If anyone would know, I think that it would be Noah, who used to post more but Noah's on every week or two. They were pretty good friends and lived near each other. Probably 200 to 300 pages back, they posted scores of pictures of what appears to be a weed-assisted frolic with some Marx brothers type photos that were cute while they basically mugged for the camera and flaunted their beautiful locks! Something to look forward to. Noah is now trying to maintain only on dutasteride so that is really interesting and exciting to see what level of success he has without estrogen.
This goes beyond your short question but the following is for NIck's question that he made previously and just some other things that might be helpful for folks like Nick eager to put in an attempt.
I have been trying during the plague to answer all questions both on here, and much less so, on the Reddit DIY and MtFHRT sites when I have time since it sucks to post a question and not get an answer. I used to try to do the same on Tressless but that site is a mess full of so much mis-information that it is barely worth the effort. There's no real ability to do follow-ups and by the time I answered one question about minoxidil-dependent hair (imaginary), several more of the same question had already popped up. So many of the others just try to ruin finasteride and dutasteride for others via scare-mongering. I note when people try that here, we just ignore them and they move on, just as they do, some, when they declare this just a "tranny" thread.
Unlike Tressless where they are always touting next year's cure, I think people here realize that it can take decades sometimes and are ready to push the envelope some. It's a nice plague project for me and I have really enjoyed hanging out and the high level of discussion and lack of sniping.
I do recommend for anyone really into this to spend some time at DIY and MtFHRT to get a more holistic idea about the different issues that can crop up during full-blown HRT. It will alleviate somewhat, I hope, the desire to keep changing meds because everyone on there claims the Med X isn't working for them and wants to switch after two weeks or six weeks or whatever. People with serious sides should desist though sometimes tolerance or titrating can relieve the symptoms.
I all but worship estrogen as is clear. I have never come across anything remotely real that can be ingested and do all of the amazing things that estrogen can do. Older people like me who haven't given up on their hair, may decide to tolerate more femininization than they anticipate because the hormone appears to re-matrix and repair all sorts of tissue when used at high enough serum levels. I am simply in awe and that is why I am such an acolyte of estrogen.
I think OP has moved on. It would be great to have him back but in a certain sense, he did what he set out to do and I don't know if he was as much of a "teacher" as a reporter doing what turned out to be a very long feature article.
I found reading this thread fascinating before I ever posted. It ruins it a little because you get the answer that he is successful on page one but I really enjoyed the wonder in all of the cis-folks questions early in the thread. They all expected him to get a breast reduction or removal and there was some disappointment, I think when he appeared to change his approach to hair for hair's sake and to having less of a focus on what is possible for a cis-male without feminiziation or by minimizing it. I have read the early parts of the thread several times and have slogged through most of it as it slows a bit as OP gradually loses interest and turned more into a recipe-corner or a place where people whined a little bit, similar to the Reddit MtF sites sometimes. I get it. For the longest time, I have been similar:
Goddess, where's my hair?
The road is clear for someone else to try to do that important job of regrowing hair in a minimalistic and not a "see what sticks" method similar to me. I started out that way but priorities change. Someone starting off now could plan out a road map similar to what some of the other guys on the thread tried, which were much more conservative in terms of protocol and I will try to throw out suggestions about that. But essentially, several folks who were trying to follow in
@bridgeburn's footsteps struggled with the AA's because of the sides. There were some even with sides from reductase inhibitors.
Some people seemed to make gains and then fall back and several people seemed to have on and off sheds on the AA's. There was a guy from before the thread named AntiDHTor from Poland who was an early advocate of oral minoxidil who had bizarre results whereby he took an attractive male ageing hair line and ended up looking like Eddie Munster and that scared me and probably others off oral minoxidil for a while. Somewhere between maybe page 5 and page 15 you can see a picture of this character, who apparently got banned and moved to a Polish-speaking site. People were changing meds like mad and you can't do that unless you are evolving forward and these were sideways moves, just like MtF's where people assume all the other AA's work better than the one that they are on when the three do more or less the same thing. That's why MPA is interesting to me because it is less involved in spoofing the system and more involved in just lowering testosterone in conjunction with estrogen.
I think the best approach probably for non-MtF's is to start off with Life Flo Estriol Care or Biestro Care available from Amazon and simply rubbing that into the scalp or balding areas and then reassessing after three to six months. The problem is that hair growth is slow and people get too impatient who aren't MtF's or they start feminizing and drop out for that reason. I note that Amazon cheerfully informs me that I have purchased Biestro Care 78 times since October of 2013 so that was basically the starting date of my ugh journey--hate that term but it is firmly established. I also bought at least a score of estriol, estradiol and competitors' similar brands throughout that period ending in May of this year when I declared victory in the breast area and then changed to what I deem, a hair regrowth protocol.
This is a slog, not a sprint, to a life-long solution or at least to a point of pulling back and maintaining. That's why the oral minoxidil may be exciting for beginners now. I have been using topical minoxidil since 1988 and like many on Hairlosstalk will frankly state, it just doesn't do a lot for many/most people so the idea of having a minoxidil that works similar to what Homer used on the Simpsons is a huge possible step forward. That was in season two episode two and was called Dimoxinil