Blondilocks
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My name is as it suggests a reference to my once golden locks and now at almost the grand age of 23 I wanted to give an overview of my experiences thus far. 3 years ago I noticed my hair beginning to thin for the first 6 months I ignored it. Then with the start of a new life, new job, new beginning and the inevitable stress, my attention was inevitably drawn back to the condition of my hair.
After a swim one day I noticed that my left temple was kinda thin when in comparison with the right one. A day of anxious looking in the mirror and horror ensued, and the inevitable dawning realisation that I was in fact mortal. My paranoia developed quickly manifesting itself into a full blown obsession, my new life not even 3 months old was no firmly on the bank bench, and the person i became was a monster of vanity and self pity. I may as well not worked, as I really didn't care, nor contribute and was lucky to keep my job.
My first experience was with your bog standard Minoxidil, PPG based liquid with the good ole dropper. My use of this for roughly 2.5 months rid me of my temple as i developed a nice reaction to the PPG. So there i was left worse off than i had been with a lot less hair, you can imagine the despair, so i took myself to BOOTS (UK Pharmacy) and got on the hair retention program (Prescription of propecia for £34.99 a month) , the pharmacist painted a rosy future, saying as I was young and right at the beginning I could stop it in its tracks. This sounded Brilliant and off I went clutching my pills.
Over the next 1st month I had a few indications of changes happening within, discomfort in my pecs, testicle ache on occasion, 2nd month all was fine til one day I popped one off and... it hurt .. allot there was little or no ejaculate and what was there had the consistency of jelly and tapioca (lovely). Now at the same time I had been pursuing another health compliant that I had been treating separately having the embarrasment of having to go to STI clinics, because I had noticed a change in my penile tissue, all the blood vessels looked burst, raw, damaged constantly, I had bunch of urinal tract symptoms. My STD results all came back negative. I pursued it further I said it was the propecia, he would have none of it saying that I had a prostatis and off i went antibiotics they did nothing. Went back and I said its the propecia, he took me off and said it couldn't be propecia is designed to decrease the prostate size, and on examination i had an inflamed prostate. So I stopped propecia after 3 months. Obviously in despair as my hair had either got worse or gone through a shed during my experiments with finasteride and minoxidil.
I left my job, moved out and moved home, and then 1 month later went on a grand adventure travelling. It worked I avoided my hair loss, I used some foam minoxidil everyday and had so much on everyday that I didn't even bat an eyelid for my hair. In fact my hair seemed great, maybe new hair grew threw from my previous months on finasteride (I will never know) Nevertheless I had the summer of a lifetime, felt great hair seemed ok, I met a girl and was happy. However although the lady of my life is still around some of my hair is not. After returning from travelling I had one year of studying to do, and with the stress came the parnoia of hair loss, and I noticed a big change in my hair over the next 6 months my hair got worse and worse, I experimented with propecia again, and again all the problems re-emerged but not in 3 months with weeks. So i stopped tryed natural DHT blockers became more learned, and the symptoms came back again. An every time they came back they came back worse, now I did use an anti aromotase (block estrogen)and managed to take 0.25mg propecia for 2 months before the pain from my nuts was so much i couldn't sleep. In short I was meddling in a lot of hormonal changing drugs with no real idea of what was going on inside. However the anti aromatse did get rid of the penile tissue problems, however painful ejaculation did come back.
In short I tried Xandroz 15 plus, Grreen Tea, Soy isoflavons, Propecia all resulted in sides. Now I have always been a very active person and dont put on weight but I kid you not 3 months on propecia and i deffinelty saw a difference. Alot of people can argue that sides are in you head you dream them up and there true to an extent you can make things worse by concentrating on them. However my recent trial of just using 0.12mg of propecia, was quite scary its been months since i have done any experimenting and my sexual self was almost back to were it was 3 years ago. Within 3 days of taking 0.12mg I was crying, depressed, lost bleak, suicidal thoughts... and yet these should have been joyful days I mean i had just stated a new regime, with reduced chances of sides, I was in mind on a role again to stop hair loss its going to work i was saying to myself this is it, 3 days later I'm in a pit of despair so big all I want to do is sleep and have no one know I exist. My balls ached every day more than they ever did an this was within 24 hours, of taking it. Every time i Experiment symptoms come on quicker and quicker regardless of dropping the dose. So again I'm back at square one, a little more wiser and a little more sure that propecia/DHT inhibition is not for me.
My theories on this range from:
1.I have a predisposition towards oestrogen, and propecia increases this ratio leaving me a blubbery mess with sexual sides. Rising estrogen aggravates the prostate, inflamtaion etc. could it be that Estrogen cause imbalance and hairloss (this could be bull)
2.I need DHT to function blocking any results in sides instantly.
3.Some people just produce so much DHT in the first place that propecia just gets rid of some but not all of it, hence you get great responders but if there is only a tiny imbalance in the first place then your asking for trouble.
I dont know the answers, I know I have looked and I know now that I will lose my hair, Its just when. If I looked at my dad I'd be happy to be a deep norwood 3 mid 50's but if i look at my uncle his brother its a norwood 6 by 27. The next few years will be key. Either way I intend on working out, and learning some new skills, replace a loss with something new like being able to play the guitar, cook and have some good hobbies.
I just wanted to write all this because I think although I am definitely in the 2% sides category its good to get a thorough story of someone's experiences. Obviously I haven't covered it all but a lot is there. Right now i'm experimenting with a natural approach focusing on a more holistic approach than just DHT at www.immorthair.com worth a look if you want to debate about health. If anyone else experiments the way I have and has had the same results as I have, I had an interesting experience with flax which killed my libido, bloated me out and made me go to the toilet a lot (prostate inflammation) alot of shedding hair, so something going on there.
Don't become to bogged down in new treatments that will save you. You will read all about the forever 5 year prediction, but when you do the maths of discovery's to treatments you will see a pattern. 23 years is the magic number ... well what my personal research indicates, now if you say the research on hair loss only really got going post 2000... then my guess is 2023. That means I'll be 35 before there's a real breakthrough of any magnitude.. I'll be a real smoothy then! You could argue that new technology is always bringing down the time from concept to delivery, but you can also argue that the red tape is just getting thicker.
Now I'm just one in a million but if any of this helps someone.. or makes you better informed then its done its job.
If anyone wants any advice or has any questions feel free
After a swim one day I noticed that my left temple was kinda thin when in comparison with the right one. A day of anxious looking in the mirror and horror ensued, and the inevitable dawning realisation that I was in fact mortal. My paranoia developed quickly manifesting itself into a full blown obsession, my new life not even 3 months old was no firmly on the bank bench, and the person i became was a monster of vanity and self pity. I may as well not worked, as I really didn't care, nor contribute and was lucky to keep my job.
My first experience was with your bog standard Minoxidil, PPG based liquid with the good ole dropper. My use of this for roughly 2.5 months rid me of my temple as i developed a nice reaction to the PPG. So there i was left worse off than i had been with a lot less hair, you can imagine the despair, so i took myself to BOOTS (UK Pharmacy) and got on the hair retention program (Prescription of propecia for £34.99 a month) , the pharmacist painted a rosy future, saying as I was young and right at the beginning I could stop it in its tracks. This sounded Brilliant and off I went clutching my pills.
Over the next 1st month I had a few indications of changes happening within, discomfort in my pecs, testicle ache on occasion, 2nd month all was fine til one day I popped one off and... it hurt .. allot there was little or no ejaculate and what was there had the consistency of jelly and tapioca (lovely). Now at the same time I had been pursuing another health compliant that I had been treating separately having the embarrasment of having to go to STI clinics, because I had noticed a change in my penile tissue, all the blood vessels looked burst, raw, damaged constantly, I had bunch of urinal tract symptoms. My STD results all came back negative. I pursued it further I said it was the propecia, he would have none of it saying that I had a prostatis and off i went antibiotics they did nothing. Went back and I said its the propecia, he took me off and said it couldn't be propecia is designed to decrease the prostate size, and on examination i had an inflamed prostate. So I stopped propecia after 3 months. Obviously in despair as my hair had either got worse or gone through a shed during my experiments with finasteride and minoxidil.
I left my job, moved out and moved home, and then 1 month later went on a grand adventure travelling. It worked I avoided my hair loss, I used some foam minoxidil everyday and had so much on everyday that I didn't even bat an eyelid for my hair. In fact my hair seemed great, maybe new hair grew threw from my previous months on finasteride (I will never know) Nevertheless I had the summer of a lifetime, felt great hair seemed ok, I met a girl and was happy. However although the lady of my life is still around some of my hair is not. After returning from travelling I had one year of studying to do, and with the stress came the parnoia of hair loss, and I noticed a big change in my hair over the next 6 months my hair got worse and worse, I experimented with propecia again, and again all the problems re-emerged but not in 3 months with weeks. So i stopped tryed natural DHT blockers became more learned, and the symptoms came back again. An every time they came back they came back worse, now I did use an anti aromotase (block estrogen)and managed to take 0.25mg propecia for 2 months before the pain from my nuts was so much i couldn't sleep. In short I was meddling in a lot of hormonal changing drugs with no real idea of what was going on inside. However the anti aromatse did get rid of the penile tissue problems, however painful ejaculation did come back.
In short I tried Xandroz 15 plus, Grreen Tea, Soy isoflavons, Propecia all resulted in sides. Now I have always been a very active person and dont put on weight but I kid you not 3 months on propecia and i deffinelty saw a difference. Alot of people can argue that sides are in you head you dream them up and there true to an extent you can make things worse by concentrating on them. However my recent trial of just using 0.12mg of propecia, was quite scary its been months since i have done any experimenting and my sexual self was almost back to were it was 3 years ago. Within 3 days of taking 0.12mg I was crying, depressed, lost bleak, suicidal thoughts... and yet these should have been joyful days I mean i had just stated a new regime, with reduced chances of sides, I was in mind on a role again to stop hair loss its going to work i was saying to myself this is it, 3 days later I'm in a pit of despair so big all I want to do is sleep and have no one know I exist. My balls ached every day more than they ever did an this was within 24 hours, of taking it. Every time i Experiment symptoms come on quicker and quicker regardless of dropping the dose. So again I'm back at square one, a little more wiser and a little more sure that propecia/DHT inhibition is not for me.
My theories on this range from:
1.I have a predisposition towards oestrogen, and propecia increases this ratio leaving me a blubbery mess with sexual sides. Rising estrogen aggravates the prostate, inflamtaion etc. could it be that Estrogen cause imbalance and hairloss (this could be bull)
2.I need DHT to function blocking any results in sides instantly.
3.Some people just produce so much DHT in the first place that propecia just gets rid of some but not all of it, hence you get great responders but if there is only a tiny imbalance in the first place then your asking for trouble.
I dont know the answers, I know I have looked and I know now that I will lose my hair, Its just when. If I looked at my dad I'd be happy to be a deep norwood 3 mid 50's but if i look at my uncle his brother its a norwood 6 by 27. The next few years will be key. Either way I intend on working out, and learning some new skills, replace a loss with something new like being able to play the guitar, cook and have some good hobbies.
I just wanted to write all this because I think although I am definitely in the 2% sides category its good to get a thorough story of someone's experiences. Obviously I haven't covered it all but a lot is there. Right now i'm experimenting with a natural approach focusing on a more holistic approach than just DHT at www.immorthair.com worth a look if you want to debate about health. If anyone else experiments the way I have and has had the same results as I have, I had an interesting experience with flax which killed my libido, bloated me out and made me go to the toilet a lot (prostate inflammation) alot of shedding hair, so something going on there.
Don't become to bogged down in new treatments that will save you. You will read all about the forever 5 year prediction, but when you do the maths of discovery's to treatments you will see a pattern. 23 years is the magic number ... well what my personal research indicates, now if you say the research on hair loss only really got going post 2000... then my guess is 2023. That means I'll be 35 before there's a real breakthrough of any magnitude.. I'll be a real smoothy then! You could argue that new technology is always bringing down the time from concept to delivery, but you can also argue that the red tape is just getting thicker.
Now I'm just one in a million but if any of this helps someone.. or makes you better informed then its done its job.
If anyone wants any advice or has any questions feel free