Hello everyone,
As cassin pointed out to me in another thread, it looks like I jumped into the deep end of the pool before getting my feet wet on the forum. So I figured I'd back up and introduce myself.
Let's see, not much to say. My story seems to be similar to a lot of other folks here. I started noticing my hair loss around 23 when I joined the military and had all my hair buzzed off for the first time.
It wasn't that bad, just high temples at the time. After the military I started using Nizoral, Rogaine, and finasteride I found online someplace. I didn't really hang out on hair loss forums that much, but I read as much as I could when I did lurk on em. I was sort of familiar with this form, but lurked mostly at Hair Loss Help.
I eventually stopped taking everything because I just didn't like the idea of using a bunch of chemicals. My hair at the time was in a high deathhawk (basically a tall teased up mohawk) which made my receding hairline (especially at the temples) not such a big deal.
I'm going on 36 now, and am probably at a Norwood 3. I recently rebuzzed my head to a number 1 burr style which doesn't look too bad with a Norwood 3. I started taking Perfect Image's 15% Minoxidil, and after reading some stuff about it here, I have no idea if I'm wasting my money or if it was a wise purchase. I just started my second bottle, so I'll be using it for the foreseeable future. I still don't want to take any pills for my primary antiandrogen, so I have on order some spironolactone, and also have Nizoral in the mail. I was interested in some of the more experimental topicals, but I'm not sure I like the idea of creating my own delivery system, and all that jazz. It seems to be a fairly sensitive topic around here anyways, so I don't know, maybe that's not the way to go.
Anyways, nice to meet you all. Hope I didn't bore anyone, and hope to learn more from the folks around here.
As cassin pointed out to me in another thread, it looks like I jumped into the deep end of the pool before getting my feet wet on the forum. So I figured I'd back up and introduce myself.
Let's see, not much to say. My story seems to be similar to a lot of other folks here. I started noticing my hair loss around 23 when I joined the military and had all my hair buzzed off for the first time.
It wasn't that bad, just high temples at the time. After the military I started using Nizoral, Rogaine, and finasteride I found online someplace. I didn't really hang out on hair loss forums that much, but I read as much as I could when I did lurk on em. I was sort of familiar with this form, but lurked mostly at Hair Loss Help. I eventually stopped taking everything because I just didn't like the idea of using a bunch of chemicals. My hair at the time was in a high deathhawk (basically a tall teased up mohawk) which made my receding hairline (especially at the temples) not such a big deal.
I'm going on 36 now, and am probably at a Norwood 3. I recently rebuzzed my head to a number 1 burr style which doesn't look too bad with a Norwood 3
. I started taking Perfect Image's 15% Minoxidil, and after reading some stuff about it here, I have no idea if I'm wasting my money or if it was a wise purchase. I just started my second bottle, so I'll be using it for the foreseeable future. I still don't want to take any pills for my primary antiandrogen, so I have on order some spironolactone, and also have Nizoral in the mail. I was interested in some of the more experimental topicals, but I'm not sure I like the idea of creating my own delivery system, and all that jazz. It seems to be a fairly sensitive topic around here anyways, so I don't know, maybe that's not the way to go.Anyways, nice to meet you all. Hope I didn't bore anyone, and hope to learn more from the folks around here.
