Hello I found this site and decided to post my story with pictures. I've looked around this forum and learned about the Big 3, although I'm still not sure about the side effect of propecia and whether or not it's worth the risk.
I started looking at some pictures I found and noticed that even as a kid (2-3 years old) I had weird hairline, or maybe it was the haircut.
Fast forward about 12 years, I found this picture. At this point I was not concerned about my hair I just liked to take pictures without a shirt lol. I'm 16 in this picture and my hairline looks pretty bad.
Here's a picture when I was 17, I still didn't care about my hair, but it seems too look better than when I was 16, or could just be the length of the hair.
Here I am at 18, although someone told me I was going bald, but I didn't really care much at the time.
When I was about 19.5, it not a good picture but at this point I was concerned about losing hair on my sides.
and here are recent pictures at age 20
I think it looks pretty bad now and probably going to get worse. Also my genetics aren't that great, my dad was bald at 17. I don't know if this plays a role but I read on few forums that ejaculation at an early age causes raised levels of testosterone, and greater amounts of DHT produced therefore greater chance of hair loss? As I began at a very early age around 11 or 12, and sometimes over 10 times a day. I've also taken a lot of testosterone boosters, starting when I was 17 and massive weight gain, gaining about 35 pounds in several months. I was thinking about propecia/finasteride but not sure how the side effects would interfere with working out/ sports as I need to continue to these as well in order to afford going to school. I also know there's rogaine foam which works for some people, and I've used Nizoral 1% shampoo which actually really helped me. Since I started using the shampoo about 2-3 times a week, I can grab patches of hair and pull rather hard and only 1-2 hairs will sometimes come out, compared to before using it, a lot hairs would fall out just running my fingers through. Thanks for looking.
I started looking at some pictures I found and noticed that even as a kid (2-3 years old) I had weird hairline, or maybe it was the haircut.
Fast forward about 12 years, I found this picture. At this point I was not concerned about my hair I just liked to take pictures without a shirt lol. I'm 16 in this picture and my hairline looks pretty bad.
Here's a picture when I was 17, I still didn't care about my hair, but it seems too look better than when I was 16, or could just be the length of the hair.
Here I am at 18, although someone told me I was going bald, but I didn't really care much at the time.
When I was about 19.5, it not a good picture but at this point I was concerned about losing hair on my sides.
and here are recent pictures at age 20
I think it looks pretty bad now and probably going to get worse. Also my genetics aren't that great, my dad was bald at 17. I don't know if this plays a role but I read on few forums that ejaculation at an early age causes raised levels of testosterone, and greater amounts of DHT produced therefore greater chance of hair loss? As I began at a very early age around 11 or 12, and sometimes over 10 times a day. I've also taken a lot of testosterone boosters, starting when I was 17 and massive weight gain, gaining about 35 pounds in several months. I was thinking about propecia/finasteride but not sure how the side effects would interfere with working out/ sports as I need to continue to these as well in order to afford going to school. I also know there's rogaine foam which works for some people, and I've used Nizoral 1% shampoo which actually really helped me. Since I started using the shampoo about 2-3 times a week, I can grab patches of hair and pull rather hard and only 1-2 hairs will sometimes come out, compared to before using it, a lot hairs would fall out just running my fingers through. Thanks for looking.