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I'm a very paranoid person, I recall from the age of 14 I became paranoid that I was going to lose my hair, I have very little confidence in myself, but one thing I've always liked about myself is my hair, and overtime I felt like I was thinning, but other assured me I was just paranoid, and it was fine, after all I was young.
Skip forward 7 years, and I've experienced pretty much hair loss, I've been to the doctor many times to try find out the cause, there is no history of baldness in my family, so they were certain it wasn't male pattern baldness, and that there was some other reason behind it. After many blood tests, doctors visits, there seems to be no cause, which obviously leads to the conclusion that it must be male pattern baldness.
I've only recently turned 21, and I have less hair than my father of 57 does.
I'm used to having long hair, and I guess for the past year or so, I fooled myself into thinking that it probably wasn't noticeable, I avoided examining my hair or anything, to keep up the illusion that everything was ok.
I'm now in my second year of university and I've recently been really struggling to cope, not just with the hair, but so many other things. I've been recommended by the head of my course, and my counsellor that I suspend my studies, and resume them next year, giving me time to get proper therapy to cope with things.
And it was just only a few days ago when I came to terms with the fact that yes, I am losing my hair, and I feel powerless about it, I've had my hair cut recently so it's not as long as it once was, but I quite honestly don't know how to go about treating hair loss, I've done quite a lot of research, into regaine, pills you can take, hair transplants, but there seems to always be drawbacks to them which makes me wants to avoid them, I've heard with regaine (or rogaine in the US), that first you lose a ton of hair, then it grows back, which would be incredibly noticeable with my longer hair, the pills seems to have a ton of side effects that to be honest, terrify me, and hair transplants seem incredibly risky.
I know that's quite a lot to read and process, but I am in need of helpful advice, what can I do?
Skip forward 7 years, and I've experienced pretty much hair loss, I've been to the doctor many times to try find out the cause, there is no history of baldness in my family, so they were certain it wasn't male pattern baldness, and that there was some other reason behind it. After many blood tests, doctors visits, there seems to be no cause, which obviously leads to the conclusion that it must be male pattern baldness.
I've only recently turned 21, and I have less hair than my father of 57 does.
I'm used to having long hair, and I guess for the past year or so, I fooled myself into thinking that it probably wasn't noticeable, I avoided examining my hair or anything, to keep up the illusion that everything was ok.
I'm now in my second year of university and I've recently been really struggling to cope, not just with the hair, but so many other things. I've been recommended by the head of my course, and my counsellor that I suspend my studies, and resume them next year, giving me time to get proper therapy to cope with things.
And it was just only a few days ago when I came to terms with the fact that yes, I am losing my hair, and I feel powerless about it, I've had my hair cut recently so it's not as long as it once was, but I quite honestly don't know how to go about treating hair loss, I've done quite a lot of research, into regaine, pills you can take, hair transplants, but there seems to always be drawbacks to them which makes me wants to avoid them, I've heard with regaine (or rogaine in the US), that first you lose a ton of hair, then it grows back, which would be incredibly noticeable with my longer hair, the pills seems to have a ton of side effects that to be honest, terrify me, and hair transplants seem incredibly risky.
I know that's quite a lot to read and process, but I am in need of helpful advice, what can I do?
