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Hi all,
I haven't come back to this site for a long time, and if I am really honest, I do not want to get sucked in, and use it as a source of information when it is needed. I hope you do not mind!
I would truly appreciate help, for a very worried person.
My Story.
I am now 34.
My avatar picture is 10 months back, when I was more happy with it.
I have been battle hair loss for the best part of a decade now, and have had ups and downs. For now, I feel like I am at an all time low, and I have some comments and questions for the experts. To be very honest with you, I am in dire straights and in need of help.
I have always had self esteem problems as a kid, and in my older years, this has manifested in my hair.
So back when I began to take Propecia, I always had very high temples and hereditary hair loss on both sides of the family. I live in the UK and am on the Boots programme.
I went through the shedding, much more than now, but after 6 months, this slow down, and I noticed in the shower, that I only had a few hairs in my hands, and not as many as I had previously.
My hair never grew back, but I felt the medicine slowed my hairloss, especially for the next 5 years. I had loss, especially at the front previous to starting on Propecia, but the way I styled my hair to cover it up was ok, and I felt better to be like this than bald. I was very precautious, taking the tablet roughly at the same time in the morning, on a semi empty stomach, and even not peeing/pooping until the afternoon. I take an evening vitamin supplement to, which boots supplies, for hair, nails and skin, which contains Biotin, I would occasionally forget to take this.
Fast forward 5 more years.
No major loss or shed, although there are times when I was sure, I had lost more hair. I would say I am a Norwood 4 but without as a significant back. The actual hair is very fine. It always has been.
I then became vegetarian 3 years back.
The rear of my head, perhaps recovered a little from what I remembered, but I always saw Propecia as halting hair loss and maintaining what you have. It never grew back. I believe I should be totally bald now.
In the past year.
I have been a little slack with taking the pill. I have never missed one day, but maybe I took it in the afternoon if I had a heavy night previously.
I feel ashamed, ugly and very self conscious of being that guy with a cover up. My scalp is beginning to appear through my head too.
My hair is at an all time low. I feel like I have lost hair and am telling myself this constantly. I feel like I have an itch but perhaps this is because I am conscious of the situation.
I am having panic attacks that I have completely ruined it due to forgetting to take that dose back in July.
On the other hand, I am not losing any more hair in the shower than I would usually.
The dilemma.
I am not sure if it is because of cutting the knots especially from the top out, or if it is because of missing one pill in the summer. I am also not sure how quickly hair grows back, but I am find it VERY hard to style now.
I am wearing a hat some of the time, which I am sure is not helping either, and feel like I am getting into a vicious cycle of paranoia which I am sure is not helping the situation?
Thank you for reading, and I would appreciate helpful and honest feedback. My doctor once told me, way back when I first started taking Propecia, that if I missed a day I would lose everything. I mentioned to him I was getting it privately and this news weighed on me considerably for the past ten years.
I haven't come back to this site for a long time, and if I am really honest, I do not want to get sucked in, and use it as a source of information when it is needed. I hope you do not mind!
I would truly appreciate help, for a very worried person.
My Story.
I am now 34.
My avatar picture is 10 months back, when I was more happy with it.
I have been battle hair loss for the best part of a decade now, and have had ups and downs. For now, I feel like I am at an all time low, and I have some comments and questions for the experts. To be very honest with you, I am in dire straights and in need of help.
I have always had self esteem problems as a kid, and in my older years, this has manifested in my hair.
So back when I began to take Propecia, I always had very high temples and hereditary hair loss on both sides of the family. I live in the UK and am on the Boots programme.
I went through the shedding, much more than now, but after 6 months, this slow down, and I noticed in the shower, that I only had a few hairs in my hands, and not as many as I had previously.
My hair never grew back, but I felt the medicine slowed my hairloss, especially for the next 5 years. I had loss, especially at the front previous to starting on Propecia, but the way I styled my hair to cover it up was ok, and I felt better to be like this than bald. I was very precautious, taking the tablet roughly at the same time in the morning, on a semi empty stomach, and even not peeing/pooping until the afternoon. I take an evening vitamin supplement to, which boots supplies, for hair, nails and skin, which contains Biotin, I would occasionally forget to take this.
Fast forward 5 more years.
No major loss or shed, although there are times when I was sure, I had lost more hair. I would say I am a Norwood 4 but without as a significant back. The actual hair is very fine. It always has been.
I then became vegetarian 3 years back.
The rear of my head, perhaps recovered a little from what I remembered, but I always saw Propecia as halting hair loss and maintaining what you have. It never grew back. I believe I should be totally bald now.
In the past year.
I have been a little slack with taking the pill. I have never missed one day, but maybe I took it in the afternoon if I had a heavy night previously.
- I never forgot to take a pill in ten years, until this summer in July. I was travelling and saw it in the packet for the day before, my heart absolutely sank. This has played on my conciseness in the past few months.
- There was another occasion when I was very sick, and throwing up all day.
- I started using a volumising shampoo which had silicone in. I started using this as my hair was beginning to look very limp during the summer. This left all sorts of residue. and began to knot up my hair. I cut a considerable amount from the top of my head. I was worried that I have damaged my hair too. This was 3 weeks ago today
I feel ashamed, ugly and very self conscious of being that guy with a cover up. My scalp is beginning to appear through my head too.
My hair is at an all time low. I feel like I have lost hair and am telling myself this constantly. I feel like I have an itch but perhaps this is because I am conscious of the situation.
I am having panic attacks that I have completely ruined it due to forgetting to take that dose back in July.
On the other hand, I am not losing any more hair in the shower than I would usually.
The dilemma.
I am not sure if it is because of cutting the knots especially from the top out, or if it is because of missing one pill in the summer. I am also not sure how quickly hair grows back, but I am find it VERY hard to style now.
I am wearing a hat some of the time, which I am sure is not helping either, and feel like I am getting into a vicious cycle of paranoia which I am sure is not helping the situation?
Thank you for reading, and I would appreciate helpful and honest feedback. My doctor once told me, way back when I first started taking Propecia, that if I missed a day I would lose everything. I mentioned to him I was getting it privately and this news weighed on me considerably for the past ten years.
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