I never write about this kind of stuff, but I feel I have to share my knowledge in this area.
Back many years ago, when I was just turning twenty, I remember looking in the mirror one day and noticed the corner of my hairline looked higher than usual.
I always had a pretty high hairline, but this didn’t look normal.
Rapidly, over the next few months, the other corner began to recede as well.
I began to grow my hair in order to cover up the bald spots, but I felt doomed.
I felt like it was a matter of time before my hairline would be pushed back like an old man. At least that’s how I felt at the time.
I looked into Rogaine, and the box said that it was only for the hair on the back of your head… my feelings of doom continued to grow.
I became amazingly insecure, and around this time, I had a long term girlfriend leave me… although it was due to a number of different things, I believe my insecurity over my hair loss is one of the things that turned her off to me.
Not the hair loss itself, but the insecurity over the hair loss.
I was also in college at the time, and studying a number of difficult courses… I could remember cramming for a test and seeing my hairs constantly falling into my book… it was like a nightmare…
I would wake up, and feel like I was living in a horrible nightmare…
I was exaggerating, and with what I know now, blowing things out of proportion, but I felt that I would never have a woman like me ever again, especially with my disgustingly low insecurities.
Regular Rogaine
My mom talked to my family doctor, and he told me to come in, that he had a medication I could take. I thought he must have been misinformed.
I went in there, and he told me about Rogaine. I explained to him what I had seen about it only being good for hair loss in the crown, but he told me they only tested it on the crown, so they can’t make claims that it’ll grow back hair from the hairline.
But then he told me, hair is hair, no matter where it grows.
So I went and got some Rogaine and started using it on my hairline. My hairloss halted, and began to slightly grow back. I remember seeing the little hairs growing in, and it felt great.
I used it every morning and night, like I was supposed to, and while I was grateful for it’s effects, I couldn’t stand how greasy it made me look… I looked like I had Jeri Curl juice across my hairline, and the hair covering my bald spots look thinner.
Also at night, laying down with the crap on my head sucked.
Either way, I kept using it.
Fast forward a number of years. I keep the majority of my hair from the hairline, but it was still slightly receding.
Propecia/Finesteride
I begin to freak out as I do from time to time, and become obsessed with researching on ways to grow my hair back. I go into forums, and see lots of advice like purchasing Proscar, which contains Finesteride (the same stuff found in Propecia, but larger and cheaper) and cutting it up to smaller doses, closer to the Propecia doses.
I saw a little more hair growth coming in, but I felt like major shit thanks to the side effects of the finesteride.
I had mood swings, felt feminine, extremely depressed at times to the point where I started crying for no reason, had no sex drive, my penis felt smaller… it sucked.
They say most people don’t experience serious side effects from finesteride, but I can tell you I definitely did, and my hair was not worth it.
So fuck Propecia/finesteride, not for me.
Rogaine Foam
Then the Rogaine Foam came out. I heard it had better absorption than the regular Rogaine, but it caused a nasty shed before your hair grows in.
I also read on a forum, a man who said he had grown back hair into spots that had been “slick-bald” for years. He said it looked like a little pimple where the hair was growing in.
Within the first month, I saw some very impressive hair growth amongst my hairline. I felt incredible… my hair was growing back. Hair that the regular Rogaine did not grow back, the Foam did.
Then the shed came…
Oh yes, the great hair shed of 2007…. I remember it like it was yesterday.
Hair falling out… all over… extreme depression… trying out half Rogaine foam and half regular Rogaine… nothing… hair falling out… hair falling out.
I couldn’t take it any more!
Shaving my head
I began to consider shaving my head… it was a very scary, HUGE step for me, but I couldn’t take putting my emotions in the hands of my receding hairline.
After a good amount of contemplation, and research (lots of places online had women raving about how sexy men with bald/shaved heads are), I went ahead and cut it. I remember it was July 4th 2007… the day of my independence from my hair.
I went into my bathroom in the morning, got out the clippers, and shaved it with a zero… oh what a feeling.
I looked in the mirror, and although you can see my hairline receded in the corners, it did not look bad at all… and it looked way cleaner than my greasy comb-over hairline.
Extra Absorption with the Bald Head
I had already shaved it, so I figured I didn’t have to use the Rogaine anymore.
But then the idea hit me. With no hair to get in the way, and no more fears of shedding, why not experiment with the Rogaine foam?
I could use my head like a Chia Pet.
So I continued using the foam, and after a short while, I began to see the “shadow” (area of stubble on a shaved head) grow. It seemed to cover a little more of my hairline.
While my hairline was still back (and still is), I saw hair growing in (and still is).
So I continued using the Rogaine foam. With it’s excellent absorption, I’ve grown quite a bit of hair back from my hairline.
Nizoral
Nizoral’s an Anti-dandruff shampoo with ketoconazole. The 1% shampoo’s available without a script. The 2% is available with a prescription, but you can order it without a script on Amazon.com.
Back when I used the regular Rogaine, I had heard about a lot of men using Nizoral alongside the Rogaine to help with the growth.
There are actual scientific studies that have shown that Nizoral, on it’s own, has been shown to stop hair loss and actually regrow lost hair. See info on the studies here…
So out of nowhere, after about a year of positive hair growth with the Rogaine Foam, I added the Nizoral 2% into the mix…
Can’t say with 100% certainty, but I strongly believe this has aided regrowth of my hairline as well.
Quick Summary of Mr. Manpower’s Guide to Overcoming Hair Loss
While I have not grown 100% of my hairline back, I have grown back quite a bit, and it is continuing to grow in.
I see these little red bumps along the areas in my hairline where the hair is going to grow in, and in all honesty, I can feel when a hair is “sprouting” out of my scalp… I can literally feel it on my hairline.
Step 1 (optional but recommended): Shave your Head
You are going to have to grow a little balls here, but shaving your head is the best way to relieve the stress of losing your hair.
Even if you don’t think you have a head for it, you can still look attractive. I know a number of guys with funny looking heads who shave their head, and women still say they are hot… (BJ Penn… Young Jeezy… there are ugly men with shaved heads that women think are hot just cause of who they are).
Become something special… more than your hair, and you’ll still be attractive.
Since shaving my head, I’ve pulled more girls with the bald head than I used to when I had hair… even before I was losing my hair.
I’ve realized how little importance hair really has, and how women see us men way different than we see each other.
On top of that… you can begin to use the treatments with no interference or fear of shedding. And if they don’t work… you’re already prepared.
Step 2: Rogaine Foam
The stuff is like $40 dollars for a 4 month supply. I don’t even use as much as they say to use, and it covers the area where my hair loss is.
I put it on every morning, leave it on for 4 hours, then go wash it off under the water, while rubbing my hair/scalp for a little while.
At night I put it on again.
I tend not to use it on weekends, and I don’t put it on in the morning if I plan on going out at night… I believe it causes you to retain water, and bloats you up a little…
Either way, very well worth using.
Step 3: Nizoral Shampoo
I purchased the 2% solution from Amazon.com. I use it in the morning about 3 times a week. I rub it in to the hairline for about a minute, and then I leave it on for 5 minutes, before washing it all off.
I believe it increases the absorption of the Rogaine even more, and it cleans off some of the sebum DHT from the scalp.
On the days when I don’t use Nizoral, I wash my scalp with Nioxin, which claims to remove DHT from the scalp as well.
There are no scientific studies on Nioxin, but either way, I feel it cleans the scalp, which is good enough.
Step 4: Rubbing your Head/Hairline
I remember I came across a website a while back with some guy who claimed he regrew his hair by roughly combing it. It sounds kind of funny, but I now rub my head/stubble around the hair line… like in a circular motion, just to create friction.
It’s strange how the hair grows back in… it seems to grow altogether, not in separate patches… as if the hair communicates with each other…. like if one hair grows, then a few hairs next to it will grow… as if it is somewhat connected.
Since rubbing my scalp/stubble, I’ve noticed more little red bumps, felt more “sprouting”, and I’ve seen an increase in the size of my “shadow”.
I believe that the friction against the hair causes the hair to sort of respond, and grow back in.
Step 5: Vitamins
I had a partial facial paralysis on the left side of my face back in March of 2008 (completely unrelated to the hair loss treatment… no worries). It’s called Bell’s Palsy. A neurosurgeon recommended I take a number of vitamins to help the nerve regrowth and improve my facial function.
Since taking these vitamins, besides speeding up the healing of my face, I feel as if my hair regrowth has sped up as well.
He recommended a number of B-vitamins, which besides being helpful for nerves, B-vitamins are also great for the health of your hair.
These are the vitamins he recommended to me:
Vitamin B-1 300 mg
Vitamn B-6 200 mg
Vitamin B-12 500-1000 mg
Folic Acid (can’t remember the amount)
and Vitamin C in large amounts.
Not sure if this is necessary, but I did notice an increase in hair “shadow” size when I began to take the vitamins.
Optional Step 5: Propecia
If your body can take it, try Propecia. I understand it works very well in combination with Nizoral and Rogaine Foam.
You can order Proscar online for way cheaper than Propecia, and then just cut it up into parts. There’s lots of good advice on this here, in these forums…
I however, have had excellent regrowth on my hairline with the Nizoral and Rogaine Foam alone.
Mr. Manpower’s Final Words of Encouragement:
Over the years I’ve felt increasingly confident on what the human body is capable of.
I mentioned the facial paralysis. 80% of people are completely healed within 3 or 4 months… I was one of the unlucky 20% who didn’t have a complete recovery in that time period.
I had a doctor tell me that my healing from the nerve injury would stop at 12 months after the incident, and 23 months later, with the aid of facial exercises and vitamins, I’m continuing to heal, and my face is looking great, and better by the day.
As a matter of fact, as I’m writing this, I’m feeling “twitches” of nerve recovery in my face. After each one of these twitches, I look in the mirror and I look more like I used to, and have more control over my face… by now however, my face looks pretty much normal, like it used to.
I thank God every day for this.
Another amazing thing: I always suffered because of my small penis size (especially my embarrassingly small flaccid size). I thought there was nothing I could do to increase it’s size.
With some research I’ve discovered some safe and effective exercises that have added almost an inch and a half more in erect length, and bit more girth along with a MUCH larger flaccid penis size… no bullshit
I know it’s hard to believe but check this out:
No BULLSHIT Penis Enlargement… How to REALLY make your Penis Bigger
(quick plug… sorry had to put that in there… it does work though!)
I also thought I would never see my hairline again, and while it is not at 100%, I am seeing it come back together right in front of my eyes… I feel almost like it’s a miracle… hair that’s been gone for more than five years is growing back in.
With the right knowledge… we can do some amazing things.
It might seem cheesy, but what our teachers used to tell us when we were younger is true… whatever you put your mind to you can achieve… you just need to throw some faith and determination into the mix as well.
Have a good one! And hit me up if you have any questions.
-David Carreras aka Mr. Manpower
The Ultimate Sex Guide for Men
mistermanpower@yahoo.com
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