Fully Recovered

5:27 AM

At this point, I'm going to announce that I am fully recovered from all my facial aging and facial damage that I have experienced through minoxidil. I'm not comfortable with releasing photos and videos that show the true extent of the damage, but suffice to say, for a long time I felt like my face was ruined, damaged, destroyed.

It's not easy to put into words either on how it felt, because most people I've described this experience to never took me seriously. The photos I have seriously make me look like a monster, a freak, a destroyed being. I don't think any of the photos I've uploaded here actually captured the true extent of how bad it was, because it was bad, it was so bad. The photo in the darkness I uploaded recently shows a decent example, just imagine those heavy and deep wrinkles and extremely aged appearance except in plain daylight.

I've met some people in real life while looking this way, even traveled around while looking like this horrible freak, and no one said anything negative, I think it's because they didn't know how I looked before, while I did. I noticed the extremely dramatic change within just a few weeks, so to me this kind of experience was petrifying.

Other people describe their facial damage through minoxidil similarly to me. I've seen lots of pictures too, I've gathered some. If you want to see how destroyed people look before and after minoxidil facial damage, you can see some examples here:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/tressless/comments/125z0rd/careful_when_taking_kirkland_liquid_minoxidil/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Minoxbeards/comments/z9mn8m/minoxidil_aging_202020212022_pics/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Minoxbeards/comments/lqi80y/facial_aging_from_minoxidil_a_warning/
• https://www.hairlosstalk.com/interact/threads/dark-circles-and-skin-degredation-on-minoxidil.110090/
• https://www.hairlosstalk.com/interact/threads/minoxidil-ruined-my-skin-loose-skin.131037/
• https://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/topic/64654-oral-minoxidil-at-6-months/#comment-658438
• https://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/topic/70791-oral-minoxidil-side-effects/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/blueprint_/comments/1kkjf6c/minoxidil_and_skin_issues/

It made some guys in their 20s look like they were in their 60s. Everyone has suffered massively, but this guy here in particular is in his 20s, but if he said he was in his 60s, I'm sure people wouldn't correct him: https://www.hairlosstalk.com/interact/threads/dark-circles-and-skin-degredation-on-minoxidil.110090/

I hope everyone here has recovered, I hope everyone who has faced massive damage through this recovers.

Oh, of course, there are also lots of examples of people who don't even notice their facial aging, and post before / after photos bragging about their new beard or hair, while not noticing that they just aged like 10-20 years. Should I also post those examples? These people are destroying their youthful facial appearance and are not even noticing it. I showed Emma some of these before and after photos of the oblivious people, who post "bragging" photos of beard growth, and her reaction was she said that they looked like they took heroin. It's pretty sad.

I really empathize with anyone who goes through this experience. I've talked to people who went through it, who are going through it. Some people are actually suicidal, and they even make posts writing about that every week. I gave them advice on what I was doing to recover, but I don't think they have tried any of it. I experimented a lot, spent thousands of dollars on cosmetics, spent thousands of hours reading about recovery and related topics such as skincare, and that's how I was able to recover, because I tried everything and read everything. Some of these people are just not even trying anything. If this is such a huge issue in your life, why would you not try everything?

6:40 AM

Well I just sent them some messages and some of these before / after photos as well. I made a before photo especially for them, because we looked similar in these. We had the same facial aging and damage, the same "dead" look, the same nasolabial folds, the same thinned skin and everything. I will post those photos here as well.

As you can tell, the minoxidil damage was extremely terrible at one point. There are way worse photos than those too. You can imagine I just looked like garbage, like absolute trash, everywhere I went. It's fine to describe my appearance that way, because I felt that way everywhere. I felt like a monster, like a freak, my skin was dead, I don't know how else to describe it. I was also living in that skin, living as that person with that appearance, and it just felt so bad everywhere.

So yeah, I was able to fully recover.

I am very tired and sleepy now. I'd honestly write more, I could write about life lessons and stuff like that, about what I've been doing the past two days, but I am so tired. I'm going to sleep.