Hi guys,
just wanted to share my (successful) story with you.
so here is it
I'm currently 19 years old and suffered from male pattern baldness since the end of 2004, well, maybe even since I was 16, I remember comments on my temples back then
At 18 I was sitting at my barber shop and gettin a hair cut from a young woman.
"your hair is gettin thin in the back. You also are losing in the temple area"
I freaked out. 18 years. The prophecy of my (bald) father came true. I looked at the mirror. It was true. No real bald spot yet but definately heavy thinning going on there. My father was Norwood 4 at the age of 25.
Rushed to the derm, he informed me, he himself was a Norwood 7. He talked about DHT and Propecia and that it's expensive and wasn't paid by insurance. He said it'll cost 50$/month.
I talked to my parents. 50 $ was a lot but he understood me. Told me about himself sitting in the bathtub crying because of all his hairs in the shower. Told me about the 70s when long hair was a must.
How he drove to a clinic and they could do nothing for him back then.
So I informed me in the internet and heard about proscar. seemed reasonable to me. 5 mg pill that only costs about the same but lasts 4 times longer when spilit into quarters.
BTW I'm ordering from qhi.
Now the good news
Today, 1 year after I started my hairloss treatment my vertex has 90% recovered and nobody can tell that there was ever hairloss.
The temples have recovered also, I would say half an inch, which doesn't sound much, but it makes a real difference, trust me !
The process went down like this:
month 1: nothin really happened
month 2: some really heavy shedding set in, my t shirt was covered by dozens if not hundreds of hairs every day.
month 3: The bottom i think, shedding had stopped, hair looked kinda bad
month 4-5: some heavy regrowth was going on!!! At the End of month 5 my vertex hat recovered about 50%, temples 20%
month 6-now: additional regrowth, now temples 50% recovered, vertex 90%
There are also still some very small colorless hairs in my temples, which came out of bald skin during the last year, I hope they will fully recover as well, it's like time is going backwards, it seems like the body has astonishing recovery abilities!
As far as sides go, hmm let me think, weight gain? due to finasteride? no, just went down from 2x fencing, 2x soccer and 3x weight lifting per week to only weight lifting after I finished school, so I think thats the reason for those 6 lbs.
As far as libido issues go I have to say I can't tell, cuz honestly I never banged while off finasteride.
I have to add that I had a heavy surgery 5 months ago where a titanium paar of more than 1 foot length was implanted in my thorax.
Lately my sexual ability was compromised somehow, but most of the incidents were at 5am after a night of medium to heavy drinking or when I was ill.
While being ill it was very horrible and excessively painful to cough with that bar inside your chest but I was able to bang successfully 4 times in 36 hours.
So I can't tell if finasteride affects my libido there are many other factors, one thing that stands AGAINST sides, is the fact that during holidays I was able to bang up to 3 times nearly in a row and was 4 months on finasteride at that time, so I think its other factors at the moment (maybe the winter season, stress at college etc.)
Bottom line is finasteride worked great for me and I'm very happy currently!
Good luck to all of you guys
:wink:
just wanted to share my (successful) story with you.
so here is it
I'm currently 19 years old and suffered from male pattern baldness since the end of 2004, well, maybe even since I was 16, I remember comments on my temples back then
At 18 I was sitting at my barber shop and gettin a hair cut from a young woman.
"your hair is gettin thin in the back. You also are losing in the temple area"
I freaked out. 18 years. The prophecy of my (bald) father came true. I looked at the mirror. It was true. No real bald spot yet but definately heavy thinning going on there. My father was Norwood 4 at the age of 25.
Rushed to the derm, he informed me, he himself was a Norwood 7. He talked about DHT and Propecia and that it's expensive and wasn't paid by insurance. He said it'll cost 50$/month.
I talked to my parents. 50 $ was a lot but he understood me. Told me about himself sitting in the bathtub crying because of all his hairs in the shower. Told me about the 70s when long hair was a must.
How he drove to a clinic and they could do nothing for him back then.
So I informed me in the internet and heard about proscar. seemed reasonable to me. 5 mg pill that only costs about the same but lasts 4 times longer when spilit into quarters.
BTW I'm ordering from qhi.
Now the good news
Today, 1 year after I started my hairloss treatment my vertex has 90% recovered and nobody can tell that there was ever hairloss.
The temples have recovered also, I would say half an inch, which doesn't sound much, but it makes a real difference, trust me !
The process went down like this:
month 1: nothin really happened
month 2: some really heavy shedding set in, my t shirt was covered by dozens if not hundreds of hairs every day.
month 3: The bottom i think, shedding had stopped, hair looked kinda bad
month 4-5: some heavy regrowth was going on!!!
At the End of month 5 my vertex hat recovered about 50%, temples 20%month 6-now: additional regrowth, now temples 50% recovered, vertex 90%
There are also still some very small colorless hairs in my temples, which came out of bald skin during the last year, I hope they will fully recover as well, it's like time is going backwards, it seems like the body has astonishing recovery abilities!
As far as sides go, hmm let me think, weight gain? due to finasteride? no, just went down from 2x fencing, 2x soccer and 3x weight lifting per week to only weight lifting after I finished school, so I think thats the reason for those 6 lbs.
As far as libido issues go I have to say I can't tell, cuz honestly I never banged while off finasteride.
I have to add that I had a heavy surgery 5 months ago where a titanium paar of more than 1 foot length was implanted in my thorax.
Lately my sexual ability was compromised somehow, but most of the incidents were at 5am after a night of medium to heavy drinking or when I was ill.
While being ill it was very horrible and excessively painful to cough with that bar inside your chest but I was able to bang successfully 4 times in 36 hours.
So I can't tell if finasteride affects my libido there are many other factors, one thing that stands AGAINST sides, is the fact that during holidays I was able to bang up to 3 times nearly in a row and was 4 months on finasteride at that time, so I think its other factors at the moment (maybe the winter season, stress at college etc.)
Bottom line is finasteride worked great for me and I'm very happy currently!
Good luck to all of you guys
:wink:
