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A little background. 26 years old, only have been in one relationship and was a short one. Was willing to try again but I'm currently starting to bald and it's not something I'd desire to anyone.
It gives you so much anxiety like you wouldn't believe it
Anyhow here's the clutch of the thing; Alopecia is basically treateable by either A, Minoxidil, which is a drug that restores the blood flow and helps the hair grow back but doesn't restores miniaturized hair. And apparently it ages the shit out of your skin, so there's that
And there's also Finasteride, which basically inhibits the amount of DHT your prostate produces, by inhibiting the 5-α-reductase enzyme, which in turn, at the LONG run, gives you sexual disfunction (in a 7 year study, 62% of the guys out of case study got the side effects, which include, erectyle disfunction, low sperm count, and like 12% got penis shrinkage).
Tl dr; Do I go bald, do I make my skin look like shit, or do I go sexless but with hair? What would you do if you were me?
Here are the studies by the by
http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/1373779
http://www.goldjournal.net/article/S0090-4295(98)00094-6/abstract?cc=y=
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3481923/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4069023/
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Probably go completely bald. It's better than balding imo. I luckily still have a head full of hair but bald looks better and I guess some girls see it as a confidence thing.
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(I'm woman lol) Go full bald. It's not that big of a deal. The kind of people that would criticize your baldness would also criticize anything else they can. There's no escaping them. There's tons of people that wouldn't mind (me included), it's about you as a whole person, not the amount of hair you have/don't have. Cheer up man.
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"Sexual dysfunction was assessed in the 17,313 PCPT participants who received finasteride 5 mg during a 7-year period. Finasteride increased sexual dysfunction only slightly even at 5 mg dosage (which is much higher than the 1 mg administered in pattern hair loss) and its impact diminished over time. The authors concluded that the effect of finasteride on sexual functioning is minimal for most men and should not impact the decision to prescribe or take finasteride. A recent review of the available literature too arrived at similar conclusions.[12]"
I'm not sure where you got that 62% number from but it's grossly wrong.
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Woops, it's on this one.
Side effects
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa030660#t=article
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