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Why did you remove the link? I thought The Telegraph was fairly reputable. Although, I'm not sure of that, and I noticed what one poster pointed out was true: nothing in the article itself mentions the two years that the title claims.

since you have your head shaved anyways, you might as well rub some anti-scar cream on it. why not?

Scar looks pretty good in close-up pics, but that is a nasty ass scar no matter what/who does it IMHO. You can cut your hair really short and it's not too noticeable, but bald just doesn't work. Kind of makes me sad when I see OK looking bald dudes to know that I will never be able to cut it (if I needed to) and be free with it and never worry about it again like them, but I just gotta remind myself that I do not look like those dudes bald.

I've heard different things, but my doc said 1 month without any exercise, 3 before lifting weights.

It's been 3.5 weeks since my HT, and I can firmly say that the whole not exercising thing is killing me. I'm not 100% sure why, because there have certainly been times that I chose not to exercise for that duration, but I suppose I had other outlets. How did you others cope with it? No exercising and no dating is driving me insane. I met a pretty cool girl at a party last night while wearing a hat, but didn't ask for her number. I just feel like it's messed up to expect anyone to start dating a dude during this ugly ass phase of the HT process--like it's disrespectful to the girl (unless you have some extreme, amazing connection). Today I feel like I'm going insane, I just want to scream or go kayaking or do SOMETHING extreme because of the cooped up feeling I've got. For the first few weeks I was coping by just eating absolute junk food constantly (cookie dough, ice cream treats), but that's worn old and lost all appeal to me now. I also started drinking on a nightly basis, which is not normal for me. Unfortunately, for other reasons, I'll have to go at least TWO MORE WEEKS before getting any physical exercise. The thought of which is absolutely daunting.

I wore that little blue medical hat through the airport, and it was hilarious how people acted towards me and looked at me (or didn't look at me). Also, my eyes were swelled up like I'd taken a beating. Airports are so diverse, though, it's not a huge deal. Honestly, if you're that concerned about the hot girl in front of you, you're not ready for this. That girl was not going to fuck you anyways. You need to understand that people who know you very well and will judge you and will actually remember this are going to see you before you look good--probably while you still look like shit. So you better be in it for the long haul. I just had my first day back at work today, and it was interesting. I didn't admit to people that I'd had something done, but it was fairly obvious, and I kind of smiled and acted coy when peoples' questions got specific ("why is there scabbing?"). My boss is totally bald and his reaction was pretty funny. I told him I just buzzed it up and he smiled at me like he knew I was full of shit and I smiled back like I knew he knew I was full of shit, but I didn't care.