Shut Up, Shut Up, For God's Sake, Just Shut Up!

[karankaran]

This is what I wanted to tell my aunt today who said 'I heard that applying onion juice on your scalp will cure baldness'. I told her: If the cure was already here and it is so simple, why are there still bald men? She said "Most people do not know about this". Seriously?

I am so sick and tired of being told about these 'miracle solutions' by a bunch of people who know nothing about male pattern baldness. It is not even funny. It is cruel and tragic. I do not even have a stamina to confront such people anymore. After a counter question or two, I just give up!

How do you guys deal with such unsolicited advice?

 

[FootyStar]

This is what I wanted to tell my aunt today who said 'I heard that applying onion juice on your scalp will cure baldness'. I told her: If the cure was already here and it is so simple, why are there still bald men? She said "Most people do not know about this". Seriously?

I am so sick and tired of being told about these 'miracle solutions' by a bunch of people who know nothing about male pattern baldness. It is not even funny. It is cruel and tragic. I do not even have a stamina to confront such people anymore. After a counter question or two, I just give up!

How do you guys deal with such unsolicited advice?

Funnily enough I actually believed a lot of this advice when I first became bald. Upon recommendations from people I know (and even my doctor) I tried applying different things like Argan Oil, some herbal shampoos and even some anti-inflammatory medication. None of it did anything of course.

Ever since learning the truth about what actually treats hair loss, I just politely smile and accept the bogus advice others give me with a "oh, really? I didn't know that...", while saying in my mind "Baloney!".

 

[Massive]

This is what I wanted to tell my aunt today who said 'I heard that applying onion juice on your scalp will cure baldness'. I told her: If the cure was already here and it is so simple, why are there still bald men? She said "Most people do not know about this". Seriously?

I am so sick and tired of being told about these 'miracle solutions' by a bunch of people who know nothing about male pattern baldness. It is not even funny. It is cruel and tragic. I do not even have a stamina to confront such people anymore. After a counter question or two, I just give up!

How do you guys deal with such unsolicited advice?

Holy sh*t this sounds 100% like my mother's talkings. Mentions how in Iraq 100+ years ago they used to cure hair loss with rat's hair/blood/needles or some sh*t like that then mention "people don't know about this".

 

[kj6723]

I just don't talk to people about it, that's how I deal with it. I never bring it up. I talk about it with my parents sometimes because I live with them and they know my hair loss struggles, but apart from that, no

Learned my lesson about trying to have conversations with people about baldness

 

[Swoop]

Don't forget the garlic!

 

[Folliman]

Although onion has small levels of PGE2 and PGE1, it will at least help on a microscopic level. I've considered making my own pure onion oil for a higher concentration, but it takes many onions plus some time and energy to make a small amount.

But back to the topic, the worst is when people recommend to apply things to the hair, forgetting the problem is in the scalp. Ignorance at its finest.

 

[buckthorn]

When I was younger, my dad described a hair transplant as follows. "they poke a hole, bend a hair over, put the end in the hole, then cut the hair in half". this was when I was teaching anatomy and physiology. I just said, "no, you're wrong. there is no follicle at the end of a hair" and he kept arguing his point. haha.

It just goes to show that there are a select FEW people in the population that have ANY knowleadge on hair loss and follicle function. The rest should really just not talk about it.

 

[CaptainForehead]

this was when I was teaching anatomy and physiology.

You a Professor, Buck?

 

[SmoothSailing]

There were also fullheads who told me: "Oh if I ever go bald, I'll just have a hair transplant, there, fixed!"

LOL.

People do believe this. Most non-balding people I've talked to about it know nothing about finasteride or rogaine, but always know and overestimate the efficiency, price and ease of a transplant.

When someone says something that I know to be a myth, common misconception or just plain wrong I make a choice whether it's worth arguing over or not. Mostly I try and avoid conflict like this, as it almost never results in someone changing their mind, so I just let it go. I won't pretend to agree with them, I just won't try and argue my opinion, if asked I will state my opinion but I'm not wasting my breath.

I once argued for hours with this group of college lads I knew who took MDMA every weekend. I told them that there is scientific evidence that what they are doing will have permanent effects on their mood and memory. This took a bit of courage from my part as I rarely intervene like this, but seen as I had done so much research I felt I should. I showed them studies, they linked me to a drug forum where some poster says that it's ok once it's not more than once a week. I gave up.

 

[EvilLocks]

How do you guys deal with such unsolicited advice?

One time a DOCTOR told me to use hand soap when washing my hair, to stop my hair loss. A DOCTOR! Someone who's supposed to know better than me! I just stared at him and nodded, while dying a bit inside.

 

[Eren]

Just LOL about these bs treatments. My father recommended complete bs from what he heard on a YouTube video. I asked him why he didn't apply it on his bald head and off course, "no, too much work." Completely ridiculous.

The reason why everyone thinks it's ok to act like a piece of sh*t towards bald/balding men is because they think it's a choice. "Hair transplant," stupid morons.

A friend of mine is receding and I explained every detail (first, he was talking crap out of his *** about a transplant) and now he is on finasteride.

There is NO cure, NO treatment that can give you acceptable results once your hair is thinned and looks like fuzz. I'll post a picture of my hair now and how it was pre-male pattern baldness (same length) and you'll be amazed by the difference in how it looked aesthetic wise. I'll do that in another thread as I want a hair transplant.

 

[karankaran]

WOW, did not know that you guys have gone through the same BS as me!

A popular term back in my home country is 'Hair weaving'. It is mentioned so casually as a treatment that it is tragic! Most people think that a hair is literally weaved in your scalp like a button being attached to your shirt.

Good Lord, people are so intolerable!

 

[Eren]

One time a DOCTOR told me to use hand soap when washing my hair, to stop my hair loss. A DOCTOR! Someone who's supposed to know better than me! I just stared at him and nodded, while dying a bit inside.

Just LOLZ at this. Doctors talk crap out of their asses for no obvious reason when it's about hair loss. Probably because you won't die from it. Then again, people won't die from having bad teeth and yet, they still get braces covered by insurance.

 

[IggyPop]

There were also fullheads who told me: "Oh if I ever go bald, I'll just have a hair transplant, there, fixed!"

LOL.

I recently came across a post like this in another forum. I posted a link to Wayne Rooney´s "hair" after 2 transplants........:

 

[shookwun]

I recently came across a post like this in another forum. I posted a link to Wayne Rooney´s "hair" after 2 transplants........:

He either has extremely poor donor or the surgeon behind the surgery is mid-crap tier. What was his hair loss like prior to the transplant?

I know them feels though. My second transplant still has light pigmentation, and hasn't matured yet enough to match my native surrounding hair.


still better then being bald or wearing a toupee.

 

[Eren]

He either has extremely poor donor or the surgeon behind the surgery is mid-crap tier. What was his hair loss like prior to the transplant?

I know them feels though. My second transplant still has light pigmentation, and hasn't matured yet enough to match my native surrounding hair.


still better then being bald or wearing a toupee.

Pretty bad man. Started to go bald in early 20s and was completely bald in just a few years.

A year or so after hair transplant.

 

[shookwun]

Pretty bad man. Started to go bald in early 20s and was completely bald in just a few years.

I am some what like him myself.

Dark sides, and back. Top is completely diffused, and the color is completely gone due to miniaturization

thin donor.


Just hope the drugs work, and get enough transplants to help restore sanity.



Rooney is an aggressive hair loss sufferer.

mediocre hair loss can typically be seen as recession, density remains, and no loss in pigmentation. aka privileged

 

[pjhair]

I recently came across a post like this in another forum. I posted a link to Wayne Rooney´s "hair" after 2 transplants........:

There are limits to hair transplant. In case of extensive baldness, you can't expect to become a dense NW1. But in the pic above, he at least has a hairline that is providing some frame to the face. There are better post-transplant pics of Wayne Rooney by the way.

 

[IggyPop]

There are limits to hair transplant. In case of extensive baldness, you can't expect to become a dense NW1. But in the pic above, he at least has a hairline that is providing some frame to the face. There are better post-transplant pics of Wayne Rooney by the way.

Yeah, with lots of Toppik and all that stuff. To me that´s not really the same.
Well, I remember in 2011 this Tweet after his first hair transplant: "Anyone recommend any good hair gel. Haha". Poor guy, a great player but definetly not the smartest. He seriously expected to be able to use hair gel with thin "hair" like that? It seems like most people who know little to nothing about hair transplant have got no idea, what a hair transplant really is like: "Oh, I just pay 5000 €/$ and then gonna have good hair for the rest of my life......"

 

[EvilLocks]

It seems like most people who know little to nothing about hair transplant have got no idea, what a hair transplant really is like: "Oh, I just pay 5000 €/$ and then gonna have good hair for the rest of my life......"

I remember the night I got drunk off my a*s and finally confessed to my two best friends; "I'm losing my hair, and I'm probably going to lose almost all of it!" and they were like "But just get a hair transplant! That will fix it!"

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