Inflammation of hair roots

[upsail]

Hi,
I'm new here. I'm 24 years old and developed clearly visible temples during the last years. During the last 24 months, my hair in the front became visibly thinner than before. So I informed myself and started to take Propecia mid September 07. So far I can't see any improvements, I even have the impression that the thinning process continues - but I try not to panic, I guess I'm taking Propecia not long enough to see any results.

Anyway, what I want to ask is if another problem with my scalp could be connected to my hairloss/thinning. On my whole scalp, but especially where I'm thinning (front and temples), I have some (not a lot) itchy spots. When I scratch, I can feel and remove a little object from just where the hair comes out of the skin. If I look at it, it is usually yellow, pretty hard and about the size of half a sesame seed. Most of the time, a hair comes with it (actually the hair comes out of the yellow thingie). These little things look like inflammed hair roots. I can also observe slight dandruff, but really not a lot.

Can any of you recongnize what I'm describing? Sorry, I hope it doesn't sound to disgusting, it looks half as bad as it sounds If my description is not clear enough, I guess I could also take a close-up pic.

I also bought a shampoo with 2% Ketoconazole (like Nizoral) - using it since last week, since then no improvement. But when I read about what symptoms Nizoral cures I don't feel as if it fits well to the little spots I'm having on my scalp.

 

[ghg]

Sounds like seborrheic dermatitis to me. You need some good shampoo to get it under control. Something with ketoconazole (Nizoral etc) is probably the safest bet. It doesn't work for me, though.

 

[upsail]

If you have seborrheic dermatitis, are there whole areas of the scalps affected and covered with big amounts of sebum? Because in my case it only occurs very punctal - one small hard dot at the beginning of the hair, and no other spots like this in close proximity. This way, these dots are somewhat scattered randomly all around my scalp..

 

[FTank]

My scalp really started itching when I went through a period of rapid hair loss. I'm not entirely sure what the connection is. I have been useing nizoral 1% for four months now. I have small red bumps on my scalp. I am thinking of rotating a tea tree oil shampoo with my nizoral and see if that helps with the itch. I have also tried tgel but that didn't really do anything for me. I have a feeling if I can get rid of the itch the propecia will do a better job.

They actually went away when I shaved my head all the way down with a mac 4 razor. (I wanted to see how bad being bald would be) Then again maybe that is a good solution. We can just go around totally bald for the next six months and our scalps won't be irrated giving the propecia the chance to take the fight to male pattern baldness. Then all of the sudden everyone will be surprised when we sprout a full head of hair again

 

[upsail]

uhm man I don't think I would look that cool with a shaved head. I'm a pale-skin-with-freckles kind of guy and personally, I think the paler the skin is, the less nice does a shaved head look. A black guy doesn't look strikingly bald when completely shaved, I think. I guess it's a matter of contrast?