I'm going to ask my doctor about the pains on Monday (he left already for the weekend) so I'll keep an eye on it. If I notice it keeping up into tomorrow I might cease use. The problem is, as I said, I get pains in there from my skeleton adjusting to my body's changes (usually in the front breast or in the lats), so it's hard to say. My pulse doesn't seem to be going up, though.
I think I'm more afraid to go to the gym just because my perfectly combed hair comes undone and starts letting the world know how much my hair has regressed. When combed, my hair actually just about covers the hair line (though thinly in the front. When pulled back, there's mostly just a small V left. It's pretty damn ugly when I get out of the shower, though, and I'm getting tired of trying to cover it.
My hair's always weighed so much that above maybe half an inch it ends up getting weighed down and falling flat, so it's hard to tell just how much is gone as well. I used to just buzz it as a kid since there really wasn't much I could do to style it. Unfortunately my head is way too big to wear it bald between how tall and wide it is and the flap of tissue on the back (my brother's the lucky one. He looks great shaved). I've been this close to shaving it all off and accepting fate the last few weeks, but I just know it isn't going to look right on me. On top of that, because I can't style it I can't even create a good look with less than perfect coverage.
I'll take a read over the weekend on Proscar. I got my dermatologist to write me a prescription for Propecia that should arrive in the mail by Monday. I'm going to go ahead and get some opinions on what it would take to do a transplant even though I know I can't do much for at least 6 months to a year just so I get an idea of what's possible. I'm also foolishly hopeful that the hair replication technique will pass Phase II with flying colors and be not far off by then.