is hair loss worth worrying about?

thaxceptional1

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do medication give any significant result? and if you have male pattern baldness wouldn't you just lose it again? is it worth spending all this money for little results?
i may just shave my head i dont think anything will work.
 

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do medication give any significant result? and if you have male pattern baldness wouldn't you just lose it again? is it worth spending all this money for little results?
i may just shave my head i dont think anything will work.

If you're genetically privileged to still look good with a shaved head (some guys even look better), then go ahead with it. The current options are garbage;

Only Finasteride and Dutasteride are known to halt further loss and regrow either a bit (or a lot in some cases) but not in 100% of cases (though afaik the number is in excess of 80% of men). Minoxidil is only a growth stimulant but even after 30 years of it being on the market nobody has a fvcking clue as to how exactly it works and even if you use it, it will NOT halt dihydrotestosterone (the main culprit behind hair loss). So, while you'll get a benefit from SOME of your hair with minoxidil, you'll still actually be balding over time anyway. Of course, combining finasteride/dutasteride with minoxidil yields best results, but do NOT expect miracles and no man has ever fully restored a completely bald head.

Outside of this there is RU58841 and CB-03-01 both of which are experimentals and neither have been 100% proven to halt DHT. RU was abandoned a long time and is now sold through the black market while CB-03-01 is actually undergoing clinical trials, but as usual the market gives zero fvcks about the millions of balding men and the pharmaceutical has decided it'd be a good idea to run trials of it for acne before hair loss despite the high number of acne products ALREADY on store shelves.

Conclusion:

You're being snubbed by society in many ways. But as I said, if you look good with a shaved bald head, it may actually be better as you'll save yourself weeks, months years or even decades of torment from this socially crippling disease.

Good luck.
 

aldo5408

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doesnt hurt to try only thing you really lose is money and that can be replaced if it wasnt for the succes stories here i would have just given up altough i will admit every time i put on monoxidil or pop a finasteride pill i am reminded and it sucks. and nobody really looks better bald bro only some black people
 

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No it isn't worth worrying about. Just shave it, lift, and get a tan. Balding isn't something you should be ashamed of, it is something you should be proud of. Welcome to manhood.
 

ladysmanfelpz

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I wonder this too. When it started at 17 I was struck with anxiety, and when it really showed at 21-22 and I was forced to shave it felt like the end of the world. Started finasteride again tho at 24, but doesn't concern me near as much as when I was younger. Its weird cuz when you see other bald guys you don't think anything of it, but when it happens to you feel like an outcast. I see other young bald guys and don't know why they never pursued treatment, or they ever got s*** about it. It seems like that was all the talk between my friends and even family cuz it felt like not cools sig 25 going on 65. I'm all about self improvement but does is it too far to pop a pill to preserve your image?

And can't tell if you are serious or not Notcool. You seem to jump between sides.
 

donyell

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Just stop eating dairy and you wont lose your hair, it has been proven time and time again.




:laugh:
 

doublebatman

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Just stop eating dairy and you wont lose your hair, it has been proven time and time again.




:laugh:

Add in NoFap, a strict regime of multivitamins and ayurvedic treatment, you'll be back to Norwood 0 in no time

@ OP
If you're happy with a shaved head then no, its not worth worrying about. Screw what anybody else thinks
 

thaxceptional1

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If you're genetically privileged to still look good with a shaved head (some guys even look better), then go ahead with it. The current options are garbage;

Only Finasteride and Dutasteride are known to halt further loss and regrow either a bit (or a lot in some cases) but not in 100% of cases (though afaik the number is in excess of 80% of men). Minoxidil is only a growth stimulant but even after 30 years of it being on the market nobody has a fvcking clue as to how exactly it works and even if you use it, it will NOT halt dihydrotestosterone (the main culprit behind hair loss). So, while you'll get a benefit from SOME of your hair with minoxidil, you'll still actually be balding over time anyway. Of course, combining finasteride/dutasteride with minoxidil yields best results, but do NOT expect miracles and no man has ever fully restored a completely bald head.

Outside of this there is RU58841 and CB-03-01 both of which are experimentals and neither have been 100% proven to halt DHT. RU was abandoned a long time and is now sold through the black market while CB-03-01 is actually undergoing clinical trials, but as usual the market gives zero fvcks about the millions of balding men and the pharmaceutical has decided it'd be a good idea to run trials of it for acne before hair loss despite the high number of acne products ALREADY on store shelves.

Conclusion:

You're being snubbed by society in many ways. But as I said, if you look good with a shaved bald head, it may actually be better as you'll save yourself weeks, months years or even decades of torment from this socially crippling disease.

Good luck.

Well see I just don't think its worth taking all that if I can't get it up. What would be the point? Should I sacrifice sex just to look decent?

I am only 26 so having hair loss is tough, but at the same time not being able to have sex would be much worse.

**** does suck, and I tried Minoxidil and it didn't work. I am on nizoral right now, but have only seen a very tiny improvement. I guess being bald is the new thing?

I just don't want to have to do it until I am positive nothing can be done to recover my hair (without the side effects).
 

Notcoolanymore

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And can't tell if you are serious or not Notcool. You seem to jump between sides.

Sorry, I was just joking. Personally, hair is important to me and I do feel like it is worth worrying about. With that being said, if somebody can just live with it and move on, then I would say that is the best choice. Being on treatments for the rest of your life is a pretty ****ty option.
 

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Well see I just don't think its worth taking all that if I can't get it up. What would be the point? Should I sacrifice sex just to look decent?

I am only 26 so having hair loss is tough, but at the same time not being able to have sex would be much worse.

**** does suck, and I tried Minoxidil and it didn't work. I am on nizoral right now, but have only seen a very tiny improvement. I guess being bald is the new thing?

I just don't want to have to do it until I am positive nothing can be done to recover my hair (without the side effects).

Side effects aren't guaranteed though... the vast majority of people don't experience them. My suggestion: try microdosing once or twice a week and see what happens. If everything is functioning well, youre good to go.
 

Notcoolanymore

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I just don't want to have to do it until I am positive nothing can be done to recover my hair (without the side effects).

Hair loss treatments without the potential for sides don't exist. If there was why the hell would guys choose the treatments with the potential for sides?
 

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Minoxidil is only a growth stimulant but even after 30 years of it being on the market nobody has a fvcking clue as to how exactly it works and even if you use it, it will NOT halt dihydrotestosterone (the main culprit behind hair loss). So, while you'll get a benefit from SOME of your hair with minoxidil, you'll still actually be balding over time anyway.

This is frustrating. If we knew exactly how Minoxidil regrew hair we could have created a more fined tuned effective drug with a similar chemical structure. Like a second gen Minoxidil. But we have no idea. It can maintain as well as regrow, people seem to have forgotten about it since Propecia came out.
 

thaxceptional1

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Side effects aren't guaranteed though... the vast majority of people don't experience them. My suggestion: try microdosing once or twice a week and see what happens. If everything is functioning well, youre good to go.

Where can i buy finastride?
 

anxious1

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i dont think its worth worrying about, but that doesnt make it any easier to ignore it. i think your best bet is either to accept it and forget about it(very hard unless u have a very positive attitude) or go on treatments, then forget about it, or treatments + a transplant then forget about it.

i can tell you all, that now in my mid thirties, i have wasted a significant amount of time watching my hairline, researching, and waiting for something to work, or something better to come out, and yet im still here. i regret it enormously. at the end of the day i will still go bald, and each day im worse off than the previous. treatmnets may work for a lucky few, but for the majority it just accelerates it, then halts it for a while. at the end of the day your still receding.

i look back at my twenties and have practically no good memories because i was too busy obssessing about my hair.

my advice is dont waste a day worrying about something you ultimately cant change. living as a balding person is better than not living at all. (sitting on the internet night after night isnt living.) the funny part is im a hippocrit, because here i am.
 

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Hair loss treatments without the potential for sides don't exist. If there was why the hell would guys choose the treatments with the potential for sides?
+1. This is because we are messing with growth hormone, testosterone, estrogen levels and more.
 

SayifDoit

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The fact you're on these forums means you care about your hair and of course want to know if there is anything you can do stop further hair loss.
Though messing with your body by taking hormone altering drugs to save what is your hair, is your decision you have to make yourself; we on these forums can only provide you with our own experiences and opinions, make no mistake we are not doctors on these forums lol. Hair is important part of life and makes who you are, whether you like it or not people are going to instantly notice your hair or lack of hair. It can age you 10+ years and can even change a persons perception of you, 'O look at that freak' or 'he looks so unhealthy'.
People see it as a huge disadvantage in life not having hair.
So yes hair loss is worth worrying about, for some.
 

ladysmanfelpz

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^^^^^^^ This.

Like I said earlier I believe in self improvement. Once I noticed my loss I started treating with rogaine and thought I was ahead of the curve and was saving my hair and gonna have great hair while my peers slowly began to lose their look. Whoa was I wrong since minoxidil does not work like that and does nothing on the balding process to only see a huge shed 3 years later and lose 70% of my hair rapidly. I noticed my balding peers and even bald men in general at any age hated the fact that they were bald and would be much happier with their hair. So I decided to jump on the finasteride train and forget about those worries.
 

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Your asking a question that has an answer based solely on opinion. Castration prevents male pattern baldness totally that is a simple fact. Why is that? Because androgens that every man has in large amounts cause male pattern baldness to happen over time (genetics,sensitivity). Propecia helps lower that so its pretty good at preventing male pattern baldness but its not perfect because its not as powerful as castration and most men start it too late and male pattern baldness might not be a reversible process.
Is propecia worth using? Your choice. Use it or lose it those are the options at this point in time.
 

Notcoolanymore

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Is propecia worth using? Your choice. Use it or lose it those are the options at this point in time.

As simple as that.
 
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