My Hair Loss Story

Hair loss is one of the greatest challenges one can encounter in their life. I myself went through a lot of stressful stages in my life, and sadly on top of that I encountered hair loss at the age of 17. When hair loss was came in it made my life worst. I always questioned myself to why it couldn't be delayed till at the age of 40. In fact, even my father did not experience hair loss until the age of 50. Of course, then I told myself maybe hair loss should be something that I should ignore. At the age of 17, I discovered my hair loss when I went to a barber and told her to cut my hair short. I had wavy hair and it used to be thick. Therefore, with my type of hair either you can keep it long, or cut it short. You can't really chose a middle ground. Worst of all my hair never stayed still. If I had to combed it, in the next minutes it would automatically mess up. This was not the case with people with straight hair. Anyway I told the barber to cut my hair short. Unfortunately, the barber recommended that I would get a thinning, and I agreed. She thinned my hair and I looked horrible. Of course, I was only 17 and I though well it will eventually grow back. Guess what ? After that hair cut, my hair grew back but it left me with a receding hair line. One side of my temple was receded and there was nothing I could do about it. However, I managed to comb it over. On the frontal portion my hair was thin. Then at the age of 18, the other side of the temple started receding. Finally, by the age of 19, I had people telling me that I was balding. I eventually grew long hair, and at that stage nobody noticed my baldness. On the contrary, having waving hair and facing the wind, my hair would mess up and my receding hair line would expose itself. Then decided to get a buzz cut. By this time I was in college and not a lot of people knew about my baldness. However, after I buzzed my head my friend figured out my secret that I was balding. It was horrible. He used to say it to my face, that I was balding. At first, I used to really got hurt, however, after hearing it multiple times, I started getting used to it. I even tried to deal with it , by buying so called cures. In the end those cures turned out to be snake oils. I've tried He show Wu and another Chinese medication which I can't recall the name. I spend hundreds of dollar on these medicines, and they all turned out to be snake oils. Then I finally visited a dermatologist, and he recommended either Propecia or Rogaine. He told me that I would only have to take Propecia for 1 year and never take it again. On the contrary, what he recommended for hair loss was already on the net. Propecia gave people a decrease of Libido, and it was drug you had to take for a lifetime. In the end, he tried to deceive me so he can make money from the prescription. My friend who used to mock me for hair loss had a full head of hair, and he still didn't have the my luck when it came to communicating with girls. In fact he never even had a girl friend in his life, and now he is 27 years old. Therefore, I didn't think treating hair loss was that important that I had to decrease my libido. Besides, I wasn't 17 anymore. I was in my 20's. On top of that most women start hitting their peak of beauty at the age of 22. After that they have to spend hundred of dollar in cosmetics to maintain their appearnce. Therefore, I really didn't have much to worry about. However, I do have to look in the mirror everyday, and hair loss does bother me. Currently, I am 25 and in the norwood scale I believe I am a norwood 4.

This is my first blog. In my next blogs I will give a review on what works and what doesn't.