At 19: Coming to grips with baldness...

[johnone23]

To be honest, the fact that I spend so much money at the moment on products, just like you, has been another reason fro me to get me hair cut short. You have to think "who are you kidding", you're just prolonging to inevitable. At least I can save some money this way.

[Davey Jones]

looking at the toco-8 and was considering getting it but then reminded myself that the amount of money i have spent and am spending on rogaine, toppik, finaster (0.5mg p/day), revivogen, saw palmetto and all other vitamins is unreasonably ridiculous. especially when not getting results.

Yeah, but Toco-8 actually makes you healthier too, which is a decent consolation prize to having hair. If I recall correctly, this was the formulation they used in the study with vitamin E:

http://www.amazon.com/Vitacost-Tocomin-SupraBio-Tocotrienol-Complex/dp/B003U8II1W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337782976&sr=8-1

It's cheaper than Toco-8, if that helps.

EDIT: Though I do use Toco-8, so I don't know about that stuff. Just saying, it's cheaper.

[rupe]

looking at the toco-8 and was considering getting it but then reminded myself that the amount of money i have spent and am spending on rogaine, toppik, finaster (0.5mg p/day), revivogen, saw palmetto and all other vitamins is unreasonably ridiculous. especially when not getting results.

[clandestine]

Never heard of this eyebrown issue, i don't think it's anything. But why don't you take Finasteride johnone23? if sides affect you, just stop taking it. Some people take it for 20 years, like a friend of mine, and never had problems. You won't see those people in forums, and they are the majority.

fab; I thought you were one of the members who had taken finasteride for 10+ years, then became sexually defunct?

[fab]

Never heard of this eyebrown issue, i don't think it's anything. But why don't you take Finasteride johnone23? if sides affect you, just stop taking it. Some people take it for 20 years, like a friend of mine, and never had problems. You won't see those people in forums, and they are the majority.

[johnone23]

Right, I was looking in the mirror this evening and I noticed that my eyebrows had thinned/fallen out. The outside third has almost completely gone! I am 19 years old, just getting to grips with MPB at my age but surely I deserve eyebrows? Is this typical of a separate underlying condition? I really do not want to look like a cancer patient!

[johnone23]

I suppose there is an element of beauty in ignorance...

[clandestine]

Clandestine: I purposefully never touched propecia because of the reported sexual side effects. I may not have hair for a while but at least I'll have a penis!

I feel similarly.

It was more of a joke; the study I linked to indicates that patient's who were told previously about finasteride's potential for sides were (much) more likely to experience them i.e. Nocebo effect.

Hence, the less you know, the better off you are.

[johnone23]

Clandestine: I purposefully never touched propecia because of the reported sexual side effects. I may not have hair for a while but at least I'll have a penis!

mpb47: I agree, I could never drop out. I worked my ass off for my a levels to be accepted, and me degree is my future, I cannot turn my back on that. Shit happens, but so it does to everyone... this is our version, we just need to move on (didn't mean for that to rhyme)

[mpb47]

Hair loss in college is a real bitch. My very favorite thing about school was the girls... the day I noticed my crown starting to thin, I dropped out and never went back.

Even though my hair has improved from meds, I still don't feel comfortable surrounding myself with a bunch of 18-35-year-old women for hours every day. I won't go back until this is truly fixed, even if it means I never go back at all.
Those of you who push through it and get your degrees/certificates/whatever deserve a lot of credit.

By the time you are in college, things are starting to change and many women do not care at that point. Yea there are still some that do but not that many.

I would not let this stop me from going anyway as you need it as a competitive advantage. It's not fair, but much of the world is rigged to keep you dumb&cheap. I would not give up school over hair loss as that is short sided thinking...

[clandestine]

I wish you luck then. Remember, the more you know the more you can help yourself.

Remember, in some instances, the less you know, the more you can help yourself.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1743-6109.2007.00563.x/abstract

[Tracy C]

I wish you luck then. Remember, the more you know the more you can help yourself.

[johnone23]

Well put it this way, I've already bought the stuff, and I'm resigned to getting a buzz cut so I might as well see what happens if not for the pure fun of the experiment. When I can raise the finances I will get a good quality transplant and that will be that, but until then...

[Tracy C]

You're basically calling out everyone who has experienced otherwise and calling them a liar.

Well, if you put it that way... Yes.

[NotBelievingIt]

There is nothing in your treatment plan that is actually going to help you...

You shouldn't, and can't, say that. You have no idea if something non-big 3 will help. You're basically calling out everyone who has experienced otherwise and calling them a liar.