Hey fellas!
I'm going to share my whole hair loss story, my efforts, and how I am going to fight against it.
So here we go:
Just a little introduction:
All my life I had thick hairs all over my head, and to be hones I was never thinking about I could lose my hair or I am going to be bald. I always paid a lot of attention on my hair style and used to go to my barbeer in every 2 weeks to get the best cut. I've been styling my hair since the age of 12 and spent a bunch of time in the bathroom to get it styled well.
First time I realised that something is wrong was in the beginning of January. The funny thing is that I clearly remember that I was struggling with styling my hair on NYE, because it was too dense and too thick
The first signs of hair loss appeard in my tepmle area. When I was styling my hair there were about 5-6 pieces of thin hair pulld out easily from my temples and remained in my hand.
2013. February-April:
While there were absolutely no cosmetologically noticable signs of my hairloss, I knew that things are getting worse, every time I stlyed my hair more and more hairs remained in my hand so I decided to take action against it and went to a dermatologist. The derm has examined my hair with a microcamera, and saw that there are a lot of thin and small white hairs between the strong pigmented hairs, and told me that I am in the early stages of Androgenetic Alopecia, so he suggested to use 2% Minoxidil to slow down the process. This was the time when my nightmare begun. Beside of my beginning balding process I had maybe the worst time in my life, my GF left me, my job was a reckless sh*t, and slowly I fell into a chronic depression and started stessing about that I'm going to be bald and my life doesn't worth a penny...
I started to use the minoxidil but I worried about the shedding. First I applied it only on my frontal/temple region but I shedded about 60-70 hairs a day, every time I rushed my fingers through my hair, 7-8 pieces fell out.
In March, i realised that my hair is also thinning on the 2 sides of the top of my head, so I started to apply minoxidil on those area as well. The shedding and thinning were getting worse day by day and my face looked like a junkie with dark circles and wrinkles around my eyes. The derm told me to go back in 2 months after starting minoxidil to examine if it is working for me or not. So at the end of April I went back to him and the signs were really bad because and miniaturizing were still remained on my whole scalp in a NW7 pattern. That time he told me to stop using minoxidil because I am a bad responder and prediscribed me Proscar. I was spending hours/days on the internet researching the effect and side effects of finasteride and also aksed my father about it who is a cardiologist and used to take Proscar because of prostate problems, and I found out that I will never want to take that pill I would rather be bald with a hard wood than...
2013.May-nowadays
As time was passing my hair thinned out by night and from day to day it was getting worse. I stopped using minoxidil and got more depressed about my hair. I was spending about 5-6 hours a day hanging out on forums like HairLossTalk.com and *********talk searching for the best way to slow down or maybe reverse this whole balding process. In May, I found a guy, who were using saw palmetto and beta-sitosterol along with pigeum with huge success and regrowth. It was really amazing to see that you can turn back the clock with these kind of natural stuffs with nearly no sides, so I bought a bunch of these pills. I took 480 mg Beta-sitostrerol and 585 mg saw palmetto extract each. I've been on these pills until I noticed that my erection is getting weaker and my libido was nearly 0. Now I am happy because I quit taking them 3 weeks ago and my libido and erection turned back to normal. Anyway my hair is still getting worse, thinning out night, shedding about 80 hairs/day and in the end June I realised that I am totally ****ed up because my hair is also falling out and thinning on the sides, back, and the nape area. I was shocked when I realised that even my sideburns are getting nearly invisible, where were the strongest hair on my scalp. Now I feel like I'm totally screwed up and thinking about my hair all day, 0-24 and having nightmares seeing myself totally bald, with 0 hair.
I could write a novel about the whole story, but this is still too much, so now I'll try to sum up the whole thing:
The symptoms:
Lifestyle:
Lifestyle before:
Previous treatments:
Treatments I use now:
Future treatment:
As you can see I am trying to fight against my male pattern baldness with avoiding finasteride and minoxidil because I am afraid of the sides.
I will start my new regime this month, so I will keep this thread alive and updated.
BTW here are some pictures of my hair, taken in past December:
These photos were taken in March and April, while I was on minoxidil:
These photos from July:
Please feel free to ask me any questions and I would appreciate any comments and suggestions. I am also wondering if anyone on this forum has got the same symptoms and signs like me and have fought against successfully.
God bless you all, we are all in the same boat
I'm going to share my whole hair loss story, my efforts, and how I am going to fight against it.
So here we go:
Just a little introduction:
All my life I had thick hairs all over my head, and to be hones I was never thinking about I could lose my hair or I am going to be bald. I always paid a lot of attention on my hair style and used to go to my barbeer in every 2 weeks to get the best cut. I've been styling my hair since the age of 12 and spent a bunch of time in the bathroom to get it styled well.
First time I realised that something is wrong was in the beginning of January. The funny thing is that I clearly remember that I was struggling with styling my hair on NYE, because it was too dense and too thick
The first signs of hair loss appeard in my tepmle area. When I was styling my hair there were about 5-6 pieces of thin hair pulld out easily from my temples and remained in my hand.2013. February-April:
While there were absolutely no cosmetologically noticable signs of my hairloss, I knew that things are getting worse, every time I stlyed my hair more and more hairs remained in my hand so I decided to take action against it and went to a dermatologist. The derm has examined my hair with a microcamera, and saw that there are a lot of thin and small white hairs between the strong pigmented hairs, and told me that I am in the early stages of Androgenetic Alopecia, so he suggested to use 2% Minoxidil to slow down the process. This was the time when my nightmare begun. Beside of my beginning balding process I had maybe the worst time in my life, my GF left me, my job was a reckless sh*t, and slowly I fell into a chronic depression and started stessing about that I'm going to be bald and my life doesn't worth a penny...
I started to use the minoxidil but I worried about the shedding. First I applied it only on my frontal/temple region but I shedded about 60-70 hairs a day, every time I rushed my fingers through my hair, 7-8 pieces fell out.
In March, i realised that my hair is also thinning on the 2 sides of the top of my head, so I started to apply minoxidil on those area as well. The shedding and thinning were getting worse day by day and my face looked like a junkie with dark circles and wrinkles around my eyes. The derm told me to go back in 2 months after starting minoxidil to examine if it is working for me or not. So at the end of April I went back to him and the signs were really bad because and miniaturizing were still remained on my whole scalp in a NW7 pattern. That time he told me to stop using minoxidil because I am a bad responder and prediscribed me Proscar. I was spending hours/days on the internet researching the effect and side effects of finasteride and also aksed my father about it who is a cardiologist and used to take Proscar because of prostate problems, and I found out that I will never want to take that pill I would rather be bald with a hard wood than...
2013.May-nowadays
As time was passing my hair thinned out by night and from day to day it was getting worse. I stopped using minoxidil and got more depressed about my hair. I was spending about 5-6 hours a day hanging out on forums like HairLossTalk.com and *********talk searching for the best way to slow down or maybe reverse this whole balding process. In May, I found a guy, who were using saw palmetto and beta-sitosterol along with pigeum with huge success and regrowth. It was really amazing to see that you can turn back the clock with these kind of natural stuffs with nearly no sides, so I bought a bunch of these pills. I took 480 mg Beta-sitostrerol and 585 mg saw palmetto extract each. I've been on these pills until I noticed that my erection is getting weaker and my libido was nearly 0. Now I am happy because I quit taking them 3 weeks ago and my libido and erection turned back to normal. Anyway my hair is still getting worse, thinning out night, shedding about 80 hairs/day and in the end June I realised that I am totally ****ed up because my hair is also falling out and thinning on the sides, back, and the nape area. I was shocked when I realised that even my sideburns are getting nearly invisible, where were the strongest hair on my scalp. Now I feel like I'm totally screwed up and thinking about my hair all day, 0-24 and having nightmares seeing myself totally bald, with 0 hair.
I could write a novel about the whole story, but this is still too much, so now I'll try to sum up the whole thing:
The symptoms:
- Thinning, miniaturizing hair all over the scalp (top, sides, back, nape, sideburns are getting invisible with a 3mm buzz cut)
- Shedding hair from all over the scalp (70-80/day)
- Flaky scalp (never had this before)
- Red, pinkish scalp on the top (never had this before)
- Red pimples on the top (about 10 pieces, never had this before)
- Itchy scalp all over, what I feel all day and more intense on the worse areas (never had this before)
- When hair is falling out, there is yellow or white sebum ball on the hair-bulb
- The shedded hairs are ways much thinner at the bulb and getting thicker towards the end
- From the sides and nape I'm loosing totally white/transparent small hairs
- Receding hairline (I've got a NW2 hairline now, and in December I was a NW0)
Lifestyle:
- Being in depression and under stress since Feb until nowadays
- Sleeping worse than ever before - getting up 5 times and night and hard to sleep back
- Feeling tired all day
- Sometimes it is hard to do intellectual work and problem with thinking, where I was a quite clever guy before
- Smoking 5-6 cigaretts each day (I know this is probably the worst thing I can do with my hair)
- Thinking about my hairloss all day
- I don't want to go out and party anymore
- I don't want to meet girls anymore (BTW It could be because I have a very nice and pretty girlfriend now)
- Going to the gym 3 times / week
- Lost a lot of weight
- Felling weak
- Feeling unmotivated
Lifestyle before:
- I was always motivated and ambitious
- I used to party a lot and loved to get drunk, and took home different chicks each weekend
- I loved every girl on planet and just wanted to get laied with all of them
- I'm smoking since age of 16 (that's maybe the worst thing)
- Doing active sports since age of 12
Previous treatments:
- 2% minoxidil for 3 months
- Saw palmetto+beta-sitosterol
- Nizoral (which dried my hair out too much)
Treatments I use now:
- EMU oil applied 3 times on the hairline/day
- Black caster oil + jojoba oil applied 3 times/week on the whole scalp and leave it on all night
- Countrylife Hair-Max capsules
- Neutrogena T-gel 3 times/week
- Clobex shampoo 3 times/week (prediscrebed by a new dermatologist who told me that I've got seborrheic dermatitis)
- Elocom lotion 2 times/week (prediscribed also by the new dermatologist)
Future treatment:
- AHK-CU 5% once/day in the morning (with rejuveplex base)
- Spectral.DNC-S 2 times/day
- S5 cream once/day at night
- Revita shampoo
- Maybe bimatoprost 0.09% solution once/day
- Maybe CB-03-01 once/day
As you can see I am trying to fight against my male pattern baldness with avoiding finasteride and minoxidil because I am afraid of the sides.
I will start my new regime this month, so I will keep this thread alive and updated.
BTW here are some pictures of my hair, taken in past December:
These photos were taken in March and April, while I was on minoxidil:
These photos from July:
Please feel free to ask me any questions and I would appreciate any comments and suggestions. I am also wondering if anyone on this forum has got the same symptoms and signs like me and have fought against successfully.
God bless you all, we are all in the same boat