Why Effective Treatments Can Temporarily Accelerate Hair Loss
It may be an unpalatable fact for those experiencing male pattern hair loss – that a treatment you are on may temporarily cause you to experience accelerated hair loss – but it’s a fact nonetheless – and it’s a very important indicator that the treatment is actually working.
It may sound like a paradox, but bare with me…
Ask any ‘seasoned’ hair-loss veteran whom has had success with re-growing some hair, and they’ll tell you the importance of persevering through the rough is what gets you to the green. (Nice little golf pun, there). Most guys are so emotionally fragile about the state of their hair that when they see greater amounts of it coming out, they simply refuse to continue with their treatment. Even if they knew prior to it that this would happen, they still stop.
They get what is known in this burgeoning underground industry of ours as ‘the shedding shits.’
So, they throw in the towel, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy for them – their hair probably won’t come back, and they may linger on the many forums bitterly spouting crap about how X product made their hair worse, when in reality, it’s all their fault.
Their hair often won’t come back not because the treatment has robbed them of it, but because the treatment was in the middle of performing the most important task any successful treatment can do – the shedding of weak hairs being attacked by male pattern baldness in order to expand the hair follicle to grow in stronger hairs on the next cycle, when the ‘victim’ chickens out.
It’s ironic that balls are the main cause of male pattern baldness, yet you need balls to cure it, too. Balls of steel, as a matter of fact.
Sure, the hair that is lost may take a few months to re-grow, but that is no different to the normal cycle of the hair anyway. The only difference is, the shrinking hairs were forced en-masse to shed so the follicles can expand allowing healthier hair to grow the next time. In the meantime, a person will have less hair, before it comes back en-masse, thicker and stronger than before.
If you begin a treatment and notice an increased shed, it’s vital that you continue with it through thick and thin (no pun intended) for at least 9 – 12 months before you throw in the towel. Then, and only then, do you have a right to complain. But, may I suggest, rather than complain, you spend your time researching and trying something else – us balding guys don’t have time on our side, after all.