Around here they are pushing platelet rich plasma (PRP) treatments a lot. This seems like a newer development? Have no idea if it works.
Around here they are pushing platelet rich plasma (PRP) treatments a lot. This seems like a newer development? Have no idea if it works.
I have buzzed my hair for two years now. I definitely looked younger with hair, and have to admit the bald look is not great on a guy with a BMI below 22 like mine. But I also think I look way better now than when I was trying to cover it up for a year or two.
Eventually you quit caring. I don't even care enough to shave my head anymore, I just buzz it with clippers twice a week.
Some of the benefits:
I look older, more severe, and less youthful and affable. When I was 25, I had hair and was very fit and I sometimes caught young attractive women looking at me. That was nice and does not really happen anymore; but I looked young and ofter felt over looked at work. I changed jobs around the time I started having to shave. I generally feel people take me far more seriously now that I look older and a little more intimidating.
I save a lot of money. In my late 20s when my hair loss was minor and I did not shave it close I had to get three haircuts a month to keep my hair neat.
My appearance is consistent. I can get ready for any event in minutes.
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At first you will miss your hair, and honestly the vast majority of people look younger/better with hair. Bruce Willis is the exception. Eventually though you also realize it does not matter that much. It is a part of getting older.
Early 30s now wrote:
I have buzzed my hair for two years now. I definitely looked younger with hair, and have to admit the bald look is not great on a guy with a BMI below 22 like mine. But I also think I look way better now than when I was trying to cover it up for a year or two.
Eventually you quit caring. I don't even care enough to shave my head anymore, I just buzz it with clippers twice a week.
Some of the benefits:
I look older, more severe, and less youthful and affable. When I was 25, I had hair and was very fit and I sometimes caught young attractive women looking at me. That was nice and does not really happen anymore; but I looked young and ofter felt over looked at work. I changed jobs around the time I started having to shave. I generally feel people take me far more seriously now that I look older and a little more intimidating.
I save a lot of money. In my late 20s when my hair loss was minor and I did not shave it close I had to get three haircuts a month to keep my hair neat.
My appearance is consistent. I can get ready for any event in minutes.
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At first you will miss your hair, and honestly the vast majority of people look younger/better with hair. Bruce Willis is the exception. Eventually though you also realize it does not matter that much. It is a part of getting older.
How do you deal with the small little hairs that get all over when you cut twice a week? I use attachments to cut my own hair about once a month. The problem is that hair (a) gets all over the floor, and (b) gets on me, and the most annoying ones are the small ones from the side and back. The clean up process of my back / the floor is annoying, and I always wondered how guys who clip (not shave) often do it without spending all this time cleaning up.
Step 1: Use clippers at zero to trim hair (do this over the floor not the sink in your largest bathroom)
Step 2: Vacuum floor (if the vacuum is ready this takes just a few seconds)
Step 3: Shower (when I use clippers I always do it before I intend to shower)
Lol at anyone claiming that 'saving money on haircuts' is a 'positive' of balding. That would imply that
you are poor, and bald. Most of us would rather have our hair back and pay for haircuts.
If you are balding, Minoxdil + Finasteride + Nizoral could buy you up to a decade or more if you think possible side effects are worth it.
If you're an average male and start thinning in your 20s/30s and start on the treatments early, you'll be probably be married and have children by the time you are noticeably balding, and it's not as big of a deal at that point.
Hair transplants are obviously a cure, but expensive and as your hairline recedes further you'll need more transplants.
At some point they'll be able to clone your hair follicles and transplant them back in your head, albeit for a lot of money.
Most advancements in medical research in this country are made through NIH funding and talented scientists. The NIH is not going to fund research for male pattern baldness because they would consider it purely a cosmetic issue.
I've known friends, friends of, work associates, etc who have gotten results to a complete head of natural hair with the Propecia, Finasteride, etc. treatment. My late Grandpa was on a course of those two for Prostate and Hair basically down to a few strands in his mid eighties after 14 months on a cocktail of these two had a full head of Natural Srong hair. Around this time unfortunately his entire endocrine system started failing and suddenly had high bad cholesterol, BP.
I say Natural Strong hair because it was so good. Most transplant work the follicles eventually look like a doll and you can see a traced out line where the surgeon made the mark. Grandpa benefitting from the anti dht drugs had the receding hairline, smaller front line but all those areas were very thick.
There is currently a class action lawsuit against the big pharma anti dht prescriptions. The anti dht drugs can benefit and do work to regenerate the follicle. The side effects of taking your natural hormones are devastating. Proponents will say it actually increases free testosterone but the bloodwork and facts (Grandpa) show the useable, dht muscle definition "man" testosterone plummets. This is where everything from bedroom performance to simple run 3miles/day recovery is halted. The class action lawsuit is arguing these Side effects are irreversible. Based on big pharma I know they're thinking so what just add additional scripts for testosterone, hgh...
All this has deterred me from ever taking any prescription. The only thing left is transplant taking a set of follicles that grow and patching them all over the ones that are dormant then using PRP to help initial growth.
Anyone have any transplant stories/experiences? I actually met a successful business owner who went to Turkey for a hair transplant. Yes it was 300% less but he said it's because they're better
https://hairtransplantturkey.us/price/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjrqVv7C04AIVCdbACh3WkQE8EAAYAyAAEgLGxfD_BwE
They found something last year.
It isn't used for that purpose though:
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-44038756
https://www.medchemexpress.com/WAY-316606.html
It took me 20 years (32 to 52) to reach a mature hairline, which I rather like.
Extremely slow hair loss and thinning, but as an outlier still within the range. I suppose in 15 years I will have reached stage II, but will hardly care by then.
There are 7 stages. Norwood scale.
Stage I is marked by thinning around the temples and a slight recession that often goes unnoticed or ignored. By the time we get to Stage II, the balding near the temples has moved further inward, creating the common M-shaped hairline that is common in a lot of men.
I tried to get treated for male pattern BADness, but they said they'd have to cut down to the bone.
"What tha hel$ Have they been doing there?? Are we still in the Middle Ages? "
Yes, we are. Science and technology actually advances in dinosaur rates in all fields. Most research is ordered and funded by companies (instead of being funded by the state as it should) and is intended not to serve what people want, but instead what companies want -which is what will provide them with a fast ROI (Return Of Investment) at the minimum cost possible and at the minimum risk possible.
Profit-only driven research also means that if someone employed in a big pharma company accidentally found a simple, low cost cure for a major disease, it would be "unprofessional" to give such a one-time low cost "miracle" cure to the public and lose the profit from expensive, ineffective or partially-effective drugs that people have to pay for years.
In fact, we do live in New Middle Ages for more important reasons, but that's another story.
On the other hand, I personally don't care at all, as I've seen women respond the same or even better than before.
The reason is that hair is NOT women's top priority -other factors count far more (no, I'm not talking about money).
Another reason is that we are lucky that baldness is promoted for many years in the media and women have got used to this -it has even been connected to masculine.
It's been said that bald people f*** better ;)
Seriously now, the total impression you make is far more important than any isolated feature.
Whether or not and how you'll manage to make a much better impression than the next handsome hairy guy, it's up to you.
You can now get a hair transplant surgery for as little as $4,000, which often takes less than a week to recover from. That is a huge advancement in the medical community.
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You can now get a hair transplant surgery for as little as $4,000, which often takes less than a week to recover from. That is a huge advancement in the medical community.
Where? I posted the link for hair transplants in Turkey. Going over to Istanbul may seem shady but the Hair Transplant industry has been made by frustrated US customers...getting a procedure done for less than $3k with better results than stateside?
When all is said and done, the only people who really care about a man's hair are young women. Anyone else who claims to care is, in some way or another, worried about the opinion of young women, or judging based on the perceived inability to attract the same. It's dumb as all heck. I've worn my hair cropped very close for nearly 15 years and only realised I was balding when I went on a camping trip and it had grown out enough to see when I returned. The faster it falls out, the less I'll have to clip off when I shear myself every three weeks or so.
I don't think you can improve on the invention of the hat.
Humans adapt quickly to new circumstances.
Circumstances account for only 10% of one's happiness.
Research has shown that after a short period of time after cosmetic surgeries, happiness and life satisfaction for patients returns to pre-surgery levels.
Likewise, people with debilitating illness like diabetes are no less happy than you or I. Again, humans are built to cope with change.
Turns out, being bald doesn't make you any less happy. That's one reason why people don't really care.
DeBron Lames wrote:
Around here they are pushing platelet rich plasma (PRP) treatments a lot. This seems like a newer development? Have no idea if it works.
As far as I know, this only works if your balding is due to something OTHER than male pattern baldness. My sister does these hair treatments but has only seen actual benefits on women. Not on me.
If you want to keep your hair, hair transplant is the way to go. I paid $16,000 for the top doctor in the world (based in Vancouver) however nowadays, I have heard of people going to Eastern Europe and paying 1/4 of that. You won’t get as many hair follicles but it’s a lot cheaper.
That being said, even though I have a full head of hair, I would say if you can rock a buzz cut, go for it. I have a funny shaped head that is slightly crooked so I look weird. I look better with hair. But if I could rock a buzz cut, I would. They’re so easy and look way more masculine, in my opinion. But not all guys can pull it off.
wtfbbq wrote:
My sister does these hair treatments but has only seen actual benefits on women. Not on me.
Should read “Not on men.”