I have aggressive baldness, my temples and hairline have been destroyed, although the follicles are still alive and producing fine, transparent hair. I'm waiting for thickening. The sides above the ears also thin
I didn't understand what you want to say next. I can only say that Bicalutamide is the ideal cure for baldness, this is our last hope. Spironolactone has more side effects than you mentioned yourself. Bicalutamide has only one side effect: breast development, but as you can see, feminization and hair growth are inseparable from each other. I talked about the effects on the liver and refuted the effects on the heart. So I don't know what you want to say
But are you actually taking bica or just trying to promote it? That's what I don't get. It seems like you are wanting approval.
Here's the answer. Prior to 2008, most MtF's used either CEE's (Premarin) or (ethinyl estradiol). Many still state or at least some, that these two meds work better than the bio-identical estrogens especially for breast growth which is what MtF's seek. Hair loss is not a focus of MtF medication and I don't believe that bica is marketed for hair loss except for cis-females.
However, there begin to be two movements at once. First was a movement against synthetic meds that are used daily hence doctors began to switch to bio-identical estrogens. However the doctors did not understand the distinction between parenteral estradiol and oral swallowed bio-identical estradiol. Instead they simply began prescribing less estrogen in general. What then happened is that MtF's began struggling with feminization because they were not meeting adult female targets on the weaker bio-identical pills. So then as a band-aid, they started to prescribe several anti-androgens to help MtF's meet targets. People began believing that estradiol was incapable of inducing adult female target levels at these lower strengths and then/now, it reached a point where still, many MtF's don't believe that complete feminization is possible without AA's. So now MtF's are on at least two meds instead of just one and they are still being forced to take a synthetic med essentially forever.
Then the re-action came when many MtF's realized that this was ill-thought out medicine that had become inertial when many of the MtF's using syringes found that they were feminizing quickly and without issue with only injected estradiol. Of course, then many of us were like what the heck. These doctors are holding us hostage because they won't prescribe correctly. Even bio-identical E2 is harder on the liver than parenteral or SL estradiol in the long run. The goal is not to process things via the liver. Why would we want a synthetic cancer med when estradiol only worked better for many of us.
Because of this reaction, and for dubious breast-growth purposes, Dr. Will Powers starting touting bica as better and safer than spironolactone, CPA and MPA. It might be safer than those slightly but it is definitely less safe than processing bica when E2 is an endogenous hormone. Then there was this counter-reaction cause the Powers people started ridiculing all of wpath as a bunch of gatekeepers and the non-binary movement, at least in the U.S. opened the gates to folks like me. Before you had to agree to SRS before they would take you as a patient. With the internet, offshore vendors moved in and the the more radical began finding their own solutions.
To my knowledge there is no one who believes that bica plus estradiol is safer than estradiol only. How could it be? Because of Powers another cohort began singing the praises of bica as better, not just safer. It is not better for feminization. If you have a link indication that bica is better for feminization, then I will look at it. Somehow, you seem to believe that because some believe that bica is better for boobs that it's also better for hair. There's little evidence that it's better or worse for either to my knowledge but of course estradiol only is safer for the liver than using two things with one of them synthetic and processed through the liver. Furthermore many of us or most use far less than the hair proponents are using. 5-10 mg of CPA is fine. Bridge to my knowledge was using far too much of the AA's but it was only three years. I don't know what he's doing know. 12.5mg of Bica, I believe is the amount that most MtF's use of bica.
So I am still trying to understand why you think bica is a hair med somehow. It's used because it is far safer than flutamide, not spironolactone. We are all individuals and for some one works better but none of them work better than estradiol only under most circumstances. So I just don't get what you are driving at.
Are you going to use bica? I just can't follow you guy. Maybe it's the translator.
Maybe you think that using bica for hair loss for men is less feminizing to men but what leads you to believe that? Or are you anti-RI? I just don't have any idea what the purposes of your posts are.
So the usage of bica has little to nothing to do with it working better for feminization.
