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Give it a year and maybe you will get bitter as well.
I’d Lost Touch With Reality And Needed To Take Some Time Away From This Site: Shout Out To Fred
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Only if they're good-looking.
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Sorry to hear your response to medication was not ideal
I think it's a natural human reaction, both to feel initial bitterness about the success others in places we have fallen short, as well as to feel reassurance when seeing someone going through the same suffering you are. i.e.: I know I have felt better about my situation in the past when seeing someone my age or younger with similar or worse hairloss, makes you feel like less of a freak, and provides a level of normality to your own situation
That being said, I think it's an emotion that's better to dismiss once you get over that initial pang of jealousy or satisfaction. There will always be someone better off than you, better than you, and usually worse than you too. Focusing too intensely on others success and failure can be counter productive to finding mental serenity
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Yeah, its non personal.
Its like if you are made redundant its better if everyone else is made redundant - if its just you and one other then its seriously depressing.
Hair loss wouldn't matter half as much if it happened to every single man at the same age.
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shookwun
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In foresight you made the right decision.
Absolutely ludicrous to spend 15,000 CAD - 11,250 USD on a transplant while you dont have a full time job, and are in university.
Never mind making minimum payments, the interest will absolutely destroy you.
Wait until you finish school, and have full time employment.
The red scalp during school would be a nuisance, and cause for anxiety but the interest you would pay on your transplant would be the biggest downfall. If i remember correctly, you mentioned paying with a credit card which would be ever more of a disaster.
Typically when I have a transplant, even on a line of credit/personal loan... I am dishing out 1,000-1500 a month in payments, and have it paid off within 5-10 months. leaving me at minimal interest payments. Maybe 500-600$ net loss (depends on interest rates)
Absolutely ludicrous to spend 15,000 CAD - 11,250 USD on a transplant while you dont have a full time job, and are in university.
Never mind making minimum payments, the interest will absolutely destroy you.
Wait until you finish school, and have full time employment.
The red scalp during school would be a nuisance, and cause for anxiety but the interest you would pay on your transplant would be the biggest downfall. If i remember correctly, you mentioned paying with a credit card which would be ever more of a disaster.
Typically when I have a transplant, even on a line of credit/personal loan... I am dishing out 1,000-1500 a month in payments, and have it paid off within 5-10 months. leaving me at minimal interest payments. Maybe 500-600$ net loss (depends on interest rates)
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I was set to pay off about half of it immediately, and then I intended to make $500-$1000 payments month to month depending.
Still would have been a hit
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This is good to hear and I've always liked your posts, I didn't see what Fred told you but obviously it was vital, so it's great to see the impact it had.
My time on finasteride has been a confusing one, now a year and 4 months into it, I've definitely had hair growth at the very base of the fringe where my temples were attacking into an "island" formation, and that fringe is now spreading out. It's definitely tough to go for weeks and not see the continued improvement that was happening of little diffuse babies popping up from nowhere, but I hope to see them again soon, and any improvement for a relatively cheap drug is definitely worth promoting.
However, I'm as thin as ever at the moment, for a while my hair seemed thicker, I'm not so sure now. I'll still take a thin head of hair and a "decent" NW2.5 hairline, as it frames the face and I may be seen as just "balding", not "bald", the importance of framing the face is everything, it really is the difference of being in a completely different category in so many ways. I am nearly 30 now, so in my best hopes without sounding deluded, I like to think it's seen as a maturing hairline for my age, one that isn't going to disappear quickly at least (I'm aware that it may indeed do so, but at least other people may think I'll have hair into middle age).
Sorry to make this post all about me but I don't update my situation that much on here and it just feels good writing it out, even if nobody cares. Besides, your problems pretty much fixed for the foreseeable future, and like all things related to the "bald" mind, I'm filled with confusing thoughts of enthusiasm for your success, and being envious and bitter about it.
No seriously, congrats.
My time on finasteride has been a confusing one, now a year and 4 months into it, I've definitely had hair growth at the very base of the fringe where my temples were attacking into an "island" formation, and that fringe is now spreading out. It's definitely tough to go for weeks and not see the continued improvement that was happening of little diffuse babies popping up from nowhere, but I hope to see them again soon, and any improvement for a relatively cheap drug is definitely worth promoting.
However, I'm as thin as ever at the moment, for a while my hair seemed thicker, I'm not so sure now. I'll still take a thin head of hair and a "decent" NW2.5 hairline, as it frames the face and I may be seen as just "balding", not "bald", the importance of framing the face is everything, it really is the difference of being in a completely different category in so many ways. I am nearly 30 now, so in my best hopes without sounding deluded, I like to think it's seen as a maturing hairline for my age, one that isn't going to disappear quickly at least (I'm aware that it may indeed do so, but at least other people may think I'll have hair into middle age).
Sorry to make this post all about me but I don't update my situation that much on here and it just feels good writing it out, even if nobody cares. Besides, your problems pretty much fixed for the foreseeable future, and like all things related to the "bald" mind, I'm filled with confusing thoughts of enthusiasm for your success, and being envious and bitter about it.
No seriously, congrats.
shookwun
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you have low self-esteem that's why. Probably get jealous of guys like me who are ripped, and slay.
secretly want to be my friend, but talk sh*t behind my back.
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I haven't got low self esteem.
I'm in good health, have a better body than most, I've slept with a fair number of women, I'm relatively intelligent -I've nothing to feel super bad about except wanting more hair.