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Ok basically im a Norwood 2 id say with diffuse. Back last april after alot of mental torturing of myself, telling myself i should be able to deal with it , without meds and not let my looks matter so much to me, i felt i had to do something about it. Im quite a proud person see, and i really gave myself sh*t about how much it was bothering me, but alas, it did.
Both my uncles on mothers side are bald. One started at 18 and one later 20's. My maternal GF was bald too so genes not no my side
At 17/18 i had begun loosing my hair, though i didnt really notice it. It was only in early 2004 , when i was 19 that it really became apparent. It really accelerated since then.
To can a long story short(er)
I started off with temporal resession and thinning top, hairs weak and loosing colour.
I started end of april 2005 with Xandrox 5% morning and evening, with 12.5% lotion in the evening on temples and front. And reluctantly and scared started 1mg Propecia every day.
Shedding seemed to be worse for first month, tired to forget about it .
Noticed fine hairs coming in after about a month but as i wasnt sure if that was loosing of gaining i didnt think much of it
By end of July 2005 things were looking real good. Overall hair was thicker, darker and front was denser. Basically over all hairline was more defined and hair wasnt so thin and lifeless. People said, have you dyed it etc etc and my uncle who came over in august thought id had a hair transplant or something .
mid august i dropped my dosage to 0.5mg to see if i could get by on that and hold what id gained as i dont like taking pills at the best of times and started xandrox 15% on temples and front instead of 12.5 % lotion
Seemed to be a big mistake. After about 3 weeks i noticed the frontal hairs becoming less pigmented.
After 2 months on 0.5mg id had enough, it was obvious it was a bad move, i noticed like lots of hairs on combing and got back on 1mg at the end of October 2005 and also dropped the xandrox 15 for the lotion again as i assume these were working for me.
Well here i am, almost 4 months on back on a steady regimne of 1mg and the xandrox and 12.5 and basically since i noticed the decline in september/october while on the 0.5mg it hasnt been the same since. I would have hoped that being such a quick responder to the propecia initially i would have got back on track rather quickly. Though every week that goes by seems to make me more dispondant and that propecia isnt working as well as it was initally.
I would say, as i am now, i am actually coming worryingly close to baseline. Not quite, but getting that way.
Am i expecting too much of my body, am i not factoring in sheds/ hair cycles in all this? should i just kick back, forget about it and hope thinks happen the way it should besing as im doing all i can minus the dunsteride?
Im basically on here after a little bit of reassurance from people who konw what there on about.
I really have given myself alot of crap over this whole hairloss thing, ive really beaten myself up over it and almost feel ashamed feeling compelled to do something about something which is only cosmetic. Considering i find it odd and sad for women to get boob jobs, i feel i shoudl be practiceing what i preach and let nature take its course, but hey it is how i feel. I do take pride in my self and it does bother me, i will accept it either way. I feel lucky i have been blessed with a good physique so have that to fall back on, i just . . . really wonna keep my blonde rug
Help me out guys, wotta ya got. . . .
cheers in advance
J
Ok basically im a Norwood 2 id say with diffuse. Back last april after alot of mental torturing of myself, telling myself i should be able to deal with it , without meds and not let my looks matter so much to me, i felt i had to do something about it. Im quite a proud person see, and i really gave myself sh*t about how much it was bothering me, but alas, it did.
Both my uncles on mothers side are bald. One started at 18 and one later 20's. My maternal GF was bald too so genes not no my side
At 17/18 i had begun loosing my hair, though i didnt really notice it. It was only in early 2004 , when i was 19 that it really became apparent. It really accelerated since then.
To can a long story short(er)
I started off with temporal resession and thinning top, hairs weak and loosing colour.
I started end of april 2005 with Xandrox 5% morning and evening, with 12.5% lotion in the evening on temples and front. And reluctantly and scared started 1mg Propecia every day.
Shedding seemed to be worse for first month, tired to forget about it .
Noticed fine hairs coming in after about a month but as i wasnt sure if that was loosing of gaining i didnt think much of it
By end of July 2005 things were looking real good. Overall hair was thicker, darker and front was denser. Basically over all hairline was more defined and hair wasnt so thin and lifeless. People said, have you dyed it etc etc and my uncle who came over in august thought id had a hair transplant or something .
mid august i dropped my dosage to 0.5mg to see if i could get by on that and hold what id gained as i dont like taking pills at the best of times and started xandrox 15% on temples and front instead of 12.5 % lotion
Seemed to be a big mistake. After about 3 weeks i noticed the frontal hairs becoming less pigmented.
After 2 months on 0.5mg id had enough, it was obvious it was a bad move, i noticed like lots of hairs on combing and got back on 1mg at the end of October 2005 and also dropped the xandrox 15 for the lotion again as i assume these were working for me.
Well here i am, almost 4 months on back on a steady regimne of 1mg and the xandrox and 12.5 and basically since i noticed the decline in september/october while on the 0.5mg it hasnt been the same since. I would have hoped that being such a quick responder to the propecia initially i would have got back on track rather quickly. Though every week that goes by seems to make me more dispondant and that propecia isnt working as well as it was initally.
I would say, as i am now, i am actually coming worryingly close to baseline. Not quite, but getting that way.
Am i expecting too much of my body, am i not factoring in sheds/ hair cycles in all this? should i just kick back, forget about it and hope thinks happen the way it should besing as im doing all i can minus the dunsteride?
Im basically on here after a little bit of reassurance from people who konw what there on about.
I really have given myself alot of crap over this whole hairloss thing, ive really beaten myself up over it and almost feel ashamed feeling compelled to do something about something which is only cosmetic. Considering i find it odd and sad for women to get boob jobs, i feel i shoudl be practiceing what i preach and let nature take its course, but hey it is how i feel. I do take pride in my self and it does bother me, i will accept it either way. I feel lucky i have been blessed with a good physique so have that to fall back on, i just . . . really wonna keep my blonde rug
Help me out guys, wotta ya got. . . .
cheers in advance
J
