The FUCK! I'm Going Bald? Thread

[lamaros]

Balding patterns.

http://www.menshairloss.co.uk/male-pattern-baldness.htm

Pretty sure I'm at II, or in between II and III at the moment. I expect I will move along through the other stages when the time comes as my hairline is closer to my mothers side (don't recall seeing a photo of her dad without some sort of baldness) than my fathers (94 year old grandfather still has all his hair). Pretty confident I'm not going to go bald on the crown before my receding hairline catches that point, so I'm hoping to go a bit more Larry David rather than have to shave my head. As long as it doesn't bother me I'm going to have as much fun with whatever hair I end up with, fuck shaving being the only option.

Very poor quality pic if anyone cares to tell me if I'm deluding myself.

[Selby]

Very poor quality pic if anyone cares to tell me if I'm deluding myself.

Very hard to tell from that angle.  Looks like it could be normal, but you can't easily see.

If you are truly dreading going bald, there's only a handful of things you can do: try to chemically prevent it, learn hide it or accept it.  And unfortunately there is no guarantee that prevention works for all people.  Those telling you to suck it up and just accept it are probably how you'll feel eventually if you do end up going bald.

[Grimwell]

I'd say you are going bald. The hair in the center is too narrow.

I'm not going bald, I'm going grey. I'm working the Reed Richards silver sides a little more each and every year. I think it's funny and don't really care but I turn 38 in November and accept that I'm getting old no matter how young I still feel. My brother, who is younger than me, is going bald. I think that's even more funny.

I have shaven my head twice in my life though. Once in my early 20's with the help of Uncle Sam; and once about six years ago when I just decided that I didn't fucking care enough to have hair. That lasted until 2009 when I decided to grow it out and see what was going to happen. It was more grey, but as thick as ever.

Been thinking about shaving it down again though; I can't find a barber worth a shit in my new town and I don't need a barber to shave it.

You know what bothers me? All the hair in my eyebrows and ears trying to grow six feet long. 

[lamaros]

If you are truly dreading going bald...

Oh I have no fear of losing hair. Would be nice for it to be a slow process that lasts in to my 30's (27 atm), but I'm not really concerned at all. I'm just hoping to get away with a "yeah I'm going bald, and I don't feel the need to shave my head about it either" look as it goes on.

You know what bothers me? All the hair in my eyebrows and ears trying to grow six feet long.  

Shave your head and just comb the eyebrows up towards your forehead. I think you'd look good!

[FatuousTwat]

I highly suggest a combover.

[Sky]

I'm not going bald, I'm going grey. I'm working the Reed Richards silver sides a little more each and every year. I think it's funny and don't really care but I turn 38 in November and accept that I'm getting old no matter how young I still feel.

I'm older than you and jealous. I wish I could go white or silver. As a blond, it doesn't really work that way, it just kinda fades a bit (for most people, it's not showing in my hair yet). Maybe it's time to shave off the mane again. Losing 18" was great and I just feel odd without the beard (not to mention nobody knows how to properly cut men's long hair). I was actually hoping the beard might come back in white, since there was a lot of white appearing, but I'm seeing a lot of real dark stubble, dammit.

My fiancee has the coolest dark grey hair with silver shot through it and white that frames her face (she has a pixie cut I talked her into that looks amazing). So jealous. She hates getting old, though. Women.

Ok, so I really wanted to look like Elric 

[Lantyssa]

My fiancee has the coolest dark grey hair with silver shot through it and white that frames her face (she has a pixie cut I talked her into that looks amazing). So jealous. She hates getting old, though. Women.

Ok, so I really wanted to look like Elric 

I like that coloration.  Most women don't though since they do equate it with aging.

I have no clue what color my hair will become since it already has half a dozen colors, and everyone else in the family has much darker hair.  Except for my cousin who lost all his.  I'm hoping for silver.

[Fraeg]

Ok, so I really wanted to look like Elric 

A worthy aspiration

[Ozzu]

I've been tempted in recent weeks to shave my head. I'm not losing my hair, but I dig the way a shaved head looks. My wife is absolutely against it though. 

[Sky]

My fiancee is surprised I didn't shave mine off. I want to wait until the current crop reaches donation length (much of it is now) and then I'll probably go with some ultra boring conservative style. I like to mix it up. If you look the same way you did five years ago, you're doing it wrong imo.

[Cyrrex]

Says the guy with the full head of hair.  When it's thinning, your realistic options become fewer. 

Of course, I say that, but I would likely keep my hair short regardless.

[schild]

I've kept my hair short so long I didn't notice it was going away until it was obvious it was going away.

I was sad for about 45 seconds.

[Arnold]

I thought I would be bald by now,I have had the Ben Stiller hairline for as long as I can recall. But it does not appear to be receding further and nobody on either side of my family is bald. But then again it definitely exhibits the pattern of the first stage of that link.

I freaked out in my early 20s, when my hair receded a bit.  I even started taking some Rogaine for a while because I was so scared.  But 15 years later, my hair is still the same - it never went beyond the initial recession.  From that chart, I'm at Class II.

[Yegolev]

If you look the same way you did five years ago, you're doing it wrong imo.

Children take care of this, no need to be a hair-douchebag.

[Sky]

Wasn't intentional. So solly cholly.

[stray]

I'm gonna ingest shitloads of green/white tea, and even rub it on my head. I think that'll do the trick.  


Anyways, [snip] I redid pics in the sun. Wtf. Looks OK now. Lol... Sort of. Maybe there's some thinning there. Fuck it.

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[Signe]

That's not very bald looking.  I was expecting more.  Or less, maybe.  Anyway, your white plastic chairs are going moldy!   

[Rasix]

My dad started with that hair pattern, stray.  He's still got most of his, but area near the back on top is precariously thin.  Still there, but thin. 

[Goreschach]

Yeah, that doesn't look bald. Add another vote to 'you just freaked out.'


Personally, I'm hoping we get a followup thread where you think your dick is shrinking. 

[Fraeg]

I'm gonna ingest shitloads of green/white tea, and even rub it on my head. I think that'll do the trick.  


Anyways, [snip] I redid pics in the sun. Wtf. Looks OK now. Lol... Sort of. Maybe there's some thinning there. Fuck it.

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I dunno, at least the image of you holding the camera over your head with a smoke in your mouth trying to get a good shot has me smiling.

[Ingmar]

Personally, I'm hoping we get a followup thread where you think your dick is shrinking. 

If you want pictures of his dick maybe you should just PM him and leave us out of it.   

[Trippy]

I'm gonna ingest shitloads of green/white tea, and even rub it on my head. I think that'll do the trick.  

You may be better off quitting smoking. Smokers tend to have higher levels of DHT.

[stray]

No shit?  

Anyways, thanks for the input dudes.. (and dudet).

[Trippy]

No shit?  

Anyways, thanks for the input dudes.. (and dudet).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7962322

[Aez]

A smoking hypochondriac, that's almost poetic.

[stray]

Hey, I've quit everything else. Gotta hold on to something.

[rattran]

Hold on to your hair!

[Oban]

Wow, and I complain that I have too much hair on my head.

Have you guys thought about hair transplants?  I know the technology has progressed past the obvious corn rows of the late eighties.  The doctor takes hair from the side of your head and then puts it on the top, plug by plug.

[lac]

If through some horrible happenstance I'd forgo my own true self and decide to undergo said procedure I'm confident I'd feel indescribably violated in my manhood every time I look in the mirror. It's pretty much up there with buttock implants in my book.

However, if you are some Silvio Berlusconi-like aging schlager singer, desperately clinging on to the last vestiges of your failing youth because in the minds of your slightly geriatric fans you are what keeps their spirits young, then yes, it can be excused but other than that no, not without joining the soulless ranks of ageing used cars salesmen and failed career politicians, oblivious to the hidden ridicule of those closest to you.

If there is one thing a sensible man should face, the passing of time would be it.

[stray]

Damn eloquent post my friend.

[stray]

Not that I'm taking glee in NOT beiing bald, but I think my problem was... itchy scalp. I literally was scratching hair out. I shaved my head again, and switched to that T-Gel stuff.. And my hair is growing thick like normal again, and not seeing even a strand come out during a wash. Anyone ever had that problem? I mean, everyone has dandruff every once in awhile, but that shit scared me. I don't think I'll be using any kind of shampoo except what's good for the scalp specifically. Healthy scalp means healthy hair.

[Oban]

Glad to hear you found a non-surgical solution to your hair loss problem.

So I guess you can try the whole line of Head & Shoulders shampoos as well.

[stray]

Nah! What I heard about Head and Shoulders is that it makes you have even worse dandruff if you quit it. Some kind of chemical there that makes your head dependent on it. It's like crack.

[Oban]

Hmm, so Head and Shoulders has a chemical that destroys fungus and T-Gel has coal tar.

The more you know...

[stray]

Yeah, my dad used some crazy shit similar to T-Gel for years.. smells nasty.. But not as nasty as his. I think the % of tar is lower. Either way, it gets the job done.

When I reshaved my head, I did it with the lowest guard possible.. and it finally was obvious what my problem was. My scalp was literally red in places. That definitely can't be good for hair. I think whatever I was using before (in addition to dyeing too much) did a number on me.