How long were you in denial about your hairloss?

[DragonQuestFan]

"I must have gotten a bad haircut - stupid barber!"

"All this stress at work/school is causing me to lose my hair. Man, my boss/teacher is a real jerk. If only I could be in a less stressful situation, I'll be more relaxed and my hair could continue to grow like normal."

"Man, I got to stop staying up late. I got to get more sleep. If I could get a consistent 8 hours of sleep a night, then my hair will grow back like normal."


Any of these phrases sound familiar to you? Well, they do to me, because I have said all of the above when I first starting balding.

Yes, I was in denial. For about a year.


I know now what caused my hairloss (damn you male pattern baldness gene! damn you dht!), but when I first started showing a balding spot on my crown, I had just gotten a hair cut. It was the barber that usually cuts my hair (wasn't there that day) but someone new to the shop.
You know, I figured barbers (especially inexperienced ones) do sometimes give bad haircuts. I figured people with normal growing hair (if they didn't get it fixed) would just grow it back out again. Of course I knew something was up when my balding spot wasn't filling up again...


Next I blamed my hairloss on was stress at work. I had gotten a new boss who was and still is a real jerk.

I also blamed my hairloss on not getting enough sleep and not getting enough exercise.

So for a year I got to bed earlier, exercise more frequently, ate better, and tried to manage stress at work better.

As for the haircut thing, I didn't get another haircut for that entire year, thinking and hoping that if I grew my hair out longer it would somehow help my hair's appearance (I've had the "long hair" look before).


Well, after that year, I might have gotten maybe a little hair regrowth, but things were definitely not "going back to normal". That's when I finally acknowledge that I was balding, and then started researching hairloss treatments and to make a long story short, today I'm on the "Big 3".


So were any of you ever in denial and for long? What were some of things that you blamed for your hairloss?

 

[Obsidian]

three years, even though I think I knew in the back of my head I just didn't want to believe it, especially since my Dad is a NW1. I thought maybe my hair was damaged from putting it back in a tight ponytail so often, how wrong I was. My only regret is not facing it sooner and hoping on treatment sooner. Although I didn't lose a lot of hair I defientley lost some and like anything in life, the sooner you tackle it the better.

 

[DragonQuestFan]

I see, hopefully things work out for you, man!

 

[Eureka]

I'm not sure how long.. At least a year though.

Kept telling myself I was too young, or it was just my imagination, maturing hairline, Too young too young too young, diet, Stress, Masturbation.

It's really hard to imagine your hairloss ever becoming as bad as it looks on other people. I could never imagine my hair getting to an nw7.. I remember when I saw a picture of my father when he was about 19-20, And he had this gigantic afrolike hairdo. Yet I had always known him to have an nw5, like as far back as I could remember. I think that had the biggest effect on me.

 

[s.a.f]

I was never in denial my hair has always been so bad that I've had people telling me that its coming my whole life.

All this stress at work/school is causing me to lose my hair. Man, my boss/teacher is a real jerk. If only I could be in a less stressful situation, I'll be more relaxed and my hair could continue to grow like normal."

"Man, I got to stop staying up late. I got to get more sleep. If I could get a consistent 8 hours of sleep a night, then my hair will grow back like normal."?

Yeah reading posts like these every week on here really pisses me off. :smack:

 

[Gene_Fighter]

Yeah, well I guess I saw my hair loss coming from a LONG way off, but for a long time I was only a receder, and the way I styled my hair, no one could notice. So from the age of about 14-15 to 22 I kept deceiving myself, imagining that it wouldn't progress into anything really noticeable until at least middle age.

It's only now when I look back at some of my older photos that I wish I had stopped deceiving myself and taken action earlier. My hair line used to be down near my eyebrows? Really? Damn.

Prevention is the only viable option for early receders, I know now. If only I knew then....

 

[BodyDysmorphic]

i was in denial for like like 1 year guess maybe less

my hair loss is not bad just deep "not wide" like a normal NW2 temples and slightly thinning in crown

once i noticed slightly more scalp in the crown i hopped on the big 3 and haven't looked back since

im like 2 1/2 months in and am seeing little "darker than vellus" hairs at my hair line and near my temples soo i guess its working

ps i also had a hair transplant like 3 months ago to rid my self of the deep temples so i guess when the hair transplant hair grows out ill be at NW1.5 with my adolescent hair in front of the hair transplant coming back in i hope

 

[Petchsky]

ps i also had a hair transplant like 3 months ago to rid my self of the deep temples so i guess when the hair transplant hair grows out ill be at NW1.5 with my adolescent hair in front of the hair transplant coming back in i hope

Where did you go for a H/T?

I was receding for two years, but it didn't bother me, then I started thinning out and it took me about a year to do something about it instead of looking in the mirror all the time trying to figure out if I had lost it or not. I clearly had, so I was definitely in denial

 

[ali777]

Looking at the old pictures, now I can see that I've been receding for 10 years. It's been very slow for me, I never paid attention to it.

Initially, I started noticing that my haircuts were getting more frequent and shorter. I used to think that "untidy" hair didn't look good on me anymore, but in reality I was losing the volume on the top. Before that, I was like you, I would go months even years without a haircut.

I wasn't exactly in denial, it was more a case of not paying attention to it, ie ignorance. Then suddenly it hit me, and I was in denial for a month or two and I thought it's probably the stress, etc...

 

[barcafan]

I was never in denial. I went straight to anger and despair, because of the genes that run in my family, denial wouldnt make any sense.

 

[Quantum Cat]

I thought I might be thinning, when I went to the hairdressers the b**ch would hold up a mirror to show me the back and I saw the thinning :x :sobbing:

I was too afraid to look for myself but my mum pointed it out to be :thumbdown2: and thought that I could grow it by taking vitamins. Not long after I realised that wouldn't work and I jumped on finasteride.

 

[scorpiolove74]

I have been in denial about my hairloss for ten years and i have been progressively balding for ten years lol.

 

[CCS]

How long were you in denial about your hairloss?

I was in denial from a very early age, because my parents told me it was just a high forhead. Was not until age 20 that my coworkers made it very clear to me that I was balding bad. From then until age 23, I just assumed there was nothing I could do about it since I thought propecia only works in the back. Many people also told me that hair does not matter. But when my brother lost his hair suddenly, that is when I jumped on treatments.

Actually, I don't remember which of us got on the internet first, but I think it was him who first talked me into getting on a hairloss treatment. Our first one was a scam, but it got me searching.