Steven545

I'm a pretty modest person, and with a full head of hair I felt like I was a pretty attractive person. Confidence perfectly fine. I started to thin/the hairline was going. I'm on prop/rogaine/nizoral, have been for nearly 7 months now and it's not doing much for me. It sucked, but I've started to come to terms with it. Part of me actually wants to shave the head clean, granted I know I won't look as good as when I had full hair, I somewhat like the idea of completely bald. Until today. I buzzed my hair just to get an idea. There is no exaggeration in this statement: My head shape is royally screwed up. From the front I look fine, from the side...my god. It honestly looks deformed (from the vertex back, rather than round it's flat). MPB runs in the family, so I'm destined to lose it all up top, so a hair transplant is out of the question. My head is horribly, horrrrrribly mis-shaped, shaving clean is out of the question. Combover, no way. Shaving it all seems to be the only way to really go once enough is lost and there is no way in hell I can pull that one off. The stress caused from balding was unreal. The stress now from seeing just how horribly shaped my head is...way worse. Is anyone in a similar position? Wtf are any reasonable options....

I'm a pretty modest person, and with a full head of hair I felt like I was a pretty attractive person. Confidence perfectly fine. I started to thin/the hairline was going. I'm on prop/rogaine/nizoral, have been for nearly 7 months now and it's not doing much for me. It sucked, but I've started to come to terms with it. Part of me actually wants to shave the head clean, granted I know I won't look as good as when I had full hair, I somewhat like the idea of completely bald. Until today. I buzzed my hair just to get an idea. There is no exaggeration in this statement: My head shape is royally screwed up. From the front I look fine, from the side...my god. It honestly looks deformed (from the vertex back, rather than round it's flat). MPB runs in the family, so I'm destined to lose it all up top, so a hair transplant is out of the question. My head is horribly, horrrrrribly mis-shaped, shaving clean is out of the question. Combover, no way. Shaving it all seems to be the only way to really go once enough is lost and there is no way in hell I can pull that one off. The stress caused from balding was unreal. The stress now from seeing just how horribly shaped my head is...way worse. Is anyone in a similar position? Wtf are any reasonable options....

Oh I'll definitely be going through with the test myself. Just wondering what to expect in some areas for the future. Thanks a lot youngsuccess and its752!

The right side of my hairline and temple is already in bad shape, a nice chunk of hair is already gone with more thinning occurring. The left side isn't remotely as bad. I've started taking propecia in hopes of this coming to a halt. I've read up a little and had some questions answered by the doctor and I intend on reading up a lot more, but If anyone could answer these questions I would greatly greatly appreciate it! - I understand it may take up to 6 months to see noticeable results, however, does this mean that my hair could continue to thin and the already thinning parts fade away? Basically, since I'm on the drug now can I assume I will retain all the hair I currently have? Or is it possible for more hair loss up until the 3-6 month mark? - I'm on propecia at a fairly young age seeing as I will easily be on it for 30+ years. Disregard this on a person to person basis. Is it likely for the average person that propecia may stop working and the hair will continue to thin/fall out after so much time? The rest of my hair is perfectly fine, it's the right side of the hairline/temple that is BAD, I'm giving propecia a good year just to see how things go, but a small HT to fix that hairline sounds so nice, but, if it's a situation where the rest of my hair could fall out years later that seems like both a pointless and bad idea. Any comments or posts would be greatly, greatly appreciated! Thanks!

The right side of my hairline and temple is already in bad shape, a nice chunk of hair is already gone with more thinning occurring. The left side isn't remotely as bad. I've started taking propecia in hopes of this coming to a halt. I've read up a little and had some questions answered by the doctor and I intend on reading up a lot more, but If anyone could answer these questions I would greatly greatly appreciate it! - I understand it may take up to 6 months to see noticeable results, however, does this mean that my hair could continue to thin and the already thinning parts fade away? Basically, since I'm on the drug now can I assume I will retain all the hair I currently have? Or is it possible for more hair loss up until the 3-6 month mark? - I'm on propecia at a fairly young age seeing as I will easily be on it for 30+ years. Disregard this on a person to person basis. Is it likely for the average person that propecia may stop working and the hair will continue to thin/fall out after so much time? The rest of my hair is perfectly fine, it's the right side of the hairline/temple that is BAD, I'm giving propecia a good year just to see how things go, but a small HT to fix that hairline sounds so nice, but, if it's a situation where the rest of my hair could fall out years later that seems like both a pointless and bad idea. Any comments or posts would be greatly, greatly appreciated! Thanks!