Wow Janey, I'm always impressed with your expertise. I could direct message you but don't want to take that liberty all the time and this way others benefit.
In my direct message to you I had mentioned I'm withdrawing from a med (valium) that already gives me a little heart rush occasionally...so I suspected I would be super sensitive to this. It could be placebo. For example I get a little heart flutter naturally BUT because I subconsciously think it's the min, then I get anxious and heart races more: forgive me but few more questions:
1. We can develop tolerance and these sides go away?
2. I suspect my hair loss is from med and now that I've slowed the withdrawal my hair looks thicker. It's longer but it's fuller with less prickly miniature hair..so I'm thinking the bald crown was a reaction BUT QUESTION: can I simply put min on the thinning spot and not on rest of hair until I see thinning elsewhere? Aka use only where needed?
3. I bought 6 months worth. I'm going to mix it to weaken it:
Dilute the 5% solution with 1.5 times its volume with your solvent mix e.g. 100ml of 5% solution is diluted with 150ml solvent mix to give a 2%
That ok? Thanks Dr. Janey
You can DM me anytime. I have had a couple of guys that I held hands with for several weeks because it was almost like they were paralyzed. I only ask that people list their current and any recent meds because I have a good memory but I also have MtF's contacting me asking about breast growth or guys asking about how to avoid breast growth and some times, I forget because I see newbies on here all of the time which makes sense as long as they don't obsess. I have a lot of "old grandpa" stories now so I try not to splay all over but so many things stand out about seeing a doctor for the first time.
I shut myself in the college library stacks reading European microfilm and fiche back in 1984 for three days after my 20th birthday when someone handed me a hand mirror and told me to look. Yikes! My life was over. But my father's not bald, I objected to everyone. But you will be was the answer from my best friend. Nice and he was half-Japanese so he had no hair loss but I needed to know.
Three days later I knew what grew hair so I got an appointment with the dermatologist who had removed my hand wart. I walked in and the receptionist said in a loud voice, "Are you here to have more warts removed?" And I was thinking, like, lower your voice. They could be genital warts but instead I said no, something else and I was barely balding at all but I was sure everyone was looking at me.
I went in and told him I needed a prescription for estradiol and he was like, "well, I can't do that because then you can't have a family. He mussed up my hair and older guys used to do that a lot back in the day, just muss younger guys' hair and said something equivalent to, "just man up. Please pay the receptionist $75 on your way out". Since I believe in research even more but also bypassing the gatekeepers when necessary and I have done it with estradiol, inducing pregnancy levels for ten months because I conjectured that it might turn back on hair in a binary sense. Regardless, along with the microneedling and then adding oral min last Oct. things really started to improve and that's when I signed on and started posting on the
@bridgeburn thread which I had read and his part is 300 pages or so and at 575 or so when I started. I then started my own thread and those who have been blessed have a duty to those who can be saved plus I love writing and words just pour out of me. They always have but estrogen seems to give me far greater mental organization and I can retrieve data easily once read. But really, I mostly rely on Rob Winter's stuff. He's rarely wrong and he wrote the seminal article or regrowth for transgender people and he could only find two so he mostly relied on castrate studies and it was very convincing and then I decided to enter a formal HRT program.
I am glad if I have helped you. Lol, I also feel guilty for jumping ship on my fellow XY's to go on MtF HRT but while hair isn't life, it's pretty damn close. Janey says that and Will agrees:
