Has anyone dealt with hair loss where ur hair was one of your most defining features
Despite being on dutasteride+finasteride+nizoral, my hair continues to recede and thin. I'm currently 24 years old and about two years ago I noticed my hair beginning to thin and recede. At first I ignored it. Nobody in my family is bald so why worry. My dad is 60 and still has hair, he was a Norwood 0 till his 40s and receded to a NW2 in his 50s and has stayed that way since. His father died with the same exact hair loss pattern. Died at 80 a NW2. My mothers father died with a head full of thick black hair and my moms brother who is 40/50 still has a head full of thick luxurious hair with his juvenile hairline. Looking into my family tree, you would be hard pressed to find a single person bald so I never worried about it. Hell, my mother is 61 and retains her juvenile hairline.
But then I began to notice large amounts of hair on my pillow. I noticed a bald spot on my vertex slowly growing. My hair line began to recede day by day and has currently receded at least half an inch(ive retained my juvenile hairline till about 23yo). I noticed that hair that used to be so thick that I had to use a straighter to get it under control had become so thin that it was no longer even possible or necessary to use one.
I finally gave in and put my self on a regimen which has kept the hair loss to a minimum but the recession continues. About a month ago, I ordered another package of dutasteride+finasteride from inhouse pharmacy but the post office has lost it. So I sit here not having taken anything for my hair loss for about 4 days and truthfully, I just don't care anymore. All I'm doing is buying time anyway it seems. My hair has become this frail pile of s**t on the top of my head that continues its slow decent into nothingness. Maybe its the hair loss induced depression but I almost fail to see the point of fighting this anymore when you know the inevitable coming.
But what bothers me most, and I guess you could say the whole point of this post, is that growing up, my hair has been my most defining and attractive feature. It was so incredibly thick that you couldn't get a comb through it. You could style it in so many ways that you could adopt a new persona every day. It seemed to grow ridiculously fast and I had to cut it at least once a month. At school and at work, I literally got dates solely because girls loved my hair. I'm not even kidding and I know it sounds shallow but my hair made me incredibly attractive to the opposite sex. But now I'm losing it and eventually there will come a day when it will have to be shaved off.
So I wanted to know, has anyone here had a similar experience? Most guys I know who've lost their hair at my age don't really care as they claim their hair or hairline was always s**t to begin with. But this isn't the case for me; my hair was a big part of my appearance and persona. Think of Ronald Reagan without his hair, think of Bill Clinton or Russel Brand or any celebrity whose hair is such a large part of their persona that you just could imagine them bald.
Despite being on dutasteride+finasteride+nizoral, my hair continues to recede and thin. I'm currently 24 years old and about two years ago I noticed my hair beginning to thin and recede. At first I ignored it. Nobody in my family is bald so why worry. My dad is 60 and still has hair, he was a Norwood 0 till his 40s and receded to a NW2 in his 50s and has stayed that way since. His father died with the same exact hair loss pattern. Died at 80 a NW2. My mothers father died with a head full of thick black hair and my moms brother who is 40/50 still has a head full of thick luxurious hair with his juvenile hairline. Looking into my family tree, you would be hard pressed to find a single person bald so I never worried about it. Hell, my mother is 61 and retains her juvenile hairline.
But then I began to notice large amounts of hair on my pillow. I noticed a bald spot on my vertex slowly growing. My hair line began to recede day by day and has currently receded at least half an inch(ive retained my juvenile hairline till about 23yo). I noticed that hair that used to be so thick that I had to use a straighter to get it under control had become so thin that it was no longer even possible or necessary to use one.
I finally gave in and put my self on a regimen which has kept the hair loss to a minimum but the recession continues. About a month ago, I ordered another package of dutasteride+finasteride from inhouse pharmacy but the post office has lost it. So I sit here not having taken anything for my hair loss for about 4 days and truthfully, I just don't care anymore. All I'm doing is buying time anyway it seems. My hair has become this frail pile of s**t on the top of my head that continues its slow decent into nothingness. Maybe its the hair loss induced depression but I almost fail to see the point of fighting this anymore when you know the inevitable coming.
But what bothers me most, and I guess you could say the whole point of this post, is that growing up, my hair has been my most defining and attractive feature. It was so incredibly thick that you couldn't get a comb through it. You could style it in so many ways that you could adopt a new persona every day. It seemed to grow ridiculously fast and I had to cut it at least once a month. At school and at work, I literally got dates solely because girls loved my hair. I'm not even kidding and I know it sounds shallow but my hair made me incredibly attractive to the opposite sex. But now I'm losing it and eventually there will come a day when it will have to be shaved off.
So I wanted to know, has anyone here had a similar experience? Most guys I know who've lost their hair at my age don't really care as they claim their hair or hairline was always s**t to begin with. But this isn't the case for me; my hair was a big part of my appearance and persona. Think of Ronald Reagan without his hair, think of Bill Clinton or Russel Brand or any celebrity whose hair is such a large part of their persona that you just could imagine them bald.
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so expensive. hair shed even more and now some are coming back but still my hair line is going even further back :[. I dont know what happened. Why me. I stay at home now all the time. No social life no friends. Just depressed all the time. I am the only guy my age at 18 whose losing hair at this speed. all my other friends have hair, they're dating partying and studying at uni at the same time. i cant do it. no girl wants to look at an ugly haired balding guy nowadays. my face is such a shape that it only looked good with hair bangs. Now that they are all gone i look ugly as hell. I just honestly feel jealous from the other guys. i still cant accept it and probably will take a long time to. my mothers brothers all bald and my father bald too. but they have the face to rock it. i cant do that. i can grow facial hair fully and i have full hair of body which i have to trim down a bit if i ever get a girlfriend which doesnt seem like is ever gonna happen. my head just feels like a science project that i just have to do every****ingday ! just over and over again the same regimen and no progress! 
