My Story

[wilson2]

I was basically diffuse thinning NW3V when I started treatment. Darker times. I wouldn't kill myself the way my hair is now. If I started losing ground badly again, and had exhausted my otehr options (drugs and hair transplant donor hair) then I would consider one of two approaches. 1. Do what Fred did, hair transplant plus buzzcut (this would make me look like crap, bad head shape for a buzz cut). 2. Suicide.
Like I said though, that's a problem for further down the road, right I have less hair/density than I'd like, but enough to work with for the most part.

Respectfully, you sound insane.

 

[shookwun]

GoldenMane,

have you tried a 1 guard clipper all over, and growing a goatee/stubble beard?

Best look to have if you have ****ty hair characteristics. A lot of people who are balding are deluded when it comes to the appearance of their hair.

Anything over a NW3 should not have their hair grown out. it looks like ****! A buzz or high n tight fade is the way to go.

 

[GoldenMane]

Look at my profile, I have pictures in there from a few about 5 months ago,. Let me know if you think I'm in the shave it territory yet. I don't think I am. I was a diffuse thinning NW3V, I'm not anymore. My hair is thinner than it was but you can't see scalp. I have some volume, just not as much as I used to 5-6 years ago...

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I'm not insane. I'd just rather not live a life that made me miserable. I'm pretty happy(ish) right now, have a decent life, but if my life becomes **** then I would consider it as an option. Hopefully it won't come to that, hopefully I'll keep my current hair for a long time to come and keep enjoying my life.

 

[christina berg]

How about a PHOTO?:worthless:

 

[EvilLocks]

Has your hair stabilized at all, or do you see it still thinning? I really, really hope you can at least keep what you have now for a long time.

Where is your new avatar?

My hair is still thinning, though a bit more slowly now (or so I like to think). Yes, I really hope so too.

I have a problem with my avatar, no matter if I scale it down to the size the forum accepts, I get a message that my file is too big. I also have a problem with rep, when I try to rep someone it always says I must "spread some reputation around", even though I have done that and it's like 5 months since I last repped that person. Weird.

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I'm not insane. I'd just rather not live a life that made me miserable. I'm pretty happy(ish) right now, have a decent life, but if my life becomes **** then I would consider it as an option. Hopefully it won't come to that, hopefully I'll keep my current hair for a long time to come and keep enjoying my life.

I understand, I'm the same as you. Right now suicide isn't an option, but if sometime in the future I have exhausted all options (including a wig), and neither has worked out for me, suicide is an option. But I don't want to think about that for now.

 

[Joan]

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I understand, I'm the same as you. Right now suicide isn't an option, but if sometime in the future I have exhausted all options (including a wig), and neither has worked out for me, suicide is an option. But I don't want to think about that for now.

If you had the choice of looking like yourself but needing to wear a wig or just looking average and plain, without the possibility of ever looking even remotely attractive, never being ogled by men and forever fading into the background of society but having a full head of hair guaranteed for your whole life, which would you choose?

 

[EvilLocks]

If you had the choice of looking like yourself but needing to wear a wig or just looking average and plain, without the possibility of ever looking even remotely attractive, never being ogled by men and forever fading into the background of society but having a full head of hair guaranteed for your whole life, which would you choose?

I don't know really... I want hair so much that I'm tempted to say the latter. I'll rather look like myself with hair :doh:

 

[nameless]

Respectfully, you sound insane.

Wilson, I've been dealing with this sh!t for about 20 years.
There were times in the past I used to consider suicide.
I'm feel like I'm over that hump now but I'm still very upset about being disfigured.
I can understand someone considering suicide over it because I myself went through
that period where I considered it. I think some people get over that hump but I also
think that some people actually do commit suicide. I don't think they're insane. I
think their lives have been destroyed, they feel terrible about it, and they can't perceive
a reason to go on. That's how I felt years ago, but then somehow I adjusted to my
new crummy existence and I just keep living my crummy life and hope for a breakthrough.

 

[EvilLocks]

I don't think they're insane. I
think their lives have been destroyed, they feel terrible about it, and they can't perceive
a reason to go on.

True words right there. Anyone considering suicide over hair loss isn't insane, it's a neverending nightmare to experience baldness (especially at a young age). Hair loss is a very valid reason to commit suicide, but at the same time I wish nobody takes their lives. I don't want people to misunderstand, again, I do NOT want ANYONE to take their life. I'm just saying that I understand why someone would feel that way.

 

[shookwun]

Wear a hair piece already.

Had I not of gotten a couple transplants I was planning on wearing a hair piece.



This scare mongering is ridiculous. hair pieces aren't like they were back in the day, and are aesthetic nowadays.


The only ones I actually sympathize with are Joan, and Evil Locks on this matter. it's a big move on their part, but no so much as a man looking for a topper.

[video=youtube;ws8VVv6mijU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws8VVv6mijU[/video]

 

[nameless]

Wear a hair piece already.

Had I not of gotten a couple transplants I was planning on wearing a hair piece.



This scare mongering is ridiculous. hair pieces aren't like they were back in the day, and are aesthetic nowadays.


The only ones I actually sympathize with are Joan, and Evil Locks on this matter. it's a big move on their part, but no so much as a man looking for a topper.

[video=youtube;ws8VVv6mijU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws8VVv6mijU[/video]

Your video really does demonstrate that hairpieces have come a long, long way.
But there is not one woman on this earth who would feel the same way about hair pieces on men as she does about his real hair.
We have to face it - need our real hair. If neither SM04554 nor Histogen will solve the problem then I will get a hair transplant
so that at least I won't be bald but that will mean I will never look like me again, or should I say I will never look like Duncan
James again.

 

[shookwun]

2-5 years can be the difference between having hair and being bald.

To much hope in something that will never be available on shelives. These cures are just an upgrade of finasteride and maitenance.

Ask yourself, can you realy see any of these potions giving you a magical full head of hair when current trials and inventions have constantly failed to even remotely give a few pieces of hair.

Perhaps I need to do more research

 

[John McClane]

I understand, I'm the same as you. Right now suicide isn't an option, but if sometime in the future I have exhausted all options (including a wig), and neither has worked out for me, suicide is an option. But I don't want to think about that for now.

Please don't say something like that, life is too precious to throw it away because of something like hair.

 

[nameless]

Please don't say something like that, life is too precious to throw it away because of something like hair.

Of course I don't want EvilLocks or anyone else to commit suicide but I can understand someone getting to that point. That having been said, I also ask EvilLocks to please not commit suicide. If you commit suicide there will be no chance for you to ever get your life back. No matter how much it hurts you should stay here on earth with the rest of us because as long as you're alive there's a chance that someday you will get what you want. Once you're gone that chance is lost forever.

 

[EvilLocks]

Of course I don't want EvilLocks or anyone else to commit suicide but I can understand someone getting to that point. That having been said, I also ask EvilLocks to please not commit suicide. If you commit suicide there will be no chance for you to ever get your life back. No matter how much it hurts you should stay here on earth with the rest of us because as long as you're alive there's a chance that someday you will get you want. Once you're gone that chance is lost forever.

I have no plans of committing suicide, I just said that if in the future no solution works for me and I feel like there's no way out except for death then maybe suicide could be an option. MAYBE. Of course I want to try everything I can to get used to being bald first, and right now suicide isn't an option for me. I just meant that in the future that could change. I don't know what turn life will take for me, so I can't exclude suicide as an option. I am fully aware than once I'm gone I'm gone forever, and do not take this lightly. But what is a life with nothing worth living for? A life as a wig prisoner and subhuman for the rest of my life? Can I really take the pain? These are questions I'm asking myself. But again, no, I'm not going to commit suicide as of now. But what the future holds, I don't know.

 

[marco75]

Wilson, I've been dealing with this sh!t for about 20 years.
There were times in the past I used to consider suicide.
I'm feel like I'm over that hump now but I'm still very upset about being disfigured.
I can understand someone considering suicide over it because I myself went through
that period where I considered it. I think some people get over that hump but I also
think that some people actually do commit suicide. I don't think they're insane. I
think their lives have been destroyed, they feel terrible about it, and they can't perceive
a reason to go on. That's how I felt years ago, but then somehow I adjusted to my
new crummy existence and I just hope for a breakthrough as I keep living my crummy
life.

Have you actively tried dating women or are you making the assumption all women will reject you? It's true some women will no longer find you as attractive, but I had no problem getting women when I was single had good results on tinder etc and I have less hair than you (if you are only a NW3).

 

[nameless]

Have you actively tried dating women or are you making the assumption all women will reject you? It's true some women will no longer find you as attractive, but I had no problem getting women when I was single had good results on tinder etc and I have less hair than you (if you are only a NW3).

I dont want to be rejected. The last significant relationship I had was that one woman who tried to use her attractiveness advantage over me to bulldoze me. I sent her to Nebraska and that was over 10 years ago. I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life alone rather than be mistreated. Nobody's flirting with me at all, I don't want to be rejected, and I'm OK with spending the rest of my alone to avoid those things. I've been pretty much alone through all of my 30s and into my 40s. It hurts but I'm prepared to accept that this is my fate. But I will always know that life would have been different if our all-loving all-merciful god (what a laugh) had not stuck me with a major disfigurement.

 

[marco75]

I dont want to be rejected. The last significant relationship I had was that one woman who tried to use her attractiveness advantage over me to bulldoze me. I sent her to Nebraska and that was over 10 years ago. I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life alone rather than be mistreated. Nobody's flirting with me at all, I don't want to be rejected, and I'm OK with spending the rest of my alone to avoid those things. I've been pretty much alone through all of my 30s and into my 40s. It hurts but I'm prepared to accept this if this is my fate. But I will always know that life would have been different if our all-loving all-merciful god (what a laugh) had not stuck me with a major disfigurement.

People with NW1's get rejected too as do all people at some point, it's part of life and dating, it sucks but the more you bounce back the less and less it effects you to the point where you don't give a **** (or at least get over it quickly) being outcome independant is key. You might find your assumptions and perceptions do not fit with reality (Im not suggesting a fairly land were all bald guys are studs) but that you are still attractive to lots of women.

 

[nameless]

People with NW1's get rejected too as do all people at some point, it's part of life and dating, it sucks but the more you bounce back the less and less it effects you to the point where you don't give a **** (or at least get over it quickly) being outcome independant is key. You might find your assumptions and perceptions do not fit with reality (Im not suggesting a fairly land were all bald guys are studs) but that you are still attractive to lots of women.

I don't get rejected much at all when I'm NW1. I'm sorry but I don't know anything about rejection or how to deal with it. I do not want to deal with it. Why doesn't the world just shoot me? Shoot me or give me my hair back. Women are not interested in me at all anymore. Ah well, I will just get a hair transplant if SM and Histogen don't work. The hair transplant won't give me enough to look good but it will keep me from being bald. But first I want to see what comes of SM and Histogen.

 

[Joan]

I dont want to be rejected. The last significant relationship I had was that one woman who tried to use her attractiveness advantage over me to bulldoze me. I sent her to Nebraska and that was over 10 years ago. I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life alone rather than be mistreated. Nobody's flirting with me at all, I don't want to be rejected, and I'm OK with spending the rest of my alone to avoid those things. I've been pretty much alone through all of my 30s and into my 40s. It hurts but I'm prepared to accept this if this is my fate. But I will always know that life would have been different if our all-loving all-merciful god (what a laugh) had not stuck me with a major disfigurement.

If you're looking for much younger women, then, yes, most may reject you. They may reject you if you had hair too, since not all women are into older guys. Forties and up, you'd be surprised how many of them are starting to experience hair loss themselves. They might be thinking like you, "Nobody's flirting with me at all." I (and many other married women, I'm sure) still check out guys--slyly, I hope! A few I see on a regular basis are bald and just average looking. I enjoy the brief chats I have with them and would date them if I were single, not losing hair and so unhappy with my overall appearance. You never know what a woman is thinking. And with hair, these guys would still be just average. You say you were (and probably still are) really good looking with hair and picked up lots of women. At your age, I have a hard time believing that at least some women late 30s and up wouldn't be interested in you.

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Have you actively tried dating women or are you making the assumption all women will reject you? It's true some women will no longer find you as attractive, but I had no problem getting women when I was single had good results on tinder etc and I have less hair than you (if you are only a NW3).

I'm sure you were rejected a couple of times too, and if you were, it didn't stop you from approaching other women, right?