How do you deal with the fact you're losing hair?

californiaoceans911

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My hair loss started the same actually. I lost a lot of weight before going to college and thought I would never have to worry about my self-esteem again. It turns out, rapid/high weight loss can cause severe damage to your body, one of the causes for onset of hair loss. My hair loss never subsided after I started losing hair at age of 19. Luckily, I did not care much about my hair through college years, but still went out with a couple of girls (this is pretty challenging for an engineering school), and enjoyed my college/grad school years. Real havoc hit me about a year and half ago when I received two surgeries with general anesthesia within a 9 month period. My gut health got destroyed from the antibiotics and general anesthesia exacerbated hair loss severely. It's been 8 months since last surgery, but I am still suffering from massive hair loss.

Going back to your question, focus on things that matter to you. For me, during college years, the things I cared about were academics, getting decent internships, meeting with friends, and of course, girls. Telling your friends about hair loss was a bad mistake, but you just have to ignore what they say and do something better than them. In the end, smart guys with decent jobs will be more financially secure, which can potentially cover disadvantage of having less hair.

Not bad advice. I say focus on you being a badass, focus on work, good job, being a cool person and the rest will come. Quick question: Was the hair loss from rapid weight loss a side effect of having an increased metabolism (and thus more T->DHT conversion suddenly) or maybe because the weight loss lowered your estrogen level dramatically? Or both? Or something else entirely?

I think you're looking at it the wrong way.

Can't you see that 3 out of the 4 men poking fun of him are bald?

They are just saying he should stop trying to hide his receding hairline. They aren't saying "haha, you are bald and ugly".

He is not fooling anyone by wearing that head-band. Same with the men that never take off their baseball cap.

Right on the money. They're bald too they're just saying join the club to LJ.

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yeah, basically exactly what my Doctor said today. He was adamant about the other sides being stress related until i mentioned loss of morning wood and instantly he said i needed to get hormones tested and my liver tested.


I can tell when my thyroid goes from hypothyroid to hyperthyroid immediately because of the loss of morning erection. The next day I immediately go to have my blood drawn and sure enough I'm right. Now I'm not saying that finasteride caused my thyroiditis at all, but 6 months before I started taking finasteride my TSH was spot on 1.0. A week after I took a couple of pills of finasteride my TSH dropped so low the machine at the lab couldn't even read it. It's been up and down ever since.

I don't think it was finasteride, but rather I started taking finasteride because the problem may have already been there (hence the hair loss, concern about hair loss, and decision to take finasteride). Take it for what it's worth but definitely get your hormones checked.
 

Notcoolanymore

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It bugs me knowing that if I had a full head until I was 70, I could have had such a great carefree life and have heaps of confidence when approaching girls (just like my dad did) but its going to be the complete opposite for me. :(

Hair can make a big difference in your appearance.

But this: "if I had a full head until I was 70," doesn't always equal this: "I could have had such a great carefree life and have heaps of confidence when approaching girls (just like my dad did) but its going to be the complete opposite for me"

The more you believe that, the harder it will be for you to deal with losing your hair.
 
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