Hello guys,
I must be the biggest fool posting at HairLossTalk.com and do not really deserve to have hair, nevertheless you may have sympathy with a sinner……
It is complicated, short version: Neglected regimen and hair is now looking worse than ever.
late 2004: started increased shedding at the age of 22
July 2006: After the denial phase (and terrible diffusing) I had accepted the reality and jumped on finasteride. I was about Norwood 1-1.5
Somewhen in 2007: I switched to Avodart and added Minoxidil
2008: I didn´t think about hair loss very much, since I had other problems in my life. But looking back at pics from that time, my hair looked very healthy again
2009: Noticed increased shedding, but this went by, my hair had become worse, but not really noticeable. As time passed by, increased shedding phase would come and go. I got used to it.
2010?: I dropped dutasteride and went back on finasteride. I had no real side effects, but just to be sure. I didn´t notice any significant change.
2011: Hair looked bad
2013: Hair looked very thick again. Don´t know why, but I wasn´t really consistend with minoxidil applications over the time, only using the foam a few times a week without being really rigorous, but when I started to take things seriously, my hair may have thickened up. But maybe it is just all in my head, and minoxidil did basically nothing for me the way I used it.
2014/2015: Life had become a rollercoaster: Severe emotional stress followed by wonderful experiences over a very long time. Looking back at pics, the hair look very good nevertheless. I didn´t really think about it anymore and became more and more incosistent with my regimen.
2016: Severe emotional stress and made me become even lazier with my regimen, maybe taking both Finasteride and Foam at most once or twice a week. I started shedding badly in spring, didn´t take it really serious at first, since I had become used to these shedding phases, but when they didn´t go by and felt that tingling on my head, which I had also felt before I had started treatment around 2006. I became a bit more consistent again. Sad fact: I was really losing badly, and I was in the same denial phase I was already ten years ago. A few weeks ago I finally accepted the truth, that I had started thinning badly again.
From now on I had become really consistent with my applications using 1.25mg finasteride, 2 x Liquid minoxidil a dayand Ket 2-3 times a week.
Nevertheless the damage is done, the density has become really ridiculous. One can see scalp all over my head. I have become a hat prisoner. I have DUTA, meaning that I am also thinning badly on my sides and partly the back. At least my loss on top is less noticeable because of that. The worst part thing for me is that my hairline is totally destroyed. There may be a chance to thicken up the diffusion, but with the hairline gone…….
It is just now that I have realized what a beautiful hairline I have had. A nice mature hairline which suited my facial features perfectly. It didn´t creep back that far in the few months, but to a point where my frame has suffered significantly. Nobody would have considered me bald before, a fellow baldy (Norwood Spotting!) wouldn´t belive me when I told him I was on finasteride and said he would „kill for my hairline“…..
Some of you may think that at the age of 34 one shouldn´t really care about that much. It is different for me since at the age of 34 I am physically in the shape of my life and looking better than ever. Well, at least I did last year with my thick hair and wonderful Norwood 1 Hairline.
Don´t know what to do, out of sheer stupidity I neglected my regimen and lost my hair. I don´t know how this could have happened. The biggest mistake of my life. Now all I can think about is my hair.
Treatments seem to have started working, since I am shedding less and I am losing quite a few eyebrows (finasteride side effect = loss of body hair), but the damage is done. I am hoping to regrow and thickening up my hairline and the rest of my hair, but deep inside I know that I am chasing a delusion.
I am thinking about (at least temporary) adding Oral spironolactone to my regimen in order to gain back the recently lost hairs. But I don´t know if this makes sense, any way to reverse recent hair loss? I am desperate.
Btw. it is true: Many succesful long time users don´t report back, because hair is no longer a problem for them.
I must be the biggest fool posting at HairLossTalk.com and do not really deserve to have hair, nevertheless you may have sympathy with a sinner……
It is complicated, short version: Neglected regimen and hair is now looking worse than ever.
late 2004: started increased shedding at the age of 22
July 2006: After the denial phase (and terrible diffusing) I had accepted the reality and jumped on finasteride. I was about Norwood 1-1.5
Somewhen in 2007: I switched to Avodart and added Minoxidil
2008: I didn´t think about hair loss very much, since I had other problems in my life. But looking back at pics from that time, my hair looked very healthy again
2009: Noticed increased shedding, but this went by, my hair had become worse, but not really noticeable. As time passed by, increased shedding phase would come and go. I got used to it.
2010?: I dropped dutasteride and went back on finasteride. I had no real side effects, but just to be sure. I didn´t notice any significant change.
2011: Hair looked bad
2013: Hair looked very thick again. Don´t know why, but I wasn´t really consistend with minoxidil applications over the time, only using the foam a few times a week without being really rigorous, but when I started to take things seriously, my hair may have thickened up. But maybe it is just all in my head, and minoxidil did basically nothing for me the way I used it.
2014/2015: Life had become a rollercoaster: Severe emotional stress followed by wonderful experiences over a very long time. Looking back at pics, the hair look very good nevertheless. I didn´t really think about it anymore and became more and more incosistent with my regimen.
2016: Severe emotional stress and made me become even lazier with my regimen, maybe taking both Finasteride and Foam at most once or twice a week. I started shedding badly in spring, didn´t take it really serious at first, since I had become used to these shedding phases, but when they didn´t go by and felt that tingling on my head, which I had also felt before I had started treatment around 2006. I became a bit more consistent again. Sad fact: I was really losing badly, and I was in the same denial phase I was already ten years ago. A few weeks ago I finally accepted the truth, that I had started thinning badly again.
From now on I had become really consistent with my applications using 1.25mg finasteride, 2 x Liquid minoxidil a dayand Ket 2-3 times a week.
Nevertheless the damage is done, the density has become really ridiculous. One can see scalp all over my head. I have become a hat prisoner. I have DUTA, meaning that I am also thinning badly on my sides and partly the back. At least my loss on top is less noticeable because of that. The worst part thing for me is that my hairline is totally destroyed. There may be a chance to thicken up the diffusion, but with the hairline gone…….
It is just now that I have realized what a beautiful hairline I have had. A nice mature hairline which suited my facial features perfectly. It didn´t creep back that far in the few months, but to a point where my frame has suffered significantly. Nobody would have considered me bald before, a fellow baldy (Norwood Spotting!) wouldn´t belive me when I told him I was on finasteride and said he would „kill for my hairline“…..
Some of you may think that at the age of 34 one shouldn´t really care about that much. It is different for me since at the age of 34 I am physically in the shape of my life and looking better than ever. Well, at least I did last year with my thick hair and wonderful Norwood 1 Hairline.
Don´t know what to do, out of sheer stupidity I neglected my regimen and lost my hair. I don´t know how this could have happened. The biggest mistake of my life. Now all I can think about is my hair.
Treatments seem to have started working, since I am shedding less and I am losing quite a few eyebrows (finasteride side effect = loss of body hair), but the damage is done. I am hoping to regrow and thickening up my hairline and the rest of my hair, but deep inside I know that I am chasing a delusion.
I am thinking about (at least temporary) adding Oral spironolactone to my regimen in order to gain back the recently lost hairs. But I don´t know if this makes sense, any way to reverse recent hair loss? I am desperate.
Btw. it is true: Many succesful long time users don´t report back, because hair is no longer a problem for them.
