leonardo956
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I used to be a very happy, athletic guy before 21. Unfortunately, I let my hairloss affect greatly my self esteem. Growing up in Mexico being blond, I grew up getting compliments about my hair all the time. My biggest concern was when I hit puberty and my hair got dark. I got over it, but still the way my hair looked was very important to me. I was on the swim team, and roller hockey team. I had the very famous swimmer's built. I rollerbladed so mcuh I had a huge muscular ***. I got so used of girls and people complimenting me on my butt and my muscles and my hair which I paid so much attention too. I cared so much about my hair, I used to spend 30 dollars on a special molding cream to amke my hair spiky but not look with wet hair like people who used gel. I went to salons, not barbershops.
I gave it too much importance. I got so depressed that awful week. In a single week a friend tells me I was going bald, I thought he was being an a**h**. But that same week my boss teels me, I thought he was being asn a**h** too, then one girl from where I work told me too. But that week when my mom makes fun of me going bald I get scared. I was hard to tell since I wasn't lossing hair on the front, and I'm still not. I grasb two mirros, and see it, I had a bald spot. I was so depressed.
First I got in denial. I'm 21 I couldn't possibly go bald, that spot is just the swirl everyone's got on the backof their heads. But very quickly, in a matter of months, the spot got bigger. More people moticed it.
I didn't want to go swimming coz my hair would get wet and show my spot even more. I didn't want to go rollerblading, go to the courts coz I felt old and someone with a bald spot just doesn't belong playing with a bunch of kids. So I drmatically changed my lifestyle from ebing swimming and active to just being at home not wanting to go out so people would see me. Beofre I knew I went froma size 30 to a size 36. my arms just got thinner, lost all the definition, pecs, everything.
I finally went to the dermatologist and she gave me Propecia. She told what I knew already, I was losing my hair bothin back and middle. The only good news she told me was I wasn't losing ahir in my frontal area and for the way my frontal density (amount of hair per square inch) it didn't seemed like I was going to lose it anytime soon. After a month, I noticed my pillow didn't have lots of hair when I woke up, I noticed I didn't have lots of hair on my hair when I washed my hair. She also told me to use Neutrogena.
Today, I've been 6 months on Propecia. I'm 22 now. I haven't seen any changes whatsoever. I'm happy my hairloss stopped. I haven't loss chunks of hair in the pillow or when I shower for months. I'm being veyr patient about regrowing hair. I haven't seen any hair., but hopefully I'll see some soon. I'm still not as actie as I was before. I don't go swimming nomore. I'mtrying to lose all that weight I put on. I go jogging everyday, always with a cap on. I'm startingto go out now, but that's coz I'm using Toppik. It works great. If you really pay attention to it you can tell. Specially during the day. I recommend Toppik. I have a problemwith it because of my hair color.I'm using Dark Brown. But my hairis dark brownmoslty, but I strill have some blond hairs and brown hairs and on the sun looks very light. My hair changes colro a lot depending on the light. So it's veyr hard for the Toppik to match it. But overall, at night, I'm very happy with Toppik.
I have to count my blessings. Lately, I've noticed my hairline is a lot better than most guys my age, so that's good. I stopped losing hair. However, I'm still letting my hairloss keeping me from doing what I want to do. I don't do sports because I'm affraid my sweat will make the Toppik drip, and I would feel real bad being the only guy on the court with a bald spot. I just hope I to grow some hair.
I gave it too much importance. I got so depressed that awful week. In a single week a friend tells me I was going bald, I thought he was being an a**h**. But that same week my boss teels me, I thought he was being asn a**h** too, then one girl from where I work told me too. But that week when my mom makes fun of me going bald I get scared. I was hard to tell since I wasn't lossing hair on the front, and I'm still not. I grasb two mirros, and see it, I had a bald spot. I was so depressed.
First I got in denial. I'm 21 I couldn't possibly go bald, that spot is just the swirl everyone's got on the backof their heads. But very quickly, in a matter of months, the spot got bigger. More people moticed it.
I didn't want to go swimming coz my hair would get wet and show my spot even more. I didn't want to go rollerblading, go to the courts coz I felt old and someone with a bald spot just doesn't belong playing with a bunch of kids. So I drmatically changed my lifestyle from ebing swimming and active to just being at home not wanting to go out so people would see me. Beofre I knew I went froma size 30 to a size 36. my arms just got thinner, lost all the definition, pecs, everything.
I finally went to the dermatologist and she gave me Propecia. She told what I knew already, I was losing my hair bothin back and middle. The only good news she told me was I wasn't losing ahir in my frontal area and for the way my frontal density (amount of hair per square inch) it didn't seemed like I was going to lose it anytime soon. After a month, I noticed my pillow didn't have lots of hair when I woke up, I noticed I didn't have lots of hair on my hair when I washed my hair. She also told me to use Neutrogena.
Today, I've been 6 months on Propecia. I'm 22 now. I haven't seen any changes whatsoever. I'm happy my hairloss stopped. I haven't loss chunks of hair in the pillow or when I shower for months. I'm being veyr patient about regrowing hair. I haven't seen any hair., but hopefully I'll see some soon. I'm still not as actie as I was before. I don't go swimming nomore. I'mtrying to lose all that weight I put on. I go jogging everyday, always with a cap on. I'm startingto go out now, but that's coz I'm using Toppik. It works great. If you really pay attention to it you can tell. Specially during the day. I recommend Toppik. I have a problemwith it because of my hair color.I'm using Dark Brown. But my hairis dark brownmoslty, but I strill have some blond hairs and brown hairs and on the sun looks very light. My hair changes colro a lot depending on the light. So it's veyr hard for the Toppik to match it. But overall, at night, I'm very happy with Toppik.
I have to count my blessings. Lately, I've noticed my hairline is a lot better than most guys my age, so that's good. I stopped losing hair. However, I'm still letting my hairloss keeping me from doing what I want to do. I don't do sports because I'm affraid my sweat will make the Toppik drip, and I would feel real bad being the only guy on the court with a bald spot. I just hope I to grow some hair.
