Recent content by arjun17

Very true Direct sunlight often shows a considerable amount of scalp even in those who are not thinning at all, especially if their hair is quite short. 10 yr old kids with thick-*** hair show scalp in direct sunlight if the hair is short enough. Also, ANYONE who combs their WET hair straight...

Good point! While I don't have any thinning as of now, my hair is black but not jet black, and rather fine (unlike most other teenagers I see with thick jet black hair), but it is pretty dense as far as the number of hairs per square inch goes. After washing my hair and letting it dry, it...

I second GoodGuy I highly doubt that your pre-male pattern baldness hair showed NO SCALP AT ALL in these worst-case conditions (direct sunlight, hair sticking up [the more an individual hair sticks up, the less scalp it covers] and to top it all, your sticky molding putty.) Trust me , all the guys I know in...

To chewbaca Hi chewbaca, Shedding medium length hairs from your thinning areas is not a definite indicator of anything. Those medium length hairs could grow back thicker (if your medication is causing regrowth), the same thickness ( if you are just able to maintain) or...

Wrong - u are needlessly worrying All hairs taper when they enter telogen phase (that is also when the "bulb" forms." Next time you shed (NATURALLY SHED, not RIP OUT) a body hair such as arm, leg, or pubic hair, observe it. It will be tapered a bit towards the bulb. Now, the chances of a...

Hairloss can "stabilize" , but there is no way to Nearly all men recede to a NW2 by their early 30's or earlier. But some of these men diffuse or recede more later in life, some just stay NW2 with no additional receding and no visible thinning throughout their lives. The latter cases are the...

Recession is less visible at dead-on front angles. However, it is more easily visible if the person bends over a little (especially with short hair), and also from the sides. In that last pic, his right temple recession is clearly visible. Nothing great, just about NW2 I would say. He has a...

Hair with tapered end could very well be normal.... My mom has thick hair to about mid-back length (27 inches or so). Many of the hairs she sheds have tapered ends, and all are not 27 inches in length, some are considerably less. The anagen phase is not static, but very much dynamic and adjusts...

Difficult, but not absolutely impossible In general, it is harder to reverse even a small recession than to thicken up a larger thinning area like the crown. The frontotemporal hairline is more sensitive to DHT than the rest of the top of the head. Most people's temples don't thin before they...

The camera angle and light is making it look worse. When I'm just out of the shower i.e. with soaking-wet hair and I look at my crown with the two-parallel-mirrors arrangement ,I can see quite a bit of scalp at certain angles around the whorl, and I ain't thinning at all. Yet, even if you take...

Hi Helpmeregrow, I am 18 and have no hairloss AS YET, but am concerned that it may pop up in the future. If I post pics of my hair, I will be kicked straight out of the forum. 'Nuff said. BTW, I read your story, and let me tell you that if hair sticks up at...

To tu pac..... Sorry if I scared you or anything, no it is not necessary or 100% certain that you will be NW7, actually the two guys I saw may have had something called DUPA (Diffuse Unpatterned Alopecia) in which there is rapid overall thinning of all hair, including the sides and back. These...

Get on Propecia quick dude! You're thinning quite clearly on the crown. You have'nt shown pics of the top of your head or the temples or midfrontal area, but just by looking at your crown, its a safe bet that the other mentioned areas are'nt in great shape either. Agreed, your lighting is pretty...

Not necessarily. While it is true that male pattern baldness develops to some degree in almost 100% of men and is inexorable - it continues in EVERYBODY until death, the RATES of progression are highly variable from person to person. "Non-balding" people also have male pattern baldness in a way, but their rate of progression is...

6'8" - 6'10! I don't live in the US, but you probably mean the average basketball center when you say that, not the average man! I'd agree with misterium - average height in the entire US is just over 5'9" (the tallest country is Netherlands with an average of just over 6'0"). That is to say...