Well, I've been lurking here for a long time. Perhaps about a year, who knows.
I decided to join up, primarily because I'm getting rather pissed off with my hair loss, and have decided to do something about it. For me, it's been a really slow thing. I first noticed it when I was about 18 or 19, and I'd say it's been a very gradual decline since then. I'm now 24. I can still get away with looking like I'm barely thinning, which is something I didn't expect to happen. I've mainly had a problem with the temple area, and because I've been blessed (cough) with a pretty high forehead anyway, it's more noticeable - at least to me. Maybe not to other people. Who knows.
However, it's now becoming a lot thinner on the top as well, which is annoying. So I have decided to take a trip to Boots and have a go at their hair retention programme. I understand from forum posts that this is basically just Propecia, which is fair enough. I plan on using this by itself for a little while and then adding whatever that foam is, and the shampoo too, perhaps. It depends.
I haven't really tried anything to prevent hairloss before - besides vitamins and changing shampoo, which didn't do a lot of good - so I'm sure I'll spend some time on here for advice and stuff.
I've decided that I'm going to stay positive about this but not get my hopes up too much - I've seen some success cases on here but also a lot of cases where nothing happened. I shaved my head last year and got tons of compliments (actually, more than I ever had with hair!) so if my little plan doesn't succeed then I'll just 'do a Moby' and live with it
Anyway, that's my story.
Hope you're all having a great weekend - I shall be back!
Murakawa
I decided to join up, primarily because I'm getting rather pissed off with my hair loss, and have decided to do something about it. For me, it's been a really slow thing. I first noticed it when I was about 18 or 19, and I'd say it's been a very gradual decline since then. I'm now 24. I can still get away with looking like I'm barely thinning, which is something I didn't expect to happen. I've mainly had a problem with the temple area, and because I've been blessed (cough) with a pretty high forehead anyway, it's more noticeable - at least to me. Maybe not to other people. Who knows.
However, it's now becoming a lot thinner on the top as well, which is annoying. So I have decided to take a trip to Boots and have a go at their hair retention programme. I understand from forum posts that this is basically just Propecia, which is fair enough. I plan on using this by itself for a little while and then adding whatever that foam is, and the shampoo too, perhaps. It depends.
I haven't really tried anything to prevent hairloss before - besides vitamins and changing shampoo, which didn't do a lot of good - so I'm sure I'll spend some time on here for advice and stuff.
I've decided that I'm going to stay positive about this but not get my hopes up too much - I've seen some success cases on here but also a lot of cases where nothing happened. I shaved my head last year and got tons of compliments (actually, more than I ever had with hair!) so if my little plan doesn't succeed then I'll just 'do a Moby' and live with it
Anyway, that's my story.
Hope you're all having a great weekend - I shall be back!
Murakawa
