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So my hormone profile to begin with was menopause level estrgogen, sky high cortisol, perfect storm for hair loss. It began very aggressive and within a year of noticin my hair was getting thinner, may hairline had fully miniturised and I was like a NW2. It was like all the hair that I lost was growing back miniturised. It also affected my brows and lashes which grew back shorter and thinner. My body hair also grew back slow and patchy. I got a few scalp biopsies done which confirmed Androgenetic Alopecia. So I was already put onto Diane35 which is 2mg cypro acetate with 35mg ethinyl estradiol which is a HUGE amount of estrogen. The ratio of ethinyl estradiol to normal estrogen is something like 3 x the amount. That never stopped my hairloss. Then I tried 200mg spironolactone ontop of that for 9months. Nothing. Then I added topical 5% minoxidil and 2mg oral minoxidil which did regrow some hair, but in a weird pattern. I regrow a lot of hair for maybe 3 months, then for another 4-6 months my hair starts to fall out, doesn’t grow or grows back miniturised again. I get hairline recession. Then I’ll go through a short burst of regrowth for another few months and the cycle repeats itself. I lost a fair amount of hair a day but it’s not like a Telogen Effluvium shed. Usual sort of genetic hairloss shed of 50-100 hairs in the shower and maybe a 20-40 more throughout the day. I lose mostly miniturised and short hairs.Some guys around here and German forums are talking about tranny drugs that could fully bring lost hair back, don't know if it really could work, but as a girl you shouldn't have the same sides like a guy? Ever tried something like that?
Lately for the past month I have begun taking 0.5mg avodart daily, and also started using 5% ru twice a day in minoxidil with niacinamide mixed in. I also take heaps of vitamins, castor oil, use pyothione olamine zinc shampoo, exercise every day, you name it. My hair is still receding (again) and I notice tons and tons of miniturised hairs falling out, and short cycled hair. I plan on switching topical minoxidil for stemoxydine and possibly add some adenosine in to see if it reawakens my hair follicles to not just grow for three f*****g months out of the year. Otherwise, I feel like I’m fucked. I can’t come off minoxidil altogether because I will literally lose all my hair. It will destroy anything I have left plus my brows and lashes. I don’t know how else to break this weird pattern of hairgrowth. I’m lost and really hopeless to be honest. I don’t believe taking extra estrogen will help, and I’d like to avoid it if I can.
I’m praying PRAYING that Brotzu and Follica come through this year. Something. Literally anything.