Are Any Of You Losing Leg Hair As Well

[Gone]

I started balding half a year ago, and am also experiencing leg hair loss starting on the back of my calves. Do any of you have similar symptoms?

There's hardly any research on it other than that it's supposedly "nonscarring"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4154156/#!po=53.5714

Since leg hair is androgen sensitive and dependent, do you think it could be due to a declining androgen receptor content of the hair in that area? I honestly have no idea but want it cured as much as my head hair.

 

[Galeaoman]

My brother is maybe norwood 5, approaching thirty and has no leg hair. I started balding half a year ago, and am also experiencing leg hair loss starting on the back of my calves. Do any of you have similar symptoms?

There's hardly any research on it other than that it's supposedly "nonscarring"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4154156/#!po=53.5714

Since leg hair is androgen sensitive and dependent, do you think it could be due to a declining androgen receptor content of the hair in that area? I honestly have no idea but want it cured as much as my head hair.

I used to have hairy feet but now there is no hair on my feet except for a few thin hairs on my big toe. My lower legs are mostly bald also. The doctor told me I had some edema in my legs as well as high blood pressure.

I still have a fairly hairy chest. Hair grew on my chest after I started doing a lot of bench presses up to 300 pounds of weight in my early 20's.

I keep wondering if there is some viability to the S Foote edema hypothesis of balding...

 

[Afro_Vacancy]

I don't think so, but to be honest I wouldn't notice unless it was extreme.

 

[Gone]

It seems that unlike male pattern baldness, the hair follicles don't get crowded with inflammation/scarring, or problems with the arrector pili muscle, but just altogether disappear. I guess I'll be using follica on my f*****g legs

 

[Gone]

Upon observation, maybe I'll take a picture later, the degraded hairs are either replaced with a tiny reddish spot, or the hairs themselves display these features: 1) Even though the hairs are shorter in length than typical vellus hairs (the leg hairs are like a millimeter long), the degrading leg hairs retain their pigment. 2) Even though the hairs are this short, they still are occassionally found in clusters of 2 and 3 follicles. They look healthy apart from their length and the red spots that they occupy.

I do have thyroid issues on my mother's side but it tends to affect women more. I'm guessing my brother would have figured this out if it was a thyroid issue because he's had this leg hair loss for years and he's probably had blood tests in that time. I myself had a thyroid blood test 6 months ago but that was before I noticed head hair loss or leg hair loss. I think the patterning of the hair loss on my legs has to be genetic, from what I've read online it starts at the back of the leg and later affects the rest of it, and often takes place in strips, like a receding hairline on your leg. It's frustrating how there's basically no literature on this at all.

 

[Roberto_72]

I have little hair on my calves but I always abscribed it to the friction of years and years of long trousers against the skin.
A bit like traction alopecia.

 

[Folliman]

I have traction alopecia on my ankles from wearing tight socks every day and I have an almost perfectly straight line of hair that shows how far up I wear my socks, lol.

 

[jakspurs]

..I think this is really interesting discussion. I'm a Norwood 5/6 and yes I have hairloss on both legs. The hairloss is on the outside of the legs from the ankle to just below the calf muscle. Just completely bald and the hair grows totally normal after that area.
My dad is also a Norwood 5/6 and I've noticed the identical leg hair loss pattern on both his legs.

I've long wondered whether all males with hairloss have the same (I don't think it's related to wearing socks, trousers,etc as the inside of legs are fine from ankle to calf) ...got to be a scientific clue there somewhere.....

 

[resu]

I have traction alopecia on my ankles from wearing tight socks every day and I have an almost perfectly straight line of hair that shows how far up I wear my socks, lol.

Same, it looks ridiculous.

 

[Swoop]

I got monkey legs, hairy as hell.

 

[Gone]

It's suggested by some that there's a link between anterolateral leg alopecia and androgenetic alopecia, but seeing how not every balding man loses leg hair I think the connection, if any, is pretty limited. My guess is that the genes for head hair loss and leg hair loss get switched on at the same time, that's it. Maybe the body groups its gene expression for hair phenotypes together and that's why people see so many changes at once. Similarly, I noticed less than a month ago that my beard was changing from black to red. Also my eyebrows may be thinning, not sure. That's at least 3 hair changes, including androgenetic alopecia, within half a year. It's like a second puberty except it sucks.

 

[hanginginthewire]

I agree it sucks but are you really AS bothered by leg hair loss as head hair?

 

[Gone]

I guess I wouldn't compare them quantitatively. But they're both unnecessary and annoying. I would basically need a stem cell/Tsuji multiplication of more persistent thigh hair.

 

[Mr White]

I wish I were, I hate body hair.

I don't have much body hair, just on my chest and legs. I don't know if finasteride had something to do with it, I believe I read somewhere that it may inhibit the growth of body hair - I have no idea if this is true or not.

 

[Janks16]

I lost most of my arm and leg hair when I started using Finasteride. It will be interesting to see if my leg hair grows back when I eventually stop taking the drug.

 

[champpy]

I too seem to have less leg hair than i did in my teens and twenties.
And i just really looked and i also have thise tiny red dots along my inner leg, below the calf. Ive never noticed those before!

 

[Jeca Tatu]

Hair grew on my chest after I started doing a lot of bench presses up to 300 pounds of weight in my early 20's.

No, buddy, hair grew on your chest because you got older.

 

[Galeaoman]

No, buddy, hair grew on your chest because you got older.

Maybe that is true to a certain extent ...Exercise opens potassium channels so maybe that helped to increase androgen dependent hair growth on my chest a little more than if I was just a couch potato...

 

[Kidbako]

I have also lost most of my leg hair below the knees..I noticed first when I was using only minoxidil..may be a corolation with min use..are you guys also good responders to min? Maybe it just moves leg hair to our heads lol.

 

[Gone]

I realized that it's harder to uncross my legs than I thought, it was a habit I didn't know I had. But I have this hair loss in places I know aren't affected by traction, and I only cross my legs over each other when I'm laying down. Another thing, I don't think it's following the "anterolateral leg alopecia" pattern, which seems to be losing hair on the lower legs, as the loss progresses upwards. Mine is mainly on the back of my legs and some broken hair/spareness on the the front. However I got literally every hair related gene my brother had so something tells me it will happen sooner or later.

I'm going to make sure I don't cross my legs, and if it grows back I'll post something here.