Any young bald guys overcome it with treatments?

[Kramer3]

I started balding when i was only 17 and when i say balding i dont mean that i simply receeded slowly, i began balding agressively. At the present moment i just turned 18 and am trying to maintain what i currently have which is enough to cover my bald spots but still not very good. I was wondering if anyone else on this site had experienced agressive balding at such a young age (17-19) and was able to hault it by use of treatments. I'm only a month + 1/2 into the treatments so i won't be able to tell for a while if their working for me, but it'd be nice to hear from some people who have overcome my situation.

 

[x5o]

Check out some of my posts (you can pull all of them from my profile). I, too, started to lose hair at 17. Although, mine was not as aggressive as you describe yours, it was still incrediblly traumatic. Check out what I did. Also, see what I am doing now, and what I recently decided to terminate for good.

 

[Kramer3]

I am aware of all the progress that you made X50, but i also consider you very fortunate. My situation is not like yours at all. I have gathered the impression that you are in your mid thirties and still have good coverage. If i make it to my mid-twenties with good coverage i would be enthralled. Thanks for trying to help, but i want to hear most from people who are young and aggressively balding. Those are the people who seem to have the most trouble responding.

 

[MontyWockenfuss]

Thanks for trying to help, but i want to hear most from people who are young and aggressively balding. Those are the people who seem to have the most trouble responding.

I disagree. Look at Martin on the picture section. He was aggressively thinning and turned it around. Younger people tend to do better with treatments than older folks...IMO, it's the older folks that are rapidly thinning who have the worst problems.

 

[Kramer3]

In that respect your completely right because the follicles haven't been dead for very long when your young. Martin was a terrible choice for an example though because he still had decent coverage into his mid-twenties. Without treatments i'd be completely bald by my mid-twenties. I realize in general young guys respond better.. But I'm still looking for someone that is an agressively young balder to give me a good testimony.

 

[MontyWockenfuss]

In that respect your completely right because the follicles haven't been dead for very long when your young. Martin was a terrible choice for an example though because he still had decent coverage into his mid-twenties. Without treatments i'd be completely bald by my mid-twenties. I realize in general young guys respond better.. But I'm still looking for someone that is an agressively young balder to give me a good testimony.

I guess it depends by your perception as to what "aggressively thinning" is. In my mind, Martin is it. I'm 20 years old and I know that if I don't use the big 3, I'm going to look like Martin within 2 or 3 years (I think he was 22 when he started his programme, right?). His hairline is receded and his scalp shows through everywhere on his head. You would look at Martin and think he is balding. I consider myself to be somewhat aggressive in my thinning, but I also know that Im responding decently to minoxidil after 2 months and that I still have many more months of improvement to come, plus I've added finasteride and nizoral. I also know that I don't really appear to be thinning as aggressively as I know I am because of the way I style my hair.

On top of that, I seem to remember that finasteride tests were run on guys as young as 18 and that the minimum on the Norwood Scale was a 3. This means that guys had to have been pretty aggressive to be a 3 by the time they were 18 in order to qualify to use it for the FDA trials or whatever. Since we know that finasteride works better in yougner people, it must have worked well enough in all of those guys who were aggressively thinning at that age that it didn't completely off-set the total study enough. It must have worked well enough for them to the extent that all of us think that younger guys respond better to finasteride.

Just my two cents on all of this using the powers of logic and deduction. Might have made a mistake here because Im exhausted tired, but I think Im not too offbase.

MW

 

[Kramer3]

Monty, i didnt realize Martin was so young, i thought he was at least 26. I see your point, guys that are younger definetly do have a better chance of maintaining or keeping their hair, i just wanted to hear from someone that has actually done this and was able to achieve it when they were only 18. I wouldn't consider myself as bad off as Martin was in those first pictures either. I hope for both of our sakes that you are right and that we should have a good chance at maintaining and possible regrowth. I think you are perhaps a little mistaken about the propecia trials though. I think that men could only be a maximum of a norwood 3 to particapte in the trials. Generally men who have receeded past a norwood 3 have more trouble with regrowth because the follicles have been dormant for so long.

 

[flux]

finasteride works better in younger people? Is this true? I have not heard this before. I would have thought age is not an issue, that the only relivant factors are the balance of sensitivity to DHT and DHT levels.

 

[x5o]

I think the only age factor in any hair loss medication is the age of the follicles. As with any body part, the younger, the better the chance for recovery(in most instances). Not a med. doctor here but I think that simple summary would stand scientific medical scrutiny.

I do believe that the younger you start treatment the better. It certainly seems that prevention of further loss is FAR easier to accomplish than regrowth.

 

[Kramer3]

Flux: I didn't really mean that finasteride works better in younger people. What i was trying to convey was that finasteride works better with people that haven't been losing hair for a long time, or if they have, has maintained most of their hair. From my research it seems that most people won't be able to regrow or maintain very brittle weak hairs, that have been dormant or barely alive for some time. Your right though when you say that the balance of sensitivity to DHT and DHT levels is very important.

 

[x5o]

Hey Kramer, we agree again!

 

[Kramer3]

lol, yeah starting to happen on a more frequent basis lately.

 

[Axon]

finasteride works better in younger people? Is this true? I have not heard this before. I would have thought age is not an issue, that the only relivant factors are the balance of sensitivity to DHT and DHT levels.

It works better in people who have been balding for less time. End of file.

 

[Kramer3]

I understand all of the components of finasteride that you guys all mentioned. This topic isn't about any of that though. All that i was wondering was if any young males (17-19) that were agressively balding, had been able to overcome that with treatments. I fall into that category and was just curious what the results are like. I dont want any hypothetical suggestions, just testimonies from people that have done it, or weren't able to.

 

[pharoh]

I know this post wont' help you, but I am only just 21 and started losing my hair around the age of 17, this past year the hairloss has become far more aggressive, especially it seems the last few months, but this could have been accelerated due to all the stress I was (and am) going through.

I am nearly completing a month on finasteride, planning to start minoxidil soon - at the moment I think my hair is atleast as bad as martins if not worse. Hell, one of my 'mates' from back home came to visit a few days ago - the first thing he said when he saw me was "dude, it looks like your hairs receded more than last time I saw you". I only saw him a month ago at christmas, damn I must be losing my hair fast

 

[Guest]

Kramer,

I have been roaming around hairloss forums for a while and have never come across anyone that has had success with agressive thinning at such a young age. With saying this, severity of balding and success are both relative. You may be happy with staying at a nw2-nw3. This is not out of the question at all and you are of course taking the right steps to achieving those goals. I know it's probably not what you wanted to hear, but balding is a b**ch. Every guy that I have ever known, that started balding in high school is a nw7 now, and I'm 25. These guys obviously did not treat their hairloss, but you can see where you're headed.

Just keep what you're doing and hopefully something great will happen in the hairloss world in the next few years.

One suggestion. Get hormone levels checked to better determine if propecia is doing anything.

 

[Kramer3]

Yeah i guess success is very relative. To me success would be to maintain what i currently have with maybe some minimal growth. f***, i just want to finish high school with enough hair to prevent people from asking me all the time what's going on with it. Before i went on the treatments i was honestly starting to look in the mirror and imagine how i would look completely bald. At least now i have some glimmer of hope. If i go bald, i can be comforted by the fact i did the most i could to try and prevent it.

Quick question, how do you get your hormonal levels checked?

 

[Guest]

I beleive a family doctor could probably set it up fairly easily. Otherwise, most likely go to local clinic where they analyze blood.

Good luck man.

 

[Odelay]

I am in my early 20's and I tried the proven treatments and all I can say is that DHT has kicked me in the balls and stole my wallet. If Propecia works better in younger people then my follicles did not get the message.

 

[GourmetStyleWellness]

How long were you on Propecia And Minoxidil And Nizoral together, consistently, daily without interruption?

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