No studies unfortunately. Just anecdotes from here, hairlosshelp and eunuch. In my opinion if you got bad sides from finasteride then you will likely have catastrophic ones from cyproterone, its literally the chemical castration drug. T and DHT will cease to be completely. You can try it anyway if you like but I'd recommend topical darolutamide. Idealforehead seemed to get really good results from it with minimal, if any side effects.
I don't have calcification or fiberosis . I used to dermaroll but I was worried about scarring and potentially damaging the follicles so I stopped. I also pulled out hairs doing it too so that was discouraging. I should probably do massages though, that's a good idea.
Well i see it like this; you are a young healthy male with early stage male pattern baldness if you start messing with estrogen at your age you may seriously damage your natural hormonal balance. I also think that your body will react negatively to unexpected amount of estrogen in your system by producing more testosterone to get a balance. The human brain does not finish maturing until the age of 25 so unexpected amounts of estrogen may also cause long term harm to your brain development. If i were you i would just stick to the big 3 and give it a year.
I already was technically on the big 3 for year and it didn't help at all, I kept on balding. I didn't start out on this crazy regimen, I built up to it because nothing else was working. I'm aware of the risks associated with what I'm doing and I think the potential rewards outweigh the risks. I wish I could get results with regular treatments but its just impossible for me. If I can't stop this I don't see myself living much longer. To you that may be silly, but I have significant social and mental health issues already and going bald in my early 20s would be the smoking gun ( quite literally )
Because previously my hair would grow, fall out and grow back thinner like clockwork. It was when I started minoxidil that my shed hairs stopped growing back. Infact, I've lost more hair 9 months on minoxidil that I ever did on finasteride. I really want to drop it, so I'm weening off it.Not to keep bugging you but if hair is falling out and not regrowing how do you know ? Isn't calcification the method by which the follicle disappears ? If there's no hair coming out of it how do you know its still there?
For massage, I hated doing it myself. Feels ridiculous and ineffective and makes my arms tired. I got a hand held electric massager and 3 minutes of use with that thing massages the f*** out of my entire scalp. Can't say what it's doing but having yet to find a successful treatment I don't want my follicles to disappear
Are the hairs you're shedding not growing back? Have you seen any benefit from minoxidil? If not minoxidil may be doing more harm than good for us. Suddenly stopping could cause an even worse shed so I'm playing it safe and weening off, or at least decreasing my dosage enough that my shed stops.. I hope.
I was doing it everyday for absorption. Minoxidilmax Dualgen 15% is what you should google although i don't know what has happened to their website, its still available on ebay. There is minoxidil plus website which sells 15 +10% in the US but i have never used it so cant vouch for it.
