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To Sky77 (Androgenetic Alopcia (AGA) Female Pattern)

posted by bunnyheather, 31.01.2008, 13:12

» I have been taking cyproterone and spiro since stopping birth control 3
» years ago and during this whole time I have not had a natural period
» without taking hormones. I seem to have problems with taking estrogen i.e
» acne, worse hairloss, nausea (both synthetic and bio-identical). My endo
» tried to get my ovaries to work via all sorts of hormone medications with
» no luck ( I just turned 30 so way to young to have no estrogen in the
» body).
»
» I started taking some form of estrogen regularly about 14 months ago and
» my hair loss and skin got much much worse which totally didn't make sense
» because I was taking an extremely high dose of cyproterone (200mg) and
» spiro(100-200mg). My endo and I tried all these different combos (higher
» estrogen, lower estrogen, different type of estrogen, lowering the
» anti-androgens) but nothing worked - during this time all my regrowth came
» in as miniturized hairs and I now have 25% of my original hair density
» left. For some reason my body just doesn't like estrogen with cypro or
» spiro.
»
» So after some research, I told my endo I wanted to try flutamide because
» for some women, taking cypro and spiro can stop the ovaries from working
» (both of them have progesterone activity) and obviously taking an external
» form of estrogen is not working for me... I went to my appointment with
» printouts of information on flutamide (studies have shown that flutamide
» with metformin have helped some women to get back their menstrual cycles)
» and my endo agreed to let me try flutamide for 6 months as long as I get
» my liver checked regularly.
»
» I have been on flutamide for 6 days. The week before flutamide my average
» hair loss was 100-150 a day. Yesterday my total hair loss was 77 and today
» it's on track for being somewhere between 80-90. My shower has gone from
» 100/130 to 63/65 in the last two days... I have stopped all the other
» anti-androgens and all I am taking is flutamide and metformin.
»
» I know it is still early but I am hopeful this is going to work. My hair
» loss has gone from mainly terminal hair during shower/blowdrying to more
» miniturized hairs which I take is a good sign. This is my last resort -
» there are studies that flutamide works better than both spiro and
» cyproterone... hopefully it will work for me...
»
» During my 3 years on cypro and spiro my hair never stopped falling out but
» I did have regrowth... but my hair was still thinning just slowly.
My hair has never shed a lot (even when I was a teen, early adult)unless I have TE whcih has only happened a copule times in my life. SO I disagree that its bad to not shed. I think I would have thinned regardless of shedding or not.


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