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Hi everyone,
After lurking for some time I have decided to post my own thread and track my progress.
I was loosing my hair since being around 16yo - my girl at the time was pointing it out to me back then. I just assumed that I have thinner hair then most of people and didn't care just living my life. As time went on temples were receding and hair on my whole scalp were thinning more and more. It was coming in "attacks" were my scalp was becoming very itchy with tons of dandruff and my hair were falling out like crazy. It stopped after some time just to attack again few months later. So far I was using only shampoos without any significant results.
For most of the time with good haircut it was possible to style my hair to look decent despite of receded hairline and thin top. About month ago when I came back from my barber I looked in the mirror and understood that I can't no longer hide the fact that I'm balding. So I decided to shave my head - the point was that if I will be looking at least decent shaven I will just rock bald head without giving a f*** but as you can probably figure I don't look well without my hair since I'm writing this post. The second option is to fight for my hair and see what I can manage to accomplish.
So I'm two weeks in into following regimen:
1. Minoxidil 5% (twice a day) with dermarolling lightly without bleeding (every evening) as guy Somebody from this forum suggested.
2. Putting egg white on my scalp to reduce inflammation (once/twice a week). I thought it was stupid to do so but it really reliefs my itchy scalp.
3. Tons of supplements - I know it will not reverse my hair loss but I decided to include them to help with inflammation and grow faster and hopefully thicker hair that I still have on my head (since I was shaven bald 3 weeks ago). List: Vit. D, Omega 3, Biotin, Borage oil, Pumpkin seed oil, Perilla leafs (caps), L-Lisine.
I'm thinking about including finasteride but if I will do so it will be only 0.25mg a day or even less. I'm scared of side effects because I had some ed problems few years ago. Also dermatologist that I visited (old lady) didn't want to prescribe me it due to possible sides, but it looked like she just wanted to get rid of me.
I'm also thinking about buying toppik just to help myself throughout phase of growing my hair again and use it until hopefully I will see some thickening of my own hair.
My current situation is pretty bad - when it comes to temples I'm around NW3 but since all of my hair is so thin you can easily put me at NW4/5. I have hair almost all over my scalp (even on receded temples) but it's really thin, without life and very dry. It's also hard to tell if I'm shedding due to minoxidil because my hair is so short but the amount of them depresses me...
I will upload pics in edit later because I want to blur my face etc.
Wish me luck with regrowing!
@Edit
I'm attaching pics of current state in natural lightning - 3 weeks after shaving, two weeks into minoxidil.
After lurking for some time I have decided to post my own thread and track my progress.
I was loosing my hair since being around 16yo - my girl at the time was pointing it out to me back then. I just assumed that I have thinner hair then most of people and didn't care just living my life. As time went on temples were receding and hair on my whole scalp were thinning more and more. It was coming in "attacks" were my scalp was becoming very itchy with tons of dandruff and my hair were falling out like crazy. It stopped after some time just to attack again few months later. So far I was using only shampoos without any significant results.
For most of the time with good haircut it was possible to style my hair to look decent despite of receded hairline and thin top. About month ago when I came back from my barber I looked in the mirror and understood that I can't no longer hide the fact that I'm balding. So I decided to shave my head - the point was that if I will be looking at least decent shaven I will just rock bald head without giving a f*** but as you can probably figure I don't look well without my hair since I'm writing this post. The second option is to fight for my hair and see what I can manage to accomplish.
So I'm two weeks in into following regimen:
1. Minoxidil 5% (twice a day) with dermarolling lightly without bleeding (every evening) as guy Somebody from this forum suggested.
2. Putting egg white on my scalp to reduce inflammation (once/twice a week). I thought it was stupid to do so but it really reliefs my itchy scalp.
3. Tons of supplements - I know it will not reverse my hair loss but I decided to include them to help with inflammation and grow faster and hopefully thicker hair that I still have on my head (since I was shaven bald 3 weeks ago). List: Vit. D, Omega 3, Biotin, Borage oil, Pumpkin seed oil, Perilla leafs (caps), L-Lisine.
I'm thinking about including finasteride but if I will do so it will be only 0.25mg a day or even less. I'm scared of side effects because I had some ed problems few years ago. Also dermatologist that I visited (old lady) didn't want to prescribe me it due to possible sides, but it looked like she just wanted to get rid of me.
I'm also thinking about buying toppik just to help myself throughout phase of growing my hair again and use it until hopefully I will see some thickening of my own hair.
My current situation is pretty bad - when it comes to temples I'm around NW3 but since all of my hair is so thin you can easily put me at NW4/5. I have hair almost all over my scalp (even on receded temples) but it's really thin, without life and very dry. It's also hard to tell if I'm shedding due to minoxidil because my hair is so short but the amount of them depresses me...
I will upload pics in edit later because I want to blur my face etc.
Wish me luck with regrowing!
@Edit
I'm attaching pics of current state in natural lightning - 3 weeks after shaving, two weeks into minoxidil.
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