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Originally Posted by Flying Monkeys  I noticed my thinning during my second pregnancy 2 years ago. My husband said it was from the stress of IVF and high risk pg and that it was nothing. It's only gotten worse since then. My testosterone was 64 in '02, at that time we were trying to conceive our second so they didn't say anything about it. Sept '08 is was 78 and last month it was 98, which my GYN says is not enough to worry about. I convinced her to try and treat it anyway and am in the process of trying to find an endochronologist. I'm just starting met, 500mg twice a day and 50mg spirolactone once a day, plus I've been using Rogaine twice a day for about 6 weeks. I think the Rogaine shed is slowing, I hope so because it was shocking. You can see my scalp without having to be 6 inches away. The light reflects off of it.
My loss seems to be right at the front, crown and the widow's peak areas and I'm worried that it's not going to stop and I'm going to look like Red Forman soon. |
There's no simple answer without a downside to it. Temples, crown and frontal hair loss is what we can expect if we're sensitized to testosterone and have high testosterone levels.
If there were a simple answer to hair loss, then you can be sure men would be queuing up for it, but the one effective answer for them is one that they're (understandably!) not prepared to take -- to bring their testosterone levels down into the range which is normal for females. But for us too, there are downsides to the side-effects of drugs which bring down our testosterone levels.
For some of us, the side-effects and risks are preferable to having the results of high testosterone levels, but some doctors take the line that since the high testosterone levels are not life-threatening, it's not worth the risks involved. To them, the non-invasive answer seems logical with the thinking
1) A great many women have male-pattern baldness. It won't kill anyone. Millions of women wear a wig.
2) A great many women have male-pattern facial and body hair. A lot of women have to shave every day. It's not going to kill anyone.
Therefore, to their way of thinking, there's no need to do anything about it medically.
Amazingly, I saw something a couple of years ago about a survey of female dermatologists with regard to their own preferred method of dealing with facial hair if they had it
themselves -- and the vast majority of them (almost unanimous)was to the effect that whatever they might suggest to others, they themselves reckoned that shaving was their preferred method for their own personal use.
Anyone thinning up front? 
