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About a year ago I first realised that I was losing my hair. At age 26 I was quite devastated, especially since I always wore it long and considered it my true self and an important part of my identity. Well after jumping on finasteride and minoxidil, I achieved pretty good success. I said to myself then that if I could just maintain what I had, I would be content, but I wanted more obviously, Well I have more, between the 2nd and 4th month I noticed a big improvement to hair density all over my scalp. Sometimes I worry that I'm getting worse again though. Like I look in the mirror and my hair doesn't look as arborescent, and I still see quite a few hairs fall out, maybe 5-10 every time I take a hairband and let my pony tail down, 20 or more after a shower, and some more throughout the day when hair gets broken, or caught or when I comb my hair. My hair still looks and feels about the same as it did at the 4 month mark (I think), maybe I'm just paranoid, but I often worry that it's stopped working and will get worse again...
More than that though, I've recently become increasingly conscious of my temporal recession. I have a high hairline, always have, and my sides have always been quite far back, with my ears almost at the back of my head. With my hair down you can't see my temples, and with my hair behind my ears it just naturally covers them up, but I know if I saved my head, my hairline wouldn't look quite so good. I guess I'm just worrying that maybe my hairline is still receding, or that I let it go too far before jumping on finasteride. I tell myself that I didn't let it go too far and that this is pretty much my mature hairline and that its always been high. But maybe I'm just fooling myself, maybe I have lost a bit more ground than I thought before starting, or even more
worrying after starting on finasteride... Not sure why I posted this, just felt the need to write about it.Maybe I should just buy a diary!
More than that though, I've recently become increasingly conscious of my temporal recession. I have a high hairline, always have, and my sides have always been quite far back, with my ears almost at the back of my head. With my hair down you can't see my temples, and with my hair behind my ears it just naturally covers them up, but I know if I saved my head, my hairline wouldn't look quite so good. I guess I'm just worrying that maybe my hairline is still receding, or that I let it go too far before jumping on finasteride. I tell myself that I didn't let it go too far and that this is pretty much my mature hairline and that its always been high. But maybe I'm just fooling myself, maybe I have lost a bit more ground than I thought before starting, or even more
worrying after starting on finasteride... Not sure why I posted this, just felt the need to write about it.Maybe I should just buy a diary!