Ok, here's essentially my journey dealing with hairloss (and recovery).
Hairloss started at 22 during a second round of accutane. I always had crazy spikey hair that garnered a ton of attention and was probably my favorite attribute, so really didn't know how to deal with it falling out. This was me just prior to losing hair:
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I started buzzing my hair after about 4 months of rapid shedding that I could no longer hide:
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Like most people I became a prisoner to hat jail:
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I started finesteride when I was probably about 25 or so, which initially gave me pretty great regrowth:
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But after a couple years gains pretty much disappeared and I started shaving my head again. These are photos from the last time I shaved my head:
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I eventually got fed up with buzzing my head so decided to give it one more go growing my hair out while I still had some. But my hairloss continued to get worse. Then I did a ton of research, which included discovering this thread. I began taking spironolactone and estradiol and noticed some new hairs sprouting after the first month or so, which kept increasing as time went by. Here's a pic from about a year and half ago with my hairloss at it's worst vs just recently with a lot of regrowth:
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In short, the treatment has given me back years of hairloss. It's not been completely smooth sailing though. I mentioned before that I ended up being diagnosed with a crazy autoimmune disease (scleroderma), which caused me to drop my regimen and was prescribed a drastic chemotherapy drug (mexotrexate), which decimated a good deal of my hair progress. But after some research and blood tests in which I discovered that my estrone levels were out of control on oral E which likely triggered the disease, I switched to E injections and dropped the methotrexate and added spironolactone again. Regrowth started back again recently after a few months of hardcore shedding. My hair still is not perfect and I have a couple patchier spots, but it's miles better than what it was only a year ago. I never imagined being able to have long hair, which has allowed me to do styles I never thought would be possible once I started losing it.
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