Anyone from London with male pattern hair loss

[ScaredSally]

I am dying to meet or speak with anone in UK or London wiht male pattern hair loss ..... who has positive results with meds or has cosmetic options to cover up with?

am so low and miz with this I am feeling totally suicidal my hairline has reduced massively and my temples are huge ...

[Lynzie]

Hi Sally, first of all have a hug from me. I lost almost all of my hair when I was 21 and it was incredibly distressing for me. Here I was with a hairy face, spots, weight gain.. to lose my hair was a BIG kick in the teeth. You can see me now to the left in my icon. I've been on met and dianette for about three years now and as you can see I've got thick, shiny hair now. It grew back totally different than it used to be, thick and curly instead of fine and straight, but I'm glad to have it.

Good luck to you, I hope others will share their stories to help cheer you up.

xxx

[ScaredSally]

THanks so much for replying WOW is that your REAL hair thats amazing .. can I be well rude and ask if you had visible bald areas ?? I do ...:-( ... actually looking into seeing a doc for hair transplatns ... I can deal wiht all other aspects of this horrid disease but this hair loss has totally kicked me and my confidence is ruined

I have been on Dianette, Regaine, Proscar etc and I am still losing ......

But what a great story yours is gives us some hope

[Lynzie]

My hair wasn't just thin it was practically non-existent. Apart from a strip at the back it all fell out, so I just had this fuzzy, pink head, not much fun wearing a baseball cap for three years! Going swimming was the worst thing, people used to stare so much, some daft cow even said "What on earth have you done to yourself?" and when i got my first haircut at the back end of 2002 (it had started to grow in, but very unevenly, so it was time for a #2 cut!) the stupid trainee hairdresser said "OMG who cut your hair like that, it's HORRIBLE! No wonder you're wearing a hat!!" Gah! Sometimes it still feels weird having it back, when I was bald I'd dream about having hair and I'd always be upset when I woke up. It's mostly grey, a pain as I'm only 27, but there's a wonderful world full of hairdye out there for me! Good job my scalp has toughened itself up! The first six months going hatless meant I got sunburn even in November and January, my face and head weren't used to being exposed, that was weird!

[Lynzie]

Oh and I forgot to mention, dyeing your hair if it's thinning, can make it look thicker. I did a lot of that when mine was growing back in. Even if you use a colour the same as your own it can make it look fuller. Just check to make sure your scalp isn't too sensitive!

[ScaredSally]

I love to read positive stories I would love a full head of grey instead of this balding temples and receeding hairline I feel likek a complete freak

People who comment like they did to you deserve to have their hair all fall out and deal with the embaressment ...

Thanks mate x

[Lynzie]

It's one of the things I feel luckiest about, and I'm probably unduly fussy with my hair now, but anyone who's lost their hair knows how important it is to your whole body image. I mean, lots of women are fat, you can shave your face if you have to, but hairloss is impossible to disguise unless you're rolling in cash. I remember that one of the scariest things about my shunt surgery was having to take off my Nike cap! Here I was, about to have a tube put in my spine, all my spinal fluid drained out, and only a local anaesthetic, and I was more worried about people staring at my fluffy head! People underestimate how much of an impact it has. You can't wear nice clothes (Good heavens it's hard to find something that goes with a cap!), or eat at a smart restaurant or go drinking because caps/hats are often banned, I preferred to stay in than explain to yet another bouncer... Then you do go out, but some drunken idiot will invariably make a grab for your precious headgear. You can't date, don't want to meet new people, it's hard to exercise having to think about your hat. I had the most appalling fear that a member of my family would die and that I wouldn't be able to go to a funeral looking like that. It really did affect me constantly, as I've mentioned earlier, it even plagued my sleep.

I wish people would talk about it more, then maybe the bad feelings and shame would not be so strong.

*hugs*