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Anonymous11/24/25, 15:05No.18598659
/balding/ and /finasteride/ general - hair is love, hair is life!
Sticky: http://tuxbell.com/index.php/Balding
Reminder that if you can clearly see down to your scalp when your hair is wet, your hair is thinning, lots of small new hairs sprouting at the hairline or crown is a sign of hair recession.
Holy trinity:
Tabs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finasteride
Lotion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoxidil
Shampoo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketoconazole
Finasteride/Dutasteride are 5-alpha reductase inhibitors that prevent free T from being converted to DHT, a byproduct of testosterone that serves no purpose after puberty but to choke out your hair follicles and make them thin out and die in a few short years, a condition known as androgenic alopecia.
5ar inhibitors prevent your hair from getting any worse, mild regrowth is expected, rapid onset diffuse thinners see a significant recovery on fin alone. Can be taken orally or topically.
5ARIs are not dosage dependent, taking as little as as 0.2mg daily fin can reduce serum DHT by 68%, while 5mg reduces by 72%.
0.5mg daily dut reduces serum DHT by 95%, but is considered a second line treatment, and can be more expensive and harder to get prescribed. Start with fin.
Fin has been used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) for 30+ years, it's very well studied and is tolerated well in almost all men, however, there's a 1-2% risk of erectile issues in controlled studies.
These can be avoided by reducing dosage, spacing out dosage, or stopping the drug. Fin takes days to fully bio-accumulate, the half life of fin is about 8 hours, adverse effects occuring within minutes of starting fin or persisting long after stopping fin are not real and have no basis in reality. Please note that dut has a much higher half-life of 5 weeks, if you're prone to fin sides, dut may cause them for far longer.
Refer to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3481923/ before responding to PFS trolls.
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Anon11/24/25, 15:06No.18598660
Minoxidil (liquid and tabs) is a vasodialator that opens potassium channels and widens blood vessels bringing nutrients to your hair follicles, stimulating them into thickening, accelerating growth and elongating the growth phase. Min is taken with fin to restore your hair to it's original hairline, thickness and vigor when hair loss is caught early enough, (pre-NW2). Can be taken orally or topically.Topical min does not work in 1/3 of men because they lack the required enzymes in their scalp, all men have this enzyme in their liver so the oral route is a good fallback.
The FDA formulation for 5% liquid minoxidil is food safe (vape juice, ethanol and water) and can be safely taken orally if oral min tabs are expensive or rarely prescribed where you live. As a general rule, ~4 drops (0.1ml) = 5mg minoxidil.
There's a 1-2% risk of fluid retention with higher oral dosages, start with the lowest dosage possible and work your way up when you're sure it's well tolerated.Ketoconazole is an anti-androgen and antifungal that inhibits DHT on the scalp and used to treat fungal infections of the scalp that may be making your hair loss worse such as seborrheic dermatitis, a condition where you exhibit severe greasy, flaky large dandruff flakes with dried yellow crystals (blood plasma) embedded in the scalp. Some people may only have traction alopecia (hair loss from scratching or friction), but it will not cure androgenic alopecia on it's own. Can only be taken topically.Do not use spirolactone. Spirolactone is a diuretic which, in large doses, inhibits testosterone and, by extension, DHT.
It is regularly prescribed as an anti-androgen for male to female HRT, and thus, comes with an astronomically higher risk of sexual side effects in men including ED, gynecomastia, and can cause potassium toxicity.Previous thread: [/fa/thread/18576652#p18576652]
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Anon11/24/25, 15:39No.18598671
not balding or anything like that but should i get this haircut?
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Anon11/24/25, 18:47No.18598849
Brehs I got a bottle of fin pills at 1mg that will last me 3 months, not worried about sides since they do seem to be extremely rare but I am worried about fucking up my liver since I'm a massive drinker on weekends and drinking while taking a continuous use medication spooks me a bit. Anyone here have experience going on a 2 day bender while on fin?
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Anon11/25/25, 05:24No.18599283
How long until we see the same thing start happening with Finasteride or Minoxidil. Irresponsible, unregulated medication never leads to anything godhttps://youtu.be/FPsKTfFQFqc
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Anon11/25/25, 13:06No.18599409
>stop fin right away if suicidal
so i never get to start?
what if i just do minoxidil.
>hair lumps together and scalp visible while bathing
>some baby hairs at forehead hairline
btw my test values are shit and i had gyno surgery
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Anon11/25/25, 13:19No.18599411
not seeing any regrowth despite being on 2.5 dut and 2.5 min for a year
no topical, only oral
i've also noticed applying hair oils causes my hair to fall out during washes, but if i don't wash my scalp it becomes greasy and full of dandruff
what should i do in this situation?
right now, i wash my hair twice daily with plain water, and wash it with shampoo+conditioner once per week after applying hair oils
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Anon11/25/25, 13:31No.18599416
Use spironolactone. Spironolactone is a diuretic which, in large doses, inhibits DHT.
It is regularly prescribed as an anti-estrogen for female to male HRT, and thus, comes with an astronomically lower risk of sexual side effects in men.I’ve been on spiro for a few months now and the results are nothing short of legendary. Spiro is the ultimate anabolic tonic that sends test levels skyrocketing. I have
>thicker, fuller hair: my temples which had been thinning are filling back in rapidly
>facial hair renaissance: patchy beards are a thing of the past. Spiro turbo-charges follicle activityThe science is settled: spiro cranks up test production and unleashes it directly at the follicular level. Dermatologists call it “anabolic follicular supercharging.”If you’re ready to stop playing with bullshit like minoxidil and want to grow a mane worthy of a Norse god, you need to buy spiro. Just don’t forget to get a bigger comb.
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Anon11/25/25, 14:39No.18599443
7 months on DHT blockers+min+tret and still seeing regrowth/progress
the angle makes it look real bad but it's actualy ~NW1.75.
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Anon11/25/25, 15:56No.18599497
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Anon11/25/25, 20:57No.18599689
Do you do hair check-ins? Do you measure progress somehow?
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Anon11/25/25, 21:03No.18599696
What about PRP treatment?
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Anon11/25/25, 23:46No.18599795
>just fix it bro
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Anon11/26/25, 01:11No.18599836
How'd you guys like the new Smiling Friends episode?
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Anon11/26/25, 01:57No.18599855
Ex-professional baseball player & adult smut writer-core
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Anon11/26/25, 03:44No.18599907
what the fuck
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Anon11/26/25, 07:23No.18600022
>Without meds
What did you do? Was your hair loss even AGA?
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Anon11/26/25, 08:15No.18600038
NTA but that's what I have due to hypothyroidism, although it isn't as bad as your before pic currently but it's likely sparse whenever I do shower, do you have an autoimmune conditions?
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Anon11/26/25, 16:42No.18600263
What do you guys think of minoxidil-finasteride combo sprays and topical fin in general?
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Anon11/26/25, 17:42No.18600308
>Somali forehead + receding hairline
Go on without me bros...I never had a chance.
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Anon11/27/25, 03:15No.18600560
isn't this some twitter groomer?
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Anon11/27/25, 03:24No.18600569
This ain’t your blog pigslim. Best remember that. Take your meds. Get a job. Get the leg lengthening surgery.
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Anon11/27/25, 04:13No.18600593
Ready for your raping son?
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Anon11/27/25, 12:58No.18600761
How early can you take fin/dut?
Will nuking DHT ruin puberty leftovers in guys under 25? What else besides dick and hair will it affect?
Or are you just supposed to take on the norwood reaper until you fully finish maturing?
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Anon11/27/25, 15:14No.18600819
What the pigslim yappin about? Take your meds son.
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Anon11/27/25, 17:00No.18600879
nigga looks at least 10 years younger. if you're not on finasteride what are you even doing at this point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60klPiG7bZ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62zz3p8UPmc
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Anon11/27/25, 17:04No.18600880
Minox and Keto shampoo are enough, stop recommending fin/dut
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Anon11/27/25, 18:07No.18600909
This side-by-side is a month old now, so 6 months of progress here.
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Anon11/27/25, 21:34No.18601042
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Anon11/27/25, 22:17No.18601070
This ain’t your blog boy. Some of us are here to discuss balding son.
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Anon11/27/25, 22:36No.18601091
Gonna cry pigslim?
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Anon11/27/25, 22:54No.18601109
Ready for your raping?
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Anon11/28/25, 10:30No.18601382
lmao you look absolutely chopped bro
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Anon11/28/25, 11:53No.18601420
Funnily enough, my paternal grandfather's side of the family comes from northern Italy and we all have the same pattern (plus my middle brother and I smoke and wear wifebeaters) so it checks out...
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Anon11/28/25, 14:57No.18601530
nice filename
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Anon11/28/25, 16:28No.18601574
Starting to think something like a hair system is acceptable. Degenerate society calls for degenerate solutions.
Definitely wouldn't take any drugs though.
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Anon11/28/25, 16:51No.18601591
22 here, my hairline has receeded a lot and stoped now for a year or so (receeded from 18 to 20), Im not losing any hair anymore and it looks alright but I would love to regrow my temples so I can rock different hairstyles more comfortably, what should I start buying?
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Anon11/28/25, 22:58No.18601819
School shooter/10.
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Anon11/28/25, 23:07No.18601823
delusional. even women get their temples raped in their 20s. it's by far the most sensitive part.shut the fuck up
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Anon11/29/25, 02:40No.18601923
/f/riends we're on TVhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR3NOGn4we8I personally agree with the wizard
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Anon11/29/25, 03:10No.18601939
They call me twigslim on account of my malnourished, child-like body which could be destroyed in a single strike. Best remember that.
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Anon11/29/25, 04:14No.18601978
since when is scalp massaging viable? and i imagine u would have to continue that silly treatment daily for life.
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Anon11/29/25, 04:16No.18601979
How long did your TE episode last? Was it chronic or acute?
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Anon11/29/25, 04:49No.18602001
>traction alopecia
Were you tying your hair in a tight bun jojo siwa style or something? And that's interesting, mine started in 2023, once I got my meds the hair loss stopped, but then came back once I started having side effects and since then I've been continuously shedding (both body and scalp hair, even lost a bit of eyebrow hair as well), have also had a ton of inflammation, no scabs or scars or anything like that but just red inflammation on the scalp all over which causes me massive amounts of itching. Just wanna compare yours to mine to see if your treatment options is optimal for me. Already changing my pillow sheets at least once a week and trying to find some good shampoos.
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Anon11/29/25, 04:57No.18602005
This ain’t your blog son. Reduce yappin
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Anon11/29/25, 07:56No.18602084
instead of botox, can i just get bees to sting me in my bald spot and hopefully the bee toxins will have a similar effect?
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Anon11/29/25, 10:17No.18602134
I now remember why I left this thread
drown in shit schizos, I'm outta here
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Anon11/29/25, 15:24No.18602259
Gonna cry twigslim? Does it bother you knowing I could crush your skull at will?
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Anon11/29/25, 18:07No.18602334
You dress like a side character from a netflix show and a gay porn redneck at the same time.
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Anon11/29/25, 19:04No.18602352
>"balding" general
>No Jason Alexander, Dostoevsky, Larry David, Paul the Apostle, or Wilford Brimley
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Anon11/29/25, 19:40No.18602383
>https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C48&q=botox+hair+loss&btnG=i did light research last night and what i got out of that was that botox is neither permanent, nor or is a cost efficient approach to the MPB problem. I also got the message that hair growth from botox is insignificant, but i will discount that because the study probably didn't have people on finasteride while receiving botox treatment. that still does not address cost efficiency which is actually pretty important.
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Anon11/29/25, 20:11No.18602411
His hair is just longer and it looks like a bad photoshop job lol
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Anon11/29/25, 20:16No.18602413
Gonna cry small son?
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Anon11/29/25, 20:20No.18602417
Aren’t you a poor gay unemployed 38 year old low IQ schizo manlet who could be killed in a single strike?
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Anon11/29/25, 20:25No.18602423
Why pigslim is a great lolcow:
>low IQ
>dysgenic manlet freak
>unemployed
>schizophrenic
>blames everything including the fact that he does not have a job on the Jews
>thinks he can fight despite being the size of a small, starved child
And most importantly
>responds with essays to every bait post without exception
Are you gonna cry son?
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Anon11/29/25, 20:42No.18602436
Please stop derailing the balding thread twigslim. No one is interested in your incoherent, low IQ schizo ravings.
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Anon11/29/25, 21:28No.18602471
first off his hair is longer in the second picture,second, he is still very clearly bald. if there was actual significance to botox theory, there would be more images after the first month of treatment where his balding spot fills in (there are no more images of this subject)
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Anon11/29/25, 21:29No.18602473
This ain’t your blog son. Reduce yappin.
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Anon11/29/25, 21:35No.18602481
why do you get angry when totally valid arguments are being made?i don't think suburban housewives do botox injections in their living room without a doctor, pretty sure ur thinking of ozempic. Botox also isn't cheap, look it up, and don't call me poor when you see $300-600 per session and say that is cheap. I also never said anything about finasteride effectiveness.don't get mad at me, but i think the reason ur angry is because u don't want your theory to be wrong. i don't want it to be wrong either, ngl im doing some scalp massaging to self experiment, but its becoming clear to me that scalp massages and botox aren't going to be part of the holy grail of combatting hair loss.
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Anon11/29/25, 21:41No.18602485
im not the one recommending everyone to take a needle of poison the scalp. Im not the 38 year old troon who u keep referring to, i am 33
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Anon11/29/25, 21:49No.18602488
>suburban housewives and botox
they don't goy. Hims would be marketing that shit like no other if that were a thing.>$300-600 per session
You contradict yourself. You said it only needed to be done every couple of years and now it needs to be done a couple of times a year?>fin effectiveness
I never made arguments about ones effectiveness over the other, but i do see some promise in the combination of the two; increasing DHT supressed blood flow to the scalp.
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Anon11/29/25, 22:50No.18602518
wtf happened to /balding/?
last time I visited was over a year ago and this gay alien skull having half-jew was shilling some retarded scalp tension theory and was having meltdowns whenever someone mentioned using fin and min
looks like nothing changed except he's even more insecure now and posting his wannabe blue collar costumes kek
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Anon11/29/25, 22:56No.18602528
I've been doing fin, min, keto shampoo, and microneedling for 3 months now. No idea if it's even working.
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Anon11/29/25, 23:01No.18602531
the botox studies had subjects doing injections every 3 months, not 6-12. Inb4 you say your advice was better.also, a simple google search does not yield me any real DIY botox injections.
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Anon11/30/25, 06:40No.18602752
>was in denial about balding
>was just starting
>took finasteride
>dabbed the minoxidil
>washed with the ketoconazole
>six months later hair is better than it was in high school
Bros. I'm looking fresh. Why the fuck do people not do this? My hair is thick as fuck.
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Anon11/30/25, 12:15No.18602873
This motherfucker is so ugly. Imagine being a grown ass man and larping as a fucking DMC resident evil japanese video game character
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Anon11/30/25, 12:28No.18602879
Post-Finasteride Syndrome is real.
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Anon11/30/25, 16:22No.18602998
>pigslim banned again
Kek. Schizos lost
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Anon12/01/25, 06:21No.18603431
i can never understand men who will rather be in denial with early signs of balding and refused to get on generic finasteride and oral minoxidil to save their hair. they instead waste precious time.Is it laziness or genuine fear of side effects? who cares of the 3% chance your dick doesn’t work, you’re not having sex anyway.
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Anon12/01/25, 16:39No.18603702
What do I need to learn about to know if this will postentially screw me? I'd like to try it but interfering with my body's natural processes via artificial means just seems outwardly risky. It's not a decision I'd want to make without education.
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Anon12/01/25, 19:43No.18603823
What Norwood am I
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Anon12/02/25, 02:19No.18604052
Seems like I am the manliest of men
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Anon12/02/25, 04:08No.18604116
Has anyone here been successful in getting a dutasteride prescription from an EU country?
How did you go about doing it?Doctors/derms in my country, Sweden, won't prescribe it so I have to try internationally...
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Anon12/02/25, 16:03No.18604483
> DHT serves no purpose
Blatant lie. It's a tranny hormone inhibitor. Side effects are minimized by the pharma Jew because finasteride is a huge cash cow.> Side effects include: tranny tits, tranny dick, tranny mental fog
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Anon12/02/25, 17:51No.18604565
The only thing that will happen from taking fin is that you will save your hair. Nobody in the history of these threads has ever experienced gyno and the other comically made-up side effects. Our resident anti-fin schizo hasn't even sampled it himself while many of us have been using it for years. This is a man who wants you to take a holistic hindu approach, why anybody would consider that over modern advances in medicine is beyond me.
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Anon12/03/25, 00:46No.18604839
Finasteride's best advertisement is the fact that when you take it, if you're diffuse thinning, you lose your old layer of hair as the new one comes in. So if you have long hair, you can compare the old layer and the new one to see where the main areas of thinning were, and sort of deduce how you would look if you were bald. For me it would have been horseshoe with a tuft at the front. I'm 29, started in march. It would have been grim. I don't care what the sides are, my devil's bargain is sealed at this point. The Ghost of Norwood Future came to me in a vision and showed me the other path and I do not like it.
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Anon12/03/25, 11:24No.18605050
Reminder that it's pointless to ask other people if you're balding because 9 times out 10 they're going to tell you you're fine even if you have a huge bald spot that visible from a mile away. You know your hair, if you notice more hair shedding, loss of volume, a receding hairline, or a bald spot where there wasn't one before, then you're losing your hair, whether it's from AGA or something else is another story.
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Anon12/03/25, 16:34No.18605226
Suggest an electrical dermapen. Is there a go to pen?
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Anon12/03/25, 18:11No.18605308
2nd day on finasteride boys, let this be the start of my journey. I plan on taking pictures of my progress every week. Some would say I'm not "barely balding", but it's better to act now when I still have a Vegeta hairline and not a full Nappa.
