oh god no lol!
NO the before's I have on a hard drive somewhere... the hard drive crashed... but I'm trying to maybe retrieve all my photos from there,I documented it all from buzz clip from march of '03 till well the hair grew in well.. I stopped documenting about last year after it became very stable and realized I reached my max,these are my afters... I can add alittle to my story .. I took accutane for cytic acne on the chin when I was 20 years old,about 3 years later I started thinning... I can associate it with the accutane,I never had a good head of hair to start with even when I was younger never had amazing hair,I lived in the ghetto of NY so the standard was a ceasar/buzz cut,was hard for me to gauge if I was losing or not because I used to cut it that way all the time,then my dog died in March of '00 I was depressed started wearing hats alt and such but when my hair got longer is when I realized how much was losing it,looked like paper thin bangs (even while bleached),in early '03 I stated a friend told me I was losing it.. even before that when I used to take off my hat people would say hey you know wearing a hat makes you lose your hair,but me being young and nieve I really didn't know they were referring to me,then I was in cvs aisle getting something and a girl pointed out to another friend of hers I would never date a guy who is going bald like that.. and was referring to me,also while out one day in '02 or so ... I remember meeting a pretty girl in the supermarket ... she was really attracted to me.. gave me her # right there and such ,we went out to a bar and boom she looked at the top of my head in shock needless to say I didn't go very far LOL!!! I guess it was easier being younger people didn't think I was covering up hairloss but I guess I was,now I hardly wear a hat,I'm still alittle self conscious of my hair but I know I'm light years from where I was... I finally told my g/f of dating 6 months and she thought I was playing a joke on her.. until I shower her the rogaine and proscar and nizoral she said she would have never known,I'm thinking of adding rogaine foam to the front,but like I said things are going okay .. not sure if I should mess with it,I think I got lucky with hairloss.. I caught it when I still had a fighting chance plus being very religious with all 3,I will try to hookup the old hard drive to show what my hair looked like back then... I know it's easy for me to post photos of my hair looking okay and say "It worked" I know before and afters are warranted.. actually showing afters makes the before more of a necessity I believe since people want to gauage how far you've come. I will work on getting the old photos,remember this is quite a few years back,tried restoring my old aol name from years back but they only hold it for 6 months..... anyways I hope this helps others keep the faith,oh and my breaking point was in march of '03 when I went to get a haircut and the guy said I can't cit it your forehead would be too big that I didn't have enough to get cut,that was my final straw and did the buzz cut anyways and well... started all 3 a few days later,I had to get the buzz cut .. couldn't deal with seeing the sheds and stuff.. luckily by the time it grew in the shed was over and such,I've gotten quite a few sheds sometime shair looks good sometimes like crap...
Regards,
Rich
