Hey guys. This is my first time posting in this forum although I have been a regular visitor. On Monday evening I finally accepted I was going to be bald and I shaved my head right down to a #1.
Since first noticing I was going bald at 22 years old it has been a constant battle. I was just finishing university when I first had the panic that I was losing my hair and like most others, I went straight on to Google to find out what I can do to sort it. I bought the German formula shampoo, then moved on to Regaine, then added Nizoral to my routine and finally visited a hair transplant consultant on two occasions to find out what they can do for me.
I am now 25 years old and in the last 3 years I reckon 95% of my mornings have involved the following routine; wake up, shower, Regaine foam my hair, wait 5 minutes, blow dry my hair, gel my hair, hair spray my hair. I was doing all of that to simply fight the hair loss and to hide my balding head as much as possible. My hair was becoming so thin that in the last 12 months I've also been using a comb to get the perfect style in my hair. The routine was working to some extent, Regaine did work well for me in the first two years but then the effect started to wear off. It was becoming ridiculous and it was consuming my life. Certain aspects of my lifestyle had to changed because of my hair loss; I would never go swimming, I would avoid outdoor sports in case it rained, I even avoided weekends away and stag do's because I wouldn't be able to do my morning routine to get the best style of hair possible for me.
In the last 2-3 weeks I've been thinking about it a lot. My older brother went for a checkup with a dermatologist over Christmas and was rushed in to get a biopsy which has turned out to be a rare form of skin cancer. During the weeks of waiting for the results there were a few nights when I couldn't sleep and was in tears about the prospect of my brother having cancer, and I was thinking to myself; I spend so much time worrying about bloody hair loss when my brother is waiting to find out if he has skin cancer. Enough was enough, over the weekend I went on Amazon and bought a set of clippers, they arrived Monday, I set up a seat in my hallway with the mirror out in front of me and I just went for it. Started on the #5 blade but it was too patchy, went down to a #3 but it still didn't look great, so I went right down to the #1. My heart was racing throughout but I can't explain how good a feeling it was after. It was just a release of all the anxiety I've had about my hair, disappearing within a matter of minutes. Yes I'm still getting used to the fact I'm bald but I don't regret it in the slightest, I actually look a lot better AND I'm a lot more confident than I have been in the last 6 months when I had my stupid wispy thinning hair.
I'm the same as most of you on here, it consumed my life, and shaving my head was one of the hardest things I've ever done. However, don't live your life worrying about being bald, you are going to go through a lot harder things in life and maybe in 10 years you'll look back and laugh at how stupid you were worrying about something so trivial - hair loss.
Since first noticing I was going bald at 22 years old it has been a constant battle. I was just finishing university when I first had the panic that I was losing my hair and like most others, I went straight on to Google to find out what I can do to sort it. I bought the German formula shampoo, then moved on to Regaine, then added Nizoral to my routine and finally visited a hair transplant consultant on two occasions to find out what they can do for me.
I am now 25 years old and in the last 3 years I reckon 95% of my mornings have involved the following routine; wake up, shower, Regaine foam my hair, wait 5 minutes, blow dry my hair, gel my hair, hair spray my hair. I was doing all of that to simply fight the hair loss and to hide my balding head as much as possible. My hair was becoming so thin that in the last 12 months I've also been using a comb to get the perfect style in my hair. The routine was working to some extent, Regaine did work well for me in the first two years but then the effect started to wear off. It was becoming ridiculous and it was consuming my life. Certain aspects of my lifestyle had to changed because of my hair loss; I would never go swimming, I would avoid outdoor sports in case it rained, I even avoided weekends away and stag do's because I wouldn't be able to do my morning routine to get the best style of hair possible for me.
In the last 2-3 weeks I've been thinking about it a lot. My older brother went for a checkup with a dermatologist over Christmas and was rushed in to get a biopsy which has turned out to be a rare form of skin cancer. During the weeks of waiting for the results there were a few nights when I couldn't sleep and was in tears about the prospect of my brother having cancer, and I was thinking to myself; I spend so much time worrying about bloody hair loss when my brother is waiting to find out if he has skin cancer. Enough was enough, over the weekend I went on Amazon and bought a set of clippers, they arrived Monday, I set up a seat in my hallway with the mirror out in front of me and I just went for it. Started on the #5 blade but it was too patchy, went down to a #3 but it still didn't look great, so I went right down to the #1. My heart was racing throughout but I can't explain how good a feeling it was after. It was just a release of all the anxiety I've had about my hair, disappearing within a matter of minutes. Yes I'm still getting used to the fact I'm bald but I don't regret it in the slightest, I actually look a lot better AND I'm a lot more confident than I have been in the last 6 months when I had my stupid wispy thinning hair.
I'm the same as most of you on here, it consumed my life, and shaving my head was one of the hardest things I've ever done. However, don't live your life worrying about being bald, you are going to go through a lot harder things in life and maybe in 10 years you'll look back and laugh at how stupid you were worrying about something so trivial - hair loss.
