About 4 months ago i got this hair cut which really accentuated my backward creeping hairline. In retrospect i was very much overstating the problem, as the hair cut just made it appear a lot more shorter - making it difficult to style my hair the way i like. This led me to believe I was going bald. And so began the saga about my hair
A month or so down the track I got over this paranoia because my hair grew back, enabling me to style my hair line in the way i wanted. Naturally I forgot about it, and never really thought about it much until christmas creeped up.. My brother told me he could see my scalp when i was standing under the light which scared me... because I was renowned for my thick, luscious and lion-like hair.
SInce then it's been a daily process of examining my hair, worrying about it, feeling it for changes. It's beginning to drive me nuts because it's taking a toll on me psychologically. For some reason i can't help but think that my paranoia is creating the problem, and is making my hair fall out. BEcause since then, it just feels worse. It feels thinner, and more of my scalp can be seen.
It's ironic because a couple of months prior to that i was worried about my hair line, which ended up being fine, but then the ACTUAL onset of baldness was occuring on my crown.
Now what's fucked me up is that i examined my family tree, and traced the patterns of hair loss. My dad has the typical male pattern baldness where the hairline receded first, then the crown, bla bla bla. His older brother has more hair than him, his younger brother had less hair.
My mum's father went bald @ the front. Kind of like a Tony Soprano at the beginning of season 1, but a lot more hair on the forelock. This was about the age of 30.
My great grandfather on my mum's side had nice hair as far as i can tell from the photos. My pattern looks different from the one my grandfather had, as im not going bald @ the front , but @ the crown. Secdonly, im only 20, and it seems pretty rapid right now.
As i speak im feeling my crown and it feels very sparse and thin. It depresses me.
About a month ago i got on proscar, taking it daily. Just last week I bought Nizoral 2%. So far the crown feels slightly thinner than from when i first started and i dont know if this is because of the meds or because im just being a paranoid f***...
lately ive been thinking that because it's all in my head, ive created the problem.. Because i keep checking my hair 24/7 that Ive essentially caused this hair loss. Just like someone who dies out of shock because they think theyve been bitten by a venomous snake when it wasnt venomous. Like a "nocebo" concept... ANyone thought of this?
Anyway, pictures will be posted later on...
A month or so down the track I got over this paranoia because my hair grew back, enabling me to style my hair line in the way i wanted. Naturally I forgot about it, and never really thought about it much until christmas creeped up.. My brother told me he could see my scalp when i was standing under the light which scared me... because I was renowned for my thick, luscious and lion-like hair.
SInce then it's been a daily process of examining my hair, worrying about it, feeling it for changes. It's beginning to drive me nuts because it's taking a toll on me psychologically. For some reason i can't help but think that my paranoia is creating the problem, and is making my hair fall out. BEcause since then, it just feels worse. It feels thinner, and more of my scalp can be seen.
It's ironic because a couple of months prior to that i was worried about my hair line, which ended up being fine, but then the ACTUAL onset of baldness was occuring on my crown.
Now what's fucked me up is that i examined my family tree, and traced the patterns of hair loss. My dad has the typical male pattern baldness where the hairline receded first, then the crown, bla bla bla. His older brother has more hair than him, his younger brother had less hair.
My mum's father went bald @ the front. Kind of like a Tony Soprano at the beginning of season 1, but a lot more hair on the forelock. This was about the age of 30.
My great grandfather on my mum's side had nice hair as far as i can tell from the photos. My pattern looks different from the one my grandfather had, as im not going bald @ the front , but @ the crown. Secdonly, im only 20, and it seems pretty rapid right now.
As i speak im feeling my crown and it feels very sparse and thin. It depresses me.
About a month ago i got on proscar, taking it daily. Just last week I bought Nizoral 2%. So far the crown feels slightly thinner than from when i first started and i dont know if this is because of the meds or because im just being a paranoid f***...
lately ive been thinking that because it's all in my head, ive created the problem.. Because i keep checking my hair 24/7 that Ive essentially caused this hair loss. Just like someone who dies out of shock because they think theyve been bitten by a venomous snake when it wasnt venomous. Like a "nocebo" concept... ANyone thought of this?
Anyway, pictures will be posted later on...
