What I mean by "paying money for the rest of my life" is that there are lots of hair growth treatments that PROBABLY work, but, even if they do work, I would have to pay for them the rest of my life, because they do not last forever. They are temporary. I could pay for surgery, and that would last forever, but it is extremely expensive. One place charges you ,000 for either a surgery or surgeries. I do not know if it takes more than one surgery to cure baldness forever.