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How fast did it occur?
by
auscultate
on 03 Jun, 2010 08:04
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Hi everyone,
i am 24 years old, noticing increasing shedding everywhere, receeding hairline, increasing vertex, all the good stuff.
I just wanted to know, how fast did you guys loose it? For me it seems like the past few weeks are so bad! it appears worse everyday, every week, the coverage seems to be decreasing. lol, guess I have to start shaving soon.
Let's hear your stories!
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#1
by
ozzie
on 03 Jun, 2010 08:18
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Let me just welcome you to the forum, auscultate. Glad you could join us.
I'm sure a few guys will jump in with some stories for you, and there's certainly lots of stories already posted in the various sub-forums, but the most important thing is that you have realized what the best course of action is already. Congratulations!
Best wishes to you on your path to Slydom. I look forward to following your progress here.
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#2
by
Gambrinus
on 03 Jun, 2010 08:36
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One morning I woke up and it was all gone
Just kidding. I had people say stuff about the back thinning, but I thought nothing of it. One Christmas after my first son was born, we had our pictures taken. We got the proofs back and I saw how bad the front was thinning. Then I started noticing that I was getting a lot of fall out when I took showers. I was watching some show on E! or something like that. And some "fashion expert" said that she thought it was great that Bruce Willis didn't try to hide that he was going bald and that cutting it really close actually made it look like he had more hair. So I buzzed it down with no guard. Funny thing is that I don't even like Bruce Willis movies. Then a couple of months later a friend of mine at work who cut his hair the same way asked me if I ever thought about shaving it with a razor. We agreed that neither of us had the guts to do it. We were afraid that we would cut our selves. That night I remembered that I had an electric razor and wondered if it would work on my head. Well it did! I have been shaving ever since. 8 years this month
Only thing holding me back was fear.
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#3
by
revived
on 03 Jun, 2010 09:09
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mine started at 18 (23 now) and due to propecia (which i stopped 6 months ago) is still there in patches. I am so keen for it to fall out though and also curious as to how long it will take, anyone know how to speed it up?
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#4
by
Pshrynk
on 03 Jun, 2010 09:20
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IMO it takes as long as it takes.
Everyone is different.
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#5
by
Argyle
on 03 Jun, 2010 09:23
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Honestly, I am not really sure how long it took. They say that by the time you can notice visually that you have already lost 50% of what hair was there, or something like that. I guess i started to notice when I was about 23, i saw photos and i could clearly see scalp. It didnt really bother me at all at that time. By the time I was 27 I was pretty, well very thin on top and I decided to start shaving. So from that point, I really have no idea (I am 32 now). If I dont shave for a day then I can definitely feel stubble on top, but there isnt a shadow there when i shave so my guess is that it is very very thin.
So really the point I considered myself bald was about 27. But in honesty, is there any difference between thinning and bald... I am not so sure.
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#6
by
Razor X
on 03 Jun, 2010 19:17
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I had been thinning and receding for about 15 years when I first started shaving. It was pretty thin but I still had some coverage on top. I'm not really sure when the rest finally disappeared, since it occurred while my scalp was shaved.
Most of us try to hang on to the hair we've got for as long as possible but I've come to the conclusion that it's better to shave it all off sooner rather than later. Once it's gone you can stop worrying about it. You're going to end up bald anyway, so why postpone the inevitable? Watching your hair fall out gradually sucks, but being completely bald is very liberating.
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#7
by
D.A.L.U.I.
on 03 Jun, 2010 19:40
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The speed of mpb is probably impossible to predict with any degree of accuracy. I developed the "hole" in my twenties, and the hairline slipped back through my thirties. There were times I thought it was over, that my hair loss had finished, but maybe "thought" is the wrong word, I deceived myself. I deceived myself into a combover, I never intended to wind up with one but I did. And I remember when the shower or the beach would reveal that there was distinct thinning. I would regularly have to take the plumber's snake or draino to clean out the hair clogging my shower drain. Now, that very rarely happens.
But, by the time I was in my late forties--in the late eighties and early nineties, I really should have shaved it, I didn't have the stones. I wonder what would have happened if the internet had been as pervasive then as in the first decade of the 21st century. I would like to think that I would have come on a place like this--but that is the land of yesterday. I live in the present, my present is sly and I hope to be given many, many more sly years.
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#8
by
Gambrinus
on 03 Jun, 2010 20:15
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I don't know how to calculate the rate of MPB, but I do know how to calculate the benefits of being Sly.
Here it is:
Your Life- Comb Over
- The Rug
- Drugs
- Sewing Machine Patterns on your head
- Paranoid Feeling
= BIG SMILE