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Body positivity (europe.pub)
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[–] [S] 12 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I'm thinking the other way: if it ever happens to me, I'll just embrace the baldness. But I imagine it's a lot easier to say that now than it would be at the time.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    As someone who did just that, it’s all about perspective: balding is a condition; bald is a choice.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    This! I'd much prefer to have a full head of hair, but since that's not an option, I prefer to be bald rather than visibly balding 🤷

    (And getting surgery for this would feel excessive. Not to mention the transplanted hair would just start balding too because of the same hormones that caused balding in the first place, so it's just putting off the inevitable.)

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    After a transplant you usually have to take meds. Done quite a bit of research...very low risk of side effects. Most common is dick problems but I'm loaded up with SSRIs and it still works so I doubt I would have that side effect. The prescription is not free and I think is like 60 bucks a month the last I looked.

    If you are starting to bald, and don't want to, the easiest option is to get on meds to keep what you already have. If you get side effects then you are SOL i suppose.

    You can also do pretty good by changing your diet. Food that promotes circulation. I can cite a youtuber that got his hairline back by eating a fuck ton of watermelon. And I eat a fuck ton of watermelon anyway, maybe that's why my hairline is still my childhood hairline at age 32. Dad was balding at 25. Poor diet and too many trucker hats.

    Transplant costs like 10k CAD in Turkey. Not an insurmountable amount of money IMO. The worst part is your nasty looking head for like a year after the procedure. After the transplant, all that hair will fall out again, and then you have to wait for it to grow back. The process can be quite humiliating as you can imagine as guys are expected to man up and shave their heads, not pay to win like this.

    I dunno, I really like having long hair, I take immense pride in having nicer hair than most ladies and I enjoy taking care of it and seeing how long it can grow. I always wondered what a shower feels like with a bald head though! I have never had short hair in my entire life.

    Now I want to do some gatekeeping. If you want to play in a metal band on stage, you need long hair, or you have no business being there. Haha.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    If you are starting to bald, and don’t want to, the easiest option is to get on meds to keep what you already have. If you get side effects then you are SOL i suppose.

    Yeah, at the first sign of hair loss I started on Minoxidil, and stayed on it for like a decade until my hair loss got very noticeable even with that 😅 (Also didn't help that I was balding from the front, and from what I've read, Minoxidil is not really effective against that.) I had varying lengths of hair over the years, but grew it out to ponytail length during Covid, as a last hurrah before I knew I would have to say goodbye to it.

    Transplant costs like 10k CAD in Turkey. Not an insurmountable amount of money IMO.

    For me that would be multiple times my current savings 😅 But anyway, surgery just feels so invasive for essentially a cosmetic issue. I know many people don't feel this way, and more power to yous! But I'd rather just make my peace with it, it feels better for my mental health on the long run than anxiously trying and trying to ward it off.

    I knew it was coming, looking at my older male relatives on both branches, and in my case it was ultimately something I chose, as I'm transgender, so I knew what I was signing up to when I started testosterone. That sense of it being my decision probably helped me to be able to accept it.

    Now I've been fully shaven for about 6 months, and I like the sensation when it's all freshly shaved and smooth :) Took me a few months to not do a double take when I saw recent photos of myself, as I still had my old look ingrained in my memory. By now I'm shaven even in my dreams :D

    I always wondered what a shower feels like with a bald head though!

    Idk, it just feels like any other skin :) When I went from ~15cm to buzzcut (a year before shaving it altogether), for the first few days I constantly had the sensation as if my hair was wet, bc my head skin felt colder than my body, and in my mind that had a strong association with post-shower wet hair :)

    Now I want to do some gatekeeping. If you want to play in a metal band on stage, you need long hair, or you have no business being there. Haha.

    Haha agreed, headbanging needs long hair!

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Biggest hangup I think for men is "what if I have a weird shaped head" or something that looks strange to them. If I knew how I looked bald before I shaved it all, I would have done it sooner.

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