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Baldness
I've always been a pragmatic sort of chap. I mean, when I was younger,
I had severe asthma. I couldn't run around or even play around like the
other kids. But it didn't bother me much. I amused myself by becoming
an introvert and by reading books. Of course it meant that I didn?t
have many friends, but then hey! I built up knowledge while managing to
stay positive. In my teens, I was known as pimple king. With a hideous
visage, filled with acne, black heads and white heads of all sizes and
shapes, people (not just girls!) avoided me like the plague. Although I
tried all sorts of cures, nothing really worked. So I bided my time and
tried to be as normal as possible till my acne went right away.
But it was in my
twenties that I ran into the problem that almost destroyed my life.
When the first sign of baldness came about, I couldn't believe my eyes.
I mean, nobody in my family was bald, and no matter how many other
problems I had; baldness was nowhere even on the horizon of my
hypochondria. So to wake up one day and realize that when I wasn?t
looking, my hairline had receded by a bit, and that baldness was
imminent, was not a pleasant thought. And it was no use knowing that if
there was any human condition that I was absolutely mortified of, it
was baldness.
Having resolved to hide the ugly truth from all m friends, I went to
university, the coffee shop, the internet centre and even the gym with
a perky cap covering my head. Most of my friends were initially
curious. Soon they became perturbed by my bizarre behavior. And when
they ganged up to confront me I shamefacedly told them the truth about
my baldness. Their first reaction was one of mirth. But soon, they had
calmed down sufficiently to try and help me out of my misery. Some of
my older and wiser friends shared their own experiences with baldness.
One of them in fact took the trouble to take me through all the
baldness cures he had personally tried and why each of them didn't
work. Another friend told me in no uncertain terms that if baldness had
decided to set in, there was nothing I could do to prevent it. I just
had to grin and live with baldness for the rest of my life.
But overall, I was
able to get some information about baldness, how to deal with it and
what baldness remedies I might try out to get the best results. For
instance, I found that Minoxidil, a solution that was to be applied to
bald spots was the solution most preferred by balding adults. Nearly
two out of three people who had used this baldness treatment, had seen
positive results. The other treatment was Finasteride an oral baldness
treatment that I could try. Finasteride seemed to enjoy a higher
success rate among people with baldness. But it was not as popular as
Minoxidil as it was reputed to cause some side effects which affected
sexual performance. Tough choice eh? Lose your hair or lose your drive.
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