If you picked a crowd of 1000 males arround the same age and voted on who had the most number of hairs... he was in top 10 for sure.
As time passed by and he got older (at about 18) he noticed that we was losing lots of hair at every hair wash. He thought that it might be of the hair gel and so he stopped using it and started trimming his hair with the hope of it getting stronger.
It never did, and the amount of hair just kept on decreasing.
He did not understood because he always had a head full of thick strong hair, as well as his dad (which at over 50 still has!).
Moments of anxiety and depression followed through out the years and he noticed that he was getting balder and there was nothing he could do about it, since there is no cure for hair loss.
It was naive of him, because there are treatments that do slow it down... but the skeptic of him thought it was all snake oil. Still, that was a time were internet and world wide information was not so easily accessible as it is now.
That boy, was my neighbour! Because I still have all my hair!!!!
No I'm just kidding, it's me... and I feel that my best years were lost because of it (self-confidence and all that)
I never used anything seriously, because it was hard to see any results and I always had that idea stuck in my mind that "there is no cure for it". And on the other hand, I never did it when I needed the most, when I suffered from severe shedding. Nor did I had the attitude of "there may not be any cure, but at least let me slow it down", which is a shame.
Are we close to curing balness? Not yet. Not yet by a long margin since that would involve reprogramming your DNA (hello end of diseases and hello eternal youth and all that).
But I firmly believe that stem-cell-cloning-thingy-approach is going to fix it.
Cloning the hair follicules at the back of your head (which are different from the ones that go bald) and placing them at the bald spots is going to fix it. Yes, I think we are close. But if it's 1 year or 5, I can not tell.
Not much else that I add here...
I'll see if I can submit a picture of my hair (or what is left of it) and ask the opinion of the experts (*cough* Jacob *cough*) on which topicals I should start using.
ohh... and my scalp is very oily, itchy and suffers from that type of skin shedding (when you scratch and those white flakes pop out -- I can't recall the name)
I've tried different shampoos but I was never able to fix this. I've read some things about Nizoral shampoo in the forum. I think I'll try it.
Ask me and I'll point you to 5 different topicals and tell you to stick with something for a good year. I do think some of these newer products are worth trying though.