Wow Fred, I tried to be very respectful to you and your points (hell, I even stated that I respected you as a poster and complimented you on your transplant!) and then you go and spout idiotic nonsense, comparing me to Joe from Staten Island. That is completely ridiculous and insane (not to mention rude), especially since you don’t know me and have no clue who I am and what I am all about. I simply and respectfully disagree with you, and you go on the offensive with personal attacks. Your supposed assertion that I “need my misery” is just downright lunacy, especially since I’d bet the only psychological qualifications you possess are about 3,500 posts on a hair loss forum (and who knows how many on the other forum). You claim that I need my misery, yet judging by your extremely numerous posts on this forum, hair loss seems to be controlling your life a hell of a lot more than it is controlling mine.
Fact is, I have a steady white collar job, a Master’s Degree, an independent life, and an active social life. I lift weights frequently, jog when I can, and get to music concerts when I can. I am surely not sitting inside and wallowing over hair loss like you claim that I am. Sure I come on this forum occasionally to vent, which I believe is one of the main purposes of this forum, but that is my only outlet for venting. I do not discuss it when I am out and about with friends. So your assertion that my life sucks is completely asinine and just out-of-this world crazy since you have no clue who I am!
And I do not “want to stay miserable”, whatever the hell that is supposed to mean. It’s just that today’s hair loss options are in fact limited, as evidenced by very small percentage of hair loss sufferers who even use them. As I stated before, finasteride gave me side effects (the same reason why you said you didn’t even attempt to try it) and minoxidil did nothing. I am not interested in a hair transplant for the reason many people aren’t. I am not going to endure the complications that come with an hair transplant just so I can have a sparse and thin coating of transplanted hair on my head. You scoff at the issue of permanent head scarring, and posted that photo of the side of your head to show the supposed lack of scarring, but if a person is having surgery, some kind of scarring will be visible, especially with a shaved head (an option I do not want to completely eliminate given today’s limited hair restoration options). And then there is the probable need for multiple surgeries, and I do not want to jump on that never-ending hair transplant treadmill. You yourself even said that you may very well need to resort to beard hair and SMP tattooing to retain some semblance of a head of hair. And I’m sorry, but moving beard hair to your scalp and tattooing your head are completely ridiculous to me, and I’d bet to the majority of hair loss sufferers as well. I am not looking for a teenage hairline anymore but I sure as hell am not looking for some sparse coating of thin hair either, especially when I am paying thousands of dollars for it.
I didn’t want to resort to any kind of p*ssing contest with this post but Fred, your comments about me were just rude, dumb, and untrue. Especially since I have respected and even complimented you in the past. Whatever.