Hair Loss Solutions

[waspocrew]

Do you recommend sunscreen too? Which studies also show is terrible for your skin.

That's the only derail I'll leave this thread with. Sunshine is health for the body, scalp included.

I do.

You do you, man. Not worth my time arguing.

The 8 patients I removed skin cancers on today were all ranchers with plenty of sun exposure to keep their cheeks, ears, noses, and scalps “healthy”.

 

[Marbles]

Do you recommend sunscreen too? Which studies also show is terrible for your skin.

That's the only derail I'll leave this thread with. Sunshine is health for the body, scalp included.

Some sunscreen having harmful ingredients (true), is quite different than sunscreen being terrible (false).

Taking a truth and extending it beyond reason is foolish. It is a favorite social media pass time for many though.

This is as silly as a vegan arguing that because under cooked pork can give you trichinosis meat is terrible for health; or a liberal arguing that because guns are used to kill people guns are terrible.

 

[Maverick1]

Do you have other unattractive features?

I got em all. Bald, hairy, glasses, short.

Just shave it

What about "fat"? Doesn't that usually go with the group above? Short, fat, bald, hairy, glasses.....

 

[Rogue Bay]

I found in my late 20s I wasn't loosing my hair so much it was just relocating to my back. Been shaving my head for last 20ish years. I think our wedding photo, '04, was the last photo I have without a shaved head.

Mine started migrating south as well. Years ago. Some only as far south as my ears. Most of it to my back. I’ve been shaving my head for a long time and it sure makes life easier.

 

[Ferrulewax]

Who has successfully recovered their receding hair line or thinning hair? In my early 20's and have noticed my hair line has receded significantly last few years (probably a result of stress and years of graveyard shift). Overall, the hair I do have is relatively thick and full, just a horrible hairline at the moment.

I want to try and bring my hair back with natural or OTC treatments if possible. Anyone have experience with minoxidil? What else worked for you? I'm too young for this BS.

I'll chime in here- I'm a few years ahead of you.. I guess i'm late 20s now (yikes). I probably started loosing hair around 21-22 and tried most of the easy stuff- Nioxin shampoo, biotin supplements, and minoxodil topical. My hair loss was primarily receding hairline from the front. As for the treatments, I do think it helped slow down the process for me, particularly at first. It at least bought be a couple of years to have plenty of hair at my wedding, haha. I had enough hair to not get made fun of until around 27ish, but then after seeing a few photos of the back of my head, I knew it was time. All that said, I was not a super disciplined user of those products, I would miss a day here or there, or wouldn't apply topical on trips.

For me, the juice just wasn't worth the squeeze after a while. My genetics are ROUGH (dad and paternal grandpa are quite bald, as were my mom's 3 brothers and her dad) I quit using products maybe 3-6 months before I accepted my fate as a head shaver. I could tell that things were definitely still moving in that direction. Crap gets expensive over time, and I knew it wasn't something I wanted to deal with long term, although I admitttedly do wish I had hair, haha. I do think that the oral medications are probably the best thing going, but if I were you and I was serious about keeping my hair as long as I could- I would go ahead and hit the ground running with the works- talk to a dr. or one of the online hair loss programs and just start with everything from the get go.

I will also say, almost every guy lets themselves go way past the point they should have started shaving their heads. When it's time, it's time.

TLDR: being bald isn't great, but it's not as annoying as all the alternatives- at least for me. Find a good girl while you have hair, marry her, and then let yourself go bald.

 

[Marbles]

Mine started migrating south as well. Years ago. Some only as far south as my ears. Most of it to my back. I’ve been shaving my head for a long time and it sure makes life easier.

I don't have to shave my head, but I do shave my ears, that or my wife will rip it of my ears once it is an inch or two in length.

 

[Billy Goat]

Why everyone against the skullet?



You don't loose hair, it just migrates.

Don't think mine went far, little on the upper back, mostly the ears. Like, its actually pretty damn impressive.




And we have gone from admins trying to remove hair to trying to keep it. What has happened? Full circle?

 

[Hnthrdr]

What about "fat"? Doesn't that usually go with the group above? Short, fat, bald, hairy, glasses.....

You just described me to a T!!!!

 

[fngTony]

I wish I could lose some hair.

We have a thread for that

 

[Billy Goat]

You just described me to a T!!!!

It's fluffy

 

[Billy Goat]

Anyone else benefit from a reduction of the unibrow with the hair migration?

 

[Hnthrdr]

It's fluffy

It’s how I get close to animals they deem me very cute and harmless… who am I kidding I am mostly harmless haha

 

[dirtshooter]

Oral hair meds or any hair meds starting in your 20s is a long time to use and pay for them. There's a reddit forum dedicated to this topic, lots of people have great success and literally regrow their entire scalp but man that's a lot of long term meds if you plan on keeping that head of hair into your 70s and 80s

 

[Rogue Bay]

I don't have to shave my head, but I do shave my ears, that or my wife will rip it of my ears once it is an inch or two in length.

My wife takes great pleasure it that too! I try my best to keep them tamed but she always manages to find one or too that I missed. Then laughs like hell as she rips them out.

 

[displacedtexan]

I do.

You do you, man. Not worth my time arguing.

The 8 patients I removed skin cancers on today were all ranchers with plenty of sun exposure to keep their cheeks, ears, noses, and scalps “healthy”.

My dad's uncle is a lifetime rancher, didn't use sun protection because he built a tolerance and didn't need it...

"I've paid for a dermatologist's entire career in the past few years"