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thanks for the replies
The only thing I can add is to see a counselor/shrink.probably would have been useful 7 months again - i told my family how i felt at the time, maybe that also helped a bit
might consider trying some toppik or dermmatchi thought about that and it probably would help - i might add it later down the road if my hair thins more
make sure to use Nizoral Shampoo at least a couple times a week as well to help fight the scalp DHT. I wish that I had started using it earlier.i had no idea people actually found a difference with Niz, i'll definitely add it - i'll post another pic next year and see if anything has changed
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Hey again
I've been on Propecia and Minoxidil now for 7 months and been doing lots of gym-ing and studying - this was/is good advise and i highly recommend it to others.
the posted pic is (on my side that is most receded) after 7 months of treatment. u can see my before pic in the first window.
i decided to get my eyebrows dyed and i tried to get more prominent eyelashes to draw attention to the lower half of my face. On a day-to-day basis hair loss hasn't been depressing since starting treatment.
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i am 18 and in the future want to have kids, would this effect me
that's not listed as a side effect and a number of people conceived during the dutasteride study (dut is more potent then fin).
having watery semen is a dead give-away that you are on real fin as well
goodluck with your hair
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I got a prescription from a doctor for propecia and purchased 2 months supply from a local pharmacy store. I then tried propecia from one of those online pharmacies and i got the same mild sexual side effects from that tablet. it coud be placebo of course and there are fakes out there. whatever course of action you take make sure u understand the costs and benefits and risks. Propecia, minoxidil and nixion are all very good products. goodluck with your fight against hair loss.
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definitely use what that guy said. Nizoral shampoo is also on the list of hair loss products to use - most people use it twice a week.
i've used a few suspect online pharmacies and all of them have delivered what i ordered. the one i found to be the best which was recommended by a number of other people on other forums was inhouse pharmacy. i realise this is not a canadian pharmacy.
the cheapest method of using propecia is to split the 5 gram tablets into 4. Proscar has been tested by a number of people and has always been as it says [Finasteride 5mg].
[i've attached a pic of what i received in the mail. its not proscar but they do deliver]
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Thanks for the replies; I spoke to a few family and friends about it and some of them had a bit of an outburst when they saw their hair receding but got over it. The advice was to cut it short and not worry about it. What I wrote before was a really warped view of my life; it’s not that bad. Oddly enough the girls at university (college) have said that I look good with my hair cut the way it is. Initially I interpreted it to make me feel better but that doesn’t make any sense because I haven’t said that I was worried about my hair to any of them. I think I need to find where I stand socially to be comfortable with how I look.
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note: Please only read this if you like story time
My male pattern baldness started when I was 12 (I had a very early puberty) and I first notice small arches appear on my face. Every subsequent haircut I noticed less hair on my head. It didn’t particularly bother me at the time since my hair was red, I had bad acne and I had bright freckles; you couldn’t really tell what my face looked like. After I turned 12 I avoided most social situations and escaped real life in books, computer games and comfort food. I wasn’t very depressed but I did (still do) have a lot of anxiety.
Sometime after I turned 20 my Grandma said that my skin looked nice and upon closer inspection I agreed. This is going sound shallow but I really wanted to investigate this to the full extent. I started exercising regularly, studying more, eating healthy foods, allowing myself to have friends and go out and finally researching about emotions/ self esteem / mental health issues. The researching was to have a better understanding of people and thus have softer facial expressions that are empathetic toward people; even models look ugly with sneers, smirks and frowns. But I never knew what to do with my hair; quite a few people said to me that I needed to do something with it. I decided try getting it cut very short (lots of people said it looks good on guys with a receding hairline) and that’s when my problem started. When I looked in the mirror, instead of feeling the usual pit in my stomach; I had it in my chest and it was much worse. I’ve never felt the emotion before but I’d say I felt despair; it was like the child inside me died at that point. I hate my hairline; it looks like it belongs on a 40 year old, not me at 21. I don’t know what to do at the moment; I feel like shit; can someone please look at my pictures and honestly say whether I need to change my attitude or get something done about my hairline.
please help; do I fix the look or fix the attitude.
in Support Group - Discuss personal issues due to Hair Loss
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That’s very unfortunate.
does your current hair loss treatment work?
You might find my experience of interest.
About a day or two after I started taking Propecia I became sexually disinterested in general. For around two months I didn’t feel any sexual desire, become horny or have wood. I returned to how I was before taking Propecia on the same day that I realized that an overly friendly guy was ‘hitting’ on me.
I didn’t draw any conclusion about Propecia side effects, as there are many possibilities about why this happened. Maybe it was all coincidence and propecia had nothing to do with it; maybe I had psychosomatic symptoms; maybe I have real side effects but had a large improvement to my libido, which brought me back up to pre-Propecia.
I do consider myself lucky as I’m on Propecia and I’m happy with the way things currently are - i had some blood tests after taking fin for 3 months and I'll be getting some more in a month or two.