could an illness trigger male pattern baldness???

[jeffsss]

I've been desperatly browsing the WWW to figure out why I'm experiencing this hair loss at a young age..

no other men in my family has lost their hair untill well into their 40's.

I had pnemonia* in June of this year and really hadnt noticed hair loss until a short time after that.

could that have been the factor that "triggered" male pattern baldness? and if so.. is being on propecia the wrong thing to do since chemicals in my body could have just been temporaraly off set????

I'm goign to see my Derm on the 9th and am wondering if he can run any type of test or anything to determnine if my body chemicals are good>?? of course now they'll be offset because i'm on propecia for last 2 months.??

 

[Cassin]

As long as somebody has hairloss in your family, either side or any age, you can get male pattern baldness at any time. My grandfather didn't start losing his hair until he was in his 70's, and yet my dad was bald by his late 20's.

As for illness and hairloss, illness can indeed cause some patchy hairloss, but it cannot and will not "trigger" male pattern baldness. If hairloss was caused by illness things will return to normal at anytime. But if your thinning out and receding, or overall thinning on top or losing it in the back, you have typical male pattern baldness. Hairloss from illness is very rare, male pattern baldness is not.

I'm goign to see my Derm on the 9th

You will not get good advice from your derm. Hardly anybody does, I have yet to read more than a small handful of solid experiences from a derm and there are thousands of failure stories from visiting a derm on this site. Those aren't good odds.

 

[jeffsss]

As long as somebody has hairloss in your family, either side or any age, you can get male pattern baldness at any time. My grandfather didn't start losing his hair until he was in his 70's, and yet my dad was bald by his late 20's.

As for illness and hairloss, illness can indeed cause some patchy hairloss, but it cannot and will not "trigger" male pattern baldness. If hairloss was caused by illness things will return to normal at anytime. But if your thinning out and receding, or overall thinning on top or losing it in the back, you have typical male pattern baldness. Hairloss from illness is very rare, male pattern baldness is not.

I'm goign to see my Derm on the 9th

You will not get good advice from your derm. Hardly anybody does, I have yet to read more than a small handful of solid experiences from a derm and there are thousands of failure stories from visiting a derm on this site. Those aren't good odds.

well I was hosptilized overnight for pnemonia at the end of June.. i didnt notce hair loss till august...

which to me means.... either my hair loss was triggered by my illness.

it's either male pattern baldness, and the illness triggered it... or.. it's telogen effulium..

I did some online research and both show thinning of the scalp.. I don't have a bald spot. and my hair line is virually the same.. aside from the thinning part of it.

i wonder who can run tests to see which it is?? and if propecia is doing mroe harm than good.?

 

[jeffsss]

As for illness and hairloss, illness can indeed cause some patchy hairloss, but it cannot and will not "trigger" male pattern baldness. If hairloss was caused by illness things will return to normal at anytime. But if your thinning out and receding, or overall thinning on top or losing it in the back, you have typical male pattern baldness. Hairloss from illness is very rare, male pattern baldness is not..

Pathophysiology: Telogen effluvium can affect hair on all parts of the body, but, generally, only loss of scalp hair is symptomatic.

 

[Cassin]

As for illness and hairloss, illness can indeed cause some patchy hairloss, but it cannot and will not "trigger" male pattern baldness. If hairloss was caused by illness things will return to normal at anytime. But if your thinning out and receding, or overall thinning on top or losing it in the back, you have typical male pattern baldness. Hairloss from illness is very rare, male pattern baldness is not..

Pathophysiology: Telogen effluvium can affect hair on all parts of the body, but, generally, only loss of scalp hair is symptomatic.

Ok, you have made my point even further for me.

 

[jeffsss]

As for illness and hairloss, illness can indeed cause some patchy hairloss, but it cannot and will not "trigger" male pattern baldness. If hairloss was caused by illness things will return to normal at anytime. But if your thinning out and receding, or overall thinning on top or losing it in the back, you have typical male pattern baldness. Hairloss from illness is very rare, male pattern baldness is not..

Pathophysiology: Telogen effluvium can affect hair on all parts of the body, but, generally, only loss of scalp hair is symptomatic.

Ok, you have made my point even further for me.

I don't see how you think so?

I have thinning hair.. no bald spots..

it says Telogen Effluvium gennerally loss of scalp hair is symtomatic... :boggled:

 

[Cassin]

could an illness trigger male pattern baldness???

Your topic is this right?

Answer, no.

If your ENTIRE HEAD is thinning, sides, back, top, then yes, your problem could be caused by illness. But if your TOP is thinning only, AKA male pattern baldness then no.

What don't you get about my answer?

 

[jeffsss]

could an illness trigger male pattern baldness???

Your topic is this right?

Answer, no.

If your ENTIRE HEAD is thinning, sides, back, top, then yes, your problem could be caused by illness. But if your TOP is thinning only, AKA male pattern baldness then no.

What don't you get about my answer?

sorry, i misread..

but wouldnt 'scalp' mean like the top of your head?

I wouldnt consider the hair around my ears my scalp. would you?

 

[jeffsss]

any other comments?

 

[Idaho X]

Everybody thinks they have Tellogen Efluvium when they first start losing their hair. I know I did. The hope is that with Telogen Effluvium the hair will come back. Accepting male pattern baldness means that the hair is just gone.

Some people obviously do get Telogen Effluvium. Get the Doctor to give you blood tests for iron deficiency and thyroid problems. There's a few other tests too but I can't remember what they are for. If your derm is any good he will check you out thoroughly.

But if you are losing your hair in any of the traditional patterns (and this can be diffuse thinning concentrated in the horseshoe) then odds are you have male pattern baldness. Being on propecia is the right way to go.

 

[sundevilb3]

Illness

for what it is worth, i had a very serious autoimmune disease 3 years ago that almost killed me, and ironically i noticed some crown loss about 2-3 months after and it has progressed and become frontal recession too. From what my doctors told me, it is very possible that the trauma my body went through and all of the meds could have caused my hairloss to occur alot sooner than it might have if i never got sick. There is no way of knowing for sure, so this is all just speculation.

 

[funkdoobiest]

I would like to add to this old post. I don't have any family members with male pattern baldness, however when I was 24 I started experiencing hair loss and my derm said male pattern baldness and prescribed propecia which I took for a few months and then quit cause my hair stopped falling out. I didn't lose any more hair til recently, 14 years later. Same problem but more noticeable. I went through bouts of stress both times, and I think that is the trigger. Hopefully the Propecia will help me through these troubling times of hair loss.