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So I've been here for some months, so I thought I'd might as well tell my story.
So I started balding HARD at around 16 years old. I looked back at some photos and it is f*****g astounding and chilling to see how fast my hair got destroyed by this plague.
Despite this, I did not want to believe it was in fact male pattern baldness, nor did I believe it to be possible. I had heard of people starting to go bald at 19-20, but 16? lol gtfo. I tried to shrug it off, thinking it to be "muh stress" or "muh vitamins". The hair then started to get even worse than the dreadful last pic, and by 17 the hair over my forehead looked like a barcode. At this point my mother at one point said "son your hair is not looking good lately. you need to see a doctor". So I did, and he said "yeah it's most likely balding, guess you could try vitamins or something tho idk". I kid you not, I still did not wanna believe it to be androgenic alopecia.
Then some months after that, a few weeks before I turned 18, we had picture day at school, under these stupid f*****g bright lights. I then saw the picture and HOLY f*** what they say about hair loss looking worse under bright lighting is no joke. When I saw that, it was almost as if something inside me just snapped, and I fell into a very depressed state of mind. The mere fact that I was experiencing something as aging-associated like f*****g balding before I had even graduated high school, and at a rapid pace as well, did not sit well with me at all. I felt like some freak or something.
I got on minoxidil soon after that incident, and nearly a year and a half into it it has actually done a fairly good job at maintaining (I'm 19 currently). But I know the results won't stay with minoxidil alone, so I will in the not-so-distant future have to look into getting on finasteride. If I don't respond to that or I develop brutal side effects... well idk what to do then.
I'll use this thread for potential updates and such if needed.
So I started balding HARD at around 16 years old. I looked back at some photos and it is f*****g astounding and chilling to see how fast my hair got destroyed by this plague.
Despite this, I did not want to believe it was in fact male pattern baldness, nor did I believe it to be possible. I had heard of people starting to go bald at 19-20, but 16? lol gtfo. I tried to shrug it off, thinking it to be "muh stress" or "muh vitamins". The hair then started to get even worse than the dreadful last pic, and by 17 the hair over my forehead looked like a barcode. At this point my mother at one point said "son your hair is not looking good lately. you need to see a doctor". So I did, and he said "yeah it's most likely balding, guess you could try vitamins or something tho idk". I kid you not, I still did not wanna believe it to be androgenic alopecia.
Then some months after that, a few weeks before I turned 18, we had picture day at school, under these stupid f*****g bright lights. I then saw the picture and HOLY f*** what they say about hair loss looking worse under bright lighting is no joke. When I saw that, it was almost as if something inside me just snapped, and I fell into a very depressed state of mind. The mere fact that I was experiencing something as aging-associated like f*****g balding before I had even graduated high school, and at a rapid pace as well, did not sit well with me at all. I felt like some freak or something.
I got on minoxidil soon after that incident, and nearly a year and a half into it it has actually done a fairly good job at maintaining (I'm 19 currently). But I know the results won't stay with minoxidil alone, so I will in the not-so-distant future have to look into getting on finasteride. If I don't respond to that or I develop brutal side effects... well idk what to do then.
I'll use this thread for potential updates and such if needed.
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