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Old May 20, 2014, 08:30 PM
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Ok. Well it's driving me insane. I hope to find an even level some day. Interestingly, I began losing my hair when I was 20. I have seen a sophisticated doctors findings where he gave men with full heads of hair injections of testosterone and their hair began to instantly thin. Once stopping the injections their hair instantly grew back. I am youngest of 3 boys, and the only one who is bald. One brother called me a hormone case in my 20's.

Sorry if I got on a tangent, but I wonder how much hormones plays into any of this.
As a transgender person, I take weekly testosterone injections. I'm 30 now. This year, around the 3 year mark my hair started seriously thinning. My pdoc says that testosterone (and depakote incidentally) makes your hair pattern change so that more of it grows in and falls out at the same time instead of staggered, so you go through periods of thin hair.

As for hormones affecting bipolar, I say absolutely they can. I really notice if I forget my shot that my mood either flips up or crashes. Even dosage changes of my testosterone set off mood episodes.
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