Should I just accept it?

[marentes133]

*Sigh* it's hard to accept that I'm losing my hair and very fast at that too. Especially today my goodness when I ran my fingers through my scalp and entire head it was all over the sink madness. Literally 5 months ago I had a nice full thick head of hair then all of a sudden come August my hair became thin and brittle and is falling out. Why did this have to happen man I'm only 20? My father and grandpa and uncle are bald. and on my mothers side my uncle and grandpa has full head of hair but damn idk who to blame. Hell I want to blame myself because all my life I've been a piece of crap. Acne. Obesity (lost it) and then mentally Depression, Anxiety low confidence. All of that went away come 2013 I actually felt great and was happy with myself. And then comes late 2014 I hurt my lower back severely to the point I was locked in a dark room for a year and that threw me back into depression and horrible mind state. Come to Spring 2015 it got worse. May 2015 was the last time I remember feeling my head and feeling my nice thick hair. Now it's July and my cousin tells me (hey your head feels a little thin on top) I paid no mind to it comes August and I look at my hair and I'm like "What the ****" now I have to deal with this? How can I go from thick hair to losing my hair in a matter of 6 months? I want to blame stress and depression, anxiety for Hairloss but idk what to do anymore. Heck this is adding more stress on top of everything! I have yet to see a dermatologist and still have severe back pain (herniated disc). That might require surgery. *sigh* why do I have to be one of the unlucky ones?

 

[Notcoolanymore]

Whether you just accept it or not is a decision you have to make. If you want to fight your hair loss there are treatments options. Not saying that they are perfect, but at least you can do something to try to stop it.

 

[xetudor]

I was also in severe chronic pain for over 3 years. I am still chronic pain but it's much much easier to handle. I think you probably just have problems with your lumbar spine. That is fairly common and I really really recommend you do something about it. Lose any fat you have, don't stand in chairs so much, sleep on your back, don't lift heavy weights, walk a lot and do planks. Walking truly helps even though it makes no sense, how can walking help your back? I don't know but it does. Don't run, it's heavy on the spine. Most lumbar pain in young people goes away, especially if you do something about it.


And for hair loss get on 1mg finasteride (propecia is the brand name) and minoxidil. There are things you can do to fight this. Maybe things won't be perfect but you can atleast put a good fight.

 

[DannyBoyy]

You should try and accept it to a degree meaning i cant choice for you to go down hair treatment route or just shave route etc thats all you, but all i know is at the end off the day you need to accept it to move on and be happy, cause i know worrying about it made things worse, trust me i know. So if you take hair treatments or you just shave, make sure the worry dont control you.

 

[GoldenMane]

If you are unsure, then fight it. Better to fight it and keep your hair, then decide to quit than to give up now, change your mind in a year or two and find it's too late to save/restore your hair. If you're unsure then always err on the side of caution, and in this case that would be finasteride at a minimum.

 

[I.D WALKER]

Sensible, solid advice.

If you are unsure, then fight it. Better to fight it and keep your hair, then decide to quit than to give up now, change your mind in a year or two and find it's too late to save/restore your hair. If you're unsure then always err on the side of caution, and in this case that would be finasteride at a minimum.

 

[Dragon_Knight]

I'm pretty much like you, except for a few other self-loathing bits. You can fight it or just accept it. Either is up to you. When it hits in your 20's that's usually due to an excess of DHT which may mean low testosterone due to it being converted over to the more useless DHT for some dumb reason.