You should get tested for T and E levels. If your temples do not grow back at high E levels, then your follicles are dead because you have been balding for too long. Bridgeburn hasn't regained his growth line either, but his hair does hide the receding hairline.
I'm castrated, an at one point my E levels were above pregnancy levels. I could see vellus hairs un a N1 shape, but I don't think I was consistent enough in each regimen to achieve terminal hairs there. I'm too young for a hai transplant, but if I manage to maintain what I have for at least 4 years, I might consider one.
Do not resort to a hair system, watch the E levels and keep them high throughout the year. I believe HRT can help you. You yourself know what miracles it does to people. Even the hair you have now looks good when worn in a bob. It's too early to give up
My E levels were high consistently, and my testosterone levels were below the castrate level. I can't figure out why I'm still losing ground, but the hair system is a good alternative to suicide and I really needed a confidence boost. My vitamin D and folic acid was also very low, which can't have helped things, at the very least my mood has improved with more sun exposure and supplements.
Something is very off... you probably still had problems with the other androgen pathways, @JaneyElizabeth always reffers to them, as I do. Did you ever thought about it!?
I've given it some thought, I was on and off finasteride for some time, while it caused severe depression and brain fog, it was also vital for regrowth/feminizing even with bica and E2. Maybe cycling finasteride has reduced it's efficiacy, even taking it now consistently it doesn't have the same neurological effect it once had, when I was achieving regrowth. Maybe I'm a DHT mutant, who knows, I haven't been tested for DHT, it's expensive and not a lot of places test for it here.
Even at 75mg bica, with my T in the undetectable range I continued to go bald.
There are plenty of people on r/transtimelines being masculine and loosing hair even after castration and mass dosing E lol. It seems like there is a small percentage of people (10-<10%) who do not produce big amounts of androgens through the first (gonadal) pathway.
Yes, you're right, you have to try everything. I'm just puzzled as to how he and Jacob Williams (150mg Bicalutamide) continue to go bald. Most of all in my life I am afraid to be in their place. And I'm so sorry that I don't know how to help them. I hurt for other people
But what difference does it make in which way the hormone is produced if the receptor is occupied by Bicalutamide? It looks like nonsense ...
Hormones get firstly synthesized IN THE FOLLICLE OR THE TISSUE ITSELF, where it is 'needed', in such cases. Sure, you use an AR blocker, such as Bicalutamide, but through DHEA-S, P, etc.. the body makes powerful androgens, which outperform Bicalutamide sometimes, locally. That's the problem.
It turns out that this is similar to the situation with the testicles, which are not affected by Bicalutamide for the same reason: local concentrations of androgens. However, people on Bicalutamide or HRT notice that their scalp is no longer oily, which suggests that androgens are successfully blocked. This can be an indicator of a successful androgenic blockade, because sebum production is regulated by androgens. It is strange that the production of sebum stops, acne too, but the hair continues to fall out. Absurd