Having Full head of hair would change my life

[Eureka]

Yeah, I understand where you're coming from, but I'm less severe.

I don't think an hair transplant needs to give the appearance of a full head of hair. I feel like I've seen plenty of well done hair transplant's which are usually older guys, who have a more aged look, but it looks great.

As for what people are saying. With this I'm less concerned, with the hair transplant I've got no problem being upfront about it, same with the Tattoo. If they're saying malicious things then they're not my friends so their opinions are meaningless to me. For me, I know people I'm close with, are going to know the Tattoo specifically is not real, it doesn't "feel" like hair. So if it improves how I look, then I'd do it even knowing that.

The whole point of getting one of those procedures is to look better. But what guys (who have more sever baldness to begin with) usually don't know until after they have had one, is that most of the time (no matter who the hair transplant surgeon is) they are not going to get their "young 20-something youthful hair" back - or anything remotely close to it. Even after multiple procedures, they are going to be walking around with "see-through" hair for the rest of their life...until they get sick of looking like a tool...and end up shaving it all off.

So, to answer your question, yes - it does defeat the whole purpose. But the guy getting the hair transplant will be the last to know...until 6-9 months afterwards when their results begin to materialize, only to be "not quite as much as they expected." (Then, they need another hair transplant to try it again, and another, and another........until all the donor is gone). That's why they should ban hair transplants for guys who are more than NW4/5, IMO.

This I agree with entirely. Most people do not go into an hair transplant with the proper expectations, unscrupulous surgeons only strengthen their feelings.

 

[GeminiX]

I certainly agree on the opinion of others, it utterly baffles me why some of us allow the opinions of strangers and losers to have *that much* control over our lives.

Not sure about the banning part though, although trying to get better standard, then I definitely support that.

I'm not a big fan of the nanny state banning this and that; if people are so daft that they need a warning label on an electric hair dryer telling them to not use it while in the bath.... well you get my point.

 

[Travalanche]

I certainly agree on the opinion of others, it utterly baffles me why some of us allow the opinions of strangers and losers to have *that much* control over our lives.

Not sure about the banning part though, although trying to get better standard, then I definitely support that.

I'm not a big fan of the nanny state banning this and that; if people are so daft that they need a warning label on an electric hair dryer telling them to not use it while in the bath.... well you get my point.

I just wanted to post my views on what you typed. I'm a 24yr old guy with the hairline of a 45yr old and despite being moderately outgoing and a generally happy person (despite a small alcohol problem) I constantly get crap from people over my hairline, be they stranger or family.

I try to shrug them off but it's like they joke about it, I've talked to a few of them in private (my uncles are particularly asinine) and it makes no difference, they just tell me to man up.

So when I'm at a Christmas party and not wearing a hat and my uncle yells "Oh look! It's my nephew who has less hair than me, who looks older?" to his girlfriend it makes me want to punch him in the face. I've been working out a lot and I'm in pretty good shape but I can't help but feel I'm overcompensating. If I had a full head of hair again I wouldn't have any obvious issues and my life would be so much easier.

I'm 24 and my mom/dad always stress that they want grandchildren to me, my younger brother is gay and in a relationship with another guy so I'm their last hope. I've always tried my best to make everyone happy but the only women who even like me usually weigh 100+ pounds more than me and despite how nice they are I just don't find myself attracted to them physically. I know I might sound like an *** due to that but it's true.

I know that balding is all cosmetic but for whatever reason it hit me really hard. It made me grow up more than I should have really fast, It stripped me of my virility and hope. Every single day when I'm brushing my teeth and looking in the mirror I get reminded that I'm getting older and I hate it. I only get one life and being reminded that I'm a walking corpse is what caused me to turn to alcohol because I just don't care anymore.

I was never really depressed in my life prior to when my hair loss began and was fairly naive and optimistic and now I'm the opposite and rarely even leave the house. I don't even have a single friend anymore, I haven't even talked to my old buddies from high school for years.

I'm 24 but actually feel as old as my hairline makes me look. When I visited my cousin on his last birthday for the first time in 3 years the first thing he commented on was my hair. He didn't say "Hey, nice to see you!" He literally brought up my hairline in the first sentence. Same as my uncles, dad (who has a thick hairline), mom (same), aunts, etc.

On the flipside my younger brother is balding like me but he already has a significant other and for whatever reason the gay community isn't as judgmental about hair loss from what I've seen as when I went to the gay bar with my brother and some of his friends a few times nobody even brought up my balding and a few guys even wanted to talk to me.

I'm not really attracted to guys sexually though so that's not an option for me.

It's like everything has gone to hell in my life since my hair went to crap, on the flipside though I'm in the best shape of my life and can lift my weight on the bench press for the first time ever. Still anyone can do that if they want and have the drive to.

Not everyone can have hair though.

I work at a retail store so there is no way I could ever afford a hair transplant or anything like that and I'm just biding my time with Finasteride.

Anyways, I could go on forever but I'm sort of rambling now. I just really had to get this off my chest.

So TLR, Yeah, having all my hair again would definitely change my life. You don't know what you have until it's going/gone.

 

[EvilLocks]

It wouldn't just change my life, it would give me my life back. Right now I'm just a living dead person, and that's actually worse than being dead. I should commit suicide, but since my family loves me too much I can't bare the thought of leaving them so I just pull through although everyday's hell. And yes I'm a young girl so hairloss affects my life so much. Pity I will never actually have my hair back, as there is no cure for Androgenetic Alopecia and especially not as severe and diffuse as mine. The day a CURE comes it will most likely be a prevention type of cure, not actual reversal for those who have already lost as well. So maybe in 10-20 years I'll get to see other people stop their hairloss before it's too late, it's already too late for me so.

 

[bald29]

It wouldn't just change my life, it would give me my life back. Right now I'm just a living dead person, and that's actually worse than being dead. I should commit suicide, but since my family loves me too much I can't bare the thought of leaving them so I just pull through although everyday's hell. And yes I'm a young girl so hairloss affects my life so much. Pity I will never actually have my hair back, as there is no cure for Androgenetic Alopecia and especially not as severe and diffuse as mine. The day a CURE comes it will most likely be a prevention type of cure, not actual reversal for those who have already lost as well. So maybe in 10-20 years I'll get to see other people stop their hairloss before it's too late, it's already too late for me so.

Maybe you can post a picture of how your hair looks like? I'm sure there is something that can be done. Also, remember that very few guys actually care about a girl wearing a wig, and this is not the same BS girls say like "shave your head and be confident", we actually 100% don't care, I'm not saying this to make you feel good. I couldn't care less about a girl wearing a wig, as long as she is still attractive.

In fact, I'm going the wig way too in one year if my treatment doesn't work. But hopefully it does work

 

[Jermey]

Despite using Toppik. Baldness has also strongly affected by life style, especially as a university student. I tend to be quite humble, make a lot of jokes of my appearance to people etc. Making fun of my appearance is a way for me to kind is a way for me to avoid people making fun of my baldness behind my back and also I'm more comfortable being just that. However, It is also clear that it is not something I want to. I want to go out chasing girls and be super confident in a job interview without needing to excuse my physical appearance. Toppik makes its trick on the vertex, it covers my immediate hairloss there, but resulting a weird looking flat haircut, which makes me ugly nevertheless. It also causes me to always wear a cap in my bag, in case it starts to rain. I also avoid swimming with friends and going on exotic holiday resorts. I fear the day, when my baldness (vertex) will be truly exposed because right now a high hairline in the front feels nothing compared to how I look without toppik on Vertex.