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Fixed, what then is the point in doing anything for looks? Why shampoo or condition your hair when you have it? Why bother getting a hair cut? **** shaving your face or trimming nose hair. Got bad skin? Don't treat it, just let it stay oily. Long fingernails? Keep them, Howard Hughes did. As much as you think it's vain to shave your head, I believe it's more fake and vain to pretend like you suddenly don't care about your appearance at all. Just my .02 though.
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No. They've accepted reality .
As part of the male aging process , men lose their hair .
You can either accept it and deal with it ( which I admit I have diffiuclty doing ) or some people choose HT' s, some choose to take meds the rest of their life , some choose to leave their hair " as is " and look ridiculous and others cut it short ...some shave it
Just because a guy decides to shave his head doesn't make him unattractive.
You coem accross as a very bitter individual who seems to blame everything that doesn't go your way on your hairloss .
You should seek medical help . And I mean that sincerely.
People come on here for support not to feel more discouraged after reading your posts
I had a gentleman from work come in last Friday
He's 62 yrs old, 3 yrs from retiring with a full head of dark hair .
I'm sure he rather be bald than have to come in last week in tears and tell everyone he was diagnosed with cancer .Comment
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I started going bald at 21. So at 63, he's had a quality of life three times as long as I will have had. Whoever I was died years ago.Comment
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There is something to quality of life, even though some will say that hair loss is worse than a terminal illness - which is naive. Anyone who has never sat in a doctor's office and heard the words (you have 6 months to live) has obviously never felt what it is like. Having said that, premature hair loss is a glimpse of old age, even when one is at a young age.Comment
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not sure if this is "ironic", but men that start balding early on in their lives have an increased chance of developing prostate cancer. as if balding wasn't bad enough...
Although Propecia (finasteride) is somewhat of a protective factor
Bottom line: make sure you routinely get a DRE and serum PSA test from your doc.Comment
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It is, more than anything else, a pointless comparative. Sure, there are different bad things that happen in the world, but would you try any of these comfort lines:There is something to quality of life, even though some will say that hair loss is worse than a terminal illness - which is naive. Anyone who has never sat in a doctor's office and heard the words (you have 6 months to live) has obviously never felt what it is like. Having said that, premature hair loss is a glimpse of old age, even when one is at a young age.
To a woman who has been mugged:
"Hey, stop feeling so sorry for yourself, I dealt with a woman who was raped yesterday."
Or to someone with bad asthma:
"Man up, it's not cystic fibrosis."
To someone who lost a leg in a car accident:
"Quit your whining, the other guy died."
In fact, baldness is almost exclusive in that it is a very bad thing that will negatively shape every aspect of your life, but you're not allowed to be miserable about it. Women get more sympathy if they just grow a couple of black hairs on their chin for christs sake.
You get faced with a choice: do nothing, and become a bald loser, or do something, and be a vain loser. It's a bad thing to happen to anyone, and should be treated as such. It is not something you can shave away.Comment
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Those are poor examples to compare to hair loss because they involve injury or severe illness. Hair loss is not an illness. It's a condition that is cosmetically defective, and erroneous biologically. Baldness won't kill you - but you must develop a VERY thick skin in order to deal with it, and go on living. You get to a certain age at which you either accept the fact that you are powerless to change it - and move on, or you remain a miserable bastard for the rest of your life. It requires strength to become 'numb' and just move on. It involves maturity.
It is true that women get sympathy for minor things like being 'traumatized' by being overweight. Would you feel better if people had sympathy for you? I sure as hell wouldn't. Sympathy won't bring your hair back. Why do you want sympathy?
Baldness ought to be treated as a bad thing; I realize that. If someone has any other disfigurement, they usually get sympathy. Even fat people get sympathy, even though their problem is solely their fault. Baldness is laughed at - but I think this also has to do with the fact that it is politically correct to hammer men for anything.
Balding as a teenager is a nightmare. I don't have much sympathy for men who began thinning in their late 20s, 30s or 40s. I cannot commiserate with, or relate to them because I would have been extremely grateful to have had a normal teenagehood. My mid to late teens didn't exist, and neither did my early to mid-twenties. Of course, in my mid-twenties I was also bedridden half of the time and sick; however, that's another chapter. I will always be traumatized by my premature teen hair loss, and I will never get over what I lost: going to school, girlfriends, socializing and just being a teenager.
Fixed, you are actually lucky in a way. I lost my hair younger than you and had to leave high school because of it. You at least got to finish your high school and college years before you were noticeably ****ed with hair loss. You had time to go to school and develop work skills. Furthermore, you seem to have a solid career and appear to be doing fine. I never had that chance. I was ****ed over earlier and more than you were: a Norwood 2-3 at 17; a Norwood 3 at 18 with severe vertex thinning(NW 5); a full Norwood 5 at 20; a Norwood 6 at 21, and guess what: DESTRUCTION.Comment
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One more thing: there is always something to be grateful for. I am very grateful that I am a Norwood 6 and not a Norwood 7. I have good density on my sides in a strong 6 pattern. I would HATE to be a Norwood 7; it is much worse looking than a 6. All of the bald celebrities who look 'good' are 6s - but none of them are 7s. A Norwood 7 is almost to the point of Alopecia Totalis, and that is very difficult. As a 6, at least I have a stubble frame.
Fixed, you have a lot more hair than I had at your age. You can be grateful that you can have a transplant sometime in the future if you wish. We premature 6s never had that option. Try to look on the bright side.Comment
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I just heard of a woman refer to shaved/buzzed headed men as Mr. Potato Heads. HAHAHA! Now that is funny.Comment
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What little hair I have left I keep long and shaggy. Basically doing a combined combover/combdown.
I've always had longish shaggy hair - people call me Austin Powers. So it's a big deal if I was to shave my head.
I think i'd look horrible with a shaved head but I'm curious to try it. Trouble is there is no hiding my balding and receded hairline if I do it. Essentially there's no going back until it grows back.
Has anyone shaved their head, saw that it looked terrible and then regretted it? Would you wear a wig of some sort until it grows back?Comment
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To the people who are bald/shaved: Is it true that you need to smear sunscreen on your head when you go out on a sunny day? When I was contemplating shaving my head, this was one of the things that held me back.Comment
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you don't have to but you should to avoid getting skin cancer.Comment
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Actually hair or no hair when sun outside is strong you should wear a hat.
And with shaved head a sunscreen comes nice yes...
However I don't get the distaste for shaved heads. When you are NW 4 or 5 it looks much better when you shave your head then try to hide it, or let the hair on your sides grow. The contrast is too much.
But yes, I can't wait for a good treatment to come. What amazes me the most is the fact that we can wake up comatose patients with electrode shock, by jolting them inside their own brains. Or we are even contemplating growing artificial hearts, yet we can't grow or regenerate some hair.
Unbelievable...Comment
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Listen ******s, if you shave your head, get a bit of a tan and have a good body, then there is no way you are a 'bald loser'.
You can look good bald, you just have to put some effort in. While you might still look OK with a full head of hair and a chubby face after 'letting yourself go', when you are bald that won't work. That is the only difference in terms of being 'good looking', you just have to make sure you look after yourself.
I bet my life that there are tons of guys out there who went bald, so decided to look after themselves, get an athletic body where you can see it in the face (yes, you can tell if someone has a good body by looking at their face), go on a sunbed every 2 weeks, stay clean and well shaved, and are now twice as good looking as they were previously.
If you can't be good looking bald, then you weren't good looking to start with.
But really that is not even the issue, I don't care what I look like, I worry about losing my identity.Comment
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