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.
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.
