Hey Jow Forums, balding faggot here. I'm afraid my use of medication has caused emotional stillness and memory loss

OP here.

The tired all the time seems like a very common issue. I have already dealt with it because of my depression, and so far in no noticable way has the medication impacted this.

Same goes with my sex drive, still largely the same as it was before I took fin. Sex drive has remained high, I get sex often enough that I remain satisfied. I do get brief periods(day or two) in which sex is unappealing to me, but that again is normal for me.

Both of these are actually backes by the research regarding it and are pretty common issues. I wish the memory and emotional still ness had some research on it too.

20k for hair transplants? I would just go to my barber and have them shave that shit.

Well they also said this: So whatever for hair I guess.

>OP says he has been depressed since he was a kid
>Did you know that that medication can make you depressed?

Please read.

I have been taking fin for 3 years.. it must be a coincidence, but Im depressed and not being able to move from home. All my girlfriends have left me too.. Im 30yo.
Thought of dropping fin, but as a bald I would be totally destroyed. This must be what taking drugs feels like...

I really hope its not related. I think about sex and can cum normally, but cant get hard when wearing a condom or fucking...

If you can come normally from masturbation but not with a girl, then it's probably not from your medication: it's much more likely that you're jerkin' the turkey either too hard or too often. Cut back on porn and consider changing your masturbatory technique (avoid the "death grip." Use lotion if you normally go raw.) Consider temporary nofap and see if that makes a difference.

>all these people who value their hair more than ability to have energy, sex and or simply being happy
Keep taking the medicine. What could go wrong, am I right?

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Hey bro, I'm in the same boat as you. I'm 23, bipolar disorder and losing my hairline fast. I was nw0 at 20, now I'm nw3 at 23. I know it's hard, and it's even harder when you're depressed as fuck. Because i am too.

When i was low body fat and had my beautiful haircut with nw0, i could get any girl interested in me. But now, i'm going downhill, i'm unemployed, losing my hair and struggling to use finasteride or not (did go on fin 1 year, but quit due sides"

It's very hard to accept man, it's like a sign of your prime is over. There was a time i was ready to cut everything off. i got my barber machine and ready to cut everything off, but it was no battery, and i couldn't find my charger. I got really depressed, i locked myself in my room for weeks because of that incident.

I can't come with some solid advice here bro, but in my mind, there are only two things you can do to hair loss.

1. Accept that you are losing your hair, and try to make the best of it. It isn't fair, but find ways to cope. That's what I'm trying to do. I've started weightlifting, and I'm gaining muscle, it helps me cope, and feel better with my body. I am not ready yet, but i feel 1 step closer to accept the fate.

2. Start using medication, and start saving money for future treatments. Finasteride will keep your hair as long as you take it (not if aggressive hair loss) and minoxidil will help a lot to grow new hair. I was on fin and minox for a year, i went from nw2.5 to nw0 again, but i lost all my hair gains because i quitted fin and minox.

I think there will be future treatments in 5-10 years. The hair loss industry is really growing, because of people on the web is showing they are willing to use ALOT of money to grow their hair back, and businessmen are noticing that.

Hope i gave some useful advice, i don't got the right answer, because I'm struggling with this myself. Keep safe mate.

Op here.

As much as I want to keep taking fin, I feel the side effects that I'm possibly dealing with are too dangerous to have. As stated before, I would rather keep my memory than my hair.

I gotta find out if this medication is effecting my mental state. I wish I knew before hand, all I saw were a few horror stories and seemingly that sometimes people just react badly to meds. I'm also scared if it's a placebo effect, that somehow I am making myself believe it's this. Or more simply that I am suffering from memory loss and emotional stilness for other reasons.

I have started reading about something called post fin syndrome, which means these symptoms could persist even though I stopped. I feel stumped.

I dunno if I believe the whole 5-10 years we will be getting more and better treatments. I feel like I have been hearing that forever before I even started looking at treatments. I'd love to be wrong.

It's almost like all medications on Earth have side effects and a small group of people could get serious adverse effects from any medication.

You could be psyching yourself out, that's not hard to do when having sex.

If you are fine while jerking, then you are probably psyching yourself out and may have conditioned yourself to only getting off with your hands. As said.

Condoms suck man. That's not just you, hurts my dick.

Op here again.
I forgot to ask. What sides did you deal with? They go away?

Also you taking anything for your bipolar disorder?

Yeah. But it is all about risk management and quality of life:
>taking pills to save your life + minor drawbacks
VS
>taking pills to save your hair + depression

Seriously, it is hairline. No big deal. There are so many bald dudes nobody gives a fuck. Even fucking hitman is bald and all bitches are into him. Just get a suit and you are ready to go.

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Tons of life saving medication has terrible drawbacks. Including, depressing, leading to not wanting to live anymore.

Yes, risk management, a pill that has shown to be largely fine so a lot of people end up taking it and their sadness goes away. And just like all meds, there's bound to be one person who has a bad reaction to it. You simplify it.

People's self esteem is tied to their hair. It's obviously quite a big deal. If it works for you to be bald, then shit I wish I was like you. Luckily I still got a full head of hair but my family genetics suggest I will bald. I was thinking of taking fin when I do.

You're simplifing it again. Not everyone can rock a certain haircut, not everyone can rock being bald. It's more complex than just "dude this fictional character can do it! So can you!" Yeah man, Solid Snake rocks a mullet, you can too.

Is this something that gets posted often?

Im 33yo, and currently using finasteride every day. I have nice hair for the moment except a little loss in my crown area. I managed to keep it at least.

I dont have beard, cant grow one, just a stupid moustache and goatee. Adding to that, I look a lot younger for my age, have white skin + thin/athletic but not buffed.
So shaving my head or becoming bald is not an option. Im not going to be Vin Diesel or Jason Statham. Not everyone has that kind of physical appearance, and even if I try too hard to get buffed Im dont have the genetics.

So at least for me, keeping my hair over the head its very important for my self-esteem. Specially now Im sadly single again. I still get matches over tinder and I was dating a 21yo girl last year.

Not a lot of side effects I think, no memory loss, no depression and I still get hard and have sex normally.

Op here.

Good to hear fin has worked out for you. Where on the NW scale are you?

I'd say pattern 3 / class 2 following this chart. But I have to say I was like class 3 (and a bigger area) a few years ago, due to high stress, depression and lots of problems. I found out stress affects my hair a lot.

My dermatologist gave me finasteride 1mg, at first for 3 days per week, now Im feeling more confortable taking it 1 after every dinner.

I also thought of using minoxidil, but its a lot of work and results arent that great. And adding to that, I dont see myself having to use that product on my hair, looking dirty and greasy all day and whats worse, for the rest of my life.

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Nice.

Keep an eye out for the sides man, I don't want anyone to go through what I got.

Minox works pretty well for me. Though I only use it once a day, since twice a day is a hassle. I've noticed no difference between the two.

It's less of a problem of greasiness instead it's dryness, minox has alcohol in it.

Check out shampoo with keto in it. Helps a lot too.

1ml per day? I knew for some people worked fine without having to go through twice per day. I thought of using it for trying to grow a beard, who knows.

So many problems...

Wish you good luck OP, you are still young. Keep your face up and remember the way you see yourself in the mirror is the way they see you in the streets

I thought fin didn't help with beard growth.

>having to get hair transplants

And here I was thinking baldness was a purely cosmetic condition.

Whoops. This was meant for

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There are lots of videos, forums and pictures saying that work, Im going to give it a try, it doesnt seem like a scam

Huh. I didn't know. Hopefully it works out for you.