There is nothing worst to go bald when your father
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Yeah, my dad has receded quite a bit, but my grandfather -- his dad (duh) -- is in his eighties and still has incredible hair. Everytime I visit my grandpa I honestly can't stop staring at his head full of hair. I can only hope that I have inherited some of those genes.
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Try having your younger brother be a forever norwood 1 while you slowly turn into your pop
resu
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My older brother is 7 years older and still is a NW1, ultra dense. My dad was NW2-3 at 20 and stayed like that until his mid 50's which is when the crown started to thin, very common in old men, even in NW1 dense forests. I didn't get to be so lucky, at all... his hair is very dense too, he could use minoxidil on the crown and get good results. Everyone in my family has jet black hair except me.
Notcoolanymore
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What's worse is when you start looking older than your father because of your hair loss.
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I don't have to imagine... that's the kind of father I do have.
You got off easy... you know what mine told me? He downplayed my hair loss with vicious rant which and said women don't care for hair, they only care for money. I've never received sympathy from my father. Ever.
I.D WALKER
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Revealing one's own vulnerability to family can often result in uncomfortable consequences. Quite often if they are not indifferent then they are patronizing.
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Which is exactly what happened. I didn't talk to him at all for weeks after his disgusting insults towards me. I've since quit speaking to him about any of my issues as well. I've actually cut down opening up about anything with anyone. If my own family will make me feel like ****, I don't expect anyone else to give a fvck... and thats held true. Nobody gives a fvck about your problems, not family, friends, doctors or even researchers... 2014 and theres still fvck all for a proper hair loss treatment. Good luck to guys that are about to find out they're losing their hair... they're in for a much bigger surprise than they think.
SayifDoit
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I guess when you have two older brothers in their 20's already balding, one younger than the other and actually worse off (somehow) and a dad who is practically a nw5, you kinda expect the worse.
Only 18 and experiencing hair loss.
I guess the baldness gene is strong in my family. Though maybe, their is hope for my younger brother who is 17, he seems to have different hair in comparison to most people in my family....though I doubt it...
Not forgeting my youngest brother who has superb hair, (of course not thick) with zero forehead and a widows peak; it'll be interesting to see his hair loss.
Only 18 and experiencing hair loss.
I guess the baldness gene is strong in my family. Though maybe, their is hope for my younger brother who is 17, he seems to have different hair in comparison to most people in my family....though I doubt it...
Not forgeting my youngest brother who has superb hair, (of course not thick) with zero forehead and a widows peak; it'll be interesting to see his hair loss.
I.D WALKER
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Hellouser, I try to use mean people as examples of how I don't want to live or behave. My attempts are often foiled or discouraged. It's almost like trying to manage a communicable disease; hard as hell to avoid getting infected because we are so socially interconnected. It's bad that we've been conditioned more or less to expect unprovoked hostility from strangers, even acquaintances. It's even worse, maybe tragic, when we feel it from family and supposed friends. In this event (like yourself) I have found distance or isolation where and whenever possible can sometimes temporarily serve as a remedy or pound of prevention.
resu
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I'm the same and same thing happened to me, my family only cares about my problems as a way to make them feel better, once I realized that I no longer went to any family reunion, no one in my family helped me at any stage of my life so why do they care if I'm alright, if I have a job or a gf? They don't. If they knew I'm balding too it would be a riot.
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Yeah... I have the same experience with family members. I have been balding slowly since I was around 20 yrs old. I'm very diffuse now like most of you know, but it was only few weeks ago when my sister said that "it's all in your head, you should just grow your hair, you have normal amount of hair". I tried to answer that I really don't have any hair to grow and that she shouldn't say **** like that 'cause I'm still only coming to terms with the whole thing but she just got on saying that "you're wrong". She was basically saying that I'm a lunatic, that I have imagined my hairloss for 8 years! It's nice to know that my close family thinks that I'm not right in the head... needless to say I was on the verge of totally exploding but somehow managed to hold my temper. But I was so angry that I was literally shaking - how does someone have the guts to say crap like that after 8 long years of SUFFERING and watching my hair fall off one by one.
I understand your guys pain. My father is 60 with a full head of hair. His father died with hair and his brother who is older than him still has his hair.
My moms brother still has hair and my moms father didnt go bald till he was 50. Yet, here I am, started losing my hair around 22.
Genetics are cruel
My moms brother still has hair and my moms father didnt go bald till he was 50. Yet, here I am, started losing my hair around 22.
Genetics are cruel
uncomfortable man
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I like that term!
Travalanche
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I have the same problem as a lot of you. My dads about a Norwood 2.5 and he's 55 and I'm already past Norwood 2 at 24. I've seen a lot of his pictures where he is my age and he has no hair loss whatsoever, his hairline did seem to go back a bit by 45 though although not by much but it's gotten a bit worse over the last few years.
Really though, I have the same hairline at 24 as he had at 45-50 and he laughs off my hair loss like it's not a big deal while occasionally complaining about his hair not looking as good at 55.
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I wouldn't worry much either if I was 55 with a totally normal hairline for my age.
When I'm 55 I'll probably be a solid Norwood 7 knowing my luck if I don't get Alopecia Universalis first. Life sucks.
Really though, I have the same hairline at 24 as he had at 45-50 and he laughs off my hair loss like it's not a big deal while occasionally complaining about his hair not looking as good at 55.
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I wouldn't worry much either if I was 55 with a totally normal hairline for my age.
When I'm 55 I'll probably be a solid Norwood 7 knowing my luck if I don't get Alopecia Universalis first. Life sucks.