So basically, here's my situation. I'm 27 years old and first noticed signs of balding about 4 years ago. I usually have my hair long and had cut it short for once. I can actually remember seeing my reflection in the mirror behind a bar and thinking that my hairline had changed a bit. After that it took me over a year to accept that I was actually at the early stages of MPB. For that first year the loss was negligible enough for me to convince myself that I wasn't.
Since then I've always had my hair long (how I prefer it) and no one is really any the wiser that I'm in the norwood 2.5ish sort of territory. To paint a picture, my hair is similar to that kid from One Direction, Harry Styles. The problem is that- and I know this might sound like a bit of an arsey thing to say to people who are much more advanced than me- it's not just a cover up job I'm doing, people actually compliment my hair all the time. Great, you may think, but it's not such a great thing when you know that the amount of time you will be able to have your hair styled this way is a lot more limited than you'd like it to be. I don't know how long it will be before this style will start to look like some ridiculous comb over. As you all know, a lot of the mental stress caused by MPB is not just the current state of your hair but the fact you know it will only get worse.
Meds are my solution, you say. Unfortunately I'm already on them. Been on propecia for almost a year now. Side effects, much to my relief, have been minimal but it also seems primary effects have been as well. Just to clarify, I have no baldness on my crown and still have none. Maybe the propecia is stopping me from being bald there already, I don't know. For my hairline though, things have progressed pretty much at the same speed as they were before. Slowly but surely getting worse. I'm also using rogaine on my hairline and even the combination of the two seems to, as of yet, be ineffective.
Anyway, what should I do? I'm slowly but surely coming around to the idea that I may have to have a hair transplant in the future. I can accept that, though the mammoth cost is pretty off-putting. What I don't want is to have a transplant then to carry on losing more hair and need another one a couple of years later. I can't afford that and also don't want it to dominate my life in that way.
Someone, please give me some advice! HELP!
Since then I've always had my hair long (how I prefer it) and no one is really any the wiser that I'm in the norwood 2.5ish sort of territory. To paint a picture, my hair is similar to that kid from One Direction, Harry Styles. The problem is that- and I know this might sound like a bit of an arsey thing to say to people who are much more advanced than me- it's not just a cover up job I'm doing, people actually compliment my hair all the time. Great, you may think, but it's not such a great thing when you know that the amount of time you will be able to have your hair styled this way is a lot more limited than you'd like it to be. I don't know how long it will be before this style will start to look like some ridiculous comb over. As you all know, a lot of the mental stress caused by MPB is not just the current state of your hair but the fact you know it will only get worse.
Meds are my solution, you say. Unfortunately I'm already on them. Been on propecia for almost a year now. Side effects, much to my relief, have been minimal but it also seems primary effects have been as well. Just to clarify, I have no baldness on my crown and still have none. Maybe the propecia is stopping me from being bald there already, I don't know. For my hairline though, things have progressed pretty much at the same speed as they were before. Slowly but surely getting worse. I'm also using rogaine on my hairline and even the combination of the two seems to, as of yet, be ineffective.
Anyway, what should I do? I'm slowly but surely coming around to the idea that I may have to have a hair transplant in the future. I can accept that, though the mammoth cost is pretty off-putting. What I don't want is to have a transplant then to carry on losing more hair and need another one a couple of years later. I can't afford that and also don't want it to dominate my life in that way.
Someone, please give me some advice! HELP!
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