Where My Hair Journey Began
I would have never imagined there would be a day like today. To realize 15 years ago that I would go bald in my late 20's, I'd laugh myself to sleep.
Man does time fly, I would have never believed it, but I am now old.
I'm calling it a hair journey because that is all I can think of at the moment, because it really isn't anything special. People go bald everyday, some people more than others. If you care, you will fight for every strand... If you don't, then it will all be buzzed away.
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Look at this picture of me when I was 19. I managed to dig this bad boy up from an old old OLD account's profile picture.
I would have never seen this coming. That the older I got, the more weight I gained... the more hair I lost.
Man... to be young and skinny again...
I Never Thought I Would Go Bald
It was hard to accept that I was never going back to the way I was. One day, I just looked at myself in the mirror and knew... it was over. There was no going back or fixing what is already done. I had neglected my hair for so long, I believed the damage was beyond repair. No comb over was going to cover my obviously badly thinning hair. For a while I was buzzing my head, luckily I had moved to the acceptance phase quick.
Between my friends teasing me and the slow acceptance of my new image, it really wasn't THAT bad. Hats were now my best friend, plus I look better in a hat.
I Decided I Needed To At Least Try
I need to thank my girlfriend because she was the one who told me to take action. She did the research then spoon fed me everything. I thought there was nothing I could do, I mean, it wasn't like I could just plant some new seeds up there. I was ready to shave my head, and besides, it was way less work to maintain a buzzed head. But then it kind of hit me, why don't I give it a shot to try and save my hair?
This was a recent-ish picture after I had already tried 3 or 4 different treatments, over a year. Then stopping to see if my results stuck.
You can really see how advanced my baldness had become, and the situation was even worse before. As you could imagine, even after actively trying to stop the baldness, my head still look like the picture above. I was well beyond the point where I should be shaving my head, you could clearly see skin front to back.
Trying To Hide The Problem
When I kept the hair short, it was a lot more presentable. But as things grew longer, it just got real ugly real fast.
Keeping my hair short and tight helped hide the issue. I noticed the longer my hair got, the more thin it looked, like the strands just ran out of steam. After going through the various treatments which ranged from hair vitamins to patting this green liquid into my hair. My results were pretty hit and miss, sometimes my hair looked great and sometimes it didn't. It was hard to gauge because keeping the hair short automatically made it look better no matter what I was using at the time.
This was one of those old pictures where I thought I was actually winning. But as my hair grew, due to me not sticking with what worked, I eventually lost the result.
Experimenting With Ideas To See What Worked
And at this point, I had combined the topical treatment with vitamins, but 5 pills a day was not fun to take... I dreaded it. I also decided to test out a theory by stopping to see what happens.
I wanted to see if the results stuck.
All my results slowly slipped away. And with that, my dreams of finding that not-for-life commitment. So my next endeavor is combining 2 different vitamins and the topical treatment, now my goal is to simply restore as much hair as possible.
The results actually looked kind of promising.
As of this writing, I have been going at it for about a week or two, I notice much more color and little hairs popping up. I see a lot more density than before even at this hair length, the front of my head looks a lot more filled in. Plus much better coverage in the crown area, which is a definite win for me. Still, not even close to me at 19, but a step in the right direction.
This was something I did not notice before. The REALLY bald spots, stayed bald. But all these new baby hairs were exciting to see. I am hoping my bald spots fill it with some quality hair, not holding my breath, but I am hopeful.
My crown has the worst of it, and that area will be the biggest challenge to fill in.