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You likely can save money and just do a 1:1 mix with minoxidil, so you will get your 0.05 solution.

Well it depends, pictures are neccessary.

Honestly, the result looks fantastic and pretty good work has been done. I just think that the design is a little too aggressive, so I am praying for this guy to have not future loss.

@ciaus My suspicion is that you are a troll and I will report you. You can just not blame me for helping out someone who is in trouble. Moreover people telling him to stop the medication, in contrast of that I give tips how to overcome Brainfog. I am not a medical doctor, anyways, us trans persons, have to deal a lot with hormones in general and hormonal imbalances. I am still pretty sure, that this is a problem of missing Allopregnanolone in downstream. But instead of offending me, I am very ecxited what tips do you have. So why is he suffering from brain fog and what can be done about it ? On the other hand, if you are not willing to hear other peoples opinions and join a discussion, I am wondering why you enter a forum at all.

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TBH, I would really wait until the 2year timeline. Hair regrowth is sometimes pretty slow.

Very soft and natural looking :+1:

So true, loosing hair in this young age can be very very depressing. I think it makes a big difference if you are balding with 20 instead of balding with 30. Literally it has destroyed the time of my life which should have been the “best”. I still suffer from that. I also agree that you need to jump on Fin ASAP, there are chances that your balding spot all over your head will cover up niceley.

I remember the feeling, it was quite hard to go trough, I felt so lost every day But solving that problem is easy, just get utrogest and you will be fine. (Take it sublingual!) Having a good doctor might help, if not you can get it via black market (see hrt.cafe). To save money you can move from topical Fin to oral. I don’t use Progesterone anymore, as I am trans, my 5ar will not be occupied by too much Testosterone, so my neurosteroid levels are fine. But before my transition, P4 helped me a lot and I got rid of the brain fog.

I am an Hattingen patient too, must say, I literally had huge shock loss and before the 6th month mark, there was no regrowth to see at all. Anyways, even if I panicked, I was all over the roof, passing the 13th month mark. I recently had another transplant and I understand the frustration on that journey, even if I thought I would be prepared this time.

You might also want to get your hormones checked, might be also that you have high estrogen and high testosterone, which gives a lot of discomfort. I am working as a programmer, and FIN triggered this brain fog for me too, like you said: like in cotton UNSTANDABLE. This won't go away bit itself, so you need to do something against it, lowering the dose won't help unfortantly.

Another option - that's what I am doing - but you shouldn't. Decrease your Testosterone to very low leves, so T is not competing with P4 on the 5ar2 anymore, and your levels of DHP4 will increase -> more Allopregnanolone.

She must be happy, pretty good work 😍

I'll try 😃 You are using Finasteride, which is an 5 alpha reductase inhibior. 5 alpha reductase, converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT). But 5 alpha reductase, does more than that. You have a hormone in your body which is called Progestrone (typical an important hormone for woman). Progesterone will be converted to Dihydroprogesterone and finally to Allopregnanolone, which is a pretty important neurosteroid. Most people's brain can adjust to the lowered Allopregnanonlone, but some can't. So your option is to increase that Progesterone by adding some bio-indentical (Utrogest 100). So if you have more of that, you'll get the chanche to bind more of it to the 'still-active' 5 alpha reductase enzymes and increase Allopregnanonlone again.

Your only option is to add bio-identical progesterone (utrogest) sublingual. Problem is 5ar Inhibits P4->DHP4 transformation, this means a decrease of allopregnanolone (important neusteroid) downstream.