter as well. Botox just on the masseters is not too bad but the overall costs of my treatments with that and filler are not cheap.
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