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[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours 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!