Hi, i'll probably tell the whole story since it's been a tough road for me, one that will probably mark me for life, both physically and psychologically. I won't provide you with picture, atleast for now, i need to take some better than i have right now, so i guess you'll have to trust me. This could probably be a longer post but look at it as a story with a happy ending 
First of all i'm 22, almost 23 and last may was the first time i really noticed that my hair is thinning but when i look at pictures now it started earlier, my hair receded at temples a bit but it wasn't thin and i don't have family history of balding and i thought i couldn't be balding at such a young age. I took pictures of myself and posted it on one of the forums and guys weren't sure if i was balding but there was one guy who said that it is a diffuse thinning and that i need to start treating it. I still wasn't sure and i went to see a doctor and she said that my hair is thinning all over the scalp, some of my friends noticed it too but i was in denial and she said i should start with 5% minoxidil. I was delaying it as i read some of the side effects but balding started to affect my every day life in such a way that i couldn't take it anymore and i started it, i should say something about how it affected me.
That's probably me, but still, it's really depresing to start losing your hair in the age that should be your prime and the age that you are supposed to look best in your life. It affected me in a way that i lost my confidence, i broke up with my girlfriend and i had a really bad time. It affected me in a way that i saw no point in dressing nicely, take care of my looks as i will look like crap whatever i do since i am balding. I kind of lost interest in girls as i was thinking why bothering since noone would take a 22 year old that's balding. And this period marked me for life and influenced me in such a way that i have complexes regarding hair now. When i see a man, young probably that's balding i think you suck dude you have really bad genes and i feel sorry for him, i know it's bad, but i can't help myself and when i see a guy with great hair, especially older, i think man you are lucky and it kind of affect my first impression, the way i judge men and that's something i paid like 0 attention before, i thought like bald guy, nothing wrong with it.
When i started taking minoxidil, it was late october of the last year, i started feeling better immideately, i knew i was doing something good and instead of looking at the mirror 24/7 looking if my hair got worse i was looking if it got better, and that got to feel nicer. I didn't really see much improvement until few weeks back when i noticed that my hair doesn't look as thin as it used to before when i looked at it on a glass outside and there's hair all over my hairline, it's a thin weak hair but atleast it's a sign that there is some reaction. There were also parts of my scalp that were thinner than other areas and i could see it under a certain type of light and they are filling in nicely now. When i started taking minoxidil i thought my hair would shed like crazy as i read some guys describing it as if they were crazy dogs with all the hair that was shedding. There was some, but it was really minimal and i wasn't sure if that was a good or a bad thing, but it's even less lately, almost none.
I apply minoxidil twice a day, every day, and it takes a lot of effort to organize it and make it a part of your daily schedule. I don't want to go out with minoxidil on my hair but i managed to apply it twice a day almost every day throughout this period.
That would be all of it, i could talk more, but let's not make it too long.
So my regimen is minoxidil (5%) and a Fitoval shampoo i take around 3 times a week
I read some guys saying minoxidil has like an expiration date, i really hope that's not true and i guess i should start taking finasteride in some point in the future but i am really afraid of it's sides and i read there's a thing called post finasteride syndrome and that's really scary as i am not sure i will have the guts to start taking it.
I hope it wasn't too long, i'll post pictures as soon as i can. I feel better now, not so down, and my confidence is back, atleast part of it
First of all i'm 22, almost 23 and last may was the first time i really noticed that my hair is thinning but when i look at pictures now it started earlier, my hair receded at temples a bit but it wasn't thin and i don't have family history of balding and i thought i couldn't be balding at such a young age. I took pictures of myself and posted it on one of the forums and guys weren't sure if i was balding but there was one guy who said that it is a diffuse thinning and that i need to start treating it. I still wasn't sure and i went to see a doctor and she said that my hair is thinning all over the scalp, some of my friends noticed it too but i was in denial and she said i should start with 5% minoxidil. I was delaying it as i read some of the side effects but balding started to affect my every day life in such a way that i couldn't take it anymore and i started it, i should say something about how it affected me.
That's probably me, but still, it's really depresing to start losing your hair in the age that should be your prime and the age that you are supposed to look best in your life. It affected me in a way that i lost my confidence, i broke up with my girlfriend and i had a really bad time. It affected me in a way that i saw no point in dressing nicely, take care of my looks as i will look like crap whatever i do since i am balding. I kind of lost interest in girls as i was thinking why bothering since noone would take a 22 year old that's balding. And this period marked me for life and influenced me in such a way that i have complexes regarding hair now. When i see a man, young probably that's balding i think you suck dude you have really bad genes and i feel sorry for him, i know it's bad, but i can't help myself and when i see a guy with great hair, especially older, i think man you are lucky and it kind of affect my first impression, the way i judge men and that's something i paid like 0 attention before, i thought like bald guy, nothing wrong with it.
When i started taking minoxidil, it was late october of the last year, i started feeling better immideately, i knew i was doing something good and instead of looking at the mirror 24/7 looking if my hair got worse i was looking if it got better, and that got to feel nicer. I didn't really see much improvement until few weeks back when i noticed that my hair doesn't look as thin as it used to before when i looked at it on a glass outside and there's hair all over my hairline, it's a thin weak hair but atleast it's a sign that there is some reaction. There were also parts of my scalp that were thinner than other areas and i could see it under a certain type of light and they are filling in nicely now. When i started taking minoxidil i thought my hair would shed like crazy as i read some guys describing it as if they were crazy dogs with all the hair that was shedding. There was some, but it was really minimal and i wasn't sure if that was a good or a bad thing, but it's even less lately, almost none.
I apply minoxidil twice a day, every day, and it takes a lot of effort to organize it and make it a part of your daily schedule. I don't want to go out with minoxidil on my hair but i managed to apply it twice a day almost every day throughout this period.
That would be all of it, i could talk more, but let's not make it too long
.So my regimen is minoxidil (5%) and a Fitoval shampoo i take around 3 times a week
I read some guys saying minoxidil has like an expiration date, i really hope that's not true and i guess i should start taking finasteride in some point in the future but i am really afraid of it's sides and i read there's a thing called post finasteride syndrome and that's really scary as i am not sure i will have the guts to start taking it.
I hope it wasn't too long, i'll post pictures as soon as i can. I feel better now, not so down, and my confidence is back, atleast part of it
