Fact: No treaments are going to be here soon

[tonyzucco]

Indeed this does suck. What is your current hair situation? If it isn't horrible perhaps you could treat your hair loss for a few years until you get married. At that point you can just stop meds and let yourself go. You shouldn't feel bad about either. Women have been doing it for years.

I've been on fin & minox since I was ~20, maybe it's slowed down loss in the crown area, hard to say. My frontal recession has gotten pretty bad in the past 4 years. I'd say I'm a Norwood IIIv, on my way to being a Norwood IV in the next 5 years. Thanks for the advice though. I'm really tempted to just buzz it down to a 1 and hope to find a woman who a)doesn't care and b)I'm actually attracted to. I just get so negative feeling like I can't get the attention or really break the ice with certain women b/c I don't look that great. Some nights I wish I had just married my gf from my mid-twenties. Sigh

[Notcoolanymore]

I'm really tempted to just buzz it down to a 1 and hope to find a woman who a)doesn't care and b)I'm actually attracted to. I just get so negative feeling like I can't get the attention or really break the ice with certain women b/c I don't look that great. Some nights I wish I had just married my gf from my mid-twenties. Sigh

Have you tried buzzing it down yet? If you haven't then I would recommend giving it a try. When I hit NW3(mid 20's), I started buzzing my hair. First with a #3, then eventually with a #2. Who know's you might still look good? I didn't think I looked horrible with a buzzed head, but I just prefer myself with hair at this point.

[tonyzucco]

I've gone down to a #2 back in early Feb after getting sick of trying to brush my hair into something reasonable. It looks ok, I don't know. On the plus side I have a nice head shape and I'm trim, on the con side my ears are kind of big and I have a narrow head so it looks a bit... rodent-like. I'm part middle eastern though (can grow a pretty nice beard), but sometimes I just look like some terrorist with my resting face. I don't mind smiling, but I can't do it all the time. Thanks for lending an ear and the advice. May your follicles live long and prosper.

[Jonathan]

Real fact: No one knows if there will be a treatment here soon. Most likely there is a product or combination of products somewhere out there on the globe that works already. We just have not discovered that they exists, what vehicle, combination, frequency or dosage to use them at.

[Keki]

it's ****ig 2015, it's time, no it's alredy too late, we should have a cure or at least a better fina 10-15 years ago, it's embarassing for the humankind, people are fighting this shit since the fire discovery and we are still talking if not showing bim trials is a good or bad news and testing shit from chinese labs, are you ****ing kidding me? You know what, it's not becoming more ugly or losing the identity the hard part, is the slow agony and the hope of a new treatment who is life consuming

[burtandernie]

Yeah well in reality there have numerous things over the years they dropped or shelved like RU, ascj 9, and many others that might have been better than propecia. If something isnt a lot better than propecia which most AAs arent, then its hard to justify the money a lot of the time. That is why a lot of stuff similar to propecia never came out and most of it had some sides similar to propecia. Not to mention when propecia was under patent why bother with something just like it?
Stuff like RU was the most potent AA every made but if its not significantly better than propecia who is going to waste that kind of money finishing it?