1.5ish year progress
Have been really enjoying seeing everyone's posts in this sub and so many of them have given me hope & reassurance for what's still possible to regain that i wish id had at the start of my journey, so I wanted to add my progress aswell as I looked back at some old photos recently and feel like I've come pretty far.
Photo 1 is from egg crack pre hrt & any hairloss meds in July 2024.
Photo 2 is this evening. I've since moved homes so this is the closest I could do with lighting and that old photo is the only one I have of my hairline from then and wanted to take the most similar photo I could.
I started finasteride at age 26 August 2024 and switched to Dutasteride April 2025.
Hrt monotherapy sublingual estradiol from May 2025-December 2025 and switched to EV injections in December. Oral minoxodil and rectal progesterone from October 2025 and am now age 28. I also quit smoking January 2025.
Things were still pretty sparse up until starting oral min and switching to injections and since then regrowth has absolutely taken off. I did have a shed a few weeks after starting min but I weirdly think I lost more from the back than the top at the time. Also oral min **did** cause much of my facial hair to start regrowing thicker and quicker but laser is starting to catch back up to where I was pre-min.
Not where I want to be with regrowth and still hoping there's more to come but I know ill probably need a transplant and hairline lowering for me to be completely comfortable but I feel so so much better about myself than I did back in 2024.
Anyway :)