30 Year Mark And Hair Loss (i Am Nw5)

[karankaran]

Ever since I hit 30, my hair loss has started to bother me a LOT more than it ever did.

I am ready to invest all my savings to get a hair transplant. I am on minoxidil and I want to see if it works before taking the plunge but I am getting REALLY impatient. There are times when I am so super conscious that I take a cab from work even though I live very close by. I wait for dark (impossible to wait as sun sets after 8 pm here) so that I can be out when no one can see it. I feel anxious just being out. I sit at work and tear up every now and then thinking about my life.

If any of you here have lived through your hair loss from 20s to your 30s, did passing the 30 year mark make you paranoid and more depressed as well?

 

[Dontwannabeabetabob]

I know exactly how you feel, I wait till it's dark then creep out of the shadows of my baldcel existence to run any errands I have. I'm only 23 so I can't imagine what it'll be like once I hit 30, hopefully I'm dead by then.

 

[Guzam]

Ever since I hit 30, my hair loss has started to bother me a LOT more than it ever did.

I am ready to invest all my savings to get a hair transplant. I am on minoxidil and I want to see if it works before taking the plunge but I am getting REALLY impatient. There are times when I am so super conscious that I take a cab from work even though I live very close by. I wait for dark (impossible to wait as sun sets after 8 pm here) so that I can be out when no one can see it. I feel anxious just being out. I sit at work and tear up every now and then thinking about my life.

If any of you here have lived through your hair loss from 20s to your 30s, did passing the 30 year mark make you paranoid and more depressed as well?

I'm 21, NW3 diffuse on top, and I already want to die.
For me it was the 20 years old mark anyway.

I just want this ride to end.

 

[blackg]

I'm 21, NW3 diffuse on top, and I already want to die.
For me it was the 20 years old mark anyway.

I just want this ride to end.

Hang in there.

 

[blackg]

I know exactly how you feel, I wait till it's dark then creep out of the shadows of my baldcel existence to run any errands I have.

But what about work? Or do you work nights as well?

 

[Aldrich]

Hitting 30 didn't make me depressed. My hairline died around 20, but has remained more or less since then, so it has been very slow. I mistreated my hair a lot in my teens, and I'm starting to think that it made permanent damage, because of how slow the balding progress otherwise is.

My hair is healthier now than it ever was before. And even if I can make it look like NW1, I can never run my hand through it, I can't be out in rain or heavy wind, I can't go anywhere with bed-hair, I can't wear a hat/cap without being able to take it off in private, and being in sunlight is a death sentence. However, I have a very nice, thick donor area. A transplant would fix these problems. I'm saving for it right now.

 

[Xander94]

Hitting 30 didn't make me depressed. My hairline died around 20, but has remained more or less since then, so it has been very slow. I mistreated my hair a lot in my teens, and I'm starting to think that it made permanent damage, because of how slow the balding progress otherwise is.

My hair is healthier now than it ever was before. And even if I can make it look like NW1, I can never run my hand through it, I can't be out in rain or heavy wind, I can't go anywhere with bed-hair, I can't wear a hat/cap without being able to take it off in private, and being in sunlight is a death sentence. However, I have a very nice, thick donor area. A transplant would fix these problems. I'm saving for it right now.

Are you on finasteride? Slay count??

 

[Aldrich]

Are you on finasteride? Slay count??

No.

That's irrelevant. What we want with normal hair is the freedoms that come with it. Women are extremely far down the list.

 

[Xander94]

No.

That's irrelevant. What we want with normal hair is the freedoms that come with it. Women are extremely far down the list.

Why not hop on finasteride?

 

[Dontwannabeabetabob]

But what about work? Or do you work nights as well?

I'm nightman, fighter of the dayman.

 

[PappinAce]

Hitting 30 didn't make me depressed. My hairline died around 20, but has remained more or less since then, so it has been very slow. I mistreated my hair a lot in my teens, and I'm starting to think that it made permanent damage, because of how slow the balding progress otherwise is.

My hair is healthier now than it ever was before. And even if I can make it look like NW1, I can never run my hand through it, I can't be out in rain or heavy wind, I can't go anywhere with bed-hair, I can't wear a hat/cap without being able to take it off in private, and being in sunlight is a death sentence. However, I have a very nice, thick donor area. A transplant would fix these problems. I'm saving for it right now.

yeah man, i used to dye it, use flat irons , all that sh*t. my hair is now wispy and straw like, but i'm not losing anymore. i hate myself for what i did.

that said, i don't know if that can cause permanent hair loss. the hair outside your scalp is already a dead strand. it would always grow back in the good old days, just the tips would be damaged and fried.

 

[Saurabhaj]

I'm 21, NW3 diffuse on top, and I already want to die.
For me it was the 20 years old mark anyway.

I just want this ride to end.

This life would be much beautiful and great later,work hard and achieve great academic success/and job success.

I made a mistake for two/three years and made career secondary,took hair loss too seriously.
No one on this forum should make this mistake.

 

[Guzam]

This life would be much beautiful and great later,work hard and achieve great academic success/and job success.

I made a mistake for two/three years and made career secondary,took hair loss too seriously.
No one on this forum should make this mistake.

I won't man. Career/academics is my #1 top priority regardless of hair loss.
But I would be lying if I said that at a certain point my grades didn't get affected: two exams didn't go optimally because I took them in my lowest moment last year in May. I got up quickly and learned to separate hair loss from college.

Still, my social life is affected by hair loss, and it's enough to concern me.
I thank God this forum, and all of you, exist.
I don't how could I live without venting in secret here.

 

[Xander94]

I won't man. Career/academics is my #1 top priority regardless of hair loss.
But I would be lying if I said that at a certain point my grades didn't get affected: two exams didn't go optimally because I took them in my lowest moment last year in May. I got up quickly and learned to separate hair loss from college.

Still, my social life is affected by hair loss, and it's enough to concern me.
I thank God this forum, and all of you, exist.
I don't how could I live without venting in secret here.

I commend your courage. Have you ever had a relationship?

 

[Guzam]

I commend your courage. Have you ever had a relationship?

Yes, multiple in my teenage fullhead years. I'm in a relationship now, luckily with a girl who's very intelligent, but definitely not a Norwood spotter in the least. She's one of those rare individuals who classify as baldness men up from NW5. Everyone becomes a spotter at a certain point in their lives, so I wonder when she will leave me because of bullshit reasons (i.e. can't bear a balding bf in her early twenties). I already accepted it will happen, all her friends already made me notice my balding. She's probably the last non Norwood spotter in my pretty wide social circle.

 

[Xander94]

Yes, multiple in my teenage fullhead years. I'm in a relationship now, luckily with a girl who's very intelligent, but definitely not a Norwood spotter in the least. She's one of those rare individuals who classify as baldness men up from NW5. Everyone becomes a spotter at a certain point in their lives, so I wonder when she will leave me because of bullshit reasons (i.e. can't bear a balding bf in her early twenties). I already accepted it will happen, all her friends already made me notice my balding. She's probably the last non Norwood spotter in my pretty wide social circle.

You lived good then 14-21 is prime years. Even if you go completely bald now its ok. I have NW1 hairline and cant even talk to women it's not all about hair.

 

[Guzam]

You lived good then 14-21 is prime years. Even if you go completely bald now its ok. I have NW1 hairline and cant even talk to women it's not all about hair.

I lived good 14-18. From 19 I started my baldness grieving. Wasted two precious years with alt treatments. Started treating it with fina only last year.

I would probably slap you.

 

[Xander94]

I lived good 14-18. From 19 I started my baldness grieving. Wasted two precious years with alt treatments. Started treating it with fina only last year.

I would probably slap you.

If you got women with hair you will prob get without aswell maybe a bit less attractive. Me on the other hand can't even find a woman to date and I've been trying for 6 months Im almost 23 incel with few friends and havent went out to a party for 4-5 years.

 

[blackg]

Yes, multiple in my teenage fullhead years. I'm in a relationship now, luckily with a girl who's very intelligent, but definitely not a Norwood spotter in the least. She's one of those rare individuals who classify as baldness men up from NW5. Everyone becomes a spotter at a certain point in their lives, so I wonder when she will leave me because of bullshit reasons (i.e. can't bear a balding bf in her early twenties). I already accepted it will happen, all her friends already made me notice my balding. She's probably the last non Norwood spotter in my pretty wide social circle.

Hang on... some of your girlfriend's friends have pointed out your hair loss, to you I'm assuming, but they haven't informed her?

This is freakin' not possible.
.

 

[Aldrich]

Why not hop on finasteride?

Trying all the things before that sh*t, but it's close. The fear is slowly going away.