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To sum up my current situation, I'm a 22 year old male who has been dealing with the stress and anxiety of hair loss for the better part of three years now. Despite originally noticing my hair loss that long ago, I've been lucky enough to lose my hair sloooooooowly. It wasn't until this past August after having my hair cut (went from shoulder length hair to a shorter, shag style) that I truly noticed how much my hairline was receding.
I have a natural widow's peak and so it's a pretty good gauge of how my hairline is holding up. Since about September however I've been noticing the front starting to thin dramatically. :/
Unfortunately, as with everything else, I'm horrible anxious when it comes to attempting to treat it. So I allowed my hair to get worse over the past four months until just this past week I FINALLY splurged and ordered some Finpecia from Inhouse Pharmacy (I have no money or insurance to see a doctor for a legit script :/). I've decided to give it a shot for a few months, and if I see no improvement (although holding on to what I have would be a god send) I'll consider tossing some minoxidil into my regimen.
Now this is where my neurosis kicks in to high gear. Since around last month I've noticed A LOT of changes. For one, my body hair and beard have gotten noticeably thicker. Where I couldn't grow a beard very well before I'm now on my way to rocking a full Zach Galifiankis level manly-beard. My chest hair has gotten thicker AND crept up closer to my shoulder area, and my back hair (I know, gross... it started growing right around the time I first noticed my hairloss :|) went from being patchy and light to being more matted and dark. :| *gag*
This scares me, because it coincides with my hairline's thinning. My widow's peak has thinned slightly and crept back (it used to line up with a birthmark I have now it doesn't), my temples have thinned to the point where when I lift my hair up I can clearly see my destined hairline in a year or two (think David Letterman forelock-island situation). Thankfully I have no diffuse thinning and little to no crown loss, so even with my bad situation I can comb my hair forward and rock a decent shag style... but I realize I'm living on borrowed time. :/
But is it possible that my waiting to get on finasteride was a HUGE mistake? I know very little about the drug other than what I've researched in the last few weeks, but it seems to yield the best results to those users who hop on it early in the game. I'm now thinking that if I had manned up back in August or September I could have probably prevented this horrific DHT nightmare of thinning and body hair growth. Am I just worrying or is there a chance that I could have really screwed things up by waiting so long? I'd say I'm a solid NW2-2.5 right now.
I just worry about being one of those guys who has a ****-ton of DHT and is just destined to be bald at a young age. I've held on to my hair quite well considering how long this has been going on, but I'm guessing this is my time to really fall off. Should finasteride at least do a decent job of slowing this down? I can't get this mind-****ing thought out of my head that I should have started treatment months ago and I probably would have been OK. Now I almost feel like I waited too late and it's going to be a b**ch to stave this off.
I hope I'm wrong. :| Sorry for the long winded rant but I'm currently on vicodin for a dental procedure and... well this is what happens when I'm high and around a keyboard. Thanks for any and all replies.
I have a natural widow's peak and so it's a pretty good gauge of how my hairline is holding up. Since about September however I've been noticing the front starting to thin dramatically. :/
Unfortunately, as with everything else, I'm horrible anxious when it comes to attempting to treat it. So I allowed my hair to get worse over the past four months until just this past week I FINALLY splurged and ordered some Finpecia from Inhouse Pharmacy (I have no money or insurance to see a doctor for a legit script :/). I've decided to give it a shot for a few months, and if I see no improvement (although holding on to what I have would be a god send) I'll consider tossing some minoxidil into my regimen.
Now this is where my neurosis kicks in to high gear. Since around last month I've noticed A LOT of changes. For one, my body hair and beard have gotten noticeably thicker. Where I couldn't grow a beard very well before I'm now on my way to rocking a full Zach Galifiankis level manly-beard. My chest hair has gotten thicker AND crept up closer to my shoulder area, and my back hair (I know, gross... it started growing right around the time I first noticed my hairloss :|) went from being patchy and light to being more matted and dark. :| *gag*
This scares me, because it coincides with my hairline's thinning. My widow's peak has thinned slightly and crept back (it used to line up with a birthmark I have now it doesn't), my temples have thinned to the point where when I lift my hair up I can clearly see my destined hairline in a year or two (think David Letterman forelock-island situation). Thankfully I have no diffuse thinning and little to no crown loss, so even with my bad situation I can comb my hair forward and rock a decent shag style... but I realize I'm living on borrowed time. :/
But is it possible that my waiting to get on finasteride was a HUGE mistake? I know very little about the drug other than what I've researched in the last few weeks, but it seems to yield the best results to those users who hop on it early in the game. I'm now thinking that if I had manned up back in August or September I could have probably prevented this horrific DHT nightmare of thinning and body hair growth. Am I just worrying or is there a chance that I could have really screwed things up by waiting so long? I'd say I'm a solid NW2-2.5 right now.
I just worry about being one of those guys who has a ****-ton of DHT and is just destined to be bald at a young age. I've held on to my hair quite well considering how long this has been going on, but I'm guessing this is my time to really fall off. Should finasteride at least do a decent job of slowing this down? I can't get this mind-****ing thought out of my head that I should have started treatment months ago and I probably would have been OK. Now I almost feel like I waited too late and it's going to be a b**ch to stave this off.
I hope I'm wrong. :| Sorry for the long winded rant but I'm currently on vicodin for a dental procedure and... well this is what happens when I'm high and around a keyboard. Thanks for any and all replies.