Minoxidil does not impact the hairs that you are losing from miniaturization and genetic hair loss, it does grow new hair. So what you are seeing is the shedding of your native hair.
My early hair loss makes all this exceedingly difficult for me as my situation is with women. I’m already a 22 year old kissless virgin, though I’ve been working very hard lately to change that. I get dates from time to time but it goes nowhere. Part of this is me panicking, in a sense of feeling like I’m running out of time (I’m 22), because, once I’m bald I know things will be significantly more difficult with women MY AGE. I know, generally speaking, that women don’t care as much when you get into your 30s and over, but without sounding like a douche, I want to be able to experience girls closer to my age, and I don’t want to have to wait that long. Even though, by then I’d be a virgin well into my 30s. That means I’d be screwed anyways. I may go back to school and this would be a distraction for me, but the problem will still be there when I meet a woman.
Much about hair loss is not what’s on your head but what’s inside your head. Women perceive insecurity and insecurity is not sexy or attractive. You may perceive this as a hair problem, but look at a lot of guys your age or slightly older who have girlfriends and I’l bet that some may have early recession or even more hair loss and still get dates. You need to recognize who you are, what is your value as a human being. Speak with your parents or older friends and open up with them and I am sure you will find out that what is happening to your hair is not your big problem. You might even seek a therapist who can work through your own personality development. I know that men in their late teens and early 20s, have not fully developed the pre-frontal part of the brain, the part that is central to the personality you develop and the relationships you will develop as you get older. Play it cool and you may be surprised when you meet a girl at school, that the meeting and the relationship will flow more easily. To manage your insecurity you must recognize your value and that will project to the women you meet. The older you get, even if you lose more hair, you will see your relationship with the world around you different.
Hello sir, I’ve read about you a lot on internet. I would definitely want to post some pics of mine to show you my baldness. Here is the link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B0LjCHwTVmTxdnc4RVl4NHRJVTA?usp=sharing I’m balding. I used to have huge dense hair, and now it seems very thin. I was born with a bit wide forehead like my father, but not as wide as it’s now. In my family, no one is bald, but my mother and sister have experience hair loss for the past few years. I’ve been experiencing my hair loss for past 7 years. It might be due to vitamin deficiency, or due to excessive masturbation. Yes, I do masturbate often, many times a day. I don’t know, what is the particular reason behinds my hair loss. I’ve visited many doctors, and have been prescribed many medicines, but none have worked out. Could you tell me a bit, what type of hair loss, I am experiencing and it’s remedies? Will I regain my natural hair if I opt for hair transplant? Thanks a lot.
You do not look like you have significant balding at this time as your hairline is in the normal position without any recession. Masturbation does not cause hair loss no will a lot of sex, I think that you are worrying to much about your hair. Go on with life and ignore your hair until the time you see recession of your hairline, which according to your family history on the male side is unlikely as there is no genetic balding on the male side of either family.
We have known for some time that finasteride can alter brain function in some people as we side effect in a few patients that change mood. This article points out a mechanism in those patient with Post-finasteride syndrome (this is a very, very small subset of people who take finasteride, possibly less than 1:1000 people). Despite these findings, nobody knows whether there is a causal relationship with Finasteride, especially it would be interesting to know if depressive or other patients have similar findings. You can see these same brain changes in stressed-out OCD or panic disorder patients who are decompensating and have never taken finasteride. The message here, is be careful how you interpret these findings.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076017301024
Once you grow hair from the minoxidil, the hair that minoxidil grew will be dependent upon it and if you stop the minoxidil, this new hair will fall out.
Much of what was said is correct with proper warnings. The video is worth looking at. If you stay on, there are multiple segments to it.
https://www.doctoroz.com/episode/oz-investigates-hair-restoration-scams-how-far-would-you-go-reverse-your-thinning-hair
What I want to know is if this can be reversed with Propecia and if it can, how long will it take. I am 22 years old.
Advanced miniaturization often does not reverse, but early miniaturization is what finasteride works best on. When it works well, it is usually in a male under 26 years of age. That means you are a good candidate for real benefit. It generally takes about one year to see the value of this drug.
People see the FUEs from Turkey in the 5000 range and somehow this has created a standard world-wide that is unwarranted and unearned because many of these men get depleted balding areas with worse scaring than had they had a strip surgery. The picture below is an example of such a case where this unfortunate person is now balding in the back of his head created by the FUE he had in the frontal area. There is a limit to how many FUEs can be done safely and that limit is determined by the donor density in the back of the head prior to having the surgery done. This picture should be a warning for our readership who might think that FUE is scar-less surgery and who are contemplating a FUE megasession.
Before prescribing finasteride, I would first perform a HAIRCHECK test to confirm that you are actually in some early phase of balding. With that in hand, I would prescribe it to an 18 year old without worrying about growth and other developmental issues. Read here: https://baldingblog.com/2017/01/10/value-haircheck-bulk-measurements-two-patients-seen-today/
My libido has never been strong. Propecia did not change it and I have been on Propecia for 5 years. I noticed little value most recently from the Propecia so I stopped it. To my surprise, My libido became strong, even stronger than it was before I went on the Propecia. Do you have any thoughts on this?
We find huge variations in libido in men, with decreased libidos in the 20% range in 20 year old, 30% range in 30 year old, 40% range in 40 years and so forth. Maybe your change in hormones that occurred after you stopped the Propecia had something to do with a better libido.
I am on Propecia and I wrestle and after a match, I notice that my hair is falling out more than at other times. The Propecia seems to help a little. Should I stop wrestling to avoid more hair loss?
I never think that one should give up the important things in life to avoid losing some hairs. You are doing the right thing with the finasteride, but if you wrestle, it is not really going to change your hair loss in the long term. Wrestling only pulls out the fragile hair from the tugging that will be lost sooner or later. When you get enough hair loss that you are unable to maintain your appearance, then think about hair transplantation.
“Treatment with tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the activate ingredient in marijuana, can restore cognition in old mice and induce molecular changes that make them more similar to young animals, scientists reported today (May 8) in Nature Medicine.
Previous studies have reported that as humans age, the brain’s endogenous cannabinoid system begins to decline. “What [the researchers] found here was that when we give THC, it improves these effects—which is, in my view, of major importance,” said Raphael Mechoulam, a professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem who was not involved this work. “I think [the study] is well done. I hope it will be repeated in other animals, and ultimately in humans.”
Considering the legalization of THC sometime next year in California, this treatment will be commonly available for people wanting to try this approach to improving brain function. The full article can be seen here: https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/49367/title/Cannabinoid-Treatment-Improves-Cognition-in-Old-Mice/&utm_campaign=NEWSLETTER_TS_The-Scientist-Daily_2016&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=51699299&_hsenc=p2ANqtz–tChXnGrf1SscrOP6eDzRBjJ27R2JCADuDTlbOWWttw1JtjeaqEF6ItiCBnDqyg388Y0fW3rcPLfyAwGndLJH_63kpXQ&_hsmi=51699300
“The study conducted by UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas said the scientists made the discovery by accident while researching how certain cancer tumors form. Researchers said they found that a protein called KROX 20, commonly associated with nerve development, turned on in skin cells that become the hair shafts”
https://abc7.com/health/scientists-closer-to-cure-for-baldness-and-graying-hair-study-says/1968797/
We have talked about the artistry in doing a hair transplant. This is a failure of artistry as the surgeon lined up every graft like soldiers in the field. The orderly nature of these grafts will grow hair that lines up like soldiers as well. Add to the poor artistry, the straight hairline, the poor post-operative care as the grafts should be mostly invisible within a day or two after the surgery, Can you imagine going back to work looking like this?
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