darkphoenix16
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Hello everyone.
When I was growing up the hair dresser would always comment on how I would never go bald because I had so much hair. Well she was wrong. My hair started thinning when I first attended University when I was 18. I believe it was the stress of the transition that started it all. You couldn't tell my hair was thinning, it was hardly noticeable but it still bothered me.
During my final year of University I had a huge workload and my hair would fall out with clumps. I attribute that to a poor diet, stress, and a lack of sleep. Not sure if it ever grew back or not.
I am now 25 and I have been using some form of minoxidil for 4 years and finasteride for almost 2. My hair is falling out at the front of my head, my hairline is fine...strange eh? Anyways, I have also tried other "treatments." Copper peptides, spironolactone, various things from Dr Proctor, the laser comb, and some horrible gunk named Procede that is supposed to only need to be used once every three-four months. It made my hair fallout on contact. I have actually never fully recovered from the allergic reaction to that stuff and it has been 6 months.
After battling hair loss for 7 years I feel that I have as much experience as anyone else. I have some advice for people. Don't worry about it. Men go bald and that is all there is to it. I was foolish to spend all the money I did on the problem. A few months ago I looked at myself in the mirror and I decided I was tired of all this sh*t. I took out my clippers and cut my hair as short as I could. I shocked everyone, got some good comments, got some joke comments. I stopped taking finasteride and after a week or so I could think so clearly, I was happier, and I had more energy. It has been almost a month and I have noticed some fat loss. Overall I am much healthier. Skeptics might say that these changes are all in my head...but I am inclined to say that they are wrong. When I first started taking finasteride I noticed brain fog. It didn't so much go away but rather I got used to it and it became unnoticeable (until I stopped taking it). Oh, and I should note that I was a good responder to finasteride. My hair loss noticeably stopped since using it.
Just yesterday I "relapsed" and I ingested 1mg of finasteride. Wish I didn't though. I feel different when I take it... In my opinion the problem with male pattern baldness isn't your loss of hair, but the dangerous state of vulnerability you are placed in. I'm still battling with it myself. The industrial world wants you to be in this state. They would prefer that you purchase their products to cure your disease. The irony of it is that you are feeding a different kind of disease more than you are curing your baldness. Are we all really that vain and weak to be afraid to be bald? We are supposed to be men but we do not seem to be acting like men. I think we all need to take a real good look in the mirror and realize that losing hair sucks, but there is a more serious problem that you have to confront with before you think about spending money on treatment.
I'm not trying to demeanor all the efforts people have put into researching different treatments, nor do I think they are wrong to use them. I would like to see a board that simply deals with accepting your hair loss and focusing the energy you would otherwise spend on trying to prevent it onto general body health and a better state of mind though. I really do think that many people get addicted to finding a cure for male pattern baldness and make poorer decisions the more desperate they get. Don't you think it would be better to accept being bald then taking systematic drugs and sinking a unhealthy amount of time and money into something that is essentially only cosmetic?
Does anyone have any thoughts on what I said?
When I was growing up the hair dresser would always comment on how I would never go bald because I had so much hair. Well she was wrong. My hair started thinning when I first attended University when I was 18. I believe it was the stress of the transition that started it all. You couldn't tell my hair was thinning, it was hardly noticeable but it still bothered me.
During my final year of University I had a huge workload and my hair would fall out with clumps. I attribute that to a poor diet, stress, and a lack of sleep. Not sure if it ever grew back or not.
I am now 25 and I have been using some form of minoxidil for 4 years and finasteride for almost 2. My hair is falling out at the front of my head, my hairline is fine...strange eh? Anyways, I have also tried other "treatments." Copper peptides, spironolactone, various things from Dr Proctor, the laser comb, and some horrible gunk named Procede that is supposed to only need to be used once every three-four months. It made my hair fallout on contact. I have actually never fully recovered from the allergic reaction to that stuff and it has been 6 months.
After battling hair loss for 7 years I feel that I have as much experience as anyone else. I have some advice for people. Don't worry about it. Men go bald and that is all there is to it. I was foolish to spend all the money I did on the problem. A few months ago I looked at myself in the mirror and I decided I was tired of all this sh*t. I took out my clippers and cut my hair as short as I could. I shocked everyone, got some good comments, got some joke comments. I stopped taking finasteride and after a week or so I could think so clearly, I was happier, and I had more energy. It has been almost a month and I have noticed some fat loss. Overall I am much healthier. Skeptics might say that these changes are all in my head...but I am inclined to say that they are wrong. When I first started taking finasteride I noticed brain fog. It didn't so much go away but rather I got used to it and it became unnoticeable (until I stopped taking it). Oh, and I should note that I was a good responder to finasteride. My hair loss noticeably stopped since using it.
Just yesterday I "relapsed" and I ingested 1mg of finasteride. Wish I didn't though. I feel different when I take it... In my opinion the problem with male pattern baldness isn't your loss of hair, but the dangerous state of vulnerability you are placed in. I'm still battling with it myself. The industrial world wants you to be in this state. They would prefer that you purchase their products to cure your disease. The irony of it is that you are feeding a different kind of disease more than you are curing your baldness. Are we all really that vain and weak to be afraid to be bald? We are supposed to be men but we do not seem to be acting like men. I think we all need to take a real good look in the mirror and realize that losing hair sucks, but there is a more serious problem that you have to confront with before you think about spending money on treatment.
I'm not trying to demeanor all the efforts people have put into researching different treatments, nor do I think they are wrong to use them. I would like to see a board that simply deals with accepting your hair loss and focusing the energy you would otherwise spend on trying to prevent it onto general body health and a better state of mind though. I really do think that many people get addicted to finding a cure for male pattern baldness and make poorer decisions the more desperate they get. Don't you think it would be better to accept being bald then taking systematic drugs and sinking a unhealthy amount of time and money into something that is essentially only cosmetic?
Does anyone have any thoughts on what I said?
It isn't so bad though. We can pee standing up. Girls have to go through pregnancy and get a little surprise each month 
