21 and balding rapidly please give me some advice.

[paddymaddison]

I have been well aware of the fact that I am loosing my hair since I was 18, but when I look back at pictures of how it looked back then it really hits me just how bad it has become. My hair is still full and thick on the back and sides but on the top it is thinning very quickly, mainly in a horseshoe pattern, leaving a small tuft at the front. I have had a shaved head for the past year, but I let it grow back in recently as i realised one day, standing in front of the mirror, that I just looked like a big pink Weetabix. Now that I have let it grow in, I fear that I have only made myself look more ridiculous. My friends constantly make jokes about it, I join it because I have always been confident and outgoing and I don't want people to think that it gets to me but secretly i feel like tearing my hair out (if i had any) every time I look in the mirror. I have an amazing girlfriend who is the only person that knows how much this gets me down. She says that she still finds me attractive but I honestly just can't understand how anyone could anymore. I used to be so proud of my hair and now it's swapped from being on my head to being everywhere else it possibly could be. Can anyone offer me some advice? Does anyone else remember feeling like this? Is there some kind of miracle cure that my hundereds of hours of internet research have not uncovered?? Help!!