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Baldness runs rampant on both sides of my family. Dad was a NW3-4 by 23 (my age now), and his only brother a few years later. Mum's brothers had slightly more time, but only until there late 20s. There is one uncle on Mum's side (out of 4) who still hasn't receded, but has a bald spot on the back of his head. He's 54. Both sides of the family have very fine hair too, which makes things even more difficult!
My Situation
I started receding quite young, around 16. I had a lot of fine hair on top until it started thinning out at 18 or 19, not quite sure. It didn't bother me for quite some time, since I always wear my hair quite messy/surfer style.
After travelling around my home country of Australia for a few months, I got home to Dad, who said "hey you're looking rather thin on top". I was like "bullsh*t, you're full of it", until I went to the hairdressers a week later to get it cut short for a change..
Depression ensued..
My short haircut revealed the true extent of my male pattern baldness. It had receded to a NW2, but was getting really thin on top so you could see straight through it! If i pushed it down flat you couldn't see, but under a light you could.
I researched a sh*tload on this forum, and started Finasteride (1.25mg/day, quartered Cipla Fincar) late Febuary 2007..
Success!
Even though I had started finasteride, my confidence was still dead low. Honestly, I thought about my hair every, single day until about Febuary 2008, when my hair finally got thick enough to style in a way that I liked.
Finasteride had finally saved my confidence! I could once again blend into this shallow, cosmetic world that we live in!
Side Effects
I've occasionally been rather rude to people who say stuff like "finasteride gave me tits after 3 days!" I regret some of my reactions, and now try to ignore such outbursts.
I don't THINK I've had any sides from this drug. My libido is up sometimes and down other times. My mood is also like this. I have no tits, and am very toned. Sometimes if I'm with a new girl I struggle, but my penis usually works fine. My jizz is watery sometimes, though it's often just as thick as ever.
It short, nothing seems to have changed since starting finasteride (apart from the watery jizz, which I don't think I had before).
OK, so here is the evidence..
April 2007 - 6 weeks on finasteride. I think this was after the supposed "initial shed" caused by finasteride, but I'm not sure. Hair looks BAD!
These were taken in school. I was about 17.
September 2008 - 19 months on finasteride. This was probably my peak. Looks great, but it's actually still a bit thinner on top than at the side..
February 2007 - RIGHT TEMPLE
January 2008 - RIGHT TEMPLE
September 2008 - RIGHT TEMPLE
September 2008 - LEFT TEMPLE
2 MONTH BREAK!
I had a few short breaks over the years, mostly just a week or 2 because I ordered too late.
However, in March 2009 I was in a country that had strict import rules. I could have gotten supplies, but I got lazy because I would have had to find a new supplier. I thought "hey, I'll give it a break for a few months as a bit of an experiment".
..Pretty stupid experiment!
My hair thinned out a bit over the break, and was starting to itch and burn like a mofo! I went back on finasteride early May. The itch went away and my hair seemed to stop shedding again.
Silly me, won't do it again..
Summary
Finasteride has worked great for me, but took about a year to get REALLY good results. I strongly recommend it to people in order to maintain there hair, maybe thicken it up a little, and basically just keep things in check until something better comes along.. Hopefully..
Good Luck!
Baldness runs rampant on both sides of my family. Dad was a NW3-4 by 23 (my age now), and his only brother a few years later. Mum's brothers had slightly more time, but only until there late 20s. There is one uncle on Mum's side (out of 4) who still hasn't receded, but has a bald spot on the back of his head. He's 54. Both sides of the family have very fine hair too, which makes things even more difficult!
My Situation
I started receding quite young, around 16. I had a lot of fine hair on top until it started thinning out at 18 or 19, not quite sure. It didn't bother me for quite some time, since I always wear my hair quite messy/surfer style.
After travelling around my home country of Australia for a few months, I got home to Dad, who said "hey you're looking rather thin on top". I was like "bullsh*t, you're full of it", until I went to the hairdressers a week later to get it cut short for a change..
Depression ensued..
My short haircut revealed the true extent of my male pattern baldness. It had receded to a NW2, but was getting really thin on top so you could see straight through it! If i pushed it down flat you couldn't see, but under a light you could.
I researched a sh*tload on this forum, and started Finasteride (1.25mg/day, quartered Cipla Fincar) late Febuary 2007..
Success!
Even though I had started finasteride, my confidence was still dead low. Honestly, I thought about my hair every, single day until about Febuary 2008, when my hair finally got thick enough to style in a way that I liked.
Finasteride had finally saved my confidence! I could once again blend into this shallow, cosmetic world that we live in!
Side Effects
I've occasionally been rather rude to people who say stuff like "finasteride gave me tits after 3 days!" I regret some of my reactions, and now try to ignore such outbursts.
I don't THINK I've had any sides from this drug. My libido is up sometimes and down other times. My mood is also like this. I have no tits, and am very toned. Sometimes if I'm with a new girl I struggle, but my penis usually works fine. My jizz is watery sometimes, though it's often just as thick as ever.
It short, nothing seems to have changed since starting finasteride (apart from the watery jizz, which I don't think I had before).
OK, so here is the evidence..
April 2007 - 6 weeks on finasteride. I think this was after the supposed "initial shed" caused by finasteride, but I'm not sure. Hair looks BAD!
These were taken in school. I was about 17.
September 2008 - 19 months on finasteride. This was probably my peak. Looks great, but it's actually still a bit thinner on top than at the side..
February 2007 - RIGHT TEMPLE
January 2008 - RIGHT TEMPLE
September 2008 - RIGHT TEMPLE
September 2008 - LEFT TEMPLE
2 MONTH BREAK!
I had a few short breaks over the years, mostly just a week or 2 because I ordered too late.
However, in March 2009 I was in a country that had strict import rules. I could have gotten supplies, but I got lazy because I would have had to find a new supplier. I thought "hey, I'll give it a break for a few months as a bit of an experiment".
..Pretty stupid experiment!
My hair thinned out a bit over the break, and was starting to itch and burn like a mofo! I went back on finasteride early May. The itch went away and my hair seemed to stop shedding again.
Silly me, won't do it again..
Summary
Finasteride has worked great for me, but took about a year to get REALLY good results. I strongly recommend it to people in order to maintain there hair, maybe thicken it up a little, and basically just keep things in check until something better comes along.. Hopefully..
Good Luck!
. i'm shedding like constantly everytime i think it is ended it comes back a week later and i'd say im easily into a month and a half of this if not more.