First off, i'm not losing my hair..i know exactly where it's going..South.
i was looking at me Sr. pic, taken 5 years ago and then looked at myself in the mirror and in only 5 years, i look like i've aged 9. I've had people think i was in my late to mid 30's and it's rare that i get carded buying booze. now I don't consider myself to be a vain person, but this is kind of upsetting to me as i'm not even 25 yet.
My girlfriend seems to enjoy poking fun at it, which until she started flopping her long hair ontop of my head, i really didn't care. I don't really want to look like George Costanza in our wedding pics (whenever that may be, at this point it's just an eventuality) but still.
I've tried the growth stimulation shampoos and they didn't help much, if anything they reduced the number of hairs on the wall of the shower by maybe 4 or 5
then i found out that i've probably got 2 factors working against me: Genetics, and hormones. Apparently high testosterone levels are the main cause of hairloss (weird huh?) and because of ciculation around the scalp, it just ends up building up into a wax-like substance which chokes out the folicles. The shampoos and rogaine type stuff just breaks down the wax and leaves youhoping there are a few good folicles left.
The restoration surgery is about 4 grand, takes 4 to 5 months to start really growing and supposedly it grows about a half inch a month after that. I could probably pay it off in about 4 months if i worked overtime, but i'm also kind of wondering what else i could do with 4Gs. Doing this would also increase the amount of time i live at home by a a couple months....not so sure i'm crazy about that idea
