Boru
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In 1980 at the age of 23 I shaved my head and a fellow student remarked that my crown hair was growing back thinner.
After five more wonderful years of absolutely no effort on my part I had been awarded the distinct honour of full male pattern baldness. My achievement seemed to delight my brothers who thought that calling me "mirror head" would cheer me up. I ignored the remarks of various louts and drunks who obviously did not realise that the lack of a brain is more serious than mere lack of hair. Indeed many lovely ladies have appreciated the artistic shapliness of my proud skull.
Then last year, disaster struck. I did my first searches on the internet, looking into thyroid health, and discovered Saw Palmetto Berries (SPB) and a few other products of interest.
Out of curiousity I began rubbing SPB juice into my scalp.
I didn't expect any results, I got some.
Much Vellus appeared in my "mirror head", so I persisted for several months until some terminal hair regrew in the front, temples and sides. I studied all the papers I could, bought a lasercomb, minoxidil, finasteride etc. Then the penny dropped. I had devised a home health treatment for my thyroid and skin condition, not related to hair growth, and maybe the SP and lasercomb etc. were not totally responsible for the new hairs. It is beyond doubt that finasteride is a major factor, but my device may be boosting the effects.
Creating vellus was a neat trick, but turning vellus into terminal has been a revelation. No longer am I the happy baldy life and soul of the party don't give a damn yes you can feel my lovely smooth head kind of guy, I WANT MORE PLEASE!
I gathered from conventional doctors and specialists that my follicles became permanently minaturised twenty years ago and they assured me that there was no danger whatsoever that they could sneak back in the future.
Now I have developed an obsession, and a question. Is it my responsibility to prove that hairs pronounced "dead" can be raised up after twenty years AWOL? (Sorry about the mixed metaphor).
The authors here and at other sites seem to be young men trying to keep their hair, or slow down loss, or get some back after only a few years of partial loss. Perhaps there are others like me whose male pattern baldness has been long term and have had some success with finasteride, minoxidil, etc.
If my "device" has given my vellus that extra boost, how do I test and develop the idea? I don't want to create any undeserved expectations. After all, I have only the beginnings of the results I believe I can expect from the close up self-examination in a magnifying mirror. My girlfriend assures me that there are lots of new little hairs in the crown, and I just have to trust she isn't telling me what I want to hear! If I can turn all the new vellus into terminal hair, then it will be outstanding. But if progress halts at something less than 30-50%, it would become obvious that many of my follicles were permanently minaturised after all. I don't know yet, but I believe that my combination experiment is worth continuing for another year or so, to achieve maximum results, whatever they may be.
However, you younger male pattern baldness buddies may get closer to 100% recovery. I guess that minaturisation may not be reversible after a longer period, perhaps 30 years.
After five more wonderful years of absolutely no effort on my part I had been awarded the distinct honour of full male pattern baldness. My achievement seemed to delight my brothers who thought that calling me "mirror head" would cheer me up. I ignored the remarks of various louts and drunks who obviously did not realise that the lack of a brain is more serious than mere lack of hair. Indeed many lovely ladies have appreciated the artistic shapliness of my proud skull.
Then last year, disaster struck. I did my first searches on the internet, looking into thyroid health, and discovered Saw Palmetto Berries (SPB) and a few other products of interest.
Out of curiousity I began rubbing SPB juice into my scalp.
I didn't expect any results, I got some.
Much Vellus appeared in my "mirror head", so I persisted for several months until some terminal hair regrew in the front, temples and sides. I studied all the papers I could, bought a lasercomb, minoxidil, finasteride etc. Then the penny dropped. I had devised a home health treatment for my thyroid and skin condition, not related to hair growth, and maybe the SP and lasercomb etc. were not totally responsible for the new hairs. It is beyond doubt that finasteride is a major factor, but my device may be boosting the effects.
Creating vellus was a neat trick, but turning vellus into terminal has been a revelation. No longer am I the happy baldy life and soul of the party don't give a damn yes you can feel my lovely smooth head kind of guy, I WANT MORE PLEASE!
I gathered from conventional doctors and specialists that my follicles became permanently minaturised twenty years ago and they assured me that there was no danger whatsoever that they could sneak back in the future.
Now I have developed an obsession, and a question. Is it my responsibility to prove that hairs pronounced "dead" can be raised up after twenty years AWOL? (Sorry about the mixed metaphor).
The authors here and at other sites seem to be young men trying to keep their hair, or slow down loss, or get some back after only a few years of partial loss. Perhaps there are others like me whose male pattern baldness has been long term and have had some success with finasteride, minoxidil, etc.
If my "device" has given my vellus that extra boost, how do I test and develop the idea? I don't want to create any undeserved expectations. After all, I have only the beginnings of the results I believe I can expect from the close up self-examination in a magnifying mirror. My girlfriend assures me that there are lots of new little hairs in the crown, and I just have to trust she isn't telling me what I want to hear! If I can turn all the new vellus into terminal hair, then it will be outstanding. But if progress halts at something less than 30-50%, it would become obvious that many of my follicles were permanently minaturised after all. I don't know yet, but I believe that my combination experiment is worth continuing for another year or so, to achieve maximum results, whatever they may be.
However, you younger male pattern baldness buddies may get closer to 100% recovery. I guess that minaturisation may not be reversible after a longer period, perhaps 30 years.