Short Anabolic Cycle, Bye Bye Hairline, Hello Balding

[scarmenpouit]

Dear balding or hair-receding fellows,

I am a 30-year-old joyful and upbeat European male, who recently had the genius idea to run a 3.5 weeks cycle of Winstrol anabolic steroid which destroyed my hairline (yeay!).

I have stopped 1.5 months ago and I have been since then on a crusade to recover my precious hair. It is important to highlight, that I had NO muscle/strength benefits from the steroid, just a loss of 2/3rd of my hair density on the sides of my frontal hairline and a nice shrinking of my testies (double yeay!)

It is not the first time that I have done steroid in my life – said he, bragging- I have run 4-5 cycles, some MAY have been harsh on my hairline but I never noticed. However, I would say most haven’t. It was my first time with Winstrol - knowing full well its reputation for hair loss, said he, bragging again - I was too optimistic and thought “I’m sure I don’t have the hair loss gene” (while my brothers and father do, which again, shows how much of a genius I am). Also, now that I pay attention to it, I totally lost hair previous to that Winstrol cycle, it’s just I wasn’t sure if it was my normal matured hairline or if I was onboarding the balding train (tchoo tchoo).

For all of you out that has tasked their wife/partner to monitor. I also have asked my wife, roughly once every three days, to closely monitor the hair loss, which was unfruitful as she has always told me “it’s fine”. Let’s say the hair loss was just overshadowed by how lovable I am to my wife …


Strong of my “before picture” I have asked her to take new ones, and I was shocked to realize how much density I’ve lost in so little time. Needless to say, all the experiences from Steroid veterans on forums saying that they never recovered their hair, really put a big dent on my upbeat and positive attitude. I honestly was (and still am) disappointed of myself to suffer such impact from hair loss. I guess my overall happiness and serenity is based on a fragile foundation.


Once I have seen this picture, I have deployed a total warfare against hair loss: Propecia, Minoxidil 5% twice a day, derma rolling (1.5mm once a week, 0.5 mm once a week, and 0.25mm supposedly every day but it is more every 2-3 days). I also bought a scalp massage gadget, which I use twice a day (it vibrates, and I do circular motion on my scalp). I am also thinking of adding the inversion therapy aspect once a day or once EOD.

The right side of my front hairline got hit the hardest and lost 2/3 to 3/4th of my density. the left side maybe half. In 1.5 months of treatment I have some terminal hair regrowth (especially on the left side), a lot of thinner hair, and hundreds of vellus. The vellus even spread to formerly bald area.

I have researched other treatment and procedure, if any of you did the following, I’d be glad you’d share your suggestion. Nowadays, it is too easy to fall within the abyss of marketing bullshit:
- My dermatologist (who barely checked) told me: IF you have stopped the cause of the thinning (steroid) it will come back. Experienced users said otherwise
- Hair Transplant: I have been diagnosed to need 1,500-2,000 FUE implant from one clinic (online diagnosis) and 2,500 from another (online as well), more on that below
- PRP: I am interested to know if I would be a good candidate. Does this help or is it just an overpriced peach-fuzz grower?
- Low Level Light Therapy: I’ve seen a 600$ helmet online using this technology, a bit of a mix review.

The hair transplant diagnostics were both made online, from two clinics based in Lisbon (because I’d like to go visit this city, heard great things about it), will check Budapest and Istanbul also which are known for these procedures. Both diagnostic I had reached 5,000Eur. Which hurts, for a 3.5 weeks stupidity (of no benefit). But more importantly, I am not sure I could just show up to my (uptight) office shaved head.

I have before pictures (which I thought wouldn’t actually be so useful, as “I wouldn’t be losing my hair anyway”), pictures from the time I realized the damage, pictures from “realization” day when I decided to cut my hair (as having them mid-long hid the dark truth), and pictures at 1.5 months post steroid cycle and beginning of hair loss treatment.

Any comment, or sharing of your relevant experiences (and PRP treatment), are welcome!
Best regards to you all who made it to the end.

UPDATE: It seems that the platform compressed picture upload so the quality is far from allowing to see all the details