westonci
Experienced Member
- Reaction score
- 722
Started receding around my temples around age 15-16. The male pattern baldness gene is extremely aggressive in my family and i even have sisters and mothers who have hair loss. All the men are norwood 6 by age 32 in my family.
Below is my highschool graduation pic (year 2006). Its hard to see but I had recession in my temples that I would cover my growing my hair long.
https://i.imgur.com/HU5cx4M.jpg
Before (April 2016)
Crown
After (May 2018)
Crown
Vertex
After (July 2018)
Crown
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Pros
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My Current Regimen
Also Im not sure if this helps at all but Im also on nofap.
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Thoughts
This has been a looong ride with a lot of tinkering and trial and error. I can say that all of the growth is from pge2+microneedling. Seti is only for maintenance and a prerequisite for pge2 to work. For pge2 to work you must also microneedle before applying it.
I made a huge mistake in assuming that seti would be enough and all that was needed to get regrowth. I can not stress how important both are (Seti+pge2) and it makes sense since Allergan the company thats doing trials for seti is also doing trials for bimatoprost a PGF2α agonist.
Im making really good gains still. The areas where I had hair but were thinning (my vertex area) are extremely thick now. im 100% satisfied for those areas.
As for my temples and crown where i had severe hairloss its filling in very nicely.
EDIT: You dont have to wait 2 year for these results.
Almost all of the regrowth have been in the last 3 months because of the PGE2+microneedling I added.
Seti alone will only give you maintenance and why I got a lot of flack for posting updates with minimum results over the last 2 years since people were expecting solid regrowth (I did Seti alone for a while and then I did PGE2 in ethanol topically but in hindsight it turns out the PGE2 in ethanol didnt do much now that I recently started with PGE2+microneedling)
Like i said it was all trial and error and it looks like Im finally on to something with the PGE2+microneedling
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Resources
Setipiprant FAQ
Microneedling + Prostaglandin E2 FAQ
Below is my highschool graduation pic (year 2006). Its hard to see but I had recession in my temples that I would cover my growing my hair long.
https://i.imgur.com/HU5cx4M.jpg
Before (April 2016)
Crown
- https://i.imgur.com/sJVkg0U.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/pQT0moI.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/rZl04Hm.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/YIJse3O.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/n1eOXB9.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/s0DmPj8.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/d3fRPCf.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/uKafrh0.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/CAozCmY.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/cE9YBqm.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/JNiHSXW.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/ChGdTSs.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/CZMsXzJ.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/TF69Dig.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/whuURlc.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/VKBoGAl.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/xN1GGTP.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/nxVE1Ui.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/n9U1gQL.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/pzTEjsp.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/JB4ko72.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/D1SvAVz.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/N5FdAFY.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/dZqLo3S.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/dT0QRBx.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/MwsuNdu.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/CLq4oSU.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/p9KEx0D.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/dhmpEKR.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/zEyTSvk.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/Wuarhqa.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/Vot1ali.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/eZRBTBX.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/ORw6ga6.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/C8FR3xF.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/eFaH3sv.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/X8FNK42.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/lqBZRr1.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/dggNilZ.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/kC1wltN.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/S0Np8j1.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/QcLEDXT.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/ygxYR0r.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/tVkY1jG.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/ZjvfHrP.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/mbSGYOA.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/eW0WY4T.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/zvF64W7.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/6ooxwsr.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/mzQ5bDa.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/ESk5OqB.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/UnjtOFT.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/qm8BInS.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/lXwQjDy.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/Ja3KXyh.jpg
After (May 2018)
Crown
Vertex
- https://i.imgur.com/iTCbPY0.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/vvU0lcA.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/TKRik4D.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/mTbtue8.jpg
After (July 2018)
Crown
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Pros
- No sexual or anti-androgenic sides like finasteride i.e erection/libido issues, thinning the beard (allegedly), body comp changes
- no skin sides like minoxidil i.e bloating/water retention, dark circles, wrinkles (allegedly)
- Setipiprant @ 2g/day massively reduces acne. Havent had a pimple in forever
- You can get it right now through private sources
- Expensive as f***. Seti is $11/day @ 2g/day and PGE2 is about $1.40/day @ 1mg/EOD
- You might notice its hard to stay asleep for the first week. It goes away though.
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My Current Regimen
- 1g Setipiprant taken orally every 12hrs
- 1mg Prostaglandin E2 in 3ml of distilled water applied topically to scalp after very lightly microneedling session (goal is not wounding or to draw blood and should not be painful!). I usually do this every 2-3 days.
Also Im not sure if this helps at all but Im also on nofap.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thoughts
This has been a looong ride with a lot of tinkering and trial and error. I can say that all of the growth is from pge2+microneedling. Seti is only for maintenance and a prerequisite for pge2 to work. For pge2 to work you must also microneedle before applying it.
I made a huge mistake in assuming that seti would be enough and all that was needed to get regrowth. I can not stress how important both are (Seti+pge2) and it makes sense since Allergan the company thats doing trials for seti is also doing trials for bimatoprost a PGF2α agonist.
Im making really good gains still. The areas where I had hair but were thinning (my vertex area) are extremely thick now. im 100% satisfied for those areas.
As for my temples and crown where i had severe hairloss its filling in very nicely.
EDIT: You dont have to wait 2 year for these results.
Almost all of the regrowth have been in the last 3 months because of the PGE2+microneedling I added.
Seti alone will only give you maintenance and why I got a lot of flack for posting updates with minimum results over the last 2 years since people were expecting solid regrowth (I did Seti alone for a while and then I did PGE2 in ethanol topically but in hindsight it turns out the PGE2 in ethanol didnt do much now that I recently started with PGE2+microneedling)
Like i said it was all trial and error and it looks like Im finally on to something with the PGE2+microneedling
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Resources
Setipiprant FAQ
Microneedling + Prostaglandin E2 FAQ
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