youngguy_uk
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Hi! Well it certainly has been a long time since I posted on here! I recognise some names: Cassin, Gardener, etc. I thought I'd post in this forum because I would like as many people to read this post as possible. I think I owe it to the people on this forum to post an update of my progress after so long.
I started losing my hair when I was around 16/17. :freaked: As you can imagine, starting to lose at that age was unbelievably scary. I thought I'd be clean bald before 20, and it's something I thought about every day. Sometimes I'd look at my hair in the mirror under a strong light and feel like crying. You guys know what I mean...
My hair aggressively thinned out all over in the space of about 6 months, and it receded at the temples a bit, say 1.5cm at each side. My recession pattern was like little square chunks out of the corners I registered with this forum and I started taking Propecia just before my 18th birthday My plan was to start on finasteride, and maybe add Min only when it was required -- I didn't want a huge regimen to worry about aged 17 :cry: I just wanted to keep my hair until I finished university.
I kept taking finasteride all throughout university, and I posted on this forum for quite some time. I'd often worry about whether I was shedding, losing more at the temples, crown etc. especially in the first year. But I could never really tell, even though I often thought I could. One thing I realise -- only in hindsight -- is that the whole process had slowed riiight down. If it had continued at the rate it was at before I started taking Propecia, I would've lost everything in 2 years, max.
Well here I am now at the age of 21. And I feel unbelievable to say that I can actually give off the impression of having a totally full head of hair!!! I can even get away with the messy look. Granted, I have to style my hair a certain way to cover some thinning. But you know what? NOONE can tell I have hairloss issues.
I've seen people who started off with full heads of hair or marginal loss go right past me in the balding scale over the last few years. I feel bad for them, but I know that finasteride is working for me.
I have taken Finasteride for 3 years and 3 months -- Propecia for the first year or 2, and Proscar (cut in half, i.e. 2.5mg) for the remainder. I've used Nizoral when I can, but not too much really. I had one spell where I stopped taking Propecia for about a month (an order went wrong :hairy: ) but use has generally been constant apart from that.
This post is just to say there must be hope out there for all of you. You don't believe it until you see success, but people who truly get over their hairloss issues really do stop posting on the forum so much because it doesn't consume their lives anymore. When my hairloss started, I had the worst hairloss out of anyone I knew my age. Seriously, it was EXTREMELY AGGRESSIVE. I was thinning like there was no tomorrow. Now, my hairline has barely receded since I started taking finasteride (maybe a mm or 2? Maybe not even at all!). My hairline may have gotten a teeny bit thinner in the middle, and my crown may have thinned a teeny bit -- but it's really not noticeable, and hardly anything for over 3 years' worth. I think my hair may have thickened a little (or at least, seen no loss) in the middle section of my head.
So chins up guys. I never thought I'd have so much hair so long later. And I haven't even started Minoxidil yet. I was losing so, so quickly -- there's hope for everyone.
I started losing my hair when I was around 16/17. :freaked: As you can imagine, starting to lose at that age was unbelievably scary. I thought I'd be clean bald before 20, and it's something I thought about every day. Sometimes I'd look at my hair in the mirror under a strong light and feel like crying. You guys know what I mean...
My hair aggressively thinned out all over in the space of about 6 months, and it receded at the temples a bit, say 1.5cm at each side. My recession pattern was like little square chunks out of the corners I registered with this forum and I started taking Propecia just before my 18th birthday My plan was to start on finasteride, and maybe add Min only when it was required -- I didn't want a huge regimen to worry about aged 17 :cry: I just wanted to keep my hair until I finished university.
I kept taking finasteride all throughout university, and I posted on this forum for quite some time. I'd often worry about whether I was shedding, losing more at the temples, crown etc. especially in the first year. But I could never really tell, even though I often thought I could. One thing I realise -- only in hindsight -- is that the whole process had slowed riiight down. If it had continued at the rate it was at before I started taking Propecia, I would've lost everything in 2 years, max.
Well here I am now at the age of 21. And I feel unbelievable to say that I can actually give off the impression of having a totally full head of hair!!! I can even get away with the messy look. Granted, I have to style my hair a certain way to cover some thinning. But you know what? NOONE can tell I have hairloss issues.
I've seen people who started off with full heads of hair or marginal loss go right past me in the balding scale over the last few years. I feel bad for them, but I know that finasteride is working for me.
I have taken Finasteride for 3 years and 3 months -- Propecia for the first year or 2, and Proscar (cut in half, i.e. 2.5mg) for the remainder. I've used Nizoral when I can, but not too much really. I had one spell where I stopped taking Propecia for about a month (an order went wrong :hairy: ) but use has generally been constant apart from that.
This post is just to say there must be hope out there for all of you. You don't believe it until you see success, but people who truly get over their hairloss issues really do stop posting on the forum so much because it doesn't consume their lives anymore. When my hairloss started, I had the worst hairloss out of anyone I knew my age. Seriously, it was EXTREMELY AGGRESSIVE. I was thinning like there was no tomorrow. Now, my hairline has barely receded since I started taking finasteride (maybe a mm or 2? Maybe not even at all!). My hairline may have gotten a teeny bit thinner in the middle, and my crown may have thinned a teeny bit -- but it's really not noticeable, and hardly anything for over 3 years' worth. I think my hair may have thickened a little (or at least, seen no loss) in the middle section of my head.
So chins up guys. I never thought I'd have so much hair so long later. And I haven't even started Minoxidil yet. I was losing so, so quickly -- there's hope for everyone.