God, the odds, how unlucky am I? :D

[IrishFella]

Just seen recent pictures of my nmaternal grandfather and grandmother's brothers. They attended a wedding recently and I was going through the pictures and I noticed my grandad, NW2, his brothers range from 60-70 years age and all of them are NW1's and Norwood 2', my grandmother has 4 brothers, around the same age, one of them is 74 and is a Norwood 2, lush head of grey hair, the rest and Norwood 1's and 2's.

Now, my father, who is one his way to an Norwood 4, just about holding onto his island of an NW3, very thin and barely noticeable in pictures, and his father, Norwood 6 ....... the reason I'm posting this is because he, my paternal grandfather, is the only bald one out of his brothers.

What those bloody odds. lol :wacko:

 

[andrew lincoln]

I feel your pain man, so many of my uncles have great hair even my great uncles!

 

[blondguy]

Same here. I have one of three uncles who is balding, the rest of the males in my family going back to my great grandfather all died with full heads of hair. wtf.

 

[Quantum Cat]

men on my mother's side of the family all appear to keep good hair into old age.

Men on my father's side all appear to go bald quite young.

so it's pot luck for me.

What's sucks is that I'm losing my hair at exactly the same time as my Dad who is twice my age :badmood:

 

[andrew lincoln]

My grandfathers didn't even go bald, that's just luck for you!

 

[talmoode]

My grandfather and his three brothers on my father's side are all bald while my father and his three brothers and all the family of my mother's side have no hair loss whatsoever

 

[Thom]

I get ya man. Although I'm as European-looking as I can get, I have quite a bit of Native American in me....enough that I have an Indian card with the tribes (it acts as an ID and gets you scholarships, medical care, and so on). However, the men on my mom's side (where the Native part is from) all got the Native hair genes and, as some of you may know, Native Americans aren't known for balding.

Had to get my hair genes from my Dad's side :/ *shakes a fist at my German, Irish, English ancestry*

 

[huego]

isn't the gene for balding passed down from mother's side?

 

[Thom]

Old myth, unfortunately it comes from both sides of the family.

 

[Woodyy]

My dad's dad had a full head of hair up until he died and my mums dad had a full head of hair until about 80 when he started to lose it a bit, I guess that's not male pattern baldness hairloss that late on though, just old age. My dad didn't start to lose his hair until his late 40's or early 50's and even now it's not too bad, like Norwood 2v.

No other blood relatives males in my family have any form of agressive hairloss either except my cousin who's obviously inherited it from his completely bald father (my uncle) who isn't a blood relative.

So idk what's going on with me, still not sure if I'm even balding per se anyway or if it's just telogen effluvium.

 

[IrishFella]

My dad's dad had a full head of hair up until he died and my mums dad had a full head of hair until about 80 when he started to lose it a bit, I guess that's not male pattern baldness hairloss that late on though, just old age. My dad didn't start to lose his hair until his late 40's or early 50's and even now it's not too bad, like Norwood 2v.

No other blood relatives males in my family have any form of agressive hairloss either except my cousin who's obviously inherited it from his completely bald father (my uncle) who isn't a blood relative.

So idk what's going on with me, still not sure if I'm even balding per se anyway or if it's just telogen effluvium.

If it's patchy, diffuse loss it could well me Telogen Effluvium, if it's receding temples then it's good oul' male pattern baldness. If it is the latter, accept it and treat it, best thing I ever did. =]