Stop balding

Quicker you shave it the happier you will be

I shaved mine off and I still look for potential future cures every other week

It's better to get used to it but there's still some hope deep down

>start balding
>take finasteride
>hair grows back
>no balding
that was easy

>tfw never gonna go bald

>28
>Just started growing hair out
>Hair naturally grows out in perfect blonde ringlets.
>Literally look like a greek statue but better

>tfw joe rogan works
blessed those who gave birth for such magnificent thing

welcome to the club, brother

>so bald at 17 I shave my head and accept I'll probably die a KHV
>get with multiple girls after
>realize nobody fucking cares if you're bald as long as YOU don't care that you're bald

There are a lot worse things that you could have suffered. Baldness is hardly world ending.

Just don't be some shitter who tries to mask it when it's blatantly obvious. Shave that shit off, it looks better.

on the same boat, i started rogaine 3 months ago and already noticed new hairs on my hairline and my hair stopped falling out when i shower.

>5 years later commit suicide due to depression from finasteride

propeciahelp.com

nice maymay. I fuck my gf multiple times a day. if there were any side effects I would have experienced them already.
but yeah, give into the scaremongering, dont take any medication and just stay a bald virgin for the rest of your life.

>i would have experienced them already

heh, keep telling yourself that :^)

I will, virgin boy. I've been on it for 2 years now. my DHT levels won't change.
keep balding mate :^)

Why are so many people balding on this forum?

None of my family members are even close to balding, and some are reaching a century old.

I don't think you know what balding is.

Post your hairline pulled up

fit is bunch of pussies

Balding as in your hairline is receding, righ?
No worries mate.

Careful, user. Rogaine can age your forehead/face (sweating and whatnot) , and once you stop using it, your hair will keep falling out if not more so.

Shit gave me horrible erectile dysfunction, stopped asap

Just take fin.

>b-b-but my side effects

You can meme arrow about dead dicks all you want but I have a massive erection and hair too.

I've been shaving my head for almost 7 years from male pattern baldness. It doesn't bother me so much anymore but a reasonable cure for MPB would be nice.

Help, anons. What do if you no longer feel sexual attraction to your (young, not middle-age+) bf/spouse after his hair thins and he shaves it all off?

stop being a shallow bitch

Thinning =/= balding

>Settling for something you're not physically attracted too

Lose him.

Stop being so vain

if you look manly you shouldnt care about balding, just shave it

on the other hand, being cute/babyface its kind of shit, but what can you do, at most you're just buying extra time with rogaine or fin
you may think 'its okay ill be ready to be bald when im older' but when it starts happening again, you're still going to feel the same shitty way as before, because you havent addressed the root cause of your anxiety about it

i would rather accept it early and be at peace than have it be something that defines me as a person

N-no! You will have dead dick and depression too!
J-just you wait! I'm sure of it, despite my lack of knowledge in physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology! I know it because people on the internet said so! You will have a limp dick forever and kill yourself!

all I can look at is the thinned spot on his head. It's not purposeful but it makes me feel like I'm with a 50 year old man in a 20-somethings body.

stop samefagging so hard

I am trying, Thor-senpai!

My dick is permanently wrecked from that shit. I quit finasteride five years ago and I'm still limp with no libido. And still balding. I'm fucked.

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stop balding so hard

Why is it that I see so many ED threads on Veeky Forums and magically your case can be attributed to fin? It's it also highly likely that you just had a faulty dick? 40% of all men by age 40 experience some form of ED. I refuse to believe your can be attributed to a drug who's relation to ED is dubious at best.

it's too late for me and im not taking dick killing pills. Placing that much importance on hair is some beta shit.

balding usually starts around mid to late 20s, which is young but not that young anymore
sorry but its normal, and you're going to be seeing more of it as you get older too, because the spring chickens are going to be fucking eachother
my advice to you is to mature a little and learn to accept the bad with the good, rise above the superficial shit
but its up to you, i dont know what you're expecting by posting here if you aren't a troll

>dick killing pills

The worst part about this salty little lie is that people who actually could be spared the humiliation of going bald might actually believe you.
Did you ever think about that? I'm sure you did, misery loves company.

>proving yourself after a samefag accusation on an anonymous child porn trade forum

fucking loser

There is zero evidence that fin can cause PERMANENT ED.
All it does is block an enzyme. It is absurd to think it will have a lasting effect.
>take aspirin for a month
>quit aspirin for 5 years
>my blood is still too thin
it's not how the human body works. your case is most likely psychological

>i-i didn't care anyway, jokes on yooouu.

but i'm not miserable, i was miserable when i was clinging on to my fleeting hairline. I'll hop on hair loss treatment when its not terrible with horrible side effects.

> balding

People still do this? How is that possible with superior genetics breeding?

hard to accept bad with the good if your partner is unhappy about your complete lack of sex drive and becomes emotionally distant, only making it worse, and you can't force yourself into being attracted to baldness. you just like what you like

>not terrible with horrible side effects.

It's a pill in the morning.
It's also arguably easier than shaving every few days.
I have had no side effects, neither have millions of other men taking it.

ive been shaving for so long its just second nature now it really doesn't bother me so much. The only real downside is being stuck with a single hairstyle or lackthereof.

Sorry user i don't mean to shit on you I'm just really drunk and belligerent right now. If fin is working for you then godspeed!

Your body is supposed to have DHT though, and you're depriving yourself of that. That's fucking scary, not knowing what's gonna happen down the line.

this is my current hairline at 20 years old lol it receded in like a year but hasnt receded at all since then

your hairline could just be maturing, it's pretty common for some people.

It's absolutely how the human body works

Your endocrine system is delicate and does not always return to homeostasis; permanent hpt axis shutdown from taking testosterone is a well known phenomenon. Taking a course of male-to-female hormones (finasteride, estradiol, spironolactone is a common stack) will cause physical changes that won't all go away if you ever stop the therapy.

The long-term effects of inhibiting 5-ar really needs more research. It's not helpful to anybody to completely dismiss the small subset of people who experience permanent changes as a result of finasteride usage.

Personally I took fin for a while without too many issues, but stopped due to concerns over the effect it might have been having on my sleep and my cognition. Inhibiting 5-ar leads to a significant decrease in neurosteroids such as allopregnanolone and fin has been found to severely inhibit hippocampal neurogenesis. Subjectively i feel a huge difference between when im on fin and when i'm off, and i think i'd rather stay off now.

yeah i hope this is the case. ive seen tons of older men that have the same mature hairline they had in their 20s

>Your endocrine system is delicate and does not always return to homeostasis; permanent hpt axis shutdown from taking testosterone is a well known phenomenon
That is an entirely and completely different thing.
>Taking a course of male-to-female hormones (finasteride, estradiol, spironolactone is a common stack) will cause physical changes that won't all go away if you ever stop the therapy.
Again, you are comparing bombarding your entire endocrone system with female hormones and stopping test production with inhibiting the 5AR enzyme.
As you are aware it only lowers DHT by 50% and raises test and estrogen by 20%. It is negligible.
> significant decrease in neurosteroids such as allopregnanolone and fin has been found to severely inhibit hippocampal neurogenesis.
Could you provide some source on that? I thought type I of AR was responsible for neurosteroids, which fin does not inhibit significantly.

How long have you been taking fin? Seems to have already affected you somewhat

nice counter-arguments and sources friend, thanks for the enlightening conversation

Progesterone is reduced by 5-ar into 5-a-DHP which is needed to synthesize Allopregnanolone.

Pic related shows the changes in various neurosteroids from 4 weeks of fin treatment. The paper its from is cited on the right. They used 5mg/day but it should be noted that 1mg is almost as effective as 5, so similar effects should be seen with a lower dosage.

Blocking 5-ar is a very dirty approach to treating hairloss. If i had prostate hyperplasia or cancer then absolutely i would use fin, but to potently inhibit such a wide array of neurosteroids for the purpose of vanity is not worth it for me.

Ideally, future treatments should focus on binding directly to DHT rather than inhibiting its rate-limiting step. Equol does exactly this and one of the more promising research groups is experimenting with equol as a core component of their treatment.

How are you so sure?

[citation needed]

>maturing

If you grow a beard balding is not that bad. And remember, Bruce Willis and Jason Statham are/were sex symbols (and Statham is even a manlet), Dwayne Johnson is the sexiest man alive at the time.

Anyone here try out castor oil? Not eating it, obviously, but applying to the scalp daily is supposed to help.

Why stress over it? I'm a married oldfag but not so old that girls don't notice me.

I did stress over it for a time but embraced my baldingness. I don't have the horseshoe and still have hair on top but I have to look nice and neat for work. It's all good man. I have worn ball caps my whole life anyway so it's all good.