Are you going bald?

dowie said:
You've just outlined the cures, it hadn't eluded the medical world... the drugs which prevent further loss have a high rate of effectiveness, like most things which have real effects they also have side effects. There is also the transplant solution for lost hair... Medical science had found cures and work is still being done.
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They are not "cures" at all. Even the drugs that CAN prevent you losing your hair can stop being effective after a certain duration of taking them like pretty much any other medication. These medications that help to retain hair were originally developed for other means and fighting hairloss was more of an accidental side effect. Transplants also are not cures due to the reasons i already said as they're dependent on your donor hair and if you've already went past a certain stage of baldness then you any transplants will likely be a pretty thin covering at best. If you suffer minimal hair-loss then yes they can be very effective but that's not the way it goes for a lot of people.

A "CURE" would be something that can fully restore your hairline regardless of how much hair you lost and do it with density. That option doesn't exist yet for male pattern baldness, though there is something in testing for alopecia sufferers that can actually do this.
 
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My husband started losing his hair in his 20s. He accepted it and it's never been an issue with him. But he's remarkably vanity free in general.
 
Forgot I even started this thread.

Still no balding here. In fact, I don't think my hairline moved at all during the last 15 years.

Quite weird as my brother is completely bald. My dad has a full head of hair at age 59. And I've got a full head at 34.

If it comes from the mother's side, my brother got 'unlucky'. I must get it from my dad's side as my grandfather went to his grave with a full head of hair.
 
Gerard said:
A "CURE" would be something that can fully restore your hairline regardless of how much hair you lost and do it with density. That option doesn't exist yet for male pattern baldness, though there is something in testing for alopecia sufferers that can actually do this.
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Nah a cure for hair loss can be something that prevents further hair loss and we've already got that, and we've got a 'cure' to restore hair. I think you've got some unrealistic expectations re: some sort of magical pill being developed - that isn't necessarily how things work in reality - you may never find that imaginary 'cure'.
 
My hair is really thick and shows no sign of thinning. I have it cut 3 or 4 times a year, I'm a slow grower and longish hair quite suits me. No sign of grey or white hair either.

As for baldness, I am 100% sure it would look terrible on me. My, Dad when he had chemo started wearing beanies, he had shoulder length hair all his life so it was a big change for him. Eventually he started to only wear them when he went out.
 
dowie said:
Nah a cure for hair loss can be something that prevents further hair loss and we've already got that, and we've got a 'cure' to restore hair. I think you've got some unrealistic expectations re: some sort of magical pill being developed - that isn't necessarily how things work in reality - you may never find that imaginary 'cure'.
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I'm gonna say it again...Things like Propecia CAN work for some people but in a lot of cases it does nothing and in some cases people have found their hair dropping out faster, and its only effective as long as you keep taking it. But some people have found that after a while your system becomes immune to it and the hair loss just returns. How is that a cure exactly? You have some odd opinions about what constitutes a "cure".

If that's what you consider a cure then tell people working on stem cells that they're wasting their time as apparently the cure is already here just the rest of the world didn't know about it, well besides you apparently..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/30/cure-hair-loss-stem-cell_n_6571404.html



As for a magic pill in reality, as i said they have already found a form of medication that has totally regrown the hair in some alopecia sufferers, originally for arthritis.

http://news.yale.edu/2014/06/19/hairless-man-arthritis-drug-spurs-hair-growth-lots-it
 
Gerard said:
Ageing doesn't necessarily constitute hair-loss, some people start losing it in their early teens, I've seen people in their 70's with hair so thick you'd think it was a wig but wasn't. It might not bother you because it hasn't happened to you, if it does then your tune might change. Some people suit the shaved head look, most don't. Theres definitely some kind of double standard there when a woman is losing her hair its the worst thing in the world but if its a man the sympathy goes as far as "just shave it off".
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Okay that's a fair point.
 
I know a guy who has balded round the sides but insists on keeping his 'island' on hair on top which a big gap before his hair starts again around the lower sides.

He looks like Animal from the Legion Of Doom only due to baldness not getting it cut that way.
 
Gerard said:
If that's what you consider a cure then tell people working on stem cells that they're wasting their time as apparently the cure is already here just the rest of the world didn't know about it, well besides you apparently..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/30/cure-hair-loss-stem-cell_n_6571404.html



As for a magic pill in reality, as i said they have already found a form of medication that has totally regrown the hair in some alopecia sufferers, originally for arthritis.

http://news.yale.edu/2014/06/19/hairless-man-arthritis-drug-spurs-hair-growth-lots-it
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really not sure what point you're trying to make, earlier you were moaning about lack of progress in the area
 
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