I don't know, but anecdotally my dad has a full head of hair at 71 and I started shaving my hair at 30 because it was thinning too much. My grandpa was bald, too.So is there a consensus on how strong the whole genetic/mom side thing is in terms of hair loss? My grandpa on my mom's is into his 80s and still has a full head of hair. I'm 25 and have no indication of graying, thinning or hair loss. I realize it could still happen though. This thread has me scared. Losing your hair can be a death sentence for males.
Better spend thousands on stupid implants !Why is that bad advice? Shaving my head and growing a beard when I started losing my hair was the best advice I ever got.
The thing about getting baldness from your mom's side is a myth. It's a 50/50 shot just like any other recessive/dominant gene.So is there a consensus on how strong the whole genetic/mom side thing is in terms of hair loss? My grandpa on my mom's is into his 80s and still has a full head of hair. I'm 25 and have no indication of graying, thinning or hair loss. I realize it could still happen though. This thread has me scared. Losing your hair can be a death sentence for males.
Quickly find a girl while you have beautiful hair cause once you lost it gets harder and you may have to go for less attractive girls
How does the genetics work? The elder generation on my mothers side seem to either have a full head of hair or minor balding, whilst my father side have all gone bald.
Is the reaper coming for me?
Not really. As long as you're good looking hair doesn't matter too much.
Those are extremes though, you can have a way more flattering cut as a blading guy, and the left picture is perfect hair which most people won't have, and even if they have the hair it won't be styled that nicely.REMINDER:
Get on finasteride or dutasteride ASAP op. If that doesn't work I hear hair transplants are cheap in Turkey.
Finasteride is cheap af if you use a GoodRx (free) coupon.
I pay $12/mo.
Diwting or stress could cause "hair loss". I don't have the exact numbers but I think you're normally "losing" about 25% of your hair (means that it stops growing/fall off) under stress you might double that number.Okay, so this is going to be a bit strange. I'm a dude who's going to be eighteen in about two months. My whole life I've had really thick hair, but in the past few months I've started to lose it. It doesn't seem to be male pattern baldness; my hairline isn't receding as well as I can tell, and my genetics don't make it seem likely at all.
Right now I think it could be either a vitamin deficiency of some sort or stress. The latter is pretty viable: I started the year taking seven AP classes, two of which were online, but I was failing one so horribly that I had to drop it, and I've still struggled considerably. My hair has also been graying for a while, and that's only gotten worse. My grades have been poor and I've really struggled mentally and emotionally in the past few months. I say all this in case anyone's heard of a really stressful academic year causing these sorts of problems.
More than anything I'm just extremely frightened. I don't know what's happening to me, and while I don't think it's genetic, that is a harrowing but realistic possibility.
If necessary, I could upload photographs, but I'd rather not unless they're needed.
Noted, I'm taking 1mg rn. Now to convince my doc to get me with the 5mg.Dirty little secret about Finasteride is that the 1mg version of the pill (the one that's used to treat hair loss specifically) is marked up rampantly over its higher-dosage 5mg counterpart, which is used to treat prostate infections. Exact same medication, just the 5mg ones are slightly bigger and cost about 80% less. Buy the 5mg pills and split them up with a razor blade or a pill splitter and you save a shitload of money in the long term.
The pharma industry knows dudes will pay a lot of money to keep their hair, essentially.
Shouldn't have pissed off that gypsy, bro.
Joking aside, I feel your pain. My hairline has slowly been receding now for awhile and its been pretty terrifying.
Good hair is literally all I got going for me. If you still have some on the sides when its all over, just keep shaving it. Don't let your body costanza you.
Go bald and grow yourself a badass beard.
Aaand he's banned for ban dodging...honestly everyone has self image issues at that age. Best thing you can do is learn to love yourself. No one else will of you don't.
Also symmetry and skull shape is dumb. Stop listening to people that tell you it's important. Be a person worth being around, that's all that matters.