How many people do nothing about their hairloss?

[coolerking]

You gotta figure, there are a lot more people who are losing hair than actually post at sites like these. Do you think they're indifferent to their condition? Are they the ones who just go to the derm, get propecia and it works and we never hear of them? Are they ignorant and don't know that sites like this are available? It all makes me wonder. I would make a case that the people with the worst (norwood 7 very young) and the best (good finasteride responders) don't ever come close to places like this. We all must be in the mid-range of male pattern baldness or close to it. What does everyone think?

 

[Guest]

Cooler,

maybe this is an optimistic assessment:

But I think that there are tons of people out there who take propecia and never take anything else, and it stops their hair loss and they never worry about it again. The people for whom it doesn't work well or who started too late or have really bad hair genes are all here.

You will rarely see someone register on a board like this just to post about how much finasteride helped them. People will post success stories but only after they've succeeded with the help of info on here.

I'm at the relatively early stages of my hairloss, been on finasteride a month, and if my hairloss stops I will continue to post here, to help other people with their hairloss, although I may post less obsessively.

 

[CCS]

threads have a lot more views than posts. I'm sure there are at least 5x as many people who just read this site as there are people who are members.

I know many balding people who refuse to treat their hair loss and say they don't care about their hair or the shallow women who care about it.

While it would seem to me that most balding men don't treat it, I am just seeing the ones who let it get that bad. Possibly many more treat it early enough and never show thinning. Maybe many guys are taking propecia, and we just don't know about it.

 

[Guest]

college, so you agree with this from my post above?

"But I think that there are tons of people out there who take propecia and never take anything else, and it stops their hair loss and they never worry about it again...You will rarely see someone register on a board like this just to post about how much finasteride helped them. "

Many guys ARE taking it. Less than 10% of people on propecia are prob posting about it, which means theres prob a ton of people who it's working for..

People who respond well tend not to post about it.

 

[barnabas]

Many guys ARE taking it. Less than 10% of people on propecia are prob posting about it, which means theres prob a ton of people who it's working for..

People who respond well tend not to post about it.

Less than 10%? Probably more like less than 1%. Does ANYONE have a derm that had never prescribed propecia before? The guy I saw just sees a few tiny wisconsin towns and had prescribed it for tons of people, and I sort of doubt any of them ended up on here. And there certainly aren't posters representing every dermatologist in the western world.

 

[Guest]

I have wondered about the same thing. There are so many balding people and they all seem to accept their terrible destiny. This is what made me so desperate when I noticed my balding at first. I thought there is still no hope and you can you do nothing about it. But then again: Many of the people I do not see balding might be on finasteride and it works great for them.

 

[Guest]

Many guys ARE taking it. Less than 10% of people on propecia are prob posting about it, which means theres prob a ton of people who it's working for..

People who respond well tend not to post about it.

Less than 10%? Probably more like less than 1%. Does ANYONE have a derm that had never prescribed propecia before? The guy I saw just sees a few tiny wisconsin towns and had prescribed it for tons of people, and I sort of doubt any of them ended up on here. And there certainly aren't posters representing every dermatologist in the western world.

so you agree with what i'm saying? you're right it's probably less than half a percent. my main point was that there are TONS of people, many times the number of people on here whom finasteride is all they need to maintain their hair indeifinitely and its only the bad cases OR people new to hair los treatments that come on forums like this.

 

[beaner]

I'll admit, I ignored my for a long time simply because it was very slow, didn't look that bad for quite a while, and really didn't effect my life negatively in any way. It was only when it began to progress very rapidly that I figured I'd better do something or I would have been a cueball within a year or two.

 

[CCS]

I think if it is diffuse, it attracts attension. if it is one thin row at a time in the very front, people look at the high density of their hair and just think they have a high hairline, and that it is impossible to regrow hair out of smooth scalp. That is how mine was. it slowly climbed without ever having any thinning over the course of 13 years before it finally got high enough for me to shop around for hair transplant and get on propecia. it was too slow for me to notice until it started changing shape at age 23. actually, it must have changed much earlier than that, and i just had not noticed it. my 8th grade teacher was the only one to comment, and my parents both told me i was not balding, but had a high forehead, and that everyone in my family is like that and never went bald.

 

[holyhair]

i never knew it was anything you could do about hairloos until recently because everyone in my surroundings that went bald just shaved their head and sad "well that was that" and went on with life.

i think some people dont really care...they focus their money on house..kids..cars..etc..

 

[barnabas]

so you agree with what i'm saying? you're right it's probably less than half a percent. my main point was that there are TONS of people, many times the number of people on here whom finasteride is all they need to maintain their hair indeifinitely and its only the bad cases OR people new to hair los treatments that come on forums like this.

Yeah, I agree. The dermatologist I saw said it almost always worked, and that many of the people he'd had take it that quit after a while (thinking it hadn't done anything) had tons of their hair fall out and regretted it. I don't THINK he was a salesman for the stuff so he was probably right.

 

[CCS]

if only those men had seen my avator, they'd know that if they got back on it within a year, in 3 years they would be back where they would have been had they been on it the whole time.

I talked to some balding guys. one did not want to bother with propecia because it would not regrow his hairline to where it once was, and he did not like drugs. he also said he did not want to spend money on hair transplant. Many guys who make 25+ dollars per hour are to cheap to pay for hair transplant, when I make $7 per hour and I save up for it and had 3 sessions. One guy was willing to do it if it would give him all his hair back for $2000, but when i told him he would just get 1/3 density and a somewhat large area might be $4000 or more, he lost interest.

 

[Guest]

one did not want to bother with propecia because it would not regrow his hairline to where it once was, and he did not like drugs.

So I assume he never smokes or drinks alcohol, right?? :roll:

 

[CCS]

good point.

I see many guys in my classes with balding crowns. Should i tell them to get on propecia?

 

[Guest]

If you know them yes, if they are just in your classes and you rarely talk to them i wouldn´t say anything since they might get angry about you pointing out their upcoming baldness. It is up to you!

 

[j25]

I am from Holland, and i feel that it is something like a taboo to actually tackle your hair problem - well, at least to talk about tackling it. Somehow i feel that in countries like the USA this is way more accepted. I am 27 and have been trying to halt my hairloss for two years now. At least one out of three of my friends is seriously losing hair now, but so far i haven't dared to mention the possibilities of doing something about it. When visiting, I have been scanning their rooms in order to spot a bottle of Rogaine or Propecia, but never saw anything. No one seems to know, or they hide it carefully, like i do.

 

[Guest]

I am from Holland, and i feel that it is something like a taboo to actually tackle your hair problem - well, at least to talk about tackling it. Somehow i feel that in countries like the USA this is way more accepted. I am 27 and have been trying to halt my hairloss for two years now. At least one out of three of my friends is seriously losing hair now, but so far i haven't dared to mention the possibilities of doing something about it. When visiting, I have been scanning their rooms in order to spot a bottle of Rogaine or Propecia, but never saw anything. No one seems to know, or they hide it carefully, like i do.

In Germany it seems to be pretty much the opposite. It is absolutly ok and no problem , to make fun of balding people. But making fun of fat people who might easily do something about their problem is really "mean"..... This is the hypocrisy of political correctness you know.

I personally had no problem about admitting that I am on finasteride. It is not my fault and nothing to be ashamed of. I am much more ashamed of my depressions and various personality disorder but this is another topic.

 

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