Hair today, gone tomorrow!
Click to viewAt least that title is what I half thought the band ‘Heaven 17’ were singing way back in 1983 on their hit ‘Come live with me'! Little did I realise how much I would come to rue the onset of ‘Male pattern baldness, which probably started about a similar time in the 1980s.
Thankfully I still have something of a reasonable covering, and my hairdresser, who has other transgender clients, thinks it may well grow back. The hormones may well help when I finally start on them in about a month’s time, but at least this week I’ve been able to start taking some steps to try and at least get some more ‘hair tomorrow’! My doctor/GP has proscribed ‘Fanasteride,’ and I’ve invested in a product called ‘Regaine’ which is supposed to ‘regrow hair’, sadly (for me) its seen as a cosmetic product by the National Health Service (NHS) so I’ve had to buy it at full price! (Still the pack I got was nearing its use by date so it was half price! That must be the ‘luck’ I blogged about earlier!)
Only time will tell if the drugs etc will give me a ‘hair-raising’ experience, but I can only try. But even if I don’t get my hair back at least now I’ve discovered a place to make the most of my wigs in nearby Manchester. (See http://www.transfixedonline.co.uk/) Indeed, I know Steph Booth (Tony Blair’s Mother-in-law) in the town I live in and when she saw how good and natural they’d made my wig look she congratulated me on how feminine I was looking! And others keep doing that too!!