Does this look like hair loss to you or am I just paranoid?

[beraldy]

First post on forum.

I'm 19 and I thought I started to notice a bit of receding when I was only 17. I noticed a bit of crown thinning when I was 18. I worry about it all the time and started using Nizoral about 4 weeks ago. So far the only difference it made is that instead of losing about 40-50 hairs from shampooing and conditioning my hair its more like 20.

See pics for details obviously

 

[die_hard]

It very well could be hariloss or just a matureing hairline. Really depends on what you looked like a couple years before i guess

 

[beraldy]

But does a (slightly) thinning crown accompany a maturing hairline? :dunno:

Summer of 2006 my hairline looked like this and I was 17. Temples were thicker and I didn't have any thinning at the crown. My hair is kind of long right now so crown thinning isn't even visible. I'm getting a haircut Tuesday and I'll post pics of my crown then.

 

[s.a.f]

I vote paranoid!

 

[Petchsky]

I'd say no, but keep your eye on it in the future.

 

[hhj1247]

:roll:

 

[Hammer87]

Definately paranoid I think.

But, and not to sound rude, but I'd be a lot more worried about your face, looks a bit strange (No offence).

 

[beraldy]

"I'd be a lot more worried about my face"?

If that's a joke at my photoshop job then cool, but otherwise keep your opinions to yourself I blurred myself out for a reason

 

[Hammer87]

"I'd be a lot more worried about my face"?

If that's a joke at my photoshop job then cool, but otherwise keep your opinions to yourself I blurred myself out for a reason

Jesus lighten up dude, what else would it be? Me thinking that was your actual face? :mrgreen:

 

[beraldy]

Sorry, I just assumed the worst cuz I'm an ugly bastard.

 

[Cassin]

"I'd be a lot more worried about my face"?

If that's a joke at my photoshop job then cool, but otherwise keep your opinions to yourself I blurred myself out for a reason

You have to admit the way the blurs turned out are amusing

 

[Ash]

Another person with zero hairloss

 

[beraldy]

Maybe those pics just suck.

 

[die_hard]

I think It is the early stages of male pattern baldness despite everyone elses comments. Maybe it's just because people for years incisted that I wasn't losing my hair when I sure as hell was. They peobably thought they were doing me a favor by implying it wasn't noticeable..but all they really did was delay me getting treatments wich sucked.


-DH

 

[Hammer87]

I think It is the early stages of male pattern baldness despite everyone elses comments. Maybe it's just because people for years incisted that I wasn't losing my hair when I sure as hell was. They peobably thought they were doing me a favor by implying it wasn't noticeable..but all they really did was delay me getting treatments wich sucked.


-DH

Dunno about that. Many of my friends had more temporal recession than this guy at the same/younger age (17 or so) and still have full, great hair, exactly what it was then years later.

 

[beraldy]

I think It is the early stages of male pattern baldness despite everyone elses comments. Maybe it's just because people for years incisted that I wasn't losing my hair when I sure as hell was. They peobably thought they were doing me a favor by implying it wasn't noticeable..but all they really did was delay me getting treatments wich sucked.


-DH

Yes, that's what my parents and even my hairdresser have been telling me since I was 17. I wish someone irl would just acknowledge it at least so I don't feel like a hair hypochondriac

 

[beraldy]

Post-haircut pictures, (I always get a 2).

I hoped DSCF 1801 would illustrate just how thin the left corner of my hairline is but it didn't work so well. It's still in the shape of my teenager Norwood 1 but the hairs there are thin and weak. 1803 illustrates the slight thinning around my crown. DSCF 1800 bothers me the most. It shows how my right temple hair has receded up into a rectangle. The bald area right behind there is misleading because the hair there parted and took the flash directly on. That area is actually quite thick.

I know compared to some of you with Norwood 2-5s I probably look like a total a**h** right now with this topic but bear with me, I'm just trying to catch it early

 

[toocoolforhair]

If I saw you in the street I wouldn't think you had hair loss. If I were you I'd only shave my head/start treatment when it becomes more noticeable. Right now you look fine.

 

[beraldy]

Updating this topic to say that that rectangle receding pattern on the right side of my head is officially gone and my hairline is lowering.

I've been using Nizoral and nothing else for just a month now and I've seen pretty ridiculous results. A peak at the middle of my hairline started to grow in pretty much the day after I used Nizoral the first time. The peak is right around the area that my teenager hairline was at. Numerous, tiny little white and some darker hairs are growing across my hairline at the same level as the peak.

In addition, my right temple area started to fill in with more hairs, but they are mostly weak. I think this regrowth was already pretty obvious in the original post with the pic of me pulling my hair back. The picture of me with the faux-hawk looks absolutely nothing like my hairline is right now, and that was taken only about a month I'd say before I started Nizoral. My hairline is now straight right across my head.

Pretty decent progress just using Nizoral for a month.

 

[CCS]

Dr Keene is starting a new company that does DNA tests to see if you have the male pattern baldness gene, so you can know for sure and get on propecia if needed. Email her to find out if it is up and running yet.