joeschmo123
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Brief story:
Growing up I always had extremely thick hair. As in I would always get comments about it, could barely get a comb through it, etc. My dad's side of the family is totally bald, my mom's side all has thick hair and 0 baldness, so I never quite knew what to expect.
Fast forward to 20 y/o, start to notice that it is thinning out on top/front after going through a very stressful time in my life (always had shed a lot of hair but it never mattered). Tried rogaine, was very itchy so stopped. Kept losing hair.
At age 21 I see a hair specialist who takes a biopsy, etc, and concludes I have diffuse thinning and to use rogaine foam. Says I won't go entirely bald and that propecia would likely be ineffective. Foam helps initially but then resume losing hair. Also start nizoral as well.
See another at age 25 that puts me on propecia, which I took for 9mo, didn't see results, stopped, lost even more hair, so started again recently.
I would pay an absurd amount of money to regain thickness, is transplantation even an option? Any other advice appreciated. Pictures below.
http://imageshack.us/g/269/dsc0663wp.jpg/
Growing up I always had extremely thick hair. As in I would always get comments about it, could barely get a comb through it, etc. My dad's side of the family is totally bald, my mom's side all has thick hair and 0 baldness, so I never quite knew what to expect.
Fast forward to 20 y/o, start to notice that it is thinning out on top/front after going through a very stressful time in my life (always had shed a lot of hair but it never mattered). Tried rogaine, was very itchy so stopped. Kept losing hair.
At age 21 I see a hair specialist who takes a biopsy, etc, and concludes I have diffuse thinning and to use rogaine foam. Says I won't go entirely bald and that propecia would likely be ineffective. Foam helps initially but then resume losing hair. Also start nizoral as well.
See another at age 25 that puts me on propecia, which I took for 9mo, didn't see results, stopped, lost even more hair, so started again recently.
I would pay an absurd amount of money to regain thickness, is transplantation even an option? Any other advice appreciated. Pictures below.
http://imageshack.us/g/269/dsc0663wp.jpg/