Prohormone Induced Hair Loss
(sorry for my bad English)I had been on prohormone stacks 3-4 times for one year. The types of prohormone that I took are mild one except the last one. My hair started to fall out 3 months after quiting it. My doctor diagnosed me to the MPB(two months after the onset of MPB), and I have taken Propecia for about 4 months. The number of hairs that fall out per a day has been greatly reduced. My question is whether there is a difference in steroid induced MPB and normal MPB in terms of the degree of progress. I guess, since MPB started only when the amount of DHT is artificially increased, after the level returns back to its normal status due to cessation time plus is more reduced due to Propecia, there will be more room in the DHT level for it to be enough to cause some progress in MPB than normal MPB. What do you think about this? Do you have any clinical data about the long term progress of steroid induced MPB?
I can give you a general idea of Male Pattern Balding and how it may relate to your situation. But you need to speak to your doctor about your issues.
Male Pattern Balding is genetic as I have said many times here on BaldingBlog. DHT is not the main cause. Genetic inheritance is the main cause. If you have the genes for balding, then DHT is one of the hormones that cause the hair loss in men. Once the hair loss starts (after puberty) even if you completely block DHT you will likely continue to lose hair. There are a historical observations that suggest if you are castrated before puberty you may not have this genetic male pattern hair loss. Such examples are the Eunuchs. If you are castrated after puberty (after the balding process started) you may still have some hair loss. That is why blocking 100% of DHT is not going to solve the problem of male pattern hair loss.
Finally prohormones and how it related to hair loss is not something I am familiar with especially since I don’t know what prohormone you are taking. Thus follow up with your doctor is the best recommendation I have.
It’s highly unlikely that prohormones such as Andro and true DHEA metabolites will have much impact 3-4 months after cessation of use. Having spoken with thousands of users of prohormones and anabolic/androgenic steroids the impact on men with existing MPB is a sudden acceleration in shedding and actions closer to ‘catch up’ hairloss from someone discontinuing propecia. The impact appears to be noticeable during and just immediately after using a product that can convert to DHT. It does of course depend what you mean by ‘prohormones’ – a lot of stores still sell AA steroids under the nomenclature ‘prohormones’ when they are not. Prohormones such as genuine 4-androstenedione do not convert and cannot convert to DHT and are geberally reported to having little to no impact even on men with aggressive hair loss. Oddly these true prohormones were outlawed in the USA whilst grey market steroids with true 17aa methylation and DHT based structures continued to be sold whilst causing severe health impacts – to your liver, heart, blood lipid profiles as well as your hairline.
There are men with low DHT but with the genetics for hairloss who lose hair without prohormones and there are men who use incredible amounts of hormones and get no impact on their hairline. The likely impact of prohormones (depending on exactly what they are) is a possible temporary increase in the rate of hairloss if you already have MPB.