There is a report about several young men taking casodex 50mg a day and in 6 months most were tanner 3-5 but the median age was a bit over 16. Are there any adults using casodex without anything else? Another source says 25-50mg every 2-3 days is enough because of its long halflife when being used as an anti androgen.

Men? Are you talking about trans women here? Why would anyone put young men on Bica? I don't know about without anything else, but I do know Bica is magnificent on its own to cause/aid full body feminisation. 

And please stop the misgendering, there's no men of that age on Bica, its used as a puberty blocker for trans girls/young women.

Wow that caught me by surprise. the misgendering was unintentional sorry.

Yes I thought it sounded weird because when Bica is prescribed for men, its usually older men as is the case with most T blockers used for feminising HRT to keep T levels at bay. Just stood out, I think I know which study/article you're probably referring to as there has been a study on yojng trans women who got Bica as their sole puberty blocker before full conventional HRT and the results were very positive as they had berast development and full body feminisation from nothing but Bica on its own. 

It is known to cause faster/mor pronounced feminising changes also in older trans women and the way it functions may aid breast development on its own. I'm on it, I switched from Cyproterone Acetate eleven months ago, I've been on 25mg twice per week which is perfect. And the effects are exactly as described, my breast developmenthas been probably also aided by using Bica as my T blocker. Its only possible problem is that its stressful to liver, but in such tiny doses the risk is likely almost non existent. Note that in high doses on older men when used as prostate cancer treatment, it has caused cases of liver failure, but this is unlikly on younger healthy person taking smallest viable dose for T blocking. 

Its very interesting option on aiding NBE and or HRT programs and its also cheap. Well worth a discussion.

Have never seen anyone before suggest Bicalutamide as known more effective for the TransLater crowd. Your voluminous body of (results!) posts here leads me to believe you have more reasons to say that than purely personal experience. Can you share more about bica?

That study of teen trans women, plus the many studies of Bicalutamide in older men who mostly tolerate it very well are all that’s out there. But no studies of older trans women exist.

Am a four year lurker here, 48 year old bigender enby making my first post. Am seeking strong breast growth from my existing base top where I have always experienced gynecomastia, while maintaining bottom function.  As a bigender person, the plan is maintaining my assigned gender (m) identity, because is also gender affirming to me. (And yes, I am keenly aware of ED, taladafil, t creams and viagra for the bottom.) At the same time, this is not so much my fear of feminization so much as wanting to express both genders which I identify with fully, wholesomely and without terrible conflict (had enough conflict, thx!).

Haven’t taken anything yet, but had a first visit with my doctor and told them I wanted to try Bicalutamide mono therapy to accomplish these goals. They said it might not be enough for full breast development, but I told them it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Was not actually expecting the Doctor to agree with me so easily as they did. 

Can bica alone be enough, for the most part? Any tips from your experience?

Thank you for your many contributions to this board.

Have never seen anyone before suggest Bicalutamide as known more effective for the TransLater crowd. Your voluminous body of (results!) posts here leads me to believe you have more reasons to say that than purely personal experience. Can you share more about bica?

That study of teen trans women, plus the many studies of Bicalutamide in older men who mostly tolerate it very well are all that’s out there. But no studies of older trans women exist.

Am a four year lurker here, 48 year old bigender enby making my first post. Am seeking strong breast growth from my existing base top where I have always experienced gynecomastia, while maintaining bottom function.  As a bigender person, the plan is maintaining my assigned gender (m) identity, because is also gender affirming to me. (And yes, I am keenly aware of ED, taladafil, t creams and viagra for the bottom.) At the same time, this is not so much my fear of feminization so much as wanting to express both genders which I identify with fully, wholesomely and without terrible conflict (had enough conflict, thx!).

Haven’t taken anything yet, but had a first visit with my doctor and told them I wanted to try Bicalutamide mono therapy to accomplish these goals. They said it might not be enough for full breast development, but I told them it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Was not actually expecting the Doctor to agree with me so easily as they did. 

Can bica alone be enough, for the most part? Any tips from your experience?

Thank you for your many contributions to this board.

Hi! With this I would so much appreciate having Lotus chime in as she would know more than I do. The thing with Bica is that it in itself has a feminising effect on the body on the side of being an excellent T blocker, or should I say receptor blocker as it makes T receptors not react to T. I don't have studies at hand which I could link or quote, but this has to do with the way Bica works and its excellent blocker due to it alone aiding breast developement. This was studies on young trans girls who were on Bica as a puberty blocker and that alone was able to give them noticeable breastdevelopment and feminisation of body which of course is more than welcome for any trans woman. 

I have discussed use of Bica as blocker with Lotus, Stevenator, I think with Melissa too and then there's all the positive things I read online and decided to switch from Cypro to Bica and my body changes since then have taken an uptick, especially breasts and face changes. Small dose of 25mg twice a week is well enough to block T and it doesn't seem to be harmful to my liver either, tiny doses should have very little side ffect margin so its likely to be very safe used like this. 

You are correct, studies on older trans women do not exist as bica isn't prescribed often to anyone older than thirty in my knowledge. 

I'm convinced that Bica is effective on its own, as when I started it I didn't make any major changes to my HRT and NBHE programs, but my body changes took quite a leap in rather short time and its still on going, right now better than ever about which I just posted in my main thread. 

I would be quite confident about trying Bica as monotherapy, just make sure the doses stay moderate as Bica can be very stressful to liver, but afaik only if the doses are quite high.

Have never seen anyone before suggest Bicalutamide as known more effective for the TransLater crowd. Your voluminous body of (results!) posts here leads me to believe you have more reasons to say that than purely personal experience. Can you share more about bica?

That study of teen trans women, plus the many studies of Bicalutamide in older men who mostly tolerate it very well are all that’s out there. But no studies of older trans women exist.

Am a four year lurker here, 48 year old bigender enby making my first post. Am seeking strong breast growth from my existing base top where I have always experienced gynecomastia, while maintaining bottom function.  As a bigender person, the plan is maintaining my assigned gender (m) identity, because is also gender affirming to me. (And yes, I am keenly aware of ED, taladafil, t creams and viagra for the bottom.) At the same time, this is not so much my fear of feminization so much as wanting to express both genders which I identify with fully, wholesomely and without terrible conflict (had enough conflict, thx!).

Haven’t taken anything yet, but had a first visit with my doctor and told them I wanted to try Bicalutamide mono therapy to accomplish these goals. They said it might not be enough for full breast development, but I told them it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Was not actually expecting the Doctor to agree with me so easily as they did. 

Can bica alone be enough, for the most part? Any tips from your experience?

Thank you for your many contributions to this board.

Hi! With this I would so much appreciate having Lotus chime in as she would know more than I do.

I would be quite confident about trying Bica as monotherapy, just make sure the doses stay moderate as Bica can be very stressful to liver, but afaik only if the doses are quite high.

Firstly, thank you for your response and for sharing your experiences  . Bicalutamide monotherapy is actually the path my Doctor recently blessed me to start exploring with baseline bloodwork. I'm hoping that it brings a level of mental clarity and relief not present during my many years of lurking here.

I have read everything great Lotus has to post on the issue of bicalutamide, and then some! It seems to be the path that fits my journey the best because of the route it takes to let the body produce its own E, so we can see the overall effects, while closely monitoring the liver's acceptance of the therapy. Fortunately, my heavy drinking days are well over a decade in my past, and my medically necessary diet changes have lowered my A1C and cholesterol significantly this year, too, which showed in my standard bloodwork. 

But this is a major step for me and one I do not consider lightly. Oh, and since I have gynecomastia already, and this is the BN, my gut tells me it should promote the kind of growth I'm looking for in my breasts.

Please update your progress, I'm very interestedin seeing how this works on an adult person. This is interesting experiment for boob science. 

Progress updates promised on a new thread, but first, baseline labs and measurements.