So frustrating!! I've been losing my hair since I was 17, now 26. I've never been able to successfully regrow, but the loss process has at least been slow going, which I guess I should be more grateful. Nevertheless, it's impossible to tell if any of the treatments I've used are helping slow down the process.

Right now I take 200mg Spiro daily. My testosterone is already normal on its own, let alone with a massive dose of Spiro flattening the already meager female levels. But I guess we can't have even a fucking trace amount of this incredibly necessary and helpful hormone around without freaking the fuck out huh??

I use 5% minox daily, which is "supposed" to be enough. I guess I could bump up to the "men's dose" of 2x daily... but not only does it seem to have zero effects, it also makes my hair look extremely limp and greasy, which just makes the balding more obvious, therefore defeating its own purpose.

I've never found a doctor, dermatologist, or endocrinologist who will even remotely consider prescribing Fin even with birth control, they all but gasp at the suggestion. My Iron is normal and I take 10K IU Vitamin D per week. Ketoconazole dries out my hair in a big way.

I buzzed my hair in college, and actually got more male attention, so it presumably looked good. Either that or the power of youth overpowered the hairstyle. Whichever it was, at my age, it's just a little too edgy to pull off.

Now I have finally got my career off the ground, paid of my credit card debt and am going to have some extra money for the first time in my life. I was GOING to use it to escape my insanely expensive city, fix my teeth, or travel, but the scalp situation has reached the point of no return.

So now I have to decide which thing I don't even want to throw away my hard-earned cash on. PRP, an insanely expensive treatment which may or may not temporarily work? Can't get a transplant since there is no sign of this shit stopping any time soon. A wig? Yes, I would love to spend $500 on some scary disembodied-body-part looking thing that might come to life and strangle me in my sleep, that's hot and itchy and takes a long inconvenient process to put on EVERY SINGLE DAY. Not to mention everyone I know will notice I'm wearing hair bc they ALREADY KNOW what I look like

Fuck dude, I already have to shave and wax every part of my body and all this makeup to go to any social event. And now this??? I don't WANNA WEAR A WIG!! I'm sick of this shit.