Ty's Story - (Age 18 and thinning)

[TTTracer]

My name is Ty and I am 18 years old. Ever since I can remember I have been made fun of for my big forehead, but I never really cared to much until now because my forehead is getting bigger. When I was 17 I was looking through some old pictures and found an old school pic and looked my hairline. So I looked in the mirror and looked at the pic and noticed the widows peak of my hair line had receded. Now a year later it has seemed to be slowly getting worse. I have always washed my hair. And from about 5th grade until now, I have jelled my hair about 3 days out of the week. When I wash my hair in the shower, I look at the shampoo in my hands and notice anywhere from 8 to 12 hairs in my hand. I know everyone looses and regrows hair all the time, but seen how I have a receding hairline, I know I’m loosing my hair. I stopped jelling my hair a few months ago to see if it would help, but it hasn’t. My grandfather on my moms side had nooo hair! And my dad and my dads father both have full heads of hair. I can’t believe I’m only 18 and this is already happening!!! I tried buzzing my hair down to a zero, but I look like crap. I love my hair and want to keep it!!! Unfortunately I do not have very much money, so I’m looking for an inexpensive treatment.

I truly appreciate all the help I can get. Thank you so much

 

[RaginDemon]

Re: I am 18 years old and losing my hair =[ help?

do you have family history of baldness?

 

[TTTracer]

Re: I am 18 years old and losing my hair =[ help?

only on my moms side of my family

 

[RaginDemon]

Re: I am 18 years old and losing my hair =[ help?

then you might have male pattern baldness

 

[tembo]

Hi Ty,

Welcome to the forums. I started balding slowly at 18 too...but it wasn't bad till my mid-20s. I wasted so much time worrying about this and can understand your concerns (actually, I still spend too much time trying to stop my hair loss, but I don't worry anywhere near as much as in my early 20s). Rogaine is very cheap and has helped me FYI.

Otherwise, hang in there, and the near future is very likely to bring better treatments and possibly even an end to balding via hair multiplication and/or hair cloning.

 

[RaginDemon]

having a positive attitude towards it while stay on proven treatments constantly are the key to success.

 

[stampede]

Hello Ty and welcome

You can get hairloss treatments very cheaply if you know where to look

I would suggest you get a big bottle of Nizoral from your local pharmacy and use it in place of your normal shampoo every three days. That will work out vvv cheap and will help slow down your hairloss

If you have more money, I recommend you go to unitedpharmacies.com and buy a pack of 5mg Finasteride. You can split these pills into quarters and take a quarter every day. This is the equivalent of taking "Propecia".

If you still have money to spare, you should get some generic minoxidil lotion from ebay and drizzle it on your bald bits an hour before you go to bed. This can help the hair you've lost grow back.

I hope that helps you and whatever you decide to do, keep at it and don't expect things to happen overnight. Hair grows slowly and the treatments work more slowly still, but they DO work if you stick with em

God speed my man

 

[RaginDemon]

Foam is not that expensive. Come on guys, 50 bucks for 3 months supply, thats really acceptable.

 

[stampede]

Foam is not that expensive. Come on guys, 50 bucks for 3 months supply, thats really acceptable.

It's acceptable to you and acceptable to me.

It may not, however, be acceptable to someone who's 18 and on a very limited budget. Hence I've suggested a regimen that will do the job as cheaply as possible

 

[RaginDemon]

$16 is reasonable to any 18 yrs old if he/she works more than 8 hrs a week. lol

 

[tembo]

I get foam for $10 per month using Walgreen's coupons and $10 of coupon in many Rogaine packages you buy (or online at times).

 

[RaginDemon]

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[TTTracer]

Thank you guys so much! I truly appreciate all the help, and advice. There are sooo many different hair treatments out there and I had no clue which one actually works. I think I am going to start with the nizoral and see how that helps.

I would really like to get some minoxidil lotion to gain back the hair on the corners of my forehead like stampede said.and hopefully get some Finasteride to keep my hair.

Would you happened to know hoe much Finasteride and minoxidil cost??

And what is the foam you are talking about Ragin???

 

[TTTracer]

o yea... whats male pattern baldness??

 

[easynow]

o yea... whats male pattern baldness??

Male Pattern Baldness - aka Androgenetic alopecia (also known as androgenic alopecia or alopecia androgenetica). Basically the common sort that progresses towards the horseshoe shape.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_pattern_baldness

 

[RaginDemon]

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