Hi,
I go by the name of 'chancer' i have been on this forum since January this year (08) but only started any hair treatment three months ago (Beginning of April). Before then i just read as much info as i could on the treatments available and tried to digest all the info from this forum.
So in April i eventually started treatment... here’s my story....
this is a picture of my hair 4 years ago when i was 27... i was probably a very thick NW2... in fact i don’t think i ever was a NW1 not even when i was 10.
Hah... those were the boy band days, with my 'Oasis' style, Manchester rock look...
It’s also worth noting how dark in colouration my hair was back then. ive inherited my mothers auburn hair (ok red!!). when i was a baby up to being a toddler it was typical ginger looking and light in pigmentation, but as i got into my teens it darkened up to a very dark auburn. im not sure if that had anything to do with my dad having very dark hair? (also he has very little hairloss probably NW2.5 even now) but has the next pics will show the miniaturization of my hair regressed it to the colour and texture it was when i was a baby. In fact looking at old pics of my around 18 months old shows the same hairline i have in these pics!!!! i really have lost a lot in just 4 years...
these were taken a few weeks before i started treatment and i cant tell you how gut wrenchingly awful it was to look at these pics and accept whats on show>>>
And so i decided to take action... i read as much as i could... Turns out genetics arent on your side to start out if you have auburn hair... i read stats that reported the average male with dark hair has 100,000 hair follicles, blondes have 10% more and people with red hair have 10% less.... to i was about 10,000 follicles down on the average joe before i even had hairloss !! fantastic.... I also read and then publically observed how people with alot of hairloss like me generally have high levels of DHT. People with high levels of DHT tend to have a awful lot of body hair and are naturally stocky in muscular build. Well im neither of these, I have always been very thin and scrawny with no upper body muscle, and my body is practically hairless, I can count the couple of hairs I have on my chest, my arms and legs aren’t very hairy whatsoever, infact I only started shaving properly when I was about 21 !!! And even now I cant really grow a proper beard, its still “bumfluff-like†even at 31… So i guess i have very little DHT but at 27 the male pattern baldness gene kicked in and made my hair ultra sensetive to the DHT i do have....
i went to Boots (uk store) to see their 'hair retention programme' specialist to get a prescription for the finasteride, buying it from them is expensive (£30 for 1 months supply) But this way at least i know im getting the real thing!! They Classed me as an NW4.
Here is the regimen i took up...
500mg Silca (mineral) every day
5000mg MSM (mineral) everyday
1000 Vitamin C everyday
120mg pure cod liver oil, inc omega-3, vitamins A,D & E x1 per day
minoxidil foam 5% x2 per day - 8am / 8pm
Nizoral 2% shampoo ever second day
x1 - 1mg propecia per day (in evening)
15 min head massage before bed.
here are some pics after three months, the first thing i noticed was after week 1 of treatment i didn’t get and loose hairs on my hands when washing, i used to count around 30 hairs on one hand per wash, now im lucky to find 1. My hair started to darken to its dark auburn colour as it used to be up until a few years ago. I have regrown some hair in the vertex (crown) and also the sides, and hopefully its thickening up everywhere else in general.... also have lots of very fine veleous hairs on my temples, they have been there for 2 months now, but haven’t grown longer or into terminal hairs... i hope this will be the case....
at this stage three months into treatment i'd like to think im on my way to becoming NW3. and my hope is with continued treatment coupled with testing out follica's new theories and can get some temple and front hairline regrowth to pull it back to NW2.5.
Anyway i hope this slight success after three months helps anyone out there, especially those with red hair as i have never seen a success story from a red head before....
Cheers
Chancer...
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*** new baseline & 6months reveiw images from Boots ***
MONTH 1 - FRONT VIEW
MONTH 6 FRONT VIEW
MONTH 1 TOP VIEW
MONTH 6 TOP VIEW
MONTH 1 SIDE VIEW
MONTH 6 SIDE VIEW
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MONTH 8 UPDATE TAKEN WITH FLASH
TOP (1st PIC)
TOP (2nd PIC taken in disbelief & shock of the 1st pic)
SIDE 1
SIDE 2
I go by the name of 'chancer' i have been on this forum since January this year (08) but only started any hair treatment three months ago (Beginning of April). Before then i just read as much info as i could on the treatments available and tried to digest all the info from this forum.
So in April i eventually started treatment... here’s my story....
this is a picture of my hair 4 years ago when i was 27... i was probably a very thick NW2... in fact i don’t think i ever was a NW1 not even when i was 10.
Hah... those were the boy band days, with my 'Oasis' style, Manchester rock look...
It’s also worth noting how dark in colouration my hair was back then. ive inherited my mothers auburn hair (ok red!!). when i was a baby up to being a toddler it was typical ginger looking and light in pigmentation, but as i got into my teens it darkened up to a very dark auburn. im not sure if that had anything to do with my dad having very dark hair? (also he has very little hairloss probably NW2.5 even now) but has the next pics will show the miniaturization of my hair regressed it to the colour and texture it was when i was a baby. In fact looking at old pics of my around 18 months old shows the same hairline i have in these pics!!!! i really have lost a lot in just 4 years...
these were taken a few weeks before i started treatment and i cant tell you how gut wrenchingly awful it was to look at these pics and accept whats on show>>>
And so i decided to take action... i read as much as i could... Turns out genetics arent on your side to start out if you have auburn hair... i read stats that reported the average male with dark hair has 100,000 hair follicles, blondes have 10% more and people with red hair have 10% less.... to i was about 10,000 follicles down on the average joe before i even had hairloss !! fantastic.... I also read and then publically observed how people with alot of hairloss like me generally have high levels of DHT. People with high levels of DHT tend to have a awful lot of body hair and are naturally stocky in muscular build. Well im neither of these, I have always been very thin and scrawny with no upper body muscle, and my body is practically hairless, I can count the couple of hairs I have on my chest, my arms and legs aren’t very hairy whatsoever, infact I only started shaving properly when I was about 21 !!! And even now I cant really grow a proper beard, its still “bumfluff-like†even at 31… So i guess i have very little DHT but at 27 the male pattern baldness gene kicked in and made my hair ultra sensetive to the DHT i do have....
i went to Boots (uk store) to see their 'hair retention programme' specialist to get a prescription for the finasteride, buying it from them is expensive (£30 for 1 months supply) But this way at least i know im getting the real thing!! They Classed me as an NW4.
Here is the regimen i took up...
500mg Silca (mineral) every day
5000mg MSM (mineral) everyday
1000 Vitamin C everyday
120mg pure cod liver oil, inc omega-3, vitamins A,D & E x1 per day
minoxidil foam 5% x2 per day - 8am / 8pm
Nizoral 2% shampoo ever second day
x1 - 1mg propecia per day (in evening)
15 min head massage before bed.
here are some pics after three months, the first thing i noticed was after week 1 of treatment i didn’t get and loose hairs on my hands when washing, i used to count around 30 hairs on one hand per wash, now im lucky to find 1. My hair started to darken to its dark auburn colour as it used to be up until a few years ago. I have regrown some hair in the vertex (crown) and also the sides, and hopefully its thickening up everywhere else in general.... also have lots of very fine veleous hairs on my temples, they have been there for 2 months now, but haven’t grown longer or into terminal hairs... i hope this will be the case....
at this stage three months into treatment i'd like to think im on my way to becoming NW3. and my hope is with continued treatment coupled with testing out follica's new theories and can get some temple and front hairline regrowth to pull it back to NW2.5.
Anyway i hope this slight success after three months helps anyone out there, especially those with red hair as i have never seen a success story from a red head before....
Cheers
Chancer...
____________________________________________________________________________________
*** new baseline & 6months reveiw images from Boots ***
MONTH 1 - FRONT VIEW
MONTH 6 FRONT VIEW
MONTH 1 TOP VIEW
MONTH 6 TOP VIEW
MONTH 1 SIDE VIEW
MONTH 6 SIDE VIEW
__________________________________________________________________________________
MONTH 8 UPDATE TAKEN WITH FLASH
TOP (1st PIC)
TOP (2nd PIC taken in disbelief & shock of the 1st pic)
SIDE 1
SIDE 2
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