Just Started Propecia/need Encouragement

[leftyguy]

Hey! I'm 21 I've been getting thinner on my hair since 17. Recently started show my scalp. So I started freak out. Tried PRP treatment, didnt have any results. Checked my blood,didnt have any problem. So it was genetics. Then a friend suggested propecia. He has been on it for 20 years. Directly went to google to search saw the horror stories but got scared shitless but at the end of the day I realized I knew my friend and his 4 friends who's been on it for years without any problems and I dont know anyone who had problems with it and I started taking it. It was a hard decision because I have had panic attacks mostly about health in the past. So I was scared of sides and scared of my potentil to creat sides in my head. But I got myself ready mentally.I checked how I my body works before starting and noticed for example that it already hurts a bit when I push my nipples. I realized the shape of my testicles are slightly different already. I realized I mostly get hard quickly and stay fully hard with my partner but when I'm alone jerking off I have weak erections. Then I started 1mg everyday like my friend

Also thinking to start nizoral but I want to start after few months to see whats the effect of which.


It has been 3 weeks now, had no improvement obviously and I had no side effects at all for now. (Once had horrible pain on my nipple, freaked out then realized it was a pimple under a hair lol)
-high libido as usual
-random/during sex erections as usual
-always had big amount of watery semen
-no itchy pain
-always had anxiety panic attacks but i ve been better lately and i still am even though i overthink it sometimes

I hope it will go on like this. Hope its a good sign that I had nothing at the beginning. I read people mostly have problems the first weeks.

I'm planning to post here the progress.

It would be also good to read some encouraging posts from long time users


UPDATE: After 2 months I stoped due to heart palpitations and non stop ball pain...

 

[CrownBalding]

Post pics post pics post pics

 

[stachu]

I also realized that most of my healthy issues are related mostly to fact that i was overthinking them too much! Jump on finasteride and be happy of hair you have!

 

[Dextrofinasteride]

its not exactly the same angle or lighting sorry about that but take my word for it. I posted this wall of text in another thread, this is for people who used to be like me and like you now


i've lurked in many hairloss forums before trying finasteride, talked to specialist etc. I'm 18, many believe that i'll get fcked for taking this at 18, others believe it to be a godsend with no sides. The truth of the matter is that about 2 weeks after I had started taking finasteride, my shedding nearly completely stopped, from about 150hairs a day to literally 15-30 a day and thats only when im using alot of force on my hair. didnt even look when i showered because it would actually make my heart hurt literally. The miniaturization on my left temple was stopped. It has only been 3 months, so others will say thats its not nealry enough time to see results of anything really while others claim the opposite. My side effects were simply none existent but I did have sides but only when i took into heart the 'horror stories' and then i started seeing them, i actually saw them, the mind is so damn powerful. then other posters said it was psychological and assured me to give it a chance. im passing down what they say now. I actaully thought my jawline was badly deteriorating, that i had weaker cheekbones, and that i lost lots of collagen under my eyes after 4 days only of finasteride, having baggier eyes, less agression, dead dick until i stopped looking at these forums and continued to live my life. Implemented exercise (150 pushups daily only), the 'sides' disappeared and i was my self except now not losing nearly as much hair. I was scared shitless of taking it but I did and i havent had this relief of stress and anxiety in years. My left temple has no longer receded. still the same now. No apparent regrowth. I may get sides from finasteride later on, i may not. In any case, for now, im not stressing about my hair (major part of appearance). Im not sure if ill get sides later on but its a chance im willing to take it for my mental health. ive been in shitty deppressed moods cause of family issues, uni, romances etc and ive also been in great moods too for the same, ive felt weak and anxious, deppressed some days and strong, bold and confident with morning wood harder than metal in other days. I was the same way before i started losing hair You cant look for sides because the 'sides' will start showing up, that i can guarantee. How you feel reflects how you appear and vice versa, looks matter and hair is a very large part of that, thats the truth.

Anyways, there is good and bad in every medication and the truth is that hair is important towards how you feel yourself, how you appear to others, how confident you feel. its up to you. You gotta decide what man you're gonna be, balding and feeling less confident day by day knowing that your hair is dying but you are not altering hormones or taking a risk that may possibly make you at peace with yourself and your appearence. Avoid those imbecile fear mongering and ignore the blind glorifiers as well. See for yourself as I did. I truly wish anyone with doubts to try. Prevention is easier than regrowth never forget that, there are those that wish they had taken finasteride sooner and those that wish they had never even heard of it. Forget that you even take the pill if you decide to start taking it, just carry on with your life. If you take it, leave these places for a while is my suggestion, its infected with fear and it will take hold of you when you're vunlerable like right now, like it took ahold of me at first for a bit.

I know it's just fricking finasteride and not something special but those who dare win and thats true in everything

 

[CrownBalding]

its not exactly the same angle or lighting sorry about that but take my word for it. I posted this wall of text in another thread, this is for people who used to be like me and like you now


i've lurked in many hairloss forums before trying finasteride, talked to specialist etc. I'm 18, many believe that i'll get fcked for taking this at 18, others believe it to be a godsend with no sides. The truth of the matter is that about 2 weeks after I had started taking finasteride, my shedding nearly completely stopped, from about 150hairs a day to literally 15-30 a day and thats only when im using alot of force on my hair. didnt even look when i showered because it would actually make my heart hurt literally. The miniaturization on my left temple was stopped. It has only been 3 months, so others will say thats its not nealry enough time to see results of anything really while others claim the opposite. My side effects were simply none existent but I did have sides but only when i took into heart the 'horror stories' and then i started seeing them, i actually saw them, the mind is so damn powerful. then other posters said it was psychological and assured me to give it a chance. im passing down what they say now. I actaully thought my jawline was badly deteriorating, that i had weaker cheekbones, and that i lost lots of collagen under my eyes after 4 days only of finasteride, having baggier eyes, less agression, dead dick until i stopped looking at these forums and continued to live my life. Implemented exercise (150 pushups daily only), the 'sides' disappeared and i was my self except now not losing nearly as much hair. I was scared shitless of taking it but I did and i havent had this relief of stress and anxiety in years. My left temple has no longer receded. still the same now. No apparent regrowth. I may get sides from finasteride later on, i may not. In any case, for now, im not stressing about my hair (major part of appearance). Im not sure if ill get sides later on but its a chance im willing to take it for my mental health. ive been in shitty deppressed moods cause of family issues, uni, romances etc and ive also been in great moods too for the same, ive felt weak and anxious, deppressed some days and strong, bold and confident with morning wood harder than metal in other days. I was the same way before i started losing hair You cant look for sides because the 'sides' will start showing up, that i can guarantee. How you feel reflects how you appear and vice versa, looks matter and hair is a very large part of that, thats the truth.

Anyways, there is good and bad in every medication and the truth is that hair is important towards how you feel yourself, how you appear to others, how confident you feel. its up to you. You gotta decide what man you're gonna be, balding and feeling less confident day by day knowing that your hair is dying but you are not altering hormones or taking a risk that may possibly make you at peace with yourself and your appearence. Avoid those imbecile fear mongering and ignore the blind glorifiers as well. See for yourself as I did. I truly wish anyone with doubts to try. Prevention is easier than regrowth never forget that, there are those that wish they had taken finasteride sooner and those that wish they had never even heard of it. Forget that you even take the pill if you decide to start taking it, just carry on with your life. If you take it, leave these places for a while is my suggestion, its infected with fear and it will take hold of you when you're vunlerable like right now, like it took ahold of me at first for a bit.

I know it's just fricking finasteride and not something special but those who dare win and thats true in everything

Hair looks great smh

 

[Dextrofinasteride]

Hair looks great smh

Not with my hairlline up LOL,i used to though. My hs senior pictures had me a perfect hairline nw1, if i compare it to now the difference IS VERY NOTICABLE. I didnt even have a widows peak and that was only a while go. Believe me, im not exaggerating, i tend to leave hair longer in the front to cover it. It'll stay looking like that if i stay with treatment, i wont wait for it to look any worse. haha my nw10000 dad says that i am receding compared to just a few months ago and says im already screwed but just not for now. meanwhile his dad is 87 with Norwood 1,5 (talk about unfairness) and my family tends to lie so as not to hurt each other on physical appearance, but i rather hear the truth. and the fact that he said i should probably do something means alot.

Pic was literally in late july, no shedding or anything and no need to cover up anything then. I thought it was a mature hairline but im pretty sure a mature hairline does not happen so fast and with pain, itching and shedding of over 100 hairs

 

[Mighty]

Take it. Baldness is the other side of the coin.

 

[Turt70]

There is nothing to worry about. Your hair looks very nice.