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Do the following:

* Find out if its another source. If absolutely no one in your family experienced it, then it could be something else. Iron deficiency, adrenal glands (thyroid) or diabetes... Get some blood test done.

* Keep your hair short. Keeping it short makes it less noticeable.

* Get on the big three: propecia (a prescription drug), rogaine (foam version you rub in twice a day) and nizoral (2% type) shampoo.

* Take pictures once a month under the same lighting, distance, room and angle.

* Upgrade the other parts of your appearance. Bulk up your muscle, lose any fat, get your teeth cleaned and whitened, catch a tan, get new clothes. Won't replace hair, but you will maintain some sense of confidence when it comes to vanity.

The "big three" I touched on are about all that have been proven to work. You won't likely grow back what you lost, but you can slow it down from going bald. On any hair loss forum this is the general consensus--anything else is snake oil. Ignore all the "natural remedies", the "spyro" and other crap they tell you to buy. Its a waste of time.
 
just let nature take its course and enjoy being a sexy bald man at a young age. thats my plan as i already have plenty of white hair and the front is receding at age 31.
 
Uh oh.... I'm almost 30, I thought if it hadn't started falling out by now it would at worst thin a bit in the future... is this not the case? I could have sworn I lost a bit at the temples, but I attributed it to my new haircut... someone hold me 🙁 My head is really misshapen so I can't pull off the baldie look.
 
Just put the beard trimmer on #1 and take it all off. That's what I did. It felt and looked weird for a week or so... Now I wonder why I didn't do it sooner. Been buzzed for over two years now. Chicks dig it.
 
Originally posted by: ITJunkie
I believe baldness, from a hereditary standpoint, comes from the mother's side of the family not the father's. But I could be wrong...
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I don't know how people can actually believe that.
 
Originally posted by: ITJunkie

I believe baldness, from a hereditary standpoint, comes from the mother's side of the family not the father's. But I could be wrong...
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All of the men on my mother's side of my family still have their hair. Even my grandfather, who is pushing 80, has more hair than what I have now.

On the other side, pretty much every man in my father's side of the equation is bald, or balding. Including me 🙁
 
Originally posted by: rnp614
If you have no CV issues like Hypertension, then use Minoxodil
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I've heard it will grow a little peach fuzz, but nothing more.. .and that said fuzz will fall out if you miss even one treatment.
 
I'd say that Flyback has provided some good advice.

I'm early-30s and I've got hairs in the bathtub after I shower. Keeping it short makes it less noticeable. Propecia keeps it from falling out (I didn't try the other stuff) but doesn't make it grow back.


Finding a woman and getting married helps to resolve most of the concerns.
 
My hair is slowly thinning, started when I was about.. 15 I'm 17 now, it isn't very noticeable unless someone looks straight down at my head. I'm hopping to make it through high school then just shave it off when I go to college.
 
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