The Ridiculous Daily Reality Of A Hair Loss Sufferer

[whatevr]

-Taking a prostate enlargement pill every day.
-Applying a liquid blood pressure medication to your head two motherfuckin' times a day.
-Taking obscure and abandoned chinese chemicals out of the freezer daily and running a mini chem lab Walter White would be proud of, then instead of selling that sh*t to others putting it on your very own head.
-Using a shampoo meant for the occasional fungal infection as your daily hair care driver because of secondary anti-androgenic properties.
-Knowing who Kane is, and having the terms 'RU58841', 'CB-03-01', 'TM30089' actually mean something to you
-Praying to Lord Tsuji so you may be blessed when the second coming of hair descends upon the Earth
-Know people on this forum better than your next door neighbours (OK, almost...)
....

It made me realise the absurdity of what we do. You know what that is?
It's that we're not going out of our way to acquire anabolic steroids, some sort of superhuman hair growth medication that gives you 3x the normal human density.
We're not having at home jaw surgery, we're not getting DNP to get to 5% body fat, or doing anything to look in any other way BETTER than anyone else of our age.

No, we do ALL THIS sh*t just to look NORMAL.

Let that sink in!

We do this, so that we can walk out of the f*****g house at the end of the day, meet our lifelong friends, and not feel like a 45-year old when you're only 24.
So that you can go to your class reunion and not be mistaken for someone's DAD.
All this effort, just to be on even ground, or at least close, to those who don't know and will never even have to give a sh*t.

That's our reality.

 

[Rudiger]

Great parallels, and did we used to talk on chat? Name sounds familiar.

You put a lot in perspective, I'm not saying it's necessarily helpful, but hey it's the Venting Forum, and a lot of people feel your pain. The only saving grace here is that you expressed it all so well.

That won't make you a slayer though, so it's best to avoid some other posts on the forum.

 

[whatevr]

Great parallels, and did we used to talk on chat? Name sounds familiar.

You put a lot in perspective, I'm not saying it's necessarily helpful, but hey it's the Venting Forum, and a lot of people feel your pain. The only saving grace here is that you expressed it all so well.

That won't make you a slayer though, so it's best to avoid some other posts on the forum.

Yep, we've spoken on chat a couple of times.
I wrote this because I came to the realisation of how much time, effort and money I put in, not to be some kind of superman, but merely a normal young person. It's like, all this effort, just for that... Just to not be worse. It's sad.

 

[Rudiger]

I'm on chat now but kind of in and out in terms of presence.

 

[hellouser]

Dont forget saying bye-bye to a perfectly functioning dick or your sex drive. Get hair but then realize you cant perform in bed as a fullhead.

 

[Marky]

The rogaine part is the worst - twice a day, I don't even know how people can still style their hair putting that crap in.
As for "Taking a prostate enlargement pill every day." - if it's any help I take it once a week and get good results with dutasteride. It has a 2 week life in your blood stream so I don't think you need it daily.
Then rogaine once every second day at night only - couldn't imagine a life of putting it on every morning. Plus I just don't think the results are all that great from it.

 

[whatevr]

Where's the lithium chloride, sunburns, rolling, sulfasalazine?

Agree with what you say but seems like you're having a bad day which is understandable. I don't know your hair status but you can have a relatively simple regimen and do well.

I just take finasteride and utlise hair transplants when needed. Couldn't be simpler and safer.

Not a particularly bad day, really. I've had a lot worse. Just something I've been thinking of for a while and felt the need to articulate.

finasteride & Min is a basic regimen that works for a lot and while minoxidil does work great for me, finasteride isn't enough for maintenance and gives sides in my case. And that's when the whole thing becomes quite a bit more complex.

 

[Marky]

Not a particularly bad day, really. I've had a lot worse. Just something I've been thinking of for a while and felt the need to articulate.

finasteride & Min is a basic regimen that works for a lot and while minoxidil does work great for me, finasteride isn't enough for maintenance and gives sides in my case. And that's when the whole thing becomes quite a bit more complex.

So when you say its working for you - you mean you have visibly seen hairs popping out of the scalp, how about on the hairline? - seems it's the only place you can visibly see if there is real results or just placebo effect.

I know it's for the crown, but unless you have someone systematically looking back there with a magnifier glass actual results are hard to gauge.

 

[Dench57]

And what balding man's daily routine would be complete without kneeling and praying five times to the east for God Emperor Tsuji to deliver us from evil.

 

[Rudiger]

Dont forget saying bye-bye to a perfectly functioning dick or your sex drive. Get hair but then realize you cant perform in bed as a fullhead.

Extreme.

 

[hellouser]

Extreme.

Yeah, and it happens.

 

[buckthorn]

And what balding man's daily routine would be complete without kneeling and praying five times to the east for God Emperor Tsuji to deliver us from evil.

What a beautiful man, with a beautiful smile. This may be the dutasteride talking, but I think I want to kiss him on the lips.

 

[I.D WALKER]

And what balding man's daily routine would be complete without kneeling and praying five times to the east for God Emperor Tsuji to deliver us from evil.

It will be a hairetic revolution of monumental proportions.

 

[Rudiger]

Yeah, and it happens.

I wasn't denying that, just pushing the idea that your own personal experience shouldn't put others off something that is 99.9% of the time temporary (quit if it stays limp).

 

[I.D WALKER]

Every year rutting season starts earlier and earlier for our dear Buck.
Just no tongue please.*

*refer to post #16

 

[hellouser]

I wasn't denying that, just pushing the idea that your own personal experience shouldn't put others off something that is 99.9% of the time temporary (quit if it stays limp).

I wasn't talking about myself.

 

[Rudiger]

I wasn't talking about myself.

Well that's even worse, I'd understand someone pushing others off the idea if they had personal problems, but you haven't.

Unless you roused me into a classic "what is confidence exactly" hellouser moment, what was the point of your original comment?

 

[hellouser]

Well that's even worse, I'd understand someone pushing others off the idea if they had personal problems, but you haven't.

Unless you roused me into a classic "what is confidence exactly" hellouser moment, what was the point of your original comment?

Becuase it DOES happen. Why are you even trying to debate this?

 

[Rudiger]

Becuase it DOES happen. Why are you even trying to debate this?

I am not debating that it happens, but for you to generalise a situation that is considered rare (unless you want to prove otherwise) and consider it a norm, is extreme.

 

[hellouser]

I am not debating that it happens, but for you to generalise a situation that is considered rare (unless you want to prove otherwise) and consider it a norm, is extreme.

So basically you're trying to start yet another pointless argument. Gotcha.