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[jason9985]

i dont want to write an essay here because nobody will read it, but i've had a look around here and i'm obviously alot worse off than some people who are worried about their hairlines

this hairline runs in my family, my mother even has it to some extent. As far as i know i've always had it to some degree as i've always had hairstyles to cover it up even if i didnt know thats what i was doing at the time. I've only paid any attention to it in the last few years

my hair is very thick and im sure im in no danger of thinning or getting bald patches im just curious about peoples opinions. If it stays like this i can live with it, how do i know if i should treat it to make it stay like this?

edit - im 29

 

[slurms mackenzie]

If you really wanted to know for sure then you could get a hair miniturisation study done, or do one yourself (i couldn't tell you how to do one)

If the hairlines not changing i'd just live with it.

Do you think its changing?

 

[jason9985]

Hard to say if its changing, i mean i literally didnt tilt my head forward and say 'thats my hairline' until 25 or 26 and it hasnt changed drastically if at all since then, but whether its changed since the age of 18 i have no idea

I also havent got a clue about treatments, would it only be to keep it this way or is there a treatment that would start to grow some hair, even baby hair, in the sides?

thanks for any help

 

[slurms mackenzie]

If you've not lost hair in the last 2 - 3 years it's unlikely (not impossible) but unlikely that you'd grow any more, but you can certainly prevent further hair-loss by blocking DHT.

On the forums there's a lot of controversy about the use of finasteride to do this, but if you took it i'm pretty sure you'd have a very similar hairline in 5 years time.

However to commit to a few years of messing around with hormones does seem a bit extreme if you've no real problem which is why i'd recommend the miniturisation study.

 

[ryder]

what exactly does a hair miniturisation test do?

 

[slurms mackenzie]

Hair loss in males is normally a slow process that involves the hair follicle growing thinner and thinner hairs, till the point that the hairs are so thin they can't be seen.

A hair miniturisation test checks see whether or not the hairs are getting thinner, I could be wrong but i think this is done using a microscope, and i imagine nowadays some snazzy software.

A lot of the time our mood, lighting etc can influence our own judgements as to whether or not our hair is thinning, the test takes out some of the guess work

 

[jason9985]

sorry for bumping this but its been a few months since i posted this

looking around this and other forums i see a lot of people in a very similar situation to me ie a high hairline which they think they've had since they were young and not sure whether to start treatment to keep it this way and prevent it getting worse.

anyone in my position want to tell me what they are doing/planning to do?

 

[Todd]

sorry for bumping this but its been a few months since i posted this

looking around this and other forums i see a lot of people in a very similar situation to me ie a high hairline which they think they've had since they were young and not sure whether to start treatment to keep it this way and prevent it getting worse.

anyone in my position want to tell me what they are doing/planning to do?

It could be that your hairline is very slowly receeding OR it could simply be that you naturally have a mature hairline.
Judging from your "essay", I'd guess the latter.

Most people who start losing hair is painfully aware that they are losing it (i.e they shed a lot, they see progressive thinning at the temples/vertex, they have a family history of male pattern baldness, they feel the hair has lost it's density..).
If you have to wonder, then I'd say you probably don't need to worry.

 

[shineman921]

Similar to mine and a hairline I've had since I was 18 or 19 years. Never bothered me as it was an inherited hairline; my uncle (mothers brother) had the same and he was in his forties at that time. However, my hair started to thin a bit at the temples and having very fine hair I thought it was obvious. Put myself on finasteride and it's been two weeks (been on minoxidil and nizoral for around 8 months). I'm 43 btw.