Are you going bald?

Freefaller said:
I still don't understand why some men are so bothered about going bald. I suppose it has something to do with vanity? Or is it something else?
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In return you could also make the argument as to why you want to pump weights to post a topless shot on an Internet forum for other men to critique or compliment :p

Maybe it's a mental thing on a deeper level. Hair is sort of always just 'there' until one day it's not. Something you lose and never get back.

Still wouldn't bother me though.
 
Have been a boiled onion head since i was 20, does it bother me yes it does, i look more handsome with hair;)
Having said that it's never stopped me with the ladies in the past:D
 
regulus said:
In return you could also make the argument as to why you want to pump weights to post a topless shot on an Internet forum for other men to critique or compliment :p

Maybe it's a mental thing on a deeper level. Hair is sort of always just 'there' until one day it's not. Something you lose and never get back.

Still wouldn't bother me though.
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Ooof! Touché! :p

I could live without the pics - I couldn't live without the health benefits of exercise though ;)

Fair comment - it is nice to get the ego massage from your peers sometimes :p

I guess I've been going "thin" for over a dozen years so I've just realised that it isn't important to me - as you get older you get thicker skin to this sort of thing.
 
loltim said:
Mum's side.
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My mums brothers are all bald and were that way since early 20s, her dad was bald before 30. My dad is 62 and perhaps a bit thinner than when he was 31 but still a full head of hair and somehow still 90% black with no help. I think i inherited that :D
 
dowie said:
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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I'm really not sure what your point is claiming there's a cure when there clearly isn't. Things are being worked on and there are options that fit specific types of hair-loss but they're far from a "cure from balding". So maybe try not to pick and choose what points you try to address and what points you ignore.

Propecia and similar medication doesn't work for everyone. Cure?

Hair transplants are dependant on the donor hair available, results vary depending on that. Cure?

Sorry, no and there's no two ways about it these are NOT cures. Things are being worked on but its still a long way off.
 
Gerard said:
I'm really not sure what your point is claiming there's a cure when there clearly isn't. Things are being worked on and there are options that fit specific types of hair-loss but they're far from a "cure from balding". So maybe try not to pick and choose what points you try to address and what points you ignore.

Propecia and similar medication doesn't work for everyone. Cure?

Hair transplants are dependant on the donor hair available, results vary depending on that. Cure?

Sorry, no and there's no two ways about it these are NOT cures. Things are being worked on but its still a long way off.
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Just because a treatment doesn't work for everyone or doesn't work in the way you'd like it doesn't mean it isn't a viable solution for others. This isn't just specific to hairloss either. Some treatments for things are only effective for some people and/or have side effects. Your expectations for what you think is a cure might never be realised what you might see is just things like improvements to things like hair transplants. The fact still remains that there are treatments that prevent further loss and there are treatments to replace lost hair.
 
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dowie said:
Just because a treatment doesn't work for everyone or doesn't work in the way you'd like it doesn't mean it isn't a viable solution for others. This isn't just specific to hairloss either. Some treatments for things are only effective for some people and/or have side effects. Your expectations for what you think is a cure might never be realised what you might see is just things like improvements to things like hair transplants. The fact still remains that there are treatments that prevent further loss and there are treatments to replace lost hair.
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They are still not cures. As I've said stuff like propecia like any other medication starts to lose its effectiveness over time and the hair loss will return. For a lot of people it barely does anything to begin with and others have found it increases the rate of hair loss.

Its a hit and miss things with drugs like propecia, i seen one case where a guy was going really thin and over the course of a year his hair got really thick and basically back to the stage where he was pre hair loss. But cases like that are in the minority, a lot of the time it seems to be a case of little to no change.

Hair transplants are really the only option but they really need to be coupled with stem cell research so its possible to create as much as needed to get proper coverage instead of being limited to the terminal hair on the sides and back of your head.

From what i've read they reckon your head has roughly 100,000 hairs, 50k on the top and 50k covering the sides and back. Hair transplants depending on cost move around 3000 or so of these, some can get as high as 6k-7k follicles moved. So really they're only suitable for specific types of balding, if you've pretty much all gone on top then its pretty obvious that 7000 follicles isn't going to make much of an impact on an area that had 50,000 or so.

Just a waiting game with this really.
 
Freefaller said:
I still don't understand why some men are so bothered about going bald. I suppose it has something to do with vanity? Or is it something else?
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Dude, if you weren't bald you'd understand :p

I joke!!!

On a serious note, the top corners of my forehead have over the last couple of years receded ever so slightly (more hair thinning to be honest), but as/when the time comes, I for one will embrace it with the assumption that I'll suddenly look like Jason Statham/Vin Diesel :p

Saying that, my grandfather and father have full heads of hair at 80 and 53 with a little bit of a bald patch on top, hopefully that bodes well for me!
 
Receding and thinning slowly from front to back. Clippers out soon I think. Rather embrace than try and hide.
 
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