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Hi I'm new here, I wont try and waste your time for too long here, this isn't meant to be a novel, but really appreciate if you could read it.
I am 20 year old male who first noticed he was beginning to thin around the sides of the crown about exactly a year ago. However the implications were so minor that I had trouble convincing anyone (let alone myself) that I was beginning to thin a bit. This stayed the case for the next 9 months or so, and the effect was virtually negligible, until however, I got my haircut on the 2nd of august and noticed that the sides of my crown were beginning to show my scalp somewhat more than I would like. It became a bit more noticable as I grew my hair over the next couple of weeks, knowing that I couldn't get as an effective fringe as I used to.
I decided to get a doctors appointment within the next few weeks (which eventually came about on the 18th of september) and he said I was showing a minor receding hairline and that he would do a bit research on male pattern baldness and would send me out a letter to see what could be done about it. I eventually got that letter on the 27th telling me, pretty much what I already knew, about how it occurs, the implications and that I might want to get propecia to help combat it. He also mentioned about me seeing a dermatoligist (which normally takes about 7 or 8 months for free, but I've decided to go private and got one the 24th of october for £60/$120).
I wouldn't call myself an exceptionally vein person, but since a couple weeks after that haircut I got back in august, I don't think I've been any more depressed in my life. I'm currently at university, 2nd week, and I am struggling to get up and go to lectures each morning. I wouldn't say I'm the greatest looking guy in the world, far from it infact, but ever since the mid-august period I've noticed I don't get as much attention from the girls as I used to get and it's only been in the last couple months ironically that I've began to open to girls (I was a horribly shy teenager), so this couldn't have come at a worse possible time. :cry:
The good news is that, on the genetic sides of things, my dad claims he noticed that he was receding at an early age (like 19/20) and that after a while, nothing happened. This certainly was the case as he's nearly 50 and has almost a full set of hair apart from a norwood 2-3 hairline and slight bald patch which has only just developed over the past year or so (plus he has no grey hairs yet either). The reason I use the example of my dad is because I have the same type of hair as him (coloring etc) and that also, no one on my moms side of the family bar one uncle (that includes 35 odd cousins and 5 other uncles) are losing any hair. And I'm said to be the picture of my dad when he was 20 as well.
I am not receding directly at the temples like most people do with male pattern baldness (i.e. at the sides of the crown next to your fringe) so I'm thankful for that at least as I know that area is notorousily difficult to grow back. I have though receded about a 1/4 of inch at the corners of the crown to where it get's thick again (I know that sounds measly to get depressed over, and will probably insult a few who are really losing it, but it's the long term picture I'm looking at here), I must stress though that I still have hair from my original hairline and about 12-15 hairs left, within those 1/4 of inch gaps, perhaps a bit more, although my scalp is quite clear, and my biggest fear is that I'm afraid of it getting worse and losing all those hairs there altogether.
I haven't taken any medication yet to fight it as I've been waiting for some proper advice/help on where to start (dermatoligist, you guys etc.) I do have a thing called Silicium 44, a water based solution, which my mom bought, but because I've heard no one talk about on here, or anywhere, I am unsure on whether to use it.
I really really appreciate anyone's help if there's anyone willing to do so, it just that I'm a 20 year old male who's supposed to be having the time of his life at university/college but instead is getting majorly depressed (at times even suicidal) about his hairloss, almost to a point that it's effecting his studies entirely.
As soon as I get started on something I think I'll feel a lot better about myself knowing that there may be some light at the end of the tunnel. I just need to know realistically what chances I have of maintaining it/growing it back. I know there's a search function I could use, but I believe every case is different and I wanted to let you hear my story.
PS:I do plan to get some photo's up to show you, just that the $300 camera is being used by mom who's on holiday at the moment in Cyprus and wont be back for another week, so maybe I'll start a new thread concerning those. :wink:
Sorry about the awfully long post. But this has pretty much been the story of my life for the past 2 months now!
I am 20 year old male who first noticed he was beginning to thin around the sides of the crown about exactly a year ago. However the implications were so minor that I had trouble convincing anyone (let alone myself) that I was beginning to thin a bit. This stayed the case for the next 9 months or so, and the effect was virtually negligible, until however, I got my haircut on the 2nd of august and noticed that the sides of my crown were beginning to show my scalp somewhat more than I would like. It became a bit more noticable as I grew my hair over the next couple of weeks, knowing that I couldn't get as an effective fringe as I used to.
I decided to get a doctors appointment within the next few weeks (which eventually came about on the 18th of september) and he said I was showing a minor receding hairline and that he would do a bit research on male pattern baldness and would send me out a letter to see what could be done about it. I eventually got that letter on the 27th telling me, pretty much what I already knew, about how it occurs, the implications and that I might want to get propecia to help combat it. He also mentioned about me seeing a dermatoligist (which normally takes about 7 or 8 months for free, but I've decided to go private and got one the 24th of october for £60/$120).
I wouldn't call myself an exceptionally vein person, but since a couple weeks after that haircut I got back in august, I don't think I've been any more depressed in my life. I'm currently at university, 2nd week, and I am struggling to get up and go to lectures each morning. I wouldn't say I'm the greatest looking guy in the world, far from it infact, but ever since the mid-august period I've noticed I don't get as much attention from the girls as I used to get and it's only been in the last couple months ironically that I've began to open to girls (I was a horribly shy teenager), so this couldn't have come at a worse possible time. :cry:
The good news is that, on the genetic sides of things, my dad claims he noticed that he was receding at an early age (like 19/20) and that after a while, nothing happened. This certainly was the case as he's nearly 50 and has almost a full set of hair apart from a norwood 2-3 hairline and slight bald patch which has only just developed over the past year or so (plus he has no grey hairs yet either). The reason I use the example of my dad is because I have the same type of hair as him (coloring etc) and that also, no one on my moms side of the family bar one uncle (that includes 35 odd cousins and 5 other uncles) are losing any hair. And I'm said to be the picture of my dad when he was 20 as well.
I am not receding directly at the temples like most people do with male pattern baldness (i.e. at the sides of the crown next to your fringe) so I'm thankful for that at least as I know that area is notorousily difficult to grow back. I have though receded about a 1/4 of inch at the corners of the crown to where it get's thick again (I know that sounds measly to get depressed over, and will probably insult a few who are really losing it, but it's the long term picture I'm looking at here), I must stress though that I still have hair from my original hairline and about 12-15 hairs left, within those 1/4 of inch gaps, perhaps a bit more, although my scalp is quite clear, and my biggest fear is that I'm afraid of it getting worse and losing all those hairs there altogether.
I haven't taken any medication yet to fight it as I've been waiting for some proper advice/help on where to start (dermatoligist, you guys etc.) I do have a thing called Silicium 44, a water based solution, which my mom bought, but because I've heard no one talk about on here, or anywhere, I am unsure on whether to use it.
I really really appreciate anyone's help if there's anyone willing to do so, it just that I'm a 20 year old male who's supposed to be having the time of his life at university/college but instead is getting majorly depressed (at times even suicidal) about his hairloss, almost to a point that it's effecting his studies entirely.
As soon as I get started on something I think I'll feel a lot better about myself knowing that there may be some light at the end of the tunnel. I just need to know realistically what chances I have of maintaining it/growing it back. I know there's a search function I could use, but I believe every case is different and I wanted to let you hear my story.
PS:I do plan to get some photo's up to show you, just that the $300 camera is being used by mom who's on holiday at the moment in Cyprus and wont be back for another week, so maybe I'll start a new thread concerning those. :wink:
Sorry about the awfully long post. But this has pretty much been the story of my life for the past 2 months now!
