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well i guess i only feel it right to let everyone know my story on here since i've been posting for the past few days and all. Basically i'm 21 yearold male, healthy and in shape and all as i play soccer for my college etc. anyway, i'll start my whole story off by just stating for the record that up until about 9 months ago i always had a thick healthy nice set of hair. my family history of mbp is that it is almost non-existent on my father's side while on my mother's side most males my uncle included go bald, however usually it starts aggresively setting in somewhat later in life, 30s etc. anyway, i guess i was blessed with my mother genes as my father is pushing with huge grey mop on his head, and my brother has pretty much the same except without the grey.
picture of me 19 going on 20 taken a little over a year ago before i ever had any real hairloss. that's the style i have worn my hair in for years.
Around 9 months ago i started noticing more and more hairs falling out in the shower i didn't think much of it at first but it sort of just never stopped and seemed to get worse. then two months later from august to february i went on accutane for acne which i've battled pretty much my whole life, and while i guess it didn't cause the male pattern baldness that i had started it definetly didn't help and i'm sure sped it up. so i was consistently losing hair from accutane and once i came off of it in feburary my hair just took a turn for the worse. i was losing more and more hair in the shower probably up to 20-60 i would say would just come out. my once thick straight hair was becoming this sort of weak wirery strands on the top of my head and i started to notice a bald spot forming there. also my hariline along my temples seemed to just nose dive inward, i mean i always had a widow's peak, they definetly receeded an inch and a half.
this is a picture of the back area of my head probably at it's worst. usually the bald spot isn't as bad depending on how the hair lies but as you can see it really really sucks having to deal with it. probably isnt' that noticeable yet to people but who knows
recntly i would say that the fact that i am going bald at 21 really hit me hard. i mean it just sort of hit me all at once a couple weeks ago that it was happening so much quicker than i thought it ever would. i can deal with going bald when i'm in my 30s even late 20s for god's sakes, but 21, it leaves me with the question of why me. I've never even buzzed my hair due to the fact that i have mis-shaped head with a bump on the back. with my hair i look completely normal but i'm sure with a buzz it would look terrible. plus my hair is something that i've always had and loved my whole life and i'm like women when it comes to losing it right now. my parents are both in denial when i tell them that i am losing it, and just seem to constantly reassure me that it's not when i know it is.
recently i decided to do something about it so for the past week or so i went on propecia 1mg for the first 2 days, but as i'm only around 5'6 155lbs i found that it was a shock to my system and went and bought a pill cutter and am now taking .25mg every day. i also just started using rogaine 5% and just started today using nizoral 1%. What i'm hoping for is that since i still have a thick decent set of hair that by using the propecia and preventing the aggressive hair loss that i was going through most of it will fill in on it's own with time when it has a chance to grow back it isn't constantly falling out etc. with that said i was dealing with some sexual sides, low libido etc, and major ball ache the first few days on it, but today it seems to have settled down. also i had a minor break out in acne along my back and some on my chest due probably to the propecia. i can deal with that being there as long as it doesn't get any worse than it is, and stays the hell off my face. My few conerns and questions out there to all of you guys would be two fold propecia and muscle loss as i am a college athlete and need to maintain a healthy muscular body etc, and i dont want gyno and all. those are probably my biggest fears. my sex drive has recently started to show some signs of life, hopefully it comes back full force. so that's my story any input and or advice would be greatly appreciated.
picture of me 19 going on 20 taken a little over a year ago before i ever had any real hairloss. that's the style i have worn my hair in for years.
Around 9 months ago i started noticing more and more hairs falling out in the shower i didn't think much of it at first but it sort of just never stopped and seemed to get worse. then two months later from august to february i went on accutane for acne which i've battled pretty much my whole life, and while i guess it didn't cause the male pattern baldness that i had started it definetly didn't help and i'm sure sped it up. so i was consistently losing hair from accutane and once i came off of it in feburary my hair just took a turn for the worse. i was losing more and more hair in the shower probably up to 20-60 i would say would just come out. my once thick straight hair was becoming this sort of weak wirery strands on the top of my head and i started to notice a bald spot forming there. also my hariline along my temples seemed to just nose dive inward, i mean i always had a widow's peak, they definetly receeded an inch and a half.
this is a picture of the back area of my head probably at it's worst. usually the bald spot isn't as bad depending on how the hair lies but as you can see it really really sucks having to deal with it. probably isnt' that noticeable yet to people but who knows
recntly i would say that the fact that i am going bald at 21 really hit me hard. i mean it just sort of hit me all at once a couple weeks ago that it was happening so much quicker than i thought it ever would. i can deal with going bald when i'm in my 30s even late 20s for god's sakes, but 21, it leaves me with the question of why me. I've never even buzzed my hair due to the fact that i have mis-shaped head with a bump on the back. with my hair i look completely normal but i'm sure with a buzz it would look terrible. plus my hair is something that i've always had and loved my whole life and i'm like women when it comes to losing it right now. my parents are both in denial when i tell them that i am losing it, and just seem to constantly reassure me that it's not when i know it is.
recently i decided to do something about it so for the past week or so i went on propecia 1mg for the first 2 days, but as i'm only around 5'6 155lbs i found that it was a shock to my system and went and bought a pill cutter and am now taking .25mg every day. i also just started using rogaine 5% and just started today using nizoral 1%. What i'm hoping for is that since i still have a thick decent set of hair that by using the propecia and preventing the aggressive hair loss that i was going through most of it will fill in on it's own with time when it has a chance to grow back it isn't constantly falling out etc. with that said i was dealing with some sexual sides, low libido etc, and major ball ache the first few days on it, but today it seems to have settled down. also i had a minor break out in acne along my back and some on my chest due probably to the propecia. i can deal with that being there as long as it doesn't get any worse than it is, and stays the hell off my face. My few conerns and questions out there to all of you guys would be two fold propecia and muscle loss as i am a college athlete and need to maintain a healthy muscular body etc, and i dont want gyno and all. those are probably my biggest fears. my sex drive has recently started to show some signs of life, hopefully it comes back full force. so that's my story any input and or advice would be greatly appreciated.
. it happened to me around age 24 (im 26 now).
