Recent content by Hecfield

Re: 6 months on Proscar and 2 months++ on Nizoral. Its just that using the word 'expert', whether or not it was tongue in cheek (i can't tell) to describe yourself when giving advice could make somebody put disproportionate confidence in what you say. Rassman, Lee, (to put faith in someone on...

Re: 6 months and Nizoral. Any credentials other than self proclamation?

Re: 6 months and Nizoral. Expert?

Just an FYI, but Boots don't prescribe for recession, frontal loss or mild diffuse. You need to have some scalp showing. That is unless they've changed their policy in the last year or so. The guy I had my consultation with had a clipboard and everything. Fancy.

Can we please stop forgetting that male pattern baldness has been shown to be polygenically controlled, and that different transcription factors need to be present for different genes to be activated. Its not just one gene thats turned on and abracadabra you're balding. Its far more complex.

5% Spironolactone, 1% caffeine and 0.025% Retinoic Acid/Retin-A, whatever you fancy. Only disconcerting thing is no inactive ingredients are listed.

I'm not Propecia's biggest fan, but I agree that the odds of it altering your sex life are really low. It truely is a small minority that experience sexual sides, and these disappear either upon continuation or cessation of use. Give it a go.

I've been going for about 13 months and had the same pattern. A little temple recession (NW1.5ish), essentially thick hair which had maybe diffused a tiny amount (though I did used to put my hair through a lot of heat stress so thats kind of unsurprising and might not strictly be due to male pattern baldness)...

The Kruger study, which I have read before, measured post ejaculation testosterone serum levels both before and after abstinence, not during abstinence itself. There is a more concise release of study results somewhere, but I'm having trouble finding it. It is a little ambiguous in that edition...

Thank you ADL, that was exactly what I was after. If you have links to and/or study titles to hand I'd appreciate it. And Britannia, I've no idea what your problem is. Stupid and lazy? I read the first 6 journal articles I could find on masturbation endocrinology from sciencedirect (this as far...

And Cassin, I did search first, went through about 15 threads and every one was essentially 'lets not talk about that'. I just wondered if anybody had a link to any reviews which were in dispute (as I said above, which granted was after you posted). And I didn't want to bump a thread from years...

Yes. Because that was obviously what I was asking. My entire post was a massive euphemism for asking 'please tell me how often i can beat off?' You've ousted me for the horrific pleasure obsessed creature I am. I tried to go about what I was saying in an entirely open and inoffensive way, and...

How fantastically mature.

Yeah thats the thing. I'm not entirely sure whether I jumped the gun or not. It started at about 16, so it was ongoing for 2 1/2 years before I jumped on finasteride. But the year since then has been much worse in terms of visible loss, and the first time I've experienced real diffuse thinning. It was a...

I know that this is a perennial hot potato, and I don't want to burn any mouths. That said, I was thinking about potential correlations between masturbation and rate of male pattern baldness, and it just seems logical. I browsed some studies which have shown an increase in T Levels after male sexual activity, and...