What made you wait.....?

[Newbaldy84]

I have a question to all these people that are above norwood 3. What made you wait so long before stating treatment? I know it's harder to get a regrowth than to maintain so when you start to notice something you should start treatment as soon as possible. Why did you wait then? were you in denial that you have a hair loss? It didn't bother until it bacame harder to comb your hair? above all do you regret not starting a treatment earlier?

 

[CCS]

I lost a lot of my hair before I graduated from high school, and there were no generics for rogaine and propeica, and avodart did not come out until 4 years after I graduated. I was a full NW3 for some time by then. And rogaine and propecia claimed to only work in back, and all my hair loss was in front. My parents told me I'd never go bald, and that in our family everyone just has high forheads from teanage years to old age.

 

[Newbaldy84]

so CCS have you had started earlier you could be norwood 1 or at most 2 right now?

 

[Guest]

I didn't start earlier because I only realised the hair loss in May, when I got my hair cut. Well, of course I had noticed that the hairs were falling out but since there's not much baldness in my family, I didn't pay attention to it. And now it's too late, nothing works and I'm loosing my hair rapidly. Well, that's just life I guess... it's not like I'm the only one who has lost his hair, lol.

 

[s.a.f]

I reached nw3 about 6 yrs ago. I didnt have the internet at the time so was unaware of the meds. I tried minoxidil and it just seemed to make things much worse. From reading this forum I beleive that many people go into denial when they start losing their hair and convince themselves that its just a tempory loss caused by stress or bad health.

 

[IBM]

i had a lot of damage (rot and bloody flaking skin) on my scalp for three years.

 

[JayBear]

i had a lot of damage (rot and bloody flaking skin) on my scalp for three years.

yuck

 

[Red Rose]

I have a question to all these people that are above norwood 3. What made you wait so long before stating treatment? I know it's harder to get a regrowth than to maintain so when you start to notice something you should start treatment as soon as possible. Why did you wait then? were you in denial that you have a hair loss? It didn't bother until it bacame harder to comb your hair? above all do you regret not starting a treatment earlier?

This is a really stupid question as it assumes that everyone here who may have advanced to and beyond a norwood 3 had treatment available to them at the time. For a lot of people, hair loss started before the 1990's you know :wink: . It also seems to assume that treatment from the beginning will stop you advancing beyond a norwood three, which is quite simply not the case for a lot of men on treatment. In fact there are hundreds of reasons or explanations why some people didn't start with treatment at the appropriate time or persist with it, so I do not see any merit in having to explore this matter further or frankly discuss it at all.

 

[MPBWarrior]

i thought no treatment stopped u from balding completely, just simply slowed down the process.

 

[CCS]

i thought no treatment stopped u from balding completely, just simply slowed down the process.

some people respond better than others.

 

[Nathaniel]

I was in denial. Plain and simple. I was pretty stupid and kept just suppresing the thought of balding. Should have started treatments at least 1 1/2 years earlier.

 

[joe32]

i wish i started earlier , i am about nor.3 ...been slowly balding for about 6 years at the time i didnt believe any meds worked and other balding men told me once its gone its gone .so i figured id just take it like a man. :hairy: :hairy:
this and i never had a good woman by my side.just a rotten bitc

 

[techprof]

When I started balding I lost in the crown first than in the front (worst case). I didn't realize it for a long time as I had long hairs.
There are some sick bastards out there who keep spreading the rumour that finasteride makes you impotent.

I never explored the finasteride option in 1999 (when rogaine worked like magic for me). Used nu hairs and loads of crap until starting finasteride too late in 2004 after progressing to nw6. I wish someone told me the first day they saw a bald crown in my head and made fun of me and or some one who had used finasteride told me to start finasteride at my first sign of balding.

The advertisement and marketing for propecia sucks. I would like to see big banners of the same in walmart, gas stations and everywhere.

 

[docj077]

To be honest, I didn't wait. My hair stylist noticed that my hairline was starting to recede. She recommended Nioxin products. I used those for a year with no change. After that, I tried Minoxidil for the better part of a year with no change and continuted recession. After that, I tried Revivogen for 6 months, which once again led to zero results and continued recession. During the last couple of years I started using Saw Palmetto and Green Tea Extract. They stopped my recession. Finally, with the hope of regrowing my lost hair, I tried propecia for six months, which may have maintained my hair, but did not regrow anything and gave me unwanted cognitive side effects, so I stopped using it after gradually decreasing my dose.

Now, I'm using only curcumin and green tea extract with my GNC megamen multivitamin sport. I'm still maintaining and even seeing vellus growth. We'll just have to see what happens. I'm still around a NW2.

 

[techprof]

Doctor you are lucky. For people with agressive male pattern baldness it takes only 6 months to one year to go from NW1 to NW5 if they don't start finasteride/dutasteride.

 

[docj077]

Doctor you are lucky. For people with agressive male pattern baldness it takes only 6 months to one year to go from NW1 to NW5 if they don't start finasteride/dutasteride.

Yeah, I'm not really sure how the genetics work in my family. I have a receding hairline very similar to my dad, but I also had signs of diffuse thinning like my mom's side of the family before I started propecia.

It's a really messed up deal no matter how I look at it, but I'm glad that I might finally get somewhere.