northeast guy
can you relate to any of this?
my hair has been thinner than average since birth. my father and my mother's father both have extensive hairloss.
i figured out how to masturbate around age 11 or 12. by age 13 i was told i had a bald spot.
at age 18 i had a baloon scalp reduction, my first strip at age 19 and my 2nd at age 21 (total 3000 grafts), a scar revision the next year, and then i was depressed for most of my twenties because i had no hope with no more donor hair on my scalp. i'm currently 28.
i just had 8046 grafts from my body (chest, abdomen, legs, armpit) transplanted to my head, and they are growing in already. i have not been this happy and healthy in years, physically, mentally, and emotionally. hopefully i will have a full head of hair by the age of 30, 5 years earlier than i was "praying" for with hair multiplication, which may not become commercially available for another 15-20 years.
this is the first time in my life that my hairloss is not getting worse and is actually getting progressively better. i was told that hopefully i will not need another procedure, but if i am not happy it is nice to know that i have around 20,000 more body hairs that i could transplant and that the technology exists to make that happen.
the one aspect of my life that correlates with the duration of my hairloss is masturbation, which i have done virtually every day since i was 11 or 12. my last girlfriend was really hot and we were having sex 4-5 times daily, and after a while my testicals started to hurt, possibly a varicocele, so much that sex was not enjoyable.
this is the first time in my life since i started living on my own, which was high school, that i actually want to take care of myself. i've completely changed my diet, started exercising daily, quit smoking cigarettes, and in general i'm doing everything i can to promote the health of my hair. this is why i was wondering if anyone else felt that masturbation could have influenced their hairloss.
i've stopped masturbating now because it is actually in my best interest. i'm not saying other people should stop. i just want to inform other people who might have similar experiences that i have stopped, so that they can follow my progress and decide on their own if this might work for them too.
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