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OK...I have been reading here off and on I guess a couple years. Just to give basics..
I'm 33, w/m, blond hair...starting noticing male pattern baldness around 26...always had military cut...but it got worse, around 29 I started shaving my head with a razor...it looked good..still does...I have one of those heads and looks (Kinda like Bas Ruten of the UFC...that kinda look..especially with a goatee).
So from about the Summer of 2001 to May of 2002 I tried Rogaine...I would shave my head still and apply it 2-3 times a day. When I would let it grow out some (say, 2-3 days) It STILL looked thin in that top/back area, the traditional bald spot area. (I also have some frontal thinning). I gave up...just kept shaving it and figured I would just have to accept it. By the way, shaving it, when you can pull it off, is quite liberating..I had a lot of self-confidence and it kinda makes you look "tough"...I'm very athletic and it suited me well.
So, later though (recently) I missed the ability to have different looks..that may sound odd, but it was like, I accepted that I had to shave it (Razor) but I was kinda pissed, in a secondary manner (unlike the original "this sucks" stuff years ago)..that I couldn't have any look but the Mr. Clean. So I picked up the local supermarkets 5% and figured..what the hell..stick with it, again, and actually let it grow out.
It's been three and a half months and I can ABSOLUTELY tell you, beyond any doubt, it is working. I think part of the solution, is that you have to understand that some hairs indeed do grow slower (the male pattern baldness affected ones for sure)..and that if you shave it with a #1 guard (and I do no guard up the sides, very close), over and over, those latent hairs will eventually "fill in" and catch up. They take longer to grow..so, after 3 days, or a week or whatever, of not razor shaving, you can see the male pattern baldness..BUT, if you just keep shaving with a short guard, in other words "leveling" the hairs, the new growth will catch up and fill in. I guess the longer the stuff works, the stronger and darker they get, prospectively, you could then use a #2 or #3 guard and it would fill in, to that point, until it reaches its genetic limit.
I haven't razored in about 2 weeks...and I am amazed, that the back/top is filling in. Blond hair everywhere...and this is just 3.5 months...if it were to keep this kind of progression (not counting on it), I would look completely normal in 3 months..I would keep my hair short like that Beckham style.
My regimen is simply minoxidil 2x daily...regular multi-vitamin and one calcium pill everyday. exercise, red wine, and sleep !
Folks, it's working...! I plan on keeping it short (which will look better anyhow).
It's amazing..simply feeling it back there, where there used to be nothing..and seeing it...its a weird feeling. Like having lost teeth, and learning how to chew without them...then one day they return.
ANyhow..thought I would share.
I'm 33, w/m, blond hair...starting noticing male pattern baldness around 26...always had military cut...but it got worse, around 29 I started shaving my head with a razor...it looked good..still does...I have one of those heads and looks (Kinda like Bas Ruten of the UFC...that kinda look..especially with a goatee).
So from about the Summer of 2001 to May of 2002 I tried Rogaine...I would shave my head still and apply it 2-3 times a day. When I would let it grow out some (say, 2-3 days) It STILL looked thin in that top/back area, the traditional bald spot area. (I also have some frontal thinning). I gave up...just kept shaving it and figured I would just have to accept it. By the way, shaving it, when you can pull it off, is quite liberating..I had a lot of self-confidence and it kinda makes you look "tough"...I'm very athletic and it suited me well.
So, later though (recently) I missed the ability to have different looks..that may sound odd, but it was like, I accepted that I had to shave it (Razor) but I was kinda pissed, in a secondary manner (unlike the original "this sucks" stuff years ago)..that I couldn't have any look but the Mr. Clean. So I picked up the local supermarkets 5% and figured..what the hell..stick with it, again, and actually let it grow out.
It's been three and a half months and I can ABSOLUTELY tell you, beyond any doubt, it is working. I think part of the solution, is that you have to understand that some hairs indeed do grow slower (the male pattern baldness affected ones for sure)..and that if you shave it with a #1 guard (and I do no guard up the sides, very close), over and over, those latent hairs will eventually "fill in" and catch up. They take longer to grow..so, after 3 days, or a week or whatever, of not razor shaving, you can see the male pattern baldness..BUT, if you just keep shaving with a short guard, in other words "leveling" the hairs, the new growth will catch up and fill in. I guess the longer the stuff works, the stronger and darker they get, prospectively, you could then use a #2 or #3 guard and it would fill in, to that point, until it reaches its genetic limit.
I haven't razored in about 2 weeks...and I am amazed, that the back/top is filling in. Blond hair everywhere...and this is just 3.5 months...if it were to keep this kind of progression (not counting on it), I would look completely normal in 3 months..I would keep my hair short like that Beckham style.
My regimen is simply minoxidil 2x daily...regular multi-vitamin and one calcium pill everyday. exercise, red wine, and sleep !
Folks, it's working...! I plan on keeping it short (which will look better anyhow).
It's amazing..simply feeling it back there, where there used to be nothing..and seeing it...its a weird feeling. Like having lost teeth, and learning how to chew without them...then one day they return.
ANyhow..thought I would share.
