Anyway of telling where your male pattern baldness ends?

[HairLossFreak]

Is there anyway of telling where your male pattern baldness will stop?

I am 22 years old, and have began loosing hair at my temples, and at the crown it has begun to thin out. It is getting to the point where the crown is noticeable in certain lighting, it is the crown that bothers more than anything at the moment.

I wanted to know that when you start to lose it at the crown, do you begin to lose it at its furthest point back? Or is it possible that may proceed to lose more hair further down the back of my head?

For example some people may lose as much as this amount:
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?start=11 ... 54&ty=90ut

But some people may keep much more, leaving plenty of donor hair for a hair transplant.

Thanks

 

[oldmpber]

Is there anyway of telling where your male pattern baldness will stop?

I am 22 years old, and have began loosing hair at my temples, and at the crown it has begun to thin out. It is getting to the point where the crown is noticeable in certain lighting, it is the crown that bothers more than anything at the moment.

I wanted to know that when you start to lose it at the crown, do you begin to lose it at its furthest point back? Or is it possible that may proceed to lose more hair further down the back of my head?

For example some people may lose as much as this amount:
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?start=11 ... 54&ty=90ut

But some people may keep much more, leaving plenty of donor hair for a hair transplant.

Thanks

Well I can only tell you about my family but I am sure others are the same. Basically as time goes on it spreads both upward and downward. When my uncle hit his fifties is when i noticed it was started to move down the back of his head like that. He had crown balding for about 20 years before it got to that point though so you probably don't have to worry about it till you get older.

Believe it or not I think finasteride will work even in that lower area as he was a full NW6 at age 65 but now at 72 some of that hair has come back so he must be on finasteride or something.

 

[zeroes]

It doesn't make any sense to be on finasteride at that age if he never did anything about it for so long.

Does he have a prostate problem?

 

[oldmpber]

It doesn't make any sense to be on finasteride at that age if he never did anything about it for so long.

Does he have a prostate problem?

It is still a sensitive subject- as his oldest daughter gives him a hard time about it so I am not going to ask him. But yes that is probably why. But something is going on as he has gone from a NW6 to NW5.5

 

[HairLossFreak]

Anyone else have any insight into this?

 

[DonaldAnderson]

Oh man thats brutal. I think it depends on the family like what is already said. Look at father, grandfathers, other blood-related males.

 

[TheGrayMan2001]

Family history is your best guess. There is no way to tell for certain.

On a similar note: Few people realize the Norwood scale is actually a scale of where your balding ENDS and not a progression chart.

 

[HairLossFreak]

Family history is your best guess. There is no way to tell for certain.

On a similar note: Few people realize the Norwood scale is actually a scale of where your balding ENDS and not a progression chart.

Didn't know that, guess I will just have to wait and see what happens then.