What does Veeky Forums think about the prospect of men just starting to use Rogaine (or similar products) in their 20s, regardless of whether or not they're going bald? just as an insurance policy against going bald.
I am assuming that Rogaine doesn't do much to regrow hair, but does prevent the onset of balding, which seems to be agreed upon by many people.
So to prevent balding, should men (at least those who care about balding) just bring Rogaine into their everyday routine once they get into their 20s?
You can get a brandname Rogaine for something like £10-£15/month. Even at double dosage, that's still only £20-£30/month. I haven't researched it, but there may be cheaper generic products as well. So cost really isn't a factor.
Hair covers my head, but it looks much thinner around the crown. I don't have a nice little hair parting at the crown of my head; rather, the hair around my crown tends to stick out in every which way, making the scalp very visible in the same way as you might see the scalp of someone who gels their hair up. Sometimes it makes me paranoid and I think I'd like to choose the safe option of rogaining. On top of that, I don't wash my hair with any products anyway, since I think they're bad for the natural oils the skin produces. So expenditure on anti-balding shit would be just making up for my lack of expenditure on any other cosmetic products.
Anyone feel similar? Anyone using hair growth products to prevent balding?
Men used to wear big gay wigs until the last couple of hundred years. So it's not like worry about balding is new.
Also, all of this makes me wish there were just some pill form of the anti-balding shit. I'd be much more likely to swallow a pill every day than spray shit in my hair. Probably there is some kind of pill, thinking about it, but I've never heard of one, so they probably aren't as effective.
Camden Garcia
That's as retarded as starting wearing progressive glasses when you're 30 just because your vision will inexoraby get weaker with time.
tl;dr: you're a fucking retard
Nicholas James
B
Christopher Clark
>shilling this obvious
Sajeeded, repponted
Jaxon Sanchez
Except it isn't. Wearing glasses when you don't need them ruins your eyesight, but if a hair follicle dies the only option left is hair transplants. Not letting them die in the first place is a good option.
Justin Parker
>being tied to a drug for your whole life Fucking degenerate.
Jason Diaz
>implying people don't take many drugs daily anyway
Brandon Peterson
I take zero drugs daily, and almost zero drugs yearly (exception being made to alcohol sometimes).
Mason Powell
>drinks alcohol >calls others degenerates
Bentley Jones
So you don't drink coffee or (non-herbal) tea? Either way if that's true, you're not in the majority
Jack Mitchell
>drinking red wine sometimes with moderaton >degenerate >not basking in those anti-ox Pls begone and stuff your mouth daily with your pills and shit.
Carter Scott
It isn't really much of an inconvenience though, is it? It takes about as much time as washing with shampoo, I'd imagine. Cut that 30 seconds to 1 minute of shampoo time out, and replace it with 30 seconds of anti-balding time?
Andrew Young
... cont:
Actually, now that I think about it that way: Shouldn't men really be spending their money on anti-balding products rather than shampoos? You don't even fucking need shampoo.
Evan Allen
Just offering advice to those losing their hair.
My hairline started to seriously recede a few years ago at 21 but i've figured out a way to grow it back naturally.
Stop washing your hair with shampoo. Used the hot/cold water cleaning method.
Cut out really salty food and food with refined sugar.
2 X20 min head massages a day.
I shit you not my hair has grown back.
Evan Clark
i think you are retarded beyond a doubt. Stop being so insecure
I stated losing my hair in my early 20s but i didn't know you could go bald early. I thought it was an old man thing like you got old lost your teeth and hair. It wasn't until my late 20s that i realised and did something about it. I take fin every day and i look at it like the pills cost $250 a year you ask any bald man if he would pay $250 a year to have his hair back and all of them would say yes.
Daniel Lee
there is you cretin
Lucas Nguyen
Did you have any regrowth? Or did you stop balding?
Adrian Taylor
I caught it pretty early i had some thinning on my temples and at the crown but ive been taking the drugs for probably six years now and i have completely stopped losing hair. It looks exactly the same today as it did six years ago. And no side effects.
Ayden Gonzalez
I see. You don't think much of minoxidil?
Charles Bennett
Fuck that trying to get your hair back shit Your body is doing something, don't fight it, its your natural course
EMBRACE it. George Costanza it.
Isaac Perry
>todays task >kill self Toplel
But I want hair like this guy.
It's potentially a small price to pay. Splash some minoxidil on your head twice a day, at a cost of, what, less than £1/$1 a day?
Zachary Peterson
Whoops, hair like this guy*
Juan Jones
Taking 40 minutes to massage your head every day is fucking crazy.
Hudson Thompson
If you go bald, just accept it. Stuffing medicine down your throat is almost never a solution
Elijah Murphy
I just don't see how it isn't like using shampoo.
Almost everyone spends 30 seconds each day shampooing their hair. Switching that for putting minoxidil on your hair, or swallowing a fin pill, seems preferable.
Gabriel Ramirez
Found the baldlet
Connor Gonzalez
"guy"
John Brooks
>He fell for the anti-oxidants meme >Post-2003
Jordan Bailey
Jesus, the insecurity on this board is staggering. Just kill yourself, OP.
Hunter Walker
If your hair is thinning and you are a man you always have the option of just shaving your head.
Ayden Evans
THIS
sage and reported
Eli Hughes
You're a fucking moron, OP
Minoxidil's effect is to increase blood flow to the follicles so that they produce hair once they've stopped producing, or start for the first time when used on the face etc.
It has no long-term effect (hair that was previously lost will be lost again if you stop taking it) and so using it pre-emptively is literally pointless.
Once again, you're a moron
Ayden King
>not injecting 100mg test 2x a week for life.
Samuel Kelly
I understand all of that.
My point is: I spend 0 money on cosmetics at the moment, but I'd quite like to keep my hair. Spending
Oliver Butler
...cont >To my mind it makes sense for men to stop buying shampoo and start spendng that money on hair-loss prevention. The crux of the matter here is that even if you don't end up having the balding gene, that hair-loss treatment may still make your har thicker, which is better than what shampoo does, I think.
Obviously, all of this depends on whether or not you think the hair-loss prevention/regrowth products actually work.
Ian Moore
Lol. Go ahead and waste your money on snake oil you insecure faggot.
Bentley Roberts
tldr minoxidil wont do shit your only choice is taking a risk and swallowing the infamous pill
William Ramirez
yeah i'd say go for it. altho i've heard rogaine often just delays the inevitable by a few years. the only thing that stops it completely for most people is fin and i'd be very cautious starting that. some men report permanent side effects: sexual disfunction, anxiety, enlarged breasts, constant dissociation. makes sense since testosterone causes balding and these things are all influenced by hormones.
good luck OP
Nicholas Lewis
Been applying rogaine to my face for massive beard gains and in 3 months I am able to grow a completely full beard (its not as fast for others, I guess I had the genetics, it's just that I was too impatient to wait for them to kick in naturally) Rogaine lowers your blood pressure, because it's an alcohol based solution. You can feel your blood pressure lowered when you're on it. If you would apply it non stop for your whole life you would have low pressure for the rest of your life. thats the main setback that i can see other than smelling like alcohol as well
