I Guess I Never Get To Experience With Different Hairstyles

[lell123]

Balding since 14 and norwood 3 at age of f*****g 17 with thinning all over, im 21 now with still norwood 3 mostly thanks to minoxidil and nizoral, recently added finasteride which is trying to give me gyno so i EOD 0.5mg and dermarolling and im really sad and obsess over my hair everyday like 8 times, i screenshot myself under every lightning makes sure i dont look bald and funnily enough most of the time i do, it makes me so depressed to think that i never got to experience cool hairstyles that involve better than norwood 3-4 hairline and thick hair, ive always wanted Leonardo DiCaprios hair in Revenant movie, i know meds might help me but they are never going to make me good enough to rock that hair or even anything similar, this might sound as a excuse but i think hair is the main reason my whole life is fucked up, absolutely everything, im the type of guy that cares what everyone thinks and i take everything said to me really personally, if someone says that im balding or what the f*** is wrong with your hair then i might think about it for next 4 years everyday, i have zero confidence and i doubt i will ever be confident, i feel like everyone else is better looking than me and im always the ugliest and last choice for girls, im not suicidal or heavily depressed that i would need meds but im just sad, im glad that im not only one suffering with this balding sh*t and that there is entire community suffering the same thing, i also just browse forums and read and just laugh out loud about all these funny posts and it makes me a bit happier but yeah i blame my hair for everything wrong in my life, i feel like it gives me anxiety and i feel like im getting judged all the time for my hair also people seem to think that balding people dirty or losing their hair because of its their fault or have bad diet not all people know that its genetic and there isnt much you can f*****g do about it.

Hope for a miracle drug but i kinda know it aint coming, i bet people in 90s thought drug was 5 years away then too, its now 2017 and we dont have sh*t.
//can anyone recommend any norwood 3 hairstyles? shaved sides i think looks the best but maybe something else?

 

[PappinAce]

it's unfortunate that we've come to a society where temporary and superficial things like hair are valued so much. it makes it hard to thrive and feel good within this society when you get hair loss. especially early. i know what you're going through and i'm sorry to hear it. stay strong and forge your own path.

 

[Roberto_72]

life, i feel like it gives me anxiety

Watch out for this particular aspect.
If you allow hair loss anxiety take control of your life, it is going to be difficult to restore your tranquility.
Try to have as many hobbies as possible, go out with intelligent people. Do not always think of your hair.

As for the hairstyles, it is a pity that you cannot sport the ones you prefer. But have faith. It is true that many years ago everyone thought the solution was five years away, and it wasn't. But I doubt there was so much simmering in the pot as today.

 

[Guzam]

Balding since 14 and norwood 3 at age of f*****g 17 with thinning all over, im 21 now with still norwood 3 mostly thanks to minoxidil and nizoral, recently added finasteride which is trying to give me gyno so i EOD 0.5mg and dermarolling and im really sad and obsess over my hair everyday like 8 times, i screenshot myself under every lightning makes sure i dont look bald and funnily enough most of the time i do, it makes me so depressed to think that i never got to experience cool hairstyles that involve better than norwood 3-4 hairline and thick hair, ive always wanted Leonardo DiCaprios hair in Revenant movie, i know meds might help me but they are never going to make me good enough to rock that hair or even anything similar, this might sound as a excuse but i think hair is the main reason my whole life is fucked up, absolutely everything, im the type of guy that cares what everyone thinks and i take everything said to me really personally, if someone says that im balding or what the f*** is wrong with your hair then i might think about it for next 4 years everyday, i have zero confidence and i doubt i will ever be confident, i feel like everyone else is better looking than me and im always the ugliest and last choice for girls, im not suicidal or heavily depressed that i would need meds but im just sad, im glad that im not only one suffering with this balding sh*t and that there is entire community suffering the same thing, i also just browse forums and read and just laugh out loud about all these funny posts and it makes me a bit happier but yeah i blame my hair for everything wrong in my life, i feel like it gives me anxiety and i feel like im getting judged all the time for my hair also people seem to think that balding people dirty or losing their hair because of its their fault or have bad diet not all people know that its genetic and there isnt much you can f*****g do about it.

Hope for a miracle drug but i kinda know it aint coming, i bet people in 90s thought drug was 5 years away then too, its now 2017 and we dont have sh*t.
//can anyone recommend any norwood 3 hairstyles? shaved sides i think looks the best but maybe something else?

Friend, I understand you. I started balding probably at 16 and now I'm 21 NW3+thinning on top. Everything you went through that you talked about in this post, I went through.

You did the right thing. I support you.
Started using finasteride in October 2016. Still no cosmetic effect, but I feel good about the fact that I'm actually doing something.

Sides are non existent. One percent is a very low probability. Anyway I'm aware of the psychological effect. I catch myself thinking: "am I getting gyno?" "Am i getting ED?".

It's ALL in our head.

A f*** ton of people are on finasteride. Trump too. Studies tend to confirm that probability of getting sides is linked to pre-existent conditions and anxiety, and very low. The types of DHT inhibited by finasteride are in no way directly linked to erection, and you have to take massive amounts of dutasteride to get sides.

Think about trans people who struggle in sex transition. finasteride is generally prescribed for their hair treatment. Feminizing hormones are another thing: finasteride is not one of them.

Also finasteride is rather ineffective in treating prostate and has to be taken with other meds. finasteride is almost completely harmless in 1 mg dose.

Keep this in mind and shoo away the paranoid and the hypochondriacs. They almost get me with their fear mongering and for one day I was convinced I had ED. that gave me a 10 min long ED with my gf. Pure hell. Then I stopped thinking about it and had sex. It was ENTIRELY psychological. I hate fear mongerers. Among them: companies who sell snake oil, the worst hair transplant clinics, the alternative treatment clinics, the dumb.

Do not give in to depression. You're doing something now. Chin up and live and fight.

 

[shookwun]

Have you considered wearing a prosthesis?




Early balding sucks. Even if you're on medication the hair quality slowly erodes and ends up being ratty and thin. This is our fate, and I am your reference and source at 25. Been balding since 15.



Ever see a man in his forties who starts to bald, hair is still thick, and uniforml in density. Calibre remains strong, and color is vibrant.


Premature subhuman baldies tend to have that ratty hair, becomes diffuse and overall looses it's pigmentation. Even if you maintain on medications, decades of dht decimate the scalp. Start to have a horse shoe with maintained hair. Hormone imbalances and differences effect the hair quality at our scalps. Have that shallow lighter pigmentation on top while the sdes and back have greater density in diameter. Hair doesn't later properly, becomes so light in density it forms a rats nest




Reality @Roberto_72 can confirm?

 

[lell123]

Friend, I understand you. I started balding probably at 16 and now I'm 21 NW3+thinning on top. Everything you went through that you talked about in this post, I went through.

You did the right thing. I support you.
Started using finasteride in October 2016. Still no cosmetic effect, but I feel good about the fact that I'm actually doing something.

Sides are non existent. One percent is a very low probability. Anyway I'm aware of the psychological effect. I catch myself thinking: "am I getting gyno?" "Am i getting ED?".

It's ALL in our head.

A f*** ton of people are on finasteride. Trump too. Studies tend to confirm that probability of getting sides is linked to pre-existent conditions and anxiety, and very low. The types of DHT inhibited by finasteride are in no way directly linked to erection, and you have to take massive amounts of dutasteride to get sides.

Think about trans people who struggle in sex transition. finasteride is generally prescribed for their hair treatment. Feminizing hormones are another thing: finasteride is not one of them.

Also finasteride is rather ineffective in treating prostate and has to be taken with other meds. finasteride is almost completely harmless in 1 mg dose.

Keep this in mind and shoo away the paranoid and the hypochondriacs. They almost get me with their fear mongering and for one day I was convinced I had ED. that gave me a 10 min long ED with my gf. Pure hell. Then I stopped thinking about it and had sex. It was ENTIRELY psychological. I hate fear mongerers. Among them: companies who sell snake oil, the worst hair transplant clinics, the alternative treatment clinics, the dumb.

Do not give in to depression. You're doing something now. Chin up and live and fight.

Thanks for positive words, but yeah that gyno thing is not in my head, i dont get any ED or any other side effects but my nipples do get puffy a few hours after taking finasteride, if i knew i was only getting puffy nipples but not gyno i would be fine but im scared to get terrible gyno that i would end up having to operate, then i would be balding guy with a gyno. It might be the case that im not going to develop gyno but instead just have puffy nipples as long as im on finasteride (which is totally fine with me, a little puffy nipples to save my hair i f*****g take it anyday) but i wouldnt take gyno. im not even sure if its possible to get puffy nipples and not gyno eventually? anyways im going to still try and test with finasteride, maybe adding some zinc and b6 vitamin to reduce gyno/estrogen

Have you considered wearing a prosthesis?




Early balding sucks. Even if you're on medication the hair quality slowly erodes and ends up being ratty and thin. This our fate, and I am your reference and source at 25. Been balding since 15.

What do you mean by prothesis? like an hair piece? i dont think im bald enough to get one yet, ive heard you need to be pretty bald to get that, i would get transplant tho but im scared that at this rate im going to have to transplant new hairs every year, my balding is so agressive.

 

[shookwun]

If your hair loss is agressive to the point where it cannot be maintained with medications, then you are not a good candidate for hair restoration.


Prosthesis is a rug that you glue on your head.

 

[Guzam]

Thanks for positive words, but yeah that gyno thing is not in my head, i dont get any ED or any other side effects but my nipples do get puffy a few hours after taking finasteride, if i knew i was only getting puffy nipples but not gyno i would be fine but im scared to get terrible gyno that i would end up having to operate, then i would be balding guy with a gyno. It might be the case that im not going to develop gyno but instead just have puffy nipples as long as im on finasteride (which is totally fine with me, a little puffy nipples to save my hair i f*****g take it anyday) but i wouldnt take gyno. im not even sure if its possible to get puffy nipples and not gyno eventually? anyways im going to still try and test with finasteride, maybe adding some zinc and b6 vitamin to reduce gyno/estrogen



What do you mean by prothesis? like an hair piece? i dont think im bald enough to get one yet, ive heard you need to be pretty bald to get that, i would get transplant tho but im scared that at this rate im going to have to transplant new hairs every year, my balding is so agressive.

If you're concerned about gyno go to a specialized doctor and ask him to do a test. He will touch your pectorals and assess (im fairly sure gyno and pseudo gyno can be 'found' manually by a specialist) and probably will ask other info. You're not alone and medical specialists are here to help you, but go only to the BEST doctors you can afford.

 

[shookwun]

You would have to be a borderline retard to not be able to diffrentiate being a fat tubby marshmallow versus having gyno.



Gyno feels like rubber around the nipple. Start to have puffy and lifted appearance around areola like an erection. Nipple become prominent and you tend to have a lump in formation under neath.

Fat is squishy.


Lift your arms overhead, once your fat moobs gravitate downwards the rubber gyno stays firm and attached. Will have pigmentation difference.


If you have none of this? Pseudo gyno.



Former gyno. .....sufferer. had it surgically removed. Feels good man

 

[Baldingat188]

I know what you mean man early hairloss sucks. I find myself doing the same thing (obsessing and taking a bunch of pictures)

It pisses me off also that I can't have a normal hair style. It really sucks being so young and seeing everyone else with great hair

Not really sure what to say that is encouraging , but i know where your coming from

 

[Rudiger]

Thanks for positive words, but yeah that gyno thing is not in my head, i dont get any ED or any other side effects but my nipples do get puffy a few hours after taking finasteride

Sorry for the broscience but this simply does not sound possible, I'm quoting in the hope that someone else who actually knows what they're talking about can acknowledge this.

Just out of curiosity, and I am open to different ideas despite finasteride having great results personally, did you read up on the possibility of gyno being a side effect before going on finasteride?

finasteride is an incredibly impotent drug for most, it takes a lot of time for hormonal changes to happen from such a drug, the idea of it having a physical effect in a few hours simply seems very unlikely to me. But as I say, I am open to different possibilities.

 

[Roberto_72]

Reality @Roberto_72 can confirm?

Alas, yes.
When you lose hair in your teens (as I), even if you keep your hair until 40 via decades of medication (and transplants), the quality of your hair is frustrating.

Texture is very variable, distribution is not very natural even if you had the best surgeon in be world, color is unpredictable. Cool hairstyles are thought for people who have all of their hair, not for those who are thinning out.

On the contrary, from what I have seen, when you start thinning out at 40, especially if it only hits the temples or the crown. the texture, color and density of the top blend in with the sides and back much more easily.

 

[Notcoolanymore]

If you're concerned about gyno go to a specialized doctor and ask him to do a test. He will touch your pectorals and ***

I had a doctor do this to me once. Can't describe how dirty I felt afterward.

 

[CopeForLife]

same here

 

[diffuse_thinner]

//can anyone recommend any norwood 3 hairstyles? shaved sides i think looks the best but maybe something else?

Back and sides buzzed, subtle comb-over for front. Use Dermmatch. I wish I knew about concealers at your age.

 

[Bobster231]

Friend, I understand you. I started balding probably at 16 and now I'm 21 NW3+thinning on top. Everything you went through that you talked about in this post, I went through.

You did the right thing. I support you.
Started using finasteride in October 2016. Still no cosmetic effect, but I feel good about the fact that I'm actually doing something.

Sides are non existent. One percent is a very low probability. Anyway I'm aware of the psychological effect. I catch myself thinking: "am I getting gyno?" "Am i getting ED?".

It's ALL in our head.

A f*** ton of people are on finasteride. Trump too. Studies tend to confirm that probability of getting sides is linked to pre-existent conditions and anxiety, and very low. The types of DHT inhibited by finasteride are in no way directly linked to erection, and you have to take massive amounts of dutasteride to get sides.

Think about trans people who struggle in sex transition. finasteride is generally prescribed for their hair treatment. Feminizing hormones are another thing: finasteride is not one of them.

Also finasteride is rather ineffective in treating prostate and has to be taken with other meds. finasteride is almost completely harmless in 1 mg dose.

Keep this in mind and shoo away the paranoid and the hypochondriacs. They almost get me with their fear mongering and for one day I was convinced I had ED. that gave me a 10 min long ED with my gf. Pure hell. Then I stopped thinking about it and had sex. It was ENTIRELY psychological. I hate fear mongerers. Among them: companies who sell snake oil, the worst hair transplant clinics, the alternative treatment clinics, the dumb.

Do not give in to depression. You're doing something now. Chin up and live and fight.

Did you honestly just say side effects are non existent?

Wow...

 

[lell123]

Sorry for the broscience but this simply does not sound possible, I'm quoting in the hope that someone else who actually knows what they're talking about can acknowledge this.

Just out of curiosity, and I am open to different ideas despite finasteride having great results personally, did you read up on the possibility of gyno being a side effect before going on finasteride?

finasteride is an incredibly impotent drug for most, it takes a lot of time for hormonal changes to happen from such a drug, the idea of it having a physical effect in a few hours simply seems very unlikely to me. But as I say, I am open to different possibilities.

Well i was aware of side effects before i started, i was also aware that gyno was the lowest percentage one and i knew all the other sides that might happen, first 3 months nothing happend, i had no sides and now the only side i can complain about is chest numbness and pointy nipples and im currently EOD 0.5mg finasteride to see what happens but yeah its not placebo or anything like that, i really dont get any placebos or i never was afraid of finasteride.

 

[Bobster231]

Well i was aware of side effects before i started, i was also aware that gyno was the lowest percentage one and i knew all the other sides that might happen, first 3 months nothing happend, i had no sides and now the only side i can complain about is chest numbness and pointy nipples and im currently EOD 0.5mg finasteride to see what happens but yeah its not placebo or anything like that, i really dont get any placebos or i never was afraid of finasteride.

Imagine being with a naked woman with your pointy nipples.

 

[lell123]

Imagine being with a naked woman with your pointy nipples.

well they are not so obviously pointy that it would look retarded, at this point you can't really tell that they are pointy but from my point of view i can tell

 

[g.i joey]

Gyno tissue hurts when it's growing, a heavy chest and swelling like feeling can be a precursor but it can also just be a subtle effect of your rise in estro. If you're not getting burning pain, pinching pain or rash like feeling around your nipples I wouldn't worry. Look out for swollen mammary gland and also @shookwun is right, if u lift your arms straight in the air and feel a rubber like texture then that is indeed gyno.