Transparency is important. I’m sure I’ve made many errors in my treatment reviews, news updates, profiles of great bald men, etc. This blog is still pretty new….But here are a few things that stick out in my mind.
1. PRP Problems
I overestimated its effectiveness as a hair loss treatment, initially, primarily in this article. It has potential, but it’s ultimately not a treatment that works for everyone (not even close) and lacks credible research to verify its efficacy. I went back and made some revisions to my previous PRP content and will continue to do so.
2. No Female Hair Loss Articles Yet!
I’ve done significant amounts of research on female hair loss, but I’ve yet to write any articles on the subject. This is a side-project for me, and I’m taking a long view in terms of monetizing it (obviously, I have nothing to sell you at this point!).
Female hair loss is much more complicated than male hair loss and can be caused by myriad things. But I’ll have some articles up in the near future.
3. Not Enough Hair Transplant Content
I just published my first major hair transplant post a few weeks ago, available here: Should You Get a Hair Transplant – The Eight Factors to Consider. I’m sure a lot of you are looking for transplantation info, want to know which is better, the FUE or the FUT, and maybe you’re even looking into traveling to Turkey to have your transplant done there!
I’ll have transplant material soon, I assure you. Frankly, I’ve been a little bored with the “technical” aspects of hair loss lately and have been focusing more on psychological effects, feelings, and all that new-age stuff. Transplantation is a very technical topic, obviously, but I find it interesting so you can look forward to updates in that category coming soon.
4. Not Trying to Bring in More Subscribers
This was another clear blunder on my part. You don’t care, but I definitely broke a blogging cardinal sin by not trying to capture more emails from the get-go. I’m working on that as we speak, and a new plan should be in place in the coming weeks.
5. One Too Many Prince William Jokes
I’m aiming to create sort of a fun, empowering blog here that helps put hair loss into perspective, while also giving you all the information you need with regard to treatments, transplants, and so on. But I’ve probably gotten overly snarky and/or satirical at times. I don’t apologize, it’s just something I’m not going to do quite as much of in the future.
I like Prince William, and his brother. And I shouldn’t make fun of his hair loss, even though he’d be so much better off if he just buzzed his head. Sucks to be a royal, I guess!
Closing Thoughts
I’m not a hair transplant doctor, and I don’t believe I have any ulterior motives as a blogger. As I say on the Hair Loss Daily home page, my main goal is to help you deal with (and ultimately get over) your hair loss, whether that’s through acceptance or treatment. And, I think a lot of you would be best off just letting your hair go. Is that something they’ll tell you on the Bosley blog? I don’t think so.
That’s all I can think of at the moment. I’m sure I’m just scratching the surface, but those are the 5 biggest errors I’ve made so far as a hair loss blogger, by my estimation.
Robert Price is a writer, consumer advocate, and hair loss researcher with thousands of hours of experience in the field. His goal is to keep you out of the hair loss rabbit hole, underworld, or whatever you want to call it. He founded Hair Loss Daily, the unbiased hair loss blog, in 2016. You can learn more about Robert in the my story section of this website.
Where are everyone else’s comments? I see only my comments and your responses. It’s like I’m having a private consultation with you. I don’t mind. That’s great. I know I am too enthusiastic about how much I love male pattern baldness and I’m sure there would be negative responses from other visitors to this site. All my life I kept my urgent desire to go bald bottled up inside. After more than 40 years of marriage I am still madly in love with my wife and couldn’t imagine life without her. I desire her now as much as I desired her on our wedding day. I love male pattern baldness only a tiny bit less. My love for my wife makes sense. How much I love MPB doesn’t, but I stopped fighting it long ago. And amazingly, my wife loves my MPB about as much as I do! Urgent desire finally meets fabulous fulfillment. Going bald rapidly threw my wife and me back into a honeymoon.
She changed, too. I always thought she was too skinny. I also wished she would cut her very long hair short. She finally surprised me by getting a very sexy pixiecut and began to let herself go. No, she didn’t become obese. She just filled out a lot in all the right places and became very curvy and very pleasingly plump. Fast transition to Norwood 6, sudden pixiecut and soft plumpness … those two years were like heaven. Her hair is long again, but I don’t mind. She looks great long of short hair. She is still fabulously plump and more sexy than ever. And I am irreversibly (I hope!) bald, which she and I immensely enjoy. Life is good!
Those mistakes you list and no mistakes, in my humble opinion. I’ve heard the saying: “The good is the enemy of the best”. Don’t punish yourself for having made good decisions, when you could have done even better. Life is a long learning curve. It’s only natural to want to do better, and better. There will always be room for improvement … for all of us.
Hi Eric,
You’re definitely enthusiastic about MPB, and I actually love your comments and you’re welcome to post anytime! I read all of them. If you have a full op-ed or blog you’d like to write, I’d be happy to publish that too! As to why more people don’t comment, it’s just a numbers game. Most people don’t comment on blogs. This blog is only just starting to generate significant traffic, too — so that’s probably another reason more people aren’t getting involved in the conversation yet. But hopefully they will soon. Glad you’re here to help give some perspective and lend your unique voice to the subject!
Over the last few years I have searched the internet for MPB blogs where I could share my experience and feelings anonymously. So far this is the best site I have found. Not having to register also helps.
MPB is a very sensitive subject for me and I don’t like to talk about it face to face with family, friends and people I see from day to day for fear I might misunderstood or even be ridiculed. But I need to talk about it, as it is therapeutic. It makes me feel better to let my feelings out and this is a safe place to do it. I can’t adequately describe how desperately I wanted to go bald or how thrilled I was when it finally began to happen. Also, I like to think I am not the only guy out there who relishes the thought of going bald and waited impatiently (or is waiting impatiently) for tell tale of MPB. Or am I alone? I hope there is someone else out there who feels the same way I do so that I can encourage him.
I wasn’t willing to share my desire to go bald even with my wife. I kept that deep dark secret hidden until she noticed I was going bald. How ironic that all along she also wanted me to go bald. Not that it would have made any difference, as I had no control over it. There was no way we could make it happen any sooner, or happen at all for that matter. It happened when it happened and we were both eager and ready. Two years was the perfect duration for the transition to bald. Not overnight and not dragged out over decades. We thoroughly enjoyed the balding process, as it followed the typical male pattern: hairline receding in the front, bald spot growing in the back finally meeting on top, leaving a generous fringe on the sides and in back. Perfect.
I also loved how my wife changed during those two years. I always thought she was too thin. Perhaps my going bald gave her permission (at least subconsciously) to finally let her schoolgirl figure go. I love ‘full figure’ women and she became a very soft sexy, curvy full figure girl. So that was two dreams come true. It was like a second honeymoon and the surge of testosterone I must have enjoyed may have greatly accelerated the balding process. Or maybe my wife put something in my food or drink. If she did, it certainly didn’t hurt me. Some day I’ll have to ask her. If she did do something to speed up the balding I will be sure to thank her any way I can.
I think having a “death wish” for your hair is somewhat common, actually! So you’re not alone. Happy to have you share your thoughts here, that’s for sure! 2 years is really fast to go from a Norwood 2-3 to a 6! Sounds like your hair loss progression was similar to James Spader, and one of my favorite singer/songwriters, Billy Joel, the piano man!
Sure, I wished for those hateful unwanted hair follicles to die, but I think of it as more of a ‘life wish’ than a ‘death wish’. I wanted desperately to go bald and then move on with my life. During my 40s, I was having a terrible time styling my hair. I couldn’t get it to look right, no matter what I tried. Every day was a ‘bad hair day’, unless I kept my hair very short, but not buzzed off. A barber once commented that while I had lots of hair, the hair in top of my head, especially at the crown and at my hairline was very fine. I didn’t know it then, but it was a indication that I would soon be going bald. One barber even warned me, but I didn’t believe her. No, I couldn’t be that lucky. By then I had nearly given up hope of ever going bald.
So maybe two years was not really that fast. Maybe I had already been balding for quite a few years, but was not aware of it. I’ve read that you can lose as much as 50% of your hair before it becomes visually obvious. Extra fine hair and difficulty with styling are tell tale signs of impending MPB. As it turns out, they were for me.
Please correct my typo. “going bald THREW my wife and me back into a honeymoon.” Sorry. Thanx.