Hi Guys!! I hope you're OK. I'm 43 years old and I'm losing my hair. In fact - my forehead has been getting bigger for a few years now. I'd love to know about YOUR 'losing my hair' experience. AND what you did in response. Did you say, "The heck with this - I'll shave ALL of it off!?" OR did you try your best to restyle your 'do' in order to cover the 'shame'?! lol Perhaps you [in a panic] researched all of the available hair transplant options. OR MAYBE you resorted to the often mocked 'comb-over'. How have YOU dealt with your hair loss?! I'd also like to know how old you ARE or how old you WERE when you first noticed that your hair was/is not quite covering your top like it used to. Thanks,GREAT BIG HUGCraig!!
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Going Bald?! How did [or do] YOU deal with it?!
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No time to answer properly right now, gotta get out of here in 20 miinutes and Im still wearing slippers and no shirt. Ill answer this afternoon, I can speak for 4 people, me and my brothers.going bald is the shits.
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OK, what I had to do is done and I got a couple of hours to sit before I have to do shit again so Ill fill ya in on what I can.My little brother had a full head of hair, then almost overnight he was bald. it was when he was 19.From thick hair to jack shit in a matter of maybe 2 or 3 months.He started wearing hats all teh time. We saw my dad when we were little with the stove top comb over soaked in auga net and we all knew how shitty that looked, especially if the wind blew, and seeing him get out of the shower with one side of his hair down to his shoulders and the other side just above his ears, and it fooled noone, looked fucking ridiculous.My little brother now keeps his sides nearly shaved and never leaves the house with no hat. Unless he takes the hat off you wouldnt know hes bald, looks pretty decent, doesnt led itsself well to swimming, waterskiing, or actually anything very good aside from goint to a movie or out to dinner in places that dont give a shit that your wearing a hat, it is good for grocery shopping too. He leads far to sheltered a life now because of his being bald.The brother up from me had thinning hair when he was about 20, joined the airforce and they shaved it, since then its pretty damned thin but not bald, he keeps it all about 1/2 an inch long and goes on about life but lets it eat at him 24/7.Everythign eats at him though, his teeth, his hair, his fucking voice. Everything eats at him and drives him batshit so I dont knwo that I can say hes confident in his looks with less hair, he does put on a good act in public though.The oldest brother had really thin hair on top but never lost it all either like my little one did. He said fuck it, shaved it all off and got a tan. He bic's that bastard daily in the shower and is convinced that he has a perfectly shaped head and looks good.After he got a bit of a tan on top instead of that pasty white where it used to be ocovered it doenst look bad, but when I see him I still think he looks like a thumb that leapt from a hand and started walking around.Me?Im 35, 36 in April. Im inthe same boat you are. it gets thinner everytime I look at it. I have plenty left, its just that it gets further and further back.Drives me fucking batshit. I wear a hat most of the time. Iv had it sunburned before and it wasnt till then that I realized exactly how bald I was.Im posative that in 2 or 3 years at the current rate of falling out and Ill look like fucking riff raff from rocky horror, or worse yet gallagher with his hat off.There isnt shit I can do about it so I wear a hat alot. in the summer to keep from being burned (or if Im working or climbing an bandana tied around my head to keep the sun off) in the winter I wear other hats, ones to keep my balding ass warmer.I pretend it doesnt exist and lose the hats to go swimming or water skiing or what ever.When its wet you can really tell how much is gone.Ther isnt shit to do abuot it craig, your fucked, just like millions of other people.I pretend my problem doesnt exist as much as possible and try to forget about it when it does creep into my mind.My dad went another route.It looks pretty good, they custom make a few wigs for him every year, adding grey and high lights, looks pretty decent, my fiance didnt know he was bald till I told her when she told me nto to worrie about my balding that my dad had plenty of hair I let her in on the secret, that was about a year after she had met my dad and seen him several times.He swims, rarely wears a hat.his is sewn into his fucking head, it gets changed about every 3 to 4 months, and he has some upkeep done to it monthly. It sets him back about 100 dollars a month plus another 600 or so 3 or 4 times a year.Im not going to spend that sorta cash on my fucking hair (he assures us its his hair, he did after all buy and paid for it).There is no cure for baldness. Ther is treatments but they are nto cheap and you have to use them forever and they dont work for everyone,and results are mixed at best.Its my personal opinion that if all ya got is hair on the sides and non uptop you look better shaving the whole fucking thing and pretending like you want to be bald. Its what Ill do when I cant get away with pretending I still have lots of hair because its so painfully obvious that I dont.You find something that works, is cheap on the whole and doesnt have to be rubbed in and applied daily for ever, you make sure you let me know, till then you adn I are brothers in bald.
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This probably wont help, but its just my two cents worth, and I just felt like posting! lol The men in my family deal with 'baldness' and I've seen first hand how much it can affect someone. My poor father (just turned 46) is having such a hard time letting go of his unruly curls; he's gone from having the kind of hair Kramer would be envious of to having one of those dreadful comb overs (granted his isn't that bad, it's not like Donald Trump's mop or anything). And then there is my oldest brother (just turned 30), his forehead has slowly grown larger over the past few years. I, personally, think they're both very attractive men and that they could pull off the shaved head look but for some reason they just can't seem to take that step and let go. I also know several male friends who are the same way, and I wish I could get it through their heads that they'll still be that manly man they've always been even if they don't have hair on their head. I happen to find bald rather sexy and there is nothing wrong with it in my book.
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Hi Grvtykllr and Katie Lou!! Thank you [both of you] VERY much for the great responses. The problem is - I just don't have a hat kind of head. AND I'm also not quite ready to buzz it all off. I'm stuck between a rock and bald place.My brother tells me [however] that in actual fact - the difference between a guy who loses his hair and one that does not has to do with just how much estrogen his body has. In other words - the more hair a guy KEEPS as he ages - the more WOMAN he really is!! lol Whether or not that's true - I'm going to accept it as the truth!! Well.... 'cause it makes me feel good!!Have a great day.GREAT BIG HUGCraig!! PS Grvtykllr - I really loved the idea that it really IS your dad's hair. I mean - he did [as he says] pay for it!! lol