Hey, it could just be middle age + Y chromosome.
I’m sure you’ll be fine. And you’re hella cute, if you ever need someone to wax your back I’m sure there will be plenty of volunteers.
My nails are pretty good, actually. They have raised lines in them, but that’s about it. I used to get the little “pin pricks” but since all my hair fell out, it hasn’t been so bad. Go figure. I have heard that some people lose their nails altogether. Has this happened to your husband?
The worst thing for me is that while I have no hair on my head, arms, etc., I still have patches on my legs and armpits, so I still have to shave. :rolleyes:
I haven’t been to a doctor in years. I was sick of potions and snake oils and needles that all promised to fix it. I’ve found that I obsess about it much less than I used to.
Can someone tell me what a “bingo dauber” is?
Wow - that’s quite a complement - “Yer so cute, men would line up to wax yer back!”
Heh.
I think they mean one of those thin plastic discs that cover the numbers on a bingo card.
AiW, you know you’re lovely, but I’m not single so I have to temper my flirts. I’ll always compliment your complements, but I’ll never supplement your supplicants.
Can one use Rogaine to make one’s hair, thicker? I’m not losing my hair, but I do have absolutely poker straight, baby fine hair-would Rogaine at least give me more of it?
I don’t think so, but you would have to talk to a dermatologist (or a family doc at the very least) to find out for sure. I think the idea is that it reawakens sleeping hair folicles - however, if you had a smallish number of folicles in the first place, and they produced fine hair, I don’t think Rogaine would help you.
BTW a bingo dauber looks like this:
…blush… FWIW, I’m not single either. 
Kind of like a marking pen, but with a perfect circle shaped tip about the diameter of a nickel. You smoosh it down on your Bingo card and it leaves a semi-transparent red dot (so you can read the number back to the caller when you win.) The thin plastic discs Shibb mentioned are used on reusable bingo cards, the daubers are used on disposable cards.
Actually, it depends on both the strength and marketing company. Generic (minoxidil) is about $45 for three months, at 2%.
Propecia is more expensive and prescription only, but more effective for males. It works by blocking the metabolizing an offshoot of testosterone. Since it is also, in stronger doses, prescribed for enlarged prostates, it is that odd medicine with at least one nice side effect. Obviously, it is good only for male pattern baldness.
He is naked as a babies ass…I am so jealous because I am very hairy and detest shaving/waxing/nairing. Now if I could just manage to lose every hair from the neck down…
He still has his nails, but they are all splitting, peeling, dish shaped and fragile.
All things considered, they have made some advances - he has some sort of steroid spray that when he uses it gives him nosehairs…but he has to cycle off and on it, and some sort of drops to put on his nails so they dont get so damaged and fragile, and he was told if he wanted eyebrows, they have some sort of steriod shot that seems to grow hairs at the injection area…but he doens’t want eyebrows that badly=) though he would like eyelashes…right when he started losing his hair they offered him rogaine, and I just told him to shave the rest of his hair off and forget the rogaine. He went from gorilla to chihuahua in about 2 years.
He doesnt obsess about it, actually never really did, especially after he found out I dont care how much or how little hair he has. He is more concerned about his thyroid, and keeping his cholesterol down, and avoiding the type 2 diabetes his father has…he was quite the sugar junkie until a few years ago.
Mine is a 5% solution, so that sounds about right.
Maybe you could grow hair on your feet to be like a Hobbit?
You could always ask for samples of Rogaine. The derm office I work in has tons of month-size samples of Rogaine (but not Propecia or Minoxidil) and often throw them away because they expire.
Maybe ur my soul mate. or female version of me.
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