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  1. Marvin
    The reason we're all going bald is because for centuries, bald men have been able to find women who are willing to sleep with them.
  2. Marvin
    It causes hair to grow all over your body. I'm surprised that it's actually available orally.
  3. Marvin
    I'm coming up on my 2 year anniversary with Propecia. I had minimal side effects during the first few weeks (mostly pain...down there) but very little since. I am still shedding hair, but I look almost the same as I did two years ago. My crown looks like it has thickened a bit, so do my temples. The only difference is the center of my hairline (the slight widow's peak) where my hair looks thinner than it was two years ago. I don't think there has been any recession, just thinning.
  4. Marvin
    This is the result of bureaucracy. Finasteride has only been tested on the crown so it can only make claims about the crown. This doesn't mean that it doesn't work on the hairline, just that it can't claim to do so without breaking the law. I have been on finasteride for almost two years and I've experienced only slight thinning on my hairline in that time. I think it works there.
  5. Marvin
    Ultimately, hair will fall out whether you are rough with it or not. At most, shampooing gently will leave the hair in your scalp for just a short time longer.
  6. Blake Bloxham

    Marvin,

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  7. Marvin
    If it makes you feel better, you are not the worst 19 year old head of hair I've ever seen. Propecia/finasteride does can cause a lot of "shedding" when you first start taking it. You should wait 6-9 months before determining if Propecia is working or not for you. Remember: if you don't take Propecia, you will go bald with a probability of 100%. If you take it, the probability will be less than 100%. So even if Propecia causes some damage to your hair, it would have fallen out anyway.
  8. Marvin
    Yes this is a common side effect.
  9. Marvin
    Your crown from 2002 looks almost exactly like mine does now. The resemblance is uncanny, except for my hair being a slightly lighter color. I'm on finasteride and I'd be absolutely thrilled with results even half as good as yours!
  10. Marvin
    I agree with this. The most attractive girl I went to college with is now dating a NW3, and the most attractive girl in my apartment building is dating a NW6 (though she is middle eastern and it seems that baldness is more common in middle eastern men and perhaps more accepted in ME culture). I could go on and on with examples like this. Don't worry about baldness because of what others will think of you. Worry about baldness because of what you will think of yourself.
  11. Marvin
    I registered on this forum 1.5 years ago, started taking finasteride after posting about it, and had solid results with no sides. Out of nowhere, 1.5 years into taking the drug, I started getting side effects (ED). I have taken myself off it (didn't take it today) and am now reeling as to what to do. I might try lower doses, but it looks like I will be bald soon after all.
  12. Marvin
    You should give Finasteride at least 9-12 months. It's your best hope. I don't know anything about Dermatch...yet. Ask me again in a few years if Finasteride doesn't do its job.
  13. Marvin
    I am 23, have been taking finasteride (1 mg) for just over a year now, so I began when I was 22. I did not experience a noticeable shedding period. If I did, it was nowhere near as bad as what I was expecting after reading horror stories on this forum.
  14. Marvin
    I travel everywhere with several pills of generic finasteride in my carry-on luggage. Nobody has ever asked me about it or opened my luggage to look at it.
  15. Marvin
    The first picture makes it look like you are undergoing at least some miniaturization and thus may be in the first stages of going bald. But it's not really enough data. Diet is important for many things but is irrelevant for hair loss (except that malnutrition can cause reversible baldness that looks nothing like genetic male pattern baldness). The only treatment for baldness is medication: finnasteride or Rogaine.
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