Hi everyone, goodbye hair =(

[Layercake]

Hi folks, I was feeling sort of depressed about my hair getting thinner over the last year so I figured I register and make a post. SOO i'll sum up my story and ask some questions.

Pretty much my situation is as follows: I'm a 20 year old guy, a sophomore in college, and my hair is starting to reach a point of being blatantly thinning. To add to the problem I have an extremely asymmetrical hairline which I was given loads of crap for in middle school (called baldy ect., so I've had a sort of preview of whats to come ) . Once I moved out to the west coast and started high school I self consciously did my best to hide my crazy one sided widows peek from my new peers, and it has more or less worked until now. (as far as I can tell, lol) Anyway, thanks to my already hideous hairline I'm no stranger to being semi-obsessive about what my hair is doing, the problem is now that its thinning my time spent obsessing over my hair has more or less doubled and I'm feeling super depressed, especially as I recall being treated like garbage in middle school.

also to add to my misery I personally think I will make an exceptionally ugly bald guy.

Currently I'm into what must be my 5th weak of nightly 5% minox in spots all over my head and near daily 1% Nizarol. Also I only do Minox nightly because I can't justify keeping my hair only to have it look absolutely like crap from the treatment, and when I say absolutely- I mean absolutely, minox and my hair are not a a good match

What I really want to know is, how long should I be shedding from the Minox, because for the last two weeks I've been able to line my sink with shed hair and I'm starting to freak out.

Also, whats the deal with propecia? how much does it cost? and is it true that it can cause horrible deformities in any children I may have in the future

Is saw palmetto any good?

other than that, any advice on how to stem this thinning would be much appreciated.

I'm trying really hard to take a sort of 'Buddhist/nothing lasts' sort of perspective on this whole mess, but as yall know its pretty damn hard.

cheers folks
-Jacques