Does anyone actually have hairloss here?
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uncomfortable man
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gascoigne said:
I have nothing against an nw2 who is afraid of going bald... they should be IMO. It's when that NW2 thinks that their situation is as bad as an nw5 or 6 that I get offended. Or worse, when an nw2 tries to tell me what it like to be bald and that it is not so bad. They don't know so they shouldn't talk like they have some authority on the subject. They don't, I do. Simple as that.
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uncomfortable man said:
Exactly no matter what you NW2 guys like to think unless you've actually been through the entire hairloss cycle you dont know what its like. Of course many NW2 guys on here understand that but some dont.
As someone who was never less than a NW2 minimum, I would'nt even be on this site in most peoples position.
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This section is "the impact of hair loss". Repeat slowly: h-a-i-r l-o-s-s. It's not the "impact of being a slick nw6". I somehow do get offended when someone says that I shouldn't be on this board 'cause I only started balding at around 22 yrs old and have been very diffuse since I was 24. Yeah true, I'm still not slick but I think I'm on the right forum and have every right to be here without being called out.
To start balding when you're hardly past 20 yr mark is still pretty uncommon, it's not like I had perfect hair for my supposed best years. I never had good hair and to start losing that shitty head of hair when you're still pretty much a teenager isn't easy to swallow.
To start balding when you're hardly past 20 yr mark is still pretty uncommon, it's not like I had perfect hair for my supposed best years. I never had good hair and to start losing that shitty head of hair when you're still pretty much a teenager isn't easy to swallow.
uncomfortable man
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You did everything you can do within reason GHG. You've tried the meds and they don't work. At least you didn't become some herbal witchdoctor like Hoppi (remember him?). Unless you've looked into hair transplants then there is really nothing left to do but deplete. :dunno:
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^ Yeah that's true, I tried finasteride twice and minoxidil and that's about as far as I will go, 'cause I think that my balding area is too big for hair transplant (hair transplant isn't completely out of the question though). Too bad I'm one of the lucky ones who got persistent sides from finasteride, but well... I would've withstood them had it only worked.
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And hair transplants are no casual undertaking, physically or financially. And of course part of getting hair transplants is getting on meds which poses the risk of your balding extending past your transplanted area, leaving you with an obvious island on top of your head.
C'mon now! I'm a Norwood 2.5 with diffuse thinning, but have long hair and only those who are thinning themselves can tell, or those who remember me from when I had massively thick hair.
That's just it, to a Norwood 6, they'd go "Oh Please!" if I'd complain about my hairloss, as I appear to have mostly a full head of hair because the long hair covers the temple points, but I've lost 60 percent of my hair density and have receded a bit in the front. People don't become a Norwood 6 overnight, they at one time were thinning as well, so that's why it's so stressful to us who they might envy for having more hair.
Fortunately I was able to find a solution and my hair is filling back in, but the 3 years of watching my hair wither away was the most stressful time of my life and destroyed my spirit.
Had I not done anything about it, I'd probably be a Norwood 3.5 headed towards a 4 by now, the pattern was pretty distinct, but now instead I'm in the process of going from a Norwood 2.5 to a Norwood 2, as little baby hairs are filling in the frontal hairline and temple points.
Just realized this is from 2009 btw.
That's just it, to a Norwood 6, they'd go "Oh Please!" if I'd complain about my hairloss, as I appear to have mostly a full head of hair because the long hair covers the temple points, but I've lost 60 percent of my hair density and have receded a bit in the front. People don't become a Norwood 6 overnight, they at one time were thinning as well, so that's why it's so stressful to us who they might envy for having more hair.
Fortunately I was able to find a solution and my hair is filling back in, but the 3 years of watching my hair wither away was the most stressful time of my life and destroyed my spirit.
Had I not done anything about it, I'd probably be a Norwood 3.5 headed towards a 4 by now, the pattern was pretty distinct, but now instead I'm in the process of going from a Norwood 2.5 to a Norwood 2, as little baby hairs are filling in the frontal hairline and temple points.
Just realized this is from 2009 btw.