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I’m losing my hair.
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I'm slowly on my way to the ol horse-shoe hairline but I'm 50 so I'm past the point of giving a fuck.....and highly unlikely that chicken shit will help.
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Unfortunately, a lot of it has to do with genetics. What does your father's hairline look like? What about your uncles and grandparents?
It looks painful (possibly not) but definitely looks gnarly before it heals. (Think pinhead x 10^10)
Edit to add: my wife buys me Nioxin products. I don’t notice a difference.
I've seen so many others over the years put it off to the point they looked ridiculous trying to fold over strands of hair and every single time, they look so much better and badass after the shave.
Whatever route you decide, I hope you're happy but just wanted to share my experience from a been-there-done-that baldy
I've been working myself slowly up to the buzz cut point the last couple years. That in itself took some doing. I have a hard enough time keeping the hair off my face, find it a major drag. Can't see myself putting myself though that much more expanding the hassle to the dome.
My baldness pattern is odd. I never had a receding hairline, it just got really thin on top. I still have hair on top, just very sparse. I wish that it would just stop growing because it's a real pain in the ass if you get lazy and let it get just a little bit too long so that it clogs the blades of your razor.
Over the last couple of years I've gotten more lazy about it and just set aside a half hour every 3rd or 4th Sunday for it.
My wife says that she prefers me bald and every time I shave my head she gets quite a bit friskier for the next week or so!!!
Pit Row
Just kidding. Well, kinda.
I’ve been on for around 10 years (on and off). Took a medication in my early 20’s that made me stop producing test naturally.
I cycle on and off, I know TRT is meant to get on and stay on but it doesn’t seem healthy to me. Most docs don’t prescribe an anti estrogen with it, and without it your nuts will start to hurt after a couple of months. If you weight lift you’ll put on quite a bit of size and strength and lose fat. And also get horrific arm pump when you ride lol.
There are a lot of pros and cons with it. My natural test level was crashed with a total test level of 180 at 21 years old so it was a no brainer for me. If you’re not deficient, regardless of your age I wouldn’t fool with it. Once you start toying with the balance of nature, you never really go back to normal.
Five years ago, I finally let the doc talk me in to high blood pressure meds. Once I heard the meds were a leading cause of erectile dysfunction, I started exercising and eating right.
Unfortunately, why I don’t like the VA. Anything that’s wrong with you, take a pill.
I’ve been shaving my head since I was about 21. Then again, I do have a perfectly round, “Charlie Brown” head.
It took me a long while to figure out that’s what it was, basically had to do my own research and be my own doctor. I was in my early 20s so it was hard for me to believe that I had low test when I’ve never had a major head or testicle injury. Eventually I got a blood test, saw my levels were dirt floor low. I was still dealing with the same doc that prescribed me paxil and her reasoning for my low levels was that I was working too much, I was in a long term relationship and not excited anymore, that I was complacent and stagnant... finally when I stumbled across a website called paxilprogress.com and found out about post SSRI discontinuation syndrome i knew I had found my answer, but the doctor was in absolute denial that Paxil could have caused it.
Testosterone was only a band aid to the issues it caused, and amongst other reasons I went down a bad path and developed a pretty serious addiction afterwards. I only divulge that to make this point - by a landslide, the most detrimental drug I’ve ever taken was given to me by a medical professional.
It sounds corny/cliche but it took me a long time to realize the impact of livin right and doing things the natural/healthy way is the only viable solution. In my first post I mentioned not wanting to try propecia for hair loss, when I was doing my research it mirrors the symptoms of SSRI’s for some.
10/10 would recommend, so much better when you decide to just let it go. Only downsides are (1) sunburns easily and (2) no hair to stop the sweat, so I sweat like a mad man
Some of them have maintained hair and its gotten stronger and thicker.
Some way or the road.
Im in same boat myself but it is what it is, gods plan, right?
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