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Hey everyone! Long time browser, decided today to finally make a profile, share my story, and get some advice.
I've been balding since a teenager, I must have been 16 or 17 when my hairline started to recede a bit, although I always had long shaggy hair then so Its hard to say exactly. By 18-19 I was fairly sure I was going bald, but off course put off treatment hoping that the hairline would even out / stop. At around 20 is when the diffuse thinning started to get pretty bad. Its been at the point the last 6 months where I do not leave the house without a baseball cap on, and over the last year It did cause some depression... Although the last few months I have realized that it is happening and I can either
A: Suck it up and accept that I will be bald in the matter of a couple years, or
B: Stop procrastinating, take the risks/side effects/price of medicating it away
I've procrastinated way to long now, because nobody wants to be that 20 year old in the doctors office asking for hair meds, and I've been scared of the side effects... DHT does sound pretty useful to the body. However I feel its either now or never, so I booked myself into a hair clinic who can prescribe proscar rather than expensive propecia and am starting generic (kirkland) minoxidil Monday.
From what I've read is that side effects for Finasteride are very real, but I know that If I do nothing I will regret it so Ill give it a try and see how it affects me. I wish I could pull off the shaved head look but I just buzzed my head once and it looked horrible... A shaved small thin head on a 6'3 lanky guy is basically single life suicide.
Heres some pictures of where my hair is at now, Hopefully in half a year from now Ill be able to leave the house without a hat. Given my age and level of hair loss, is it possible that it will substantially improve with medication? and possible without propecia should the side effects make it not worth it? It would be awesome to have a full head of hair again.
I've been balding since a teenager, I must have been 16 or 17 when my hairline started to recede a bit, although I always had long shaggy hair then so Its hard to say exactly. By 18-19 I was fairly sure I was going bald, but off course put off treatment hoping that the hairline would even out / stop. At around 20 is when the diffuse thinning started to get pretty bad. Its been at the point the last 6 months where I do not leave the house without a baseball cap on, and over the last year It did cause some depression... Although the last few months I have realized that it is happening and I can either
A: Suck it up and accept that I will be bald in the matter of a couple years, or
B: Stop procrastinating, take the risks/side effects/price of medicating it away
I've procrastinated way to long now, because nobody wants to be that 20 year old in the doctors office asking for hair meds, and I've been scared of the side effects... DHT does sound pretty useful to the body. However I feel its either now or never, so I booked myself into a hair clinic who can prescribe proscar rather than expensive propecia and am starting generic (kirkland) minoxidil Monday.
From what I've read is that side effects for Finasteride are very real, but I know that If I do nothing I will regret it so Ill give it a try and see how it affects me. I wish I could pull off the shaved head look but I just buzzed my head once and it looked horrible... A shaved small thin head on a 6'3 lanky guy is basically single life suicide.
Heres some pictures of where my hair is at now, Hopefully in half a year from now Ill be able to leave the house without a hat. Given my age and level of hair loss, is it possible that it will substantially improve with medication? and possible without propecia should the side effects make it not worth it? It would be awesome to have a full head of hair again.
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