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@DoctorHouse I have made some horrible mistakes trying to act fast. My hair changed when a I started minoxidil and has never been the same. I know I over react often and that I am very fortunate. I have been incredibly healthy until the thyroid and hair issues started at 40. Otherwise I looked and felt as good as I did at 25.
The risk and lead to trying Finasteride was a very tough choice for me and the sides where pretty hard to deny. I hoped topical was an answer to stop the sides, it simply is not. I’m getting iron IVs now and the doctors have me using HCG to try and recover (destroying hair). The length, hair color and waviness help to hide a lot but there’s a fraction of the density left. a short cut would show the thinning on crown vertex and not the hairline.
The crippling depression for even this early and very surprising hairloss has pretty much taken any joy from a once very healthy and happy life. BDD or not the depression this disease causes is the real killer. The sides without success have been unwarranted I feel like I’ve managed to lose everything trying to fight this sh*t. I have not been able to recover from the sides. Yeah it is superficial ego bullshit but it has been such a source of positive reinforcement and confidence throughout my life. I still get comments almost daily on my hair from women and now it only ads to panic and depression.
I’m about two years in on topical, definitely in a terrible loop with the hormones. My Testosterone is all over the place and DHT still low. Sides won’t go away and I’m still losing lot of hair daily. Oral minoxidil didn’t increase body hair and maybe helped maintain for year or so?
Realizing it is a combination of things I can’t deny the much thinner short hairs that I lose now or the diffuse thinning just about everywhere but the occipital area. The sensation and itch are constant in the Norwood region.
I’m not looking for a miracle or a return even to two years ago. I just want to be able to work out of swim or shower like a normal person without covering my hands and walls with hair that will never grow back.
If an hair transplant without Finasteride or Dutasteride was a possibility I’d stop everything and hope to reset. otherwise I’m just here to vent hopefully get ideas while I cover the country looking for doctors.
Going to see Wilma Berfeld at Cleveland Clinic on Monday. Undoubtedly another waste of time and effort.
Any thoughts on Zix?