Middle aged guy question

[WheresMyBobber]

I've managed to make it into my 40's with most of my hair intact. But now days it seems like more and more of my hair is ending up on the shower floor... [img]graemlins/eek13.gif[/img] Have any of you guys tried any of the new products that are supposed to slow this process?

[Buck50]

Well my good news is most of my hair is still on my head, :smile: my bad news is most of whats there is gray! :depressed:

[Mad Mikey]

The hair I HAVE lost is not really lost at all. Instead of being on my head they poke out my ears, nose and my back!!! [img]graemlins/eek13.gif[/img]

[greenbuttskunk]

I take a product called proscar. It's supposed to supress the prostate, which is what regulates
testosterone. It's slowed my hair loss, which is about the best I can hope for. It's also probably covered under your insurance unlike propecia (same drug) or others.
Don't know if it works on torn rotators though.

[GutZ]

Isn't that what Viagra is for, so you can keep it up, there?

[Cool Texan]

Originally posted by greenbuttskunk:
I take a product called proscar. It's supposed to supress the prostate, which is what regulates
testosterone.

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">Well THAT explains the pink dress you wore to my house for dinner that night...

[Fast Water]

In my 40's. Painfully, slowly going bald. I don't use any product as I don't mind going bald. I just wish I was balding more gracefully. A clump hair here and there intermixed with bald patches.

:smile:

[happybrew]

I just cut my hair shorter. That way the bare patch doesn't stand out as badly.

happybrew

[STGRule]

An unsolicited remark from a female.
We have discussed this at work around the lunch table with men from 20's on up that were worried about it. Some were very thin to full heads of hair. The few women that were part of the conversation couldn't understand the concern. Men don't have to worry about it as far as we were concerned. They were the same people we had already formed opinions about whether they had hair or not. It's what you say and do that has more to do with opinions of centered, normal women than how much hair you have. REAL women don't care (mind you the women around the table were outdoor, fisheries-minded biologist types). Your women may vary.

[happybrew]

Did you notice that all of the smileys are bald?

:smile: :depressed: :blush: :grin:

And only two wear hats to cover it up. [img]graemlins/dork.gif[/img]

happybrew

[Mad Mikey]

I'm with [img]graemlins/dork.gif[/img] ...........

[Waterfish]

I am 52 and my hair is still so thick I have to use the wide-tooth end of a comb to get through it. It is going greyish though. But having a full head of hair isn't necessairly something to be proud of. Next time you are in downtown Portland look at the old homeless guys in Oldtown. Like me, almost all of them have full heads of hair. THAT similarity is what worries me!

[E2]

A second opinion from a female: bald is beautiful! Hair or no, its the character and the heart and the skillful kindness that matters. E2

[Old Coot]

Bobber-

Don't panic, you have lots of options open to you without resorting to drugs with nasty side effects:
You can collect the hair from the shower drain, spray your head with matte Varathane and stick it back on!
There is alway the classic "creeping combover." You have the barber leave the hair on the side of your head a little longer each time, and gradually slide your part over. In about three years, you're using your ear hair to cover your bald spot, but nobody will notice. Really!
Let your sideburns grow and tie them in a bow on top of your head.
Go with a mullet and comb it forward!
Have your doctor put skin grafts from your armpits on the bald spots. You can pay for it with deodorant savings! (Umm, could you put on your hat, please?)
Check out crematorium dumpsters for a tasteful hairpiece.
Get a large nose ring and connect it to a pair of eyebrow studs with chains. Nobody will even look at your hair

Seriously, what happybrew said. If it really bugs you, try wearing your hair shorter. It's kind of nice to "do" your hair with a washcloth in the morning. Celebrate the fact that you are finally a mature male and accept that we get thinning hair. Be glad that life is so good to you that thinning hair even registers on your worryscope. Oh yeah, and on sunny days, wear a hat. Trust me on that. :grin:

[Straydog]

I started losing my hair in my 20's and have progressed to a meer scattering on top with a distinct chrome on the dome.

Georgia's Department of Education not withstanding, it is my belief that I, like so many of my brethern, have simply evolved further beyond the need for bodily hair for warmth. God created hats for a reason.........!

This of course is merely theory!


[ 01-30-2004, 09:04 PM: Message edited by: Straydog ]

[glassblower]

Well at 35 mine is falling out in the back. My wife is going nuts over it and wants me to go to the hair club for men (I told her to forget it). I also told her she could start shaveing my head for me whenever she wants and then she would not have to look at the bald spot. The bald spot does not matter to me as I can not see it, now a big patch of hair on my nose might bother me a bit if it was in my line od vision. Personaly I do not think of my going bald as anything more than normal, and I will not miss dealling with it all the time once it has all fell out. Plus think of all the money you will save from not needing a barber. :grin: :grin: :grin:

[Silver Hilton]

Blower, you just need to tell your wife what I tell mine. I don't need to look good any more, I've already spawned.

However, I have massive hair, albeit graying, emanating from my nose, ears, and eyebrows in addition to the top of my skull, so perhaps I am unable to appreciate the depth of the problem. :grin:

[glassblower]

SH, I to am a very hairy bodied guy, back, legs, feet, ears, nose the whole thing. The balding head bugs my wife, and she would not know what spawning is. OH, and I am getting grey also, heck I think that is kinda cool myself. Like I tell her, when a man gets grey he looks wise, when a woman gets grey she looks old :grin: I always liked that for a comeback anyway. She does not mention the grey due to my favorit comeback.

[steelhooked]

i'm turning 30 in a month and mine is receding and i'm starting to get the spot on the top of my head. that just the way it is, no treatment for me.

[happybrew]

I don't mind the balding as much as I do the graying. I shaved my beard off last fall because the gray in it was getting to be too much. It made me look older than I am. Doing that made me look ten years younger.

The funny thing is I don't mind my wife looking older than when we were married, and my wife doesn't mind me looking older than when we were married, but we both don't like looking older ourselves. We have this great set of wedding pictures. Dang we were both hot! Well she was and is, and I was in comparison to now. At the time I didn't think I looked that great. Now I look at the mirror, then look at the picture, and with the comparison, I wasn't that bad back then.

Heck, it's all vanity. We're destined to be old and wrinkly and hunched over and bald (even some of the women) and have faces with character written on them. We better get used to it. Besides, we look out from behind our faces. We don't need to look at them, so why should we care?

happybrew

[bucketmouth]

Middle age has done nothing adverse to my full head of hair. It has only caused depression!

[FishinMission]

Neal...I read somewhere that you lose an average of 150 hairs a day. Are you sure you're gettin thin up there?? Or are you just noticing a wad of hair on your shower drain?

I can remember shampooing my hair when I was a kid with Palmolive Green dish soap (Yeah..the stuff women soak their fingers in for soft hands...Looked like shampoo tho :grin: )

I still think that's the reason I got a full head of hair!

Mark

[Paddlefish]

I'm 54 and I guess I must have chosen my parents more carefully than some of you guys.

I'm more worried about why my wife is always chasing me around with a scissors in her hand. :shocked:

If anybody could use a dark blond donor, I'll start saving all the hair my wife keeps insisting on trimming from my eyebrows.

Seriously, I know a guy who, in his 40s, always had plenty of hair. Perfectly nice looking guy. Then the next time we saw him, he had absolutely none!

Turns out he'd been wearing a rug for years and none of us new it. He got tired of the hassle, however, and shaved eveything off.

Funny thing is: he seems happier and we all agree that he looks better than ever!

[WheresMyBobber]

Thanks for the interesting and informatve replies. :grin: I also appreciate the ladies views, you make valid points.

[Kruechief]

You people never cease to crack me up

yeah, I'm big, bald and beautiful :shocked:

I still look at my football pictures. I had long, golden curly hair that stuck out about a half a foot below my helmet. Women used to love to "boing" my spring-like curls. :depressed:

Quick, someone tell a joke I am getting depressed.

Krue

[DAB]

Think of going bald this way--- “God does not put marble tops on cheap furniture”.
DAB

[Thumper]

Nothing beats a slightly gray polyester hairpiece. :tongue: Very distinguished looking.