Okay, I admit. I'm not bald. And
according to everyone in my house (the
only people who i've asked), i'm not going
bald. Though I think i'm noticing
thinness that no one else is. Perhaps
this is obsessive behaviour, but when I
look at myself in the mirror and
particularly the hair at the front of my
head that hangs over my forehead. My hair
line looks somewhat further back than when
I was younger and every morning I have a
large amount of hair on my pillows that
has fallen out.
This could be due to the fact that I dyed
my hair black several times, straightened
and blow dried it and kept it under a
tight hat, a lot last year.
I have naturally curly, puffy hair.
(hence the dyeing and straightening being
pobably detrimental.)
anyway, i'm not sure whether my hair is
just being itself and recovering or
beginning to fall out. It looks thin and
unless I sort of swipe it to the side, it
looks like its gonna fall out.
When I examine it above the hairline, I
can see the roots and the (scalp), flesh
around them...And its getting harder to
cover those areas. But then again, in
certain lights it looks fine. It's
usually in really bright close up and/or
fluorescent light that it looks its
worst.
I'm 19 and I have a family history of
baldness on my mother's side.
(all my mother's brothers and her father
were bald.)
does that mean I could be going bald?
If i've been genetically predisposed to be
bald is there any method that will work in
restoring my hair?
You might have already began to figure
this out, but I really, really, really
really, really really, really don't want
to go bald.
I have a feeling that my self confidence
and self image will go down the drain if I
were to lose my hair.
I just don't think I could cope with
that.
But then again, sometimes I think i'm
worrying over nothing.
People tell me my hairline isn't receding,
..And I know my hair isn't the kind you
can get bangs or really thick bits
covering your forehead...But I have an
abnormally long forehead, so it's
difficult to judge whether I have a
receding hairline yet, or just a long
forehead that's making me worry.
Sorry this post is so lengthy, but i've
head worrying about it only increases the
rate at which you go bald.
When I don't "swipe' the hair at the front
of my head to the side, it there are
enormous gaps between the strands or
curls, and when I dont comb it, or leave
it to become as curly as possible (i
stopped straightening it), the curls look
really thin, wiry and trasnparent (and
greasy) at the front. It's worst at the
front and i'm noticing these areas where
the hair is sort of looking like its
either growing inwards on the sides, or
thinning.
I'm not sure.
I'm really confused and I just want to be
able to do something to prevent it from
getting any thinner or falling out.
I don't want to take propecia or rogaine
or any of those weird dht blocker things.
Sure they are said to be able to restore
hair once you start using them, but once
you stop, the hair regrowth stops. And I
don't want to have to depend on any
substance to keep my hair.
Also, I heard a horror story about a guy
who took rogaine or something and ended up
having severely depleted sex drive an a
penis that shrank 2 inches. That's just
scary. 0_0
unless you can buy it at the grocery store
for 5$ for a bunch of capsules. (like
that horse hair silica stuff.)
<_--speaking of which, does anyone know
if that stuff actually works????
Anyhow, my mother tells me i'm worrying
about nothing. My mother who has brothers
and a father who were bald, and she was
used to seeing the symptoms of baldness in
the family.
But I can't stress enough how I can see
patches and areas where the hair is thin
that wern't there before I dyed my hair.
If you dye your hair, will it ever grow
back after the damage has been done?
The thinness is on the top and front and
that area. (yes the area where male
pattern baldness, alopecia androgena {or
whatever its called} starts.
I'm really worrried.
I do not want to go bald.
If I could post a picture of what my hair
looked like, I would, but I don't have the
means to do that.
If anyone has any suggestions, thoughts,
sentiments, opinions, **anything**!!!,
please feel free to drop me a line.
I really need to hear what people have to
say.
Perhaps this problem is psychosomatic or
maybe i'm trying to convince myself I
should ignore a problem that's creeping up
on my faster than I could imagine.
Thanks for your time,
-spectermonkey
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spectermonkey
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 Dec 2006 Posts: 59 Location: Somewhere
Posted: 03-13-07 18:43pm
Yeah, I guess it was pretty stupid to
complain about this. If i've got genes for
baldness in my family there's not a lot I
can do about it.
The least someone could have done was
actually posted some kind of reply. I
don't even care if it was a "Shut up and
stop complaining. You're not balding, if
people aren't telling you you're losing
hair."
Well, on a more positive note, I don't
think I am losing hair at all. It's all
there and it looked worse earlier this
year due to 2 factors...a bad hair cut ofr
my style of hair and a lot of hair still
growing back after I dyed it...Oh well.
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Shawnda
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 21 Location: Jackson, MI
Posted: 03-19-07 19:10pm
You're prolly just a little too self
conscious. Plus if it is genetic, it'll
happen anyway so no sense worrying about
it.
