Hey everybody I've been reading posts around here for a long time, but I've never actually written anything until now. I started noticing my hair loss in spring of my senior year (2004). It wasn't too bad and it didn't bother me until winter of that same year it seemed like my hair all over had thinned awfully. I started becoming obsessed with it and depressed, and I've been that way ever since. It took me until August of this year to summon up the courage to start propecia, and I've been on that for a month. Everything was fine, the first week or so I was a little sore down there, but after that everything seemed normal. Just a few days ago, passed the month mark, I'm not sure if I'm experiencing side effects from the propecia, or just from being so bummmed out. Depression can squash libido so it's hard to tell what is causing it. My sex drive has plummeted which is weird because for the first month i was on it, my sex drive seemed fine. It seemed like I went through the period where your hormones adjust in the first week, and after that was over things should just stay the same. Can side effects start at any time after you've started treatment? I just figured if you could handle it for a few weeks than everything would be fine. Well in any case, I've been trying to get myself ready to just accept this baldness bullshit if the side effects really are from the medecine, and I was wondering if and how anyone has been able to get this off their minds. It's driving me crazy to the point where I can just burst into tears thinking about it. I've always considered myself a decent looking guy, but now all I see in the mirror ugliness. I'm not even 20 yrs old yet and my hair looks like sh*t it's so thin and whispy in the front. If anyone has any advice on how to just accept this, or at least stop thinking about it I would greatly appreciate it. Sorry for the long post I just needed to get this off my chest.