Posted by alexandra_k on September 11, 2015, at 1:14:10
In reply to better-ish, posted by alexandra_k on August 20, 2015, at 23:29:34
I'm losing my hair. It is freaking me out. I've shed crazy amounts of hair since forever. I remember going through a bit of a phase when I was 16, thinking that I must be going bald, the amount I collected off surfaces and out of the shower... Well, it's kept on, over the years, and now... Tis true. I actually am. I don't think anybody else would notice, yet, but it has decidedly thinned all over. And my parting right at the front is starting to widen. I really am going bald.
Cries.
I actually went to my GP about it a couple weeks ago. Got hormone levels checked. Normal. She suggested a progesterone pill because apparently my progesterone levels were low... Mumble mumble something about maybe depending on when I am in my cycle... That I'm probably not ovulating... Only... I'm fairly sure that I am. Get a little pain around them sometimes... Fairly sure that I am...
I had a bit of a look online and there is a 5-alpha reductase inhibitor that is funded over here. Of course they mean for it to be for benign prostate enlargement... But, meh, I'm been on all kindsa psych meds that weren't exactly supposed to be for peops like me, anyways, so whats the freaking difference? There were a couple of Aussie studies about it helping women with normal levels of androgens... I wanna try.
Have you heard of the 'extreme male brain' theory of Autistic Spectrum? Wouldn't it be funny (strange not funny haha) if this actually helped more broadly? To... Soften me. Or something...
I went on that skin one for a while... Vitamin A... My skin changed heaps. The quality of it changed. My pores shrunk and it softened and smoothed out. And I stopped producing so much ear wax, ha. And I think... I sweat less. In a good way. Then I got scared about my mood. Which was probably unrelated... But I stopped taking it. And things gradually reverted back. I regret not finishing it... It really did help. I wonder (I didn't think at the time) but I wonder what effect it had on hair...
I wonder what effect this will have? Does DHT have effects on the brain? Course it does... Hur...
Please oh please oh please let my hair grow back to the unruly mess it was before. cries.
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