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Thank you! At last this has been realised. Well, my 2 cents to the whole thread: hairloss is pretty complicated. I have found some of the baldness sites very useful for information on this. After all, plenty of women who don't have PCOS suffer from hairloss, even with normal testosterone. Personally I have yet to find an answer. Flutamide is meant to be the best anti-androgen for hairloss, but it isn't guaranteed to stop it. From reading the women's hairloss boards, I have gathered that a few people seem to respond badly to anti-androgens, including spiro i.e their symptoms get worse. But I don't think this is a good reason not to try them as most people don't have this problem. It is unusual to get a significant amount of regrowth in thinning areas from just taking anti-androgens I believe, but hey, stopping hairloss is a good place to start!
My personal experience with nizoral shampoo is that it caused more hair to fall out- but that was just my experience and most people find it somewhat helpful, or at least not damaging. I then found out that the active ingredient affects something like vitamin A metabolism, or something. I can't remember exactly, but I think it is why some people on roaccutane can start losing their hair-so that's just a warning in case as it took me ages to work out why I was losing even more hair. Shampoo wise t gel works for me and I cannot recommend shampoo containing tea tree oil enough. The stuff rocks!
I would imagine that your skin acquires sensitivity to androgens at puberty, and once that is it, then that is it. Apparently males castrated before puberty never went bald even if they were later given testosterone. (unless I've remembered that wrong) But who knows? This could well be yet another misunderstood area. After all, if they have only just started noticing that many women ovulate several times a month....Hairloss though is weird and doesn't just kick in for most people at puberty, although it can. So in most men, you have plenty of T and DHT cascading about but it doesn't usually initiate hairloss straight away. It could take years, and that only happens if you have the genetic tendancy to go bald...oh well I could blabber on for hours about this, must stop!Oh yes, and doctors say that once the hair is growing, it will usually stay growing, unless you take something that partially inhibits the androgens from binding to androgen receptors or of course, kill or disable each hair follicle. However, I would take that with a pinch of salt, as often women can get decreased hair growth, even if not elimination of excess hair, without taking anything like this if their hormones are normalized to a degree. I think there is a lot that is not known about hair growth. Phew, that was definitely more than 2 cents. |