Thread: My Hair Loss Paranoia

It can be hard on someone, I guess, loosing the hair.
It was a part of my personality once.
But, you know what? As soon as I noticed my hairline reciding, I decided to just try out shaving it all off. In the last 15 years I've never allowed it to grow back out again. My wife loves it, so do I. I still have most of the growth up there, but nah, it will never be seen again
No more pillow-head or Camping-do for me!

Originally Posted by kooray83

Ive stopped shampooing my hair. Maybe those harsh chemicals cause my hair to thin. Its been a couple of months now and I could feel my hair thickening, but it has gotten really oily and I have dandruff now.

I doubt that the chemicals in the shampoo are causing your hair loss, unless you are sensitive to one or more of the chemicals in the shampoo. Chemical sensitivity and multiple chemical sensitivity are rare but do occur. People who are chemically sensitive wash their hair with baking soda and vinegar.

Do not mix the two of them together. Place a couple of spoonfuls of baking soda in a small cup and bring it and a small bottle of apple cider vinegar into the shower with you. Wet the baking soda with a tiny bit of water -- just enough to make a stiff paste you can handle with your fingers. Wash your hair with that. You'll be amazed at how efficiently it works. Rinse the baking soda out of your hair with water and then rinse your hair and scalp with some apple cider vinegar.

While the baking soda does a remarkable job cleaning hair and scalp, it does leave the skin extremely alkaline. The surface of the skin needs to be slightly acid (oils and perspiration -- referred to as the "acid mantle") to maintain a barrier against infection so that is why you do a final rinse with vinegar. Don't worry, when your hair dries it stops smelling like vinegar.
Namaste,
Morty -_-

Look on the bright side. I went bald many years ago and now a bottle of shampoo lasts years! Literally...

Gareth

As already mentioned if there was an easy fix for hair loss nobody would be bald.

As a male I think we are lucky to be able to see in our genetic predecessors whether or not, and when, we will lose our hair(except for the ones who had a mother who slipped during a Christmas party). The only exception, I guess, is the guys who lose it really early.

Mostly though I feel bad for the very few women who lose it.

Personally I know from my Farther what it will look like at 50 and how I can see on my oldest brother that it will be thinning out in the 30'ies.

Hair loss is something I know will come and have come to terms with. What is bothering me is the knowledge that after 30 the body will start to slow down =(