Recent content by Pelican

Dear citizens of the United Kingdom, Like we told you a while back - buzz off, we'll take things from here. Thanks.

Surely after all this time there's been some sort of attempt to determine the long-term effect of finasteride use on male hormone profiles? Particularly in the younger men who tend to take it for hair loss rather than much older men taking it for prostate-related issues. On average do men at...

Just curious if anyone has seen an improvement of their hair color on any regimen, regardless of whether or not they're seeing any real benefit in maintenance or regrowth. Such as regaining lost color in non-pigmented or greying hair, better 'saturation' of existing color, etc.? I know some...

As I said, my own hormone levels have slowly - and I mean slowly - returned to normal. Estradiol (and related) have completely normalized, though it took a good deal of time during which I had a hell of a time shedding the body fat I put on during finasteride use. My testosterone has gone up...

I'm more than two years off finasteride 1mg daily and my hormones have had a very slow recovery. My estradiol was high for a male, my DHT was low (and I no longer have any interest in lowering serum DHT for any extended period of time), my testosterone was hovering just above the low end of the...

What sort of "really bad" shedding were you having? Did you thin behind the existing hairline, have sparse areas go slick bald, etc? And have you noticed any increase in body hair on the high-concentration Minoxidil?

"Flutamide grows breasts quick" Where are you getting this? Topical flutamide causes gyno?

Now, I'm not sure what androgen deprivation in prostate cancer involves, or to what levels they try to drop the androgens, but I do know that I've seen some really low counts for finasteride (and dutasteride) users in the past, and we'll definitely be on these drugs longer than a few years...

Typical How telling is it that at least one of the flamers is a Canadian? Look, if you don't think this guy who gave up a shitload of money to play an f'ing GAME in order to serve his country after an unprecedented terrorist attack is a hero - more power to you. And frankly it doesn't...

DHT By the same token, the advantage of using Minoxidil with a DHT blocker is that more than likely the DHT blocker is preventing the follicular damage responsible for 'losing all the hair your regrew when you go off Minoxidil'. If you're regrowing hair in significantly thinned/near-slick...

Misc When Xandrox 12% came out there was a flood of use comment on it in the newsgroup and on boards like these. I can't think of a single comment that was good. Of course this was in the first few months, and I stopped paying attention after that, but the gist of it was that people were...

Doomsayers No, minoxidil and propecia and everything under the sink won't get you a full head of hair. Yes, if you find a treatment you respond well to you can recover a cosmetically significant amount of hair. Yes, even if you recover a fairly significant amount of hair you're probably going...

What is this Ell Crannel? Haven't heard of it yet.

Not me I was on finasteride 5 or so years, had some slowly creeping significant effects that I've posted about here before, and which with close attention I could have averted - and all of which I've recovered from after several months (save for the weight, which is still coming off) -- but...

People who lose height generally do so due to loss of cartilage in the spine, and various degeneration of bone (spine, knees, etc.) and muscle structure which causes slumping (not just slumping over). Doesn't take but a bit of that to knock an inch or two off your height, which is generally...