Well guys, im going to attempt to mimic something like what our good friend Aplunk has done...and outline everything about me and my hairloss to document it in a 1 post "has it all" encyclopedia type thing...if that makes any sense. Anyhoo. heres my table of contents.
Part I - The history and origin
Part II- The impact of it all
Part III- Current treatments and effectivness
Part IV- The beginning and awful decline (photo ops)
Part V- Outlook
Part I/II- This part is going to be fairly short and brief so I decided to actually combine parts I and II together. I always knew I had a soft hair texture and was born with amazingly bright blonde hair. My mom (when i was a toddler of course) had me grown it out in longer hair styles...it did look pretty awesome I got to say. Looking at my genetic basis, I suppose it is pretty tellable that I may have been afflicted with baldness some day. My dad has very thin hair in his horseshoe area and to be honest I am not sure if he is thinning in a diffuse pattern, it seems more like thin hair and a receding hairline to me...but like I said his horseshoe area is quite worrisome...I'd probably peg him @ about a Norwood 4 or so. His dad was a Norwood 6.5 basically by the age of 30...very little hair on the head. My dad on my moms side has pretty thick hair...I dont remember too well what his hair was like becuase I didnt look @ peoples hair 3 years ago like I do know but it IS THICK...and if he doesnt have a bald spot on his crown which I dont remember him having...my grandpa is basically a very thick Norwood 2 @ age 76. My mom, for a woman has thin hair but has a very high density to it. My hair is beginning to degrade in a diffuse pattern I believe, and either I am degrading in the horseshoe or have always just had very thin hair there as well. My hair has also darkened a lot as time has passed. I started to "notice" it many years after it probably began. When I started gelling my hair everyone told me I looked like I was going bald...I didnt get it...it looked fine to me I always thought... well their reply was more like "your KIND OF going bald"...i didnt know what to make of this. Of course what was happening was I was thinning all over my head...mostly on top tho, and since I always gelled the top...I didnt make much of it...I got these comments from when I was 13-14 Btw Its currently happening to my bro who is 13, but his hairline seems more solid.. Something that I did notice in my youth was that I liked to rub my hand through my hands vigorously and watch dandruff fall...a lot of hair fellThen when I turned 17...i dont know why, but I took a mirror over my head...and WAS SHOCKED @ what i saw...Finally I SAW why i didnt notice my hair decling before. I had been seeing an illusion. FROM THE FRONT PROFILE I DID NOT LOOK BALD @ all...looking from up top i looked like a UGLY 50 year old man...or from the sides. I did TONS of research...stopped jacking off continously hearing myths that overmasturbating made you bald...eventually though people joking about me taking rogaine...and well the scientist in me did research...and I got into a derms office and decided to get on finasteride (he wanted me to do minoxidil but since foam wasn't out @ the time I told him i prefer finasteride and he was cool with that). In many ways this whole experience has humbled me...I see lots of guys with my type of loss and they just do my thing...which is buzzing the hair down...it kept looking like sh*t until I buzzed that sucked down really short...and a lot of girls have taken a liking to it saying it ages me...the only downside is it needs to be really short so I basically do need to buzz every week. Anyways enough bantering on to part III
Part III- As I said from age 17 ( I am 19 now), I have been on finasteride. I now take proscar as basically my insurance covers it (dont know why they dont cover finasteride) cut into quarters. 0 side effects. I used to take nizoral, dont know why I stopped but got to get back on that. I dont really take anti dandruff shampoo...my barber told me supposedly it can aggravate hair loss (head n shoulders specficially) but I noticed that my minimal dandruf is always there when I shake my hands through my hair. I bought a 2% minoxidil solution(for $50! 1 month), b/c I believe, (and still believe) my results weren't so hot...literally weeks laterthe foam came out. I hesitated and after 2 months, I quit the 2% and got myself a 3 month foam supply for $35. Im currently on the last can. I really am not sure as to how im maintaining and regrowing. Its hard to judge as a diffuse loser. I am still bordering on entering Nw2 hood but very close to there but have low density hair on top and thin hairs...much thinner then my sides. Whenever I attempt to pluck, even after a shower, I will ALWAYS find hairs that come out of the top of my head, despite all my treatments...the side hairs are very difficult to pull out. Im having blood tests currently done to ensure, this isnt something more then male pattern baldness. In any case I believe I have @ the very least maintained. I am getting (not sure if I had them before treatment tho) lots of blonde vellous hairs @ my minimally receded temples) They could just be hairs that used to be terminal and are miniatuzring. It would be nicer if I was getting these hairs in my crown to get some density in there. What I have found though is grey hairs unforuntately lol, but I think this is unstoppable. Both my parents were grey before they hit 40. I am also on "herbal select" 2x 1000 mg MSM capsules a day
Part IV- Photo ops
Here I am going to show you some chronological pictures of my steady decline over time
Probably my worst condition pic...lotsa water...losta flash
When dry
Maybe im just overanalyzing...but I want you guys to look carefully @ this picture... especially near the botton of my neck...the hairs...just dont seem to be a dense enough bunch of them to form a "canopy"...should I jus classify this as hair thats really naturally not dense or is something more sinister @ work here?
Here you can clearly tell even tho the hair is thin everywhere...it gets very thin @ the top
It can look thick @ some angles and in some lights
heres me in party mode...it looks ok from a distance
Certainly doesnt stop me from landing ladies.
Part V
And finally, this is the presentation of the Moose's loss(MacAttack). I am thinking of doing a major upgrade in swapping to dutasteride, but this is a decision I wont jump into without financial (not sure if my insurance will cover dutas) as well as scientific research. I have seen the fantastic results that Jayman has. Not sure if my success would be as great as his since he is older and his loss is way less. I might add in also some other products that have good bang for their buck...other then that...just going to keep saving up for hair multplication and buzzing my head down. Well thats it boys and girls...this is actually just a rough version I still want to tweak this and add more photos in and maybe add info and edit it out...I jus did this in about 30 mins trying to sorta cram in all "relevant" info.
Part I - The history and origin
Part II- The impact of it all
Part III- Current treatments and effectivness
Part IV- The beginning and awful decline (photo ops)
Part V- Outlook
Part I/II- This part is going to be fairly short and brief so I decided to actually combine parts I and II together. I always knew I had a soft hair texture and was born with amazingly bright blonde hair. My mom (when i was a toddler of course) had me grown it out in longer hair styles...it did look pretty awesome I got to say. Looking at my genetic basis, I suppose it is pretty tellable that I may have been afflicted with baldness some day. My dad has very thin hair in his horseshoe area and to be honest I am not sure if he is thinning in a diffuse pattern, it seems more like thin hair and a receding hairline to me...but like I said his horseshoe area is quite worrisome...I'd probably peg him @ about a Norwood 4 or so. His dad was a Norwood 6.5 basically by the age of 30...very little hair on the head. My dad on my moms side has pretty thick hair...I dont remember too well what his hair was like becuase I didnt look @ peoples hair 3 years ago like I do know but it IS THICK...and if he doesnt have a bald spot on his crown which I dont remember him having...my grandpa is basically a very thick Norwood 2 @ age 76. My mom, for a woman has thin hair but has a very high density to it. My hair is beginning to degrade in a diffuse pattern I believe, and either I am degrading in the horseshoe or have always just had very thin hair there as well. My hair has also darkened a lot as time has passed. I started to "notice" it many years after it probably began. When I started gelling my hair everyone told me I looked like I was going bald...I didnt get it...it looked fine to me I always thought... well their reply was more like "your KIND OF going bald"...i didnt know what to make of this. Of course what was happening was I was thinning all over my head...mostly on top tho, and since I always gelled the top...I didnt make much of it...I got these comments from when I was 13-14 Btw Its currently happening to my bro who is 13, but his hairline seems more solid.. Something that I did notice in my youth was that I liked to rub my hand through my hands vigorously and watch dandruff fall...a lot of hair fellThen when I turned 17...i dont know why, but I took a mirror over my head...and WAS SHOCKED @ what i saw...Finally I SAW why i didnt notice my hair decling before. I had been seeing an illusion. FROM THE FRONT PROFILE I DID NOT LOOK BALD @ all...looking from up top i looked like a UGLY 50 year old man...or from the sides. I did TONS of research...stopped jacking off continously hearing myths that overmasturbating made you bald...eventually though people joking about me taking rogaine...and well the scientist in me did research...and I got into a derms office and decided to get on finasteride (he wanted me to do minoxidil but since foam wasn't out @ the time I told him i prefer finasteride and he was cool with that). In many ways this whole experience has humbled me...I see lots of guys with my type of loss and they just do my thing...which is buzzing the hair down...it kept looking like sh*t until I buzzed that sucked down really short...and a lot of girls have taken a liking to it saying it ages me...the only downside is it needs to be really short so I basically do need to buzz every week. Anyways enough bantering on to part III
Part III- As I said from age 17 ( I am 19 now), I have been on finasteride. I now take proscar as basically my insurance covers it (dont know why they dont cover finasteride) cut into quarters. 0 side effects. I used to take nizoral, dont know why I stopped but got to get back on that. I dont really take anti dandruff shampoo...my barber told me supposedly it can aggravate hair loss (head n shoulders specficially) but I noticed that my minimal dandruf is always there when I shake my hands through my hair. I bought a 2% minoxidil solution(for $50! 1 month), b/c I believe, (and still believe) my results weren't so hot...literally weeks laterthe foam came out. I hesitated and after 2 months, I quit the 2% and got myself a 3 month foam supply for $35. Im currently on the last can. I really am not sure as to how im maintaining and regrowing. Its hard to judge as a diffuse loser. I am still bordering on entering Nw2 hood but very close to there but have low density hair on top and thin hairs...much thinner then my sides. Whenever I attempt to pluck, even after a shower, I will ALWAYS find hairs that come out of the top of my head, despite all my treatments...the side hairs are very difficult to pull out. Im having blood tests currently done to ensure, this isnt something more then male pattern baldness. In any case I believe I have @ the very least maintained. I am getting (not sure if I had them before treatment tho) lots of blonde vellous hairs @ my minimally receded temples) They could just be hairs that used to be terminal and are miniatuzring. It would be nicer if I was getting these hairs in my crown to get some density in there. What I have found though is grey hairs unforuntately lol, but I think this is unstoppable. Both my parents were grey before they hit 40. I am also on "herbal select" 2x 1000 mg MSM capsules a day
Part IV- Photo ops
Here I am going to show you some chronological pictures of my steady decline over time
When dry
Part V
And finally, this is the presentation of the Moose's loss(MacAttack). I am thinking of doing a major upgrade in swapping to dutasteride, but this is a decision I wont jump into without financial (not sure if my insurance will cover dutas) as well as scientific research. I have seen the fantastic results that Jayman has. Not sure if my success would be as great as his since he is older and his loss is way less. I might add in also some other products that have good bang for their buck...other then that...just going to keep saving up for hair multplication and buzzing my head down. Well thats it boys and girls...this is actually just a rough version I still want to tweak this and add more photos in and maybe add info and edit it out...I jus did this in about 30 mins trying to sorta cram in all "relevant" info.
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