Do you also want to go bald?

[mbach07]

I'm 20 and like many others, I am suffering from hairloss.

I am using regaine and nizoral for starters to see where it will get me..

But sometimes, like now, I wonder why I don't just stop spending money on the product, and shave myself bald.

I understand we would rather have the choice of being bald or not, and not some genes to make that decision for us. But balding is really a test of our mindset more than anything else. We can be just as happy with hair as without hair, as with anything in life..

And sometimes I think: If I shave off my hair, I can finally stop even worrying about it. I can save the money too. I can stop looking in the mirror so much and start feeling more comfortable just accepting baldness intead of fighting my genes. The "freedom" that mindset can give me.

And if I was to ever meet and date a girl, I wouldn't even be worrying about my appearance or losing my hair, because the girl I dated was into me being bald, didn't judge me and loved me for who I am, and not just if I was genetically perfect. - And by the way, that seems to be the problem with many people who experience hairloss. They lose their confidence, and they blame everything on the fact that they're going bald. "She doesn't like my cause I'm bald" or whatever you're telling yourself. But it's not that. It's just that we don't believe in ourself. We lose our confidence, we downtalk ourselves for no reason.

At times, I want to be that guy who embraces baldness and who is not afraid to talk about it, laugh about it and just be happy. Life is too short to be worrying about appearance and stressing over hair falling out. Even though it is "only" applying minodixil 2 times a day, it still goes through my head every time I look at myself. I feel like I am hiding what I truly am, like wearing a wig or keeping something secret from the world. I kinda feel like I want to free myself from worries and cut it off. Focus on all the beautiful and great things in life. And I bet, no one in the world are even going to care about someone being bald..

Does anyone out there feel like this, any time in their life?

 

[bibz]

Your thread is useless.

 

[hellouser]

I felt that way for a while and while it might sound like the "right" thing to do, I think it's a mistake.

Reality is still reality. Appearance is important, being bald changes the perception others have of you.

Remember that if you let it go, you'll be bald guy, a characteristic almost no girl has on his shopping list.

I'm glad I never quit minoxidil in the end, some hair is always better than no hair. Starting to pretend "I don't care about what I look like" for me sounds like the first step to be OK with letting yourself go in other areas of your life: becoming fat, stop grooming yourself, yellow teeth etc.

Instead I embraced reality, and the fact that appearance matters, a lot. Even though, I'm pretty much bald and still successful in my life, I'm still aware that I would be better off with more hair.

Being bald basically means being socially crippled and robbed of equal opportunities. Pretty fvcking depressing life to live.

 

[TheHandsomeLurker]

I sometimes feel that way because the people in my life just don't care whether I have hair or not. My girlfriend will still sleep with me, my friends will still get drunk with me, my salary will keep coming in. My hair loss really just affects how much time I spend worrying about it and using weird products.

I've known a lot of people who, upon getting to NW4 or 5, will just shave their heads and laugh about it. They seem like happy men.

 

[XXXXXXX]

I am using regaine and nizoral

No finasteride no hair

 

[XXXXXXX]

Minoxidil without finasteride is useless. I know YOU cant take finasteride but that doesn't mean others cant.

I know its a sh1t treatment but its the only thing that works.

 

[XXXXXXX]

That's all it does, it buys you a very limited amount of time.

In a few years you'll be phucked.

 

[The Far Side]

Why are you so keen on discouraging people who want to do something about hairloss but don't want to get onto a heavy duty drug?

You've only been at this since August 2013 and you're talking in absolutes about how people who don't take finasteride are "phucked". I doubt you've tried RU, CB etc.

 

[XXXXXXX]

Why are you so keen on discouraging people who want to do something about hairloss but don't want to get onto a heavy duty drug?

You've only been at this since August 2013 and you're talking in absolutes about how people who don't take finasteride are "phucked". I doubt you've tried RU, CB etc.

Spencer Kobren has been in the game for a very long time and till this day he still recommends Finasteride as your first line of treatment.

RU and CB are experimental treatments, no one knows how to deliver it properly for it to be effective, until that happens those treatments are ineffective.

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I'll get multiple hair transplants by then, preferably with pilofocus. Still better than growing hair while growing boobs (only for me and few unlucky people I admit).

Transplants are useless without finasteride, especially considering you're a NW5 at 24, imagine where you'll be at 30.

 

[XXXXXXX]

Still NW5 like my father, grandfather and other grandfather. You can see the NW5 outline a the back of my head.

People that go to NW7 are quite rare. Stop spreading negativity, tons of people have had successful hair transplants without finasteride.

I'm spreading honesty. People who get transplants without finasteride are playing with fire.

Since when is taking finasteride "not doing anything" ? Are you brain dead ?

 

[XXXXXXX]

And people who take finasteride are not playing with fire of course? Double standards.

Every single medication has side effects. There's no such thing as a medication that doesn't have side effects.

 

[GoldenMane]

Just wanted to say, much respect to Fred, you have a good attitude, neither delusional nor defeatist. Too many people here act like baldness makes you worthless, unlovable and ugly. This is bull****, then there are those who act like it doesn't change anything, it's all in your head. Also bull****. You're one of the few people here who sees it for exactly what it is.

 

[XXXXXXX]

It depends on what side-effects we're talking about. Risking permanent sexual side-effects certainly seems like playing with fire to me.

Anyone with a brain would know that the chance of that happening is very low, next to none.
Here are the side effects of Tylenol to put things in perspective.

Liver failure, Kidney failure, Heart problems, Coma, Seizures, Loss of life.

Just wanted to say, much respect to Fred, you have a good attitude, neither delusional nor defeatist.Too many people here act like baldness makes you worthless, unlovable and ugly. This is bull****, then there are those who act like it doesn't change anything, it's all in your head. Also bull****. You're one of the few people here who sees it for exactly what it is.

That pretty much sums it up.

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[TheHandsomeLurker]

Anyone with a brain would know that the chance of that happening is very low, next to none.
Here are the side effects of Tylenol to put things in perspective.

I don't think we have enough data to say that.

So far as I know (and I want more info on this), there are no longitudinal studies on men who use finasteride for hair loss, and such data would be crucial given that when you start taking finasteride, you're committing yourself to alter your body's natural endocrine function for the rest of your life. No studies have found massive problems in young men who take finasteride for two years, but I'm not sure if anyone knows what happens to finasteride users after twenty or fifty years.

 

[XXXXXXX]

Hey man, if you want to wait 20 years for studies to be done, be my guest.

By the time the studies are completed, you'll probably be a slicktop so it wont matter anyway.

 

[abcdefg]

Yeah it really is all your opinion, but I can tell you from experience that hair does matter probably more to some other people then it will to you. So like many things in life its used to judge you on first impressions whether you think its a big deal or not. There is no right answer about if its important or not because its a grey area. If good treatments existed the choice would be a lot easier, but with the crap we have going bald is barely preventable maybe long term its still not possible to stop. Over the course of 10+ years your probably going to still bald slowly even on propecia so your just paying the money/time/health risks to probably lose hair long term or just quit and lose all the hair you paid to maintain all those years.
I can certainly see given current treatments the choice of just accepting it. Its a fight that male pattern baldness still has a slight edge in I would say. In the next 10+ years though I think the edge will be back to people being able to keep hair.

 

[GoldenMane]

You don't know that long term we propecia will stop working or become less effective. I'm sure for some it will, for a combination of reasons, but you can't categorically say that those of us on propecia will eventually go bald, we might not!

 

[JordyUK]

damn that guy above aged ^^^

 

[XXXXXXX]

Yeah he's only 28 too. :freaked: