Young Loser

Thanks for the responses all, I have decided against a HT. Thanks again.

Yeah I have decided against a transplant for sure, at least at this age. Thanks all :-)

My hair loss and the waering of a hair system has caused me more stree than even the death of someone very close to me a few years ago. I remember the stress and agony that caused me, but somehow this has caused more. Maybe because it alters me physically and for life and its not somthing you can "get over" it is a problem with no REAL solution. So after much frustration I am thinking VERY seriously about losing the piece ahd shaving off what remains. Sure I'll be bald but DAMN all this stress will be GONE. No longer will I have to fear, basically EVERYTHING, swimming, girls touching my head, convertibles, going out at all, etc. I cannot live like this and I see no other options as I am too young for a transplant and we aren't "cool" enough to clone hairs yet and when we are only celeberties will probably be able to afford it. So I'm thinking about shaving it all off, only trouble is who knows how it will look? Also the fact that I'm just average, not made of musicle so I may look very silly or unintentinally homosexual and I dont mean to offend anyone but you porlly know what I mean. Plus if I shave my head don't I have to get a tatoo aond rob people and smoke weed and stuff? Oh no? Ok just checking ;-)

My hair loss and the waering of a hair system has caused me more stree than even the death of someone very close to me a few years ago. I remember the stress and agony that caused me, but somehow this has caused more. Maybe because it alters me physically and for life and its not somthing you can "get over" it is a problem with no REAL solution. So after much frustration I am thinking VERY seriously about losing the piece ahd shaving off what remains. Sure I'll be bald but DAMN all this stress will be GONE. No longer will I have to fear, basically EVERYTHING, swimming, girls touching my head, convertibles, going out at all, etc. I cannot live like this and I see no other options as I am too young for a transplant and we aren't "cool" enough to clone hairs yet and when we are only celeberties will probably be able to afford it. So I'm thinking about shaving it all off, only trouble is who knows how it will look? Also the fact that I'm just average, not made of musicle so I may look very silly or unintentinally homosexual and I dont mean to offend anyone but you porlly know what I mean. Plus if I shave my head don't I have to get a tatoo aond rob people and smoke weed and stuff? Oh no? Ok just checking ;-)

Can't say I ever combed over in the groin area, however in order to concel my hair loss I combed over. I had hairs growing from the back and crown of the head that were unGodley long, they hit my thinning in the temple areas. Then before you knew it i was wearing a hair system so no one ever knew the difference. Then again now a year later, satisfaction has not been reached, but I've alread posted my thoughts previously so I'd just like to say I remember the combover days and kinda like these days they were a nightmare.

Wow I think your shaved head looks better, I woud have suggested to do you doing that some time ago. So the scar is really the noticable thing I guess, the place of the transplant just kinda looks red and stuff, *shrugs*. Thanks a lot for your responses tho!

Ok so if like 10 days post op I shaved my head, is like the HT area going to be WAY different looking than the rest? If not, then awesome because I wouldn't mind shaving it in that case.

All younger hair loss members, I'd like to "meet" you so if you could post here. If you think you qualify as young, feel free to post here. I just want to see what you all are doing for your hair loss, how you are feeling, your age, etc. HOpefully we can support each other. No offense to the older membmers but to me it just seems WAY worse to loose hair at an age like 17. I don't think I would even mind starting to lose it at like 40 or so, it would MAKE MORE SENSE because I was getting older, it is a part of life and I just accept that. But this? 17 I'm NOT supposed to have htis happen NOW. Of course I am 19 now. Plus I say those things but if I was actually in taht situation I can't (and never will be able to) say if that would be true, at 40 I prolly still WOULD care. Please post :-)

All younger hair loss members, I'd like to "meet" you so if you could post here. If you think you qualify as young, feel free to post here. I just want to see what you all are doing for your hair loss, how you are feeling, your age, etc. HOpefully we can support each other. No offense to the older membmers but to me it just seems WAY worse to loose hair at an age like 17. I don't think I would even mind starting to lose it at like 40 or so, it would MAKE MORE SENSE because I was getting older, it is a part of life and I just accept that. But this? 17 I'm NOT supposed to have htis happen NOW. Of course I am 19 now. Plus I say those things but if I was actually in taht situation I can't (and never will be able to) say if that would be true, at 40 I prolly still WOULD care. Please post :-)

Ok so I am very young (19) and I have worn a hair system for about a year now. With the combination of my young age and how I present myself. In addition to the fact that I was able to hide my hair loss by using long hairs from the back part of my head and combing forward you would never know I had hair loss. The system was on before anyone knew any different and it was about the same length as my old hair and so I think I was very successful in fooling people at least in that regard. Or I could be blindingly mistaken, in any case, I have taken A LOT of measures and gone to some extremities to hide my baldness from the world and I believe I have been successful thus far. Only problem is if I get a HT, won't everyone know? Because I'll have to take off the system and then everyone will see my bald area and I'll go from looking like I have all this hair to suddenly having this huge bald area on the top of my head and stuff and I have to go to college and see people everyday. WHAT can I do? Is there anyway I could like, get the transplant done at like a holiday or off period I could take (thanksgiving break, spring break, summer break) and basically stay off the radar completley for like 2 weeks so I can get and have post time for my transplant, then after 2 weeks or so simpley put the hair system back on and wait it out with the system until the transplant hair grows? Checking every 3 weeks or so when I go in to Hair Club for their, "serives" or whatever they are calling it to take my money. If I could do this, get the transplant and then use the system to keep things a secret, then a year after the surgery (or whenever I feel comfortable that the transplant looks good, could be earlier) I could quit with the damn hair system and no one would be the wiser except myself. I would cut my hair a lot shorter since I know the density wouldn't be the same, this way it would just look as if I got a haircut when in reality in secret I had gotten a hair transplant and ceased wearing a hair system. Because I tell you, friends, I cannot stand this thing much longer, it is a NIGHTMARE, worse than the one on Elm Street, its jsut BAD. Yet it is better than being bald so thats all I've got for now. Wow I ramble don't I? Ok I'm done, I would appreciate responses, thanks so much al!

Ok so I am very young (19) and I have worn a hair system for about a year now. With the combination of my young age and how I present myself. In addition to the fact that I was able to hide my hair loss by using long hairs from the back part of my head and combing forward you would never know I had hair loss. The system was on before anyone knew any different and it was about the same length as my old hair and so I think I was very successful in fooling people at least in that regard. Or I could be blindingly mistaken, in any case, I have taken A LOT of measures and gone to some extremities to hide my baldness from the world and I believe I have been successful thus far. Only problem is if I get a HT, won't everyone know? Because I'll have to take off the system and then everyone will see my bald area and I'll go from looking like I have all this hair to suddenly having this huge bald area on the top of my head and stuff and I have to go to college and see people everyday. WHAT can I do? Is there anyway I could like, get the transplant done at like a holiday or off period I could take (thanksgiving break, spring break, summer break) and basically stay off the radar completley for like 2 weeks so I can get and have post time for my transplant, then after 2 weeks or so simpley put the hair system back on and wait it out with the system until the transplant hair grows? Checking every 3 weeks or so when I go in to Hair Club for their, "serives" or whatever they are calling it to take my money. If I could do this, get the transplant and then use the system to keep things a secret, then a year after the surgery (or whenever I feel comfortable that the transplant looks good, could be earlier) I could quit with the damn hair system and no one would be the wiser except myself. I would cut my hair a lot shorter since I know the density wouldn't be the same, this way it would just look as if I got a haircut when in reality in secret I had gotten a hair transplant and ceased wearing a hair system. Because I tell you, friends, I cannot stand this thing much longer, it is a NIGHTMARE, worse than the one on Elm Street, its jsut BAD. Yet it is better than being bald so thats all I've got for now. Wow I ramble don't I? Ok I'm done, I would appreciate responses, thanks so much al!

Some of this post op stuff I have been reading sounds pretty bad. Things like basically saying I would have to stop exercising and lifting weights for ike 3 months. Is this really true? What about sexual activity? etc. Thanks a lot. By the way I have had no surgery done at all, I am just asking as one of my many precautionary and research methods as I continue to investigate HTs.

Some of this post op stuff I have been reading sounds pretty bad. Things like basically saying I would have to stop exercising and lifting weights for ike 3 months. Is this really true? What about sexual activity? etc. Thanks a lot. By the way I have had no surgery done at all, I am just asking as one of my many precautionary and research methods as I continue to investigate HTs.

I can relate, I mean I've talked to other guys (when at hair club) and they are always like man it was so bad when I lost my hair as I was in my 30's or 40's or whatever the case was (although these seem to be more common ages that I heard) but then I tell them how at 17ish it was going and FAST they just can't imagine it. It is quite devastating and I have zero self esteem, or maybe its into the negatives now? Anyway a hair club system helped me regain confidence, for a time, but now I can't stand the thought of this damn thing on my head, plus it costs a pretty penny every month (WAY more than a hair transplant when its all said and done, i.e. by the time I'm dead I will have paid like a millino dollars, ok not really but you get me, that was a hyperbole) and it often dries out so the color doesn't match, plus its BAD trying to be with girls, I cannot enjoy ANYTHING cuz I"m too terrified the damn thing might come off, same with any windy situations like rididng in convertibles, roller coasters and other things like swimming. Its just BAD, your nerves are just too high and u almost just want to stay inside and never go out and see people ever. So being fed up with this whole thing, I am left with two options, SHAVE this puppy, or look into HT. COnsidering I want to go into acting, I think HT gives me more options. Basically Im' just showing and telling you that I feel for you, its unbarable.

First off no I am not African American, however I think the reason it is not talked about or is less common, is well, AFrican American males tend to look A LOT better with shaved or bald heads then caucasions (i dont even know if i spelled it right) or white males. AFrican Americans can pull off this look and it often looks good, possibley even better than they might look with hair. As a result I'm very jealous lol, so this is my opinion as to why things are this way, they don't need a HT to look good, so why get one.

I may be biased considering I am 19 and have loster hair in the temple areas and have a bald spot in the back, however gith now I am wearing a hair club bio matrix. For now.........anyway back to the point, that being it is silly to say someone is too young. Why are they too young? So they have to spend the next 10 years in agony until they reach the correct age and THEN they can have their procedure, after everyone already knows what has happened to them and their younger days have passed them by? Why do you expect such things? Like you two I am looking into hair transplant, the hair system hair club has is a good TEMPORARY solution as you research the topic and your other options, don't jump into anything too quickly. I feel your pain bros, TRUST me.