Need Some Advice: Thinning Hair.

Just don't run the risk of becoming this guy.

Balding is okay.

Dealing with it this way isn't.

If I would look like this I would shave my head right now.
But I know that I would look like this.

Sure, that's easy for a bear to say. But what if instead of this:


You looked more like this?:

Don't judge a bear by its fur

For the beard debate

No, I tried the buying glasses suggestion...

but I was still an *** after I put them on... I also didn't get an smarter... /demands a refund

Wear a hat.

All this talk of hats lately and no thread to accompany it.

Hats are better left as an accessory, not the main article.

I mean, really. Unless you want to run around with nought but your hat covering your man tackle.

I fail to see a problem with this.

Hats are not as fun worn penisally. (New word? If so I'm claiming credit and expect royalties.)

Shaved + beard + hat = badass

Double post, but let's not let it go to waste! Classy as *** in a hat, go.

"Sickly with cancer"* or "drug dealer" don't really come across as "badass" to me.

*I mean, fighting cancer and not letting it rule you is a badass thing. But I'm just saying. The image isn't always a pretty one.

(Now i have a feeling that this thread will turn into one similar to that about Toys R Us selling WW figures!)

Why I bump this topic you ask, well it appears we're very close to a definite cure for baldness.

Research

It works on mice(hair grew back in only 10 days!), which are quite similar to us, and it also worked with human hair in vitro, so there's very strong basis to suggest that this might effectively work on live humans too.

So baldies rejoice! Just a few more years and you'll get your cure.

I've not yet experienced hair loss but I suppose a part of me has worried about it, especially considering some form of hair loss seems inevitable for men.

My precious locks.

Advice: don't worry about it - its natural.
If you choose to ignore above advice then:
Try to seek out a natural alternative method.

Remember it matters what's on the inside that counts and we all age and the body dies but the soul / spirit does not. See you next time around! :3

Theres nothing wrong with being bald. Look at me! A skeleton. Never had hair in my life!

tbh, i've lived with a bold guy my whole life. bold people are cool.

As someone already suggested you, Finasteride and Minoxidyl are the only things that *really* work (especially if used in conjuction, and especially Finasteride. Minoxidyl alone can't do miracles) if we're talking about androgenetic alopecia, which is the correct medical form for the genetic loss of hair that many males experience as they grow up.
For other forms of hair loss, there's a plethora of cosmetic and effective solutions, but if you fall under the androgenetic alopecia category, nothing else (at this moment in time) will ever work other than finasteride (and Minoxidyl).
You can google Finasteride (Propecia) around and understand what is the medical process behind it and how it works.

tl;dr
Doctors where experimenting meds against prostate cancer on subjects of various age.
They started noticed that people using these experimental meds were growing hair back*, they explored further and exposed a relation between testosterone and certain processes within the body, found out that such process was at the source of androgenetic alopecia, and found out that Finasteride basically stops that process temporarily, for as long as you take those pills on a daily basis.


*
It doesn't do miracles.
Once the hair loss has happened on a hair follicle, it does permanently after a certain time has passed.
Which is exactely why it's important to start taking Finasteride as soon as possible. If too much time has passed, the med won't be able to reactivate hair follicles which are completely dead.

On a side note:
Please do not order Finasteride on your own, let a dermatologyst check on you at least initially, and at least once a year ocne you start this process.

There are countereffects from the use of Finasteride, they are unclear and they GREATLY CHANGE from person to person.
Mostly it tends to build up fat on the lower part of your belly, and it gives you a lower sexual desire.

Once again: there are no solid studies about it (yet) and many things are alas still unknown. Effects vary from individual to individual. Some reported big differences, others reported hardly noticeable ones.


From personal experience I suggest to take small breaks (1 month) at least ocne a year if not even twice.

I maintain my suggestion to simply own it.

Either let what happens happen or shave that sucker down and go chrome dome.

Plenty of girls dig the bald look, especially if you can rock a badass beard with it.

I agree with that Ramyrez but not all people look good shaved.
Kinda also depends on the shape of your skull, your face, your ears, wether or not you have dermatofibromas in the zones of your head that you have to shave, etc.

In the end he might have to give up and stop using finasteride... but doing that when you're 30 years old or later is different than doing it at 21.
By the time he decides to stop, new medicines could be out, even more efficient (and permanent!) than finasteride.

Is kinda a choice. If someone doesn't care that much I wholehartedly endorse your suggestion, but if someone really CARES about it (and Kenrusai appearently cares a lot, given how he opened a topic about it and given how he's been talking about this topic for quite a long time over the last year on FFXIAH) then he should at least know that there is a temporary solution he can make use of.

Get dunked on.

Fair enough.

Thing is, I feel like it's just a stupid societal pressure that pushes this on people. "Having less hair makes you less of a man!"

Meanwhile, evolution sort of dictates that the longer we go, the less we need hair at all, and it's going to keep going away.

I hate social pressure and I agree for some people it's exactely like you said.
Not sure where Kenrusai falls (social pressure or not?) but I can tell you that not ALL people are like that.

Take me, I stopped finasteride long ago and "accepted" my problem. I only shave on the sides since I still have hair behind and in the middle, but I might eventually have to shave completely in the end.
Granted that that will be a problem because I have a couple of dermatofibromas and you can't really shave with a razor when you have those, need to have them removed surgically first.
But I digressed, what I wanted to say is that for me... well, I couldn't care less about social rules, manlyness of what others thought of me. I am subject to thoughts like these for other things of course (I'm a human being after all, not a machine), just not about my hair.
For me it was just a purely personal and aesthetical thing. I wanted to "wear" my hair in certain ways, and I was unable to.
I liked to see myself with hair in a certain way.
I couldn't honestly care less about manlyness of social pressure about that specific thing.


@Sehachan
I'm skeptic it will work for people like me or people who've been balding up for too long =/ but I'd be veeeeeeeery happy if that were ever to become true in a few years. Being able to finally get some specific haircuts I really love and can't get anymore atm would be so incredibly good! :D
Keeping my fingers crossed...

I don't see any social pressure into this topic. It's a matter of how you like yourself, which heavily influence your self confidence. People in general are very insecure when they see themselves not in the way they'd like to look, but it's a self reflecting problem, there's no social issue. If there's one thing where a standard does not exist that is haircuts.