Is seeing scalp under lighting always mean diffuse?

[Norwoody]

Vitamin D deficiency can cause telogen effluvium this is a fact. Derm also confirmed I was deficient, I’ve been supplementing 5000iu d3 for about a month. I think density might be improving? Hard to say, maybe another month to really see if it’s the cause.

Gotta have that D....

 

[Jacoby77]

In my experience and those of most of us, I dare say, vitamins tend to be a dead-end unless you have been through extreme malnutrition or stress beyond anything most of us experience in the first world. We all start out with biotin which is great for the keratin in fingernails but scalp hair? Not so much. Microneedling is a mechanical treatment that works for many. Massage might stabilize your hair but some claim you need up to 40 hrs weekly so that's not viable for many. Keto and Selsun Blue and PolySorbate 80 are all for use on the hair for inflammation and to mop up excess sebum.

No no, what I'm saying based off studies online is if in the rare case someone has a Vitamin D deficiency, and no genetic link to hairloss, and their hair is thin it can sometimes be due to the vitamin D deficiency if levels are low enough for long enough. I'm saying there is a chance it's due to my bad levels of vitamin D, but also could he genetic (some how, idfk)

So ideally, if it's due to vitamin D levels being low and hair not getting enough of what it needs, supplements may regorw hair if it isn't genetic. I'm asking how can I spot regrowth, and would it take like 3 or 6 months to notice any? Since if I'm genetically thinning, I'm in early stages so I have time to figure it out.

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

No no, what I'm saying based off studies online is if in the rare case someone has a Vitamin D deficiency, and no genetic link to hairloss, and their hair is thin it can sometimes be due to the vitamin D deficiency if levels are low enough for long enough. I'm saying there is a chance it's due to my bad levels of vitamin D, but also could he genetic (some how, idfk)

So ideally, if it's due to vitamin D levels being low and hair not getting enough of what it needs, supplements may regorw hair if it isn't genetic. I'm asking how can I spot regrowth, and would it take like 3 or 6 months to notice any? Since if I'm genetically thinning, I'm in early stages so I have time to figure it out.

Yes. My unfortunate reply is that if this is true for you, you are one of 100 at best. It's seldom what we hope it to be. So, I can't speculate but it is also very difficult to even spot hair if it is regrowing because it is seldom like little whiskers or anything. I am not sure of your age but maybe put up a post: "How many people found out that their initial worries about hair loss were alleviated by nutritional supplements?<Janey's hand is down>. There's a reason why so many are banging our heads against the walls. Perhaps the people who receive palliative relief aren't on here because they were successful? That's maybe a hope just like few of the pro-finasteride people it works for come on here. People will help you as best we can.

Janey

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

Vitamin D deficiency can cause telogen effluvium this is a fact. Derm also confirmed I was deficient, I’ve been supplementing 5000iu d3 for about a month. I think density might be improving? Hard to say, maybe another month to really see if it’s the cause.

I don't doubt that in certain situations but bald men tend to get more than their share of vitamin D unless they wear hats. There's very little any of us can offer. If it's Telogen Effluvium, it might grow back but we don't even have precise ways of categorizing diffuse thinning from male pattern baldness or Telogen Effluvium. A person might have all three of them sadly.

Best,
Janey

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

Vitamin D deficiency can cause telogen effluvium this is a fact. Derm also confirmed I was deficient, I’ve been supplementing 5000iu d3 for about a month. I think density might be improving? Hard to say, maybe another month to really see if it’s the cause.

Are you and Jacoby linked psychically?

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

Are you and Jacoby linked psychically?

The placebo effect in addition to the tendency to see improvement that isn't actually present plague all of us related to waiting a month or so to see something. Hair falls out during male pattern baldness, it seems, much faster than it improves which is seldom without intense interventation as early as possible for cis-males.

 

[infamousrodi]

Are you and Jacoby linked psychically?

Hey I’m just spilling what the derm told me after a blood test. She also claimed that propecia doesn’t cause shedding lol

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

Hey I’m just spilling what the derm told me after a blood test. She also claimed that propecia doesn’t cause shedding lol

No, you are posting the same exact questions at the same time, more or less or is this a Vitamin D thread and I missed it?

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

Head and massages

Massages via head

OwO

I found Rob's massages as have others to be something to avoid at all costs during a shed. Microneedling might lead to shedding but it appears less disruptive to remaining scalp hair in my experience. Literally every single baldness thing has happened to me except the Flowers of Algernon hair experience and if I had that, it just might do me in....

 

[infamousrodi]

No, you are posting the same exact questions at the same time, more or less or is this a Vitamin D thread and I missed it?

No it’s more about me wondering if I’m diffuse thinning as my temples haven’t really taken a hit. I know vitamin d deficiency can cause temporary hair loss.

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

I don't doubt that in certain situations but bald men tend to get more than their share of vitamin D unless they wear hats. There's very little any of us can offer. If it's Telogen Effluvium, it might grow back but we don't even have precise ways of categorizing diffuse thinning from male pattern baldness or Telogen Effluvium. A person might have all three of them sadly.

Best,
Janey

How about a Retin-A topical solution?

 

[Jacoby77]

How about a Retin-A topical solution?

I'm not sure. I don't understand your past post either I might as well just try Finasteride if I don't see major regrowth. But if I'm diffuse thinning idk why my part is so God damn small?! Shouldn't it be massive?

Just early diffuse maybe?

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

I'm not sure. I don't understand your past post either I might as well just try Finasteride if I don't see major regrowth. But if I'm diffuse thinning idk why my part is so God damn small?! Shouldn't it be massive?

Just early diffuse maybe? View attachment 166255

That looks very common to me among some people who don't progress further as you have no incipient bald spot and only marginal issues in the temples. What might work if biotin doesn't is to add gelatin to your diet but eh, I don't know. I used to snarf down packets when I first started seeing thinning. Boy is that stuff dry to get down and I was using unflavored.

 

[Jacoby77]

That looks very common to me among some people who don't progress further as you have no incipient bald spot and only marginal issues in the temples. What might work if biotin doesn't is to add gelatin to your diet but eh, I don't know. I used to snarf down packets when I first started seeing thinning. Boy is that stuff dry to get down and I was using unflavored.

It's just if I pick around my hair scalp shows easily.. But if I comb it like that my parting is fine.

It's only if I scrunch it and kinda part it in different directions it looks really bad. But the parting isn't bad, even if I'm diffuse idk.

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

It's just if I pick around my hair scalp shows easily.. But if I comb it like that my parting is fine.

It's only if I scrunch it and kinda part it in different directions it looks really bad. But the parting isn't bad, even if I'm diffuse idk.

I mean, yours looks like mine when I was about 20 and first noticed thinning. I was one of the first to be able to use min and then finasteride and that held me for 30 years. For adoption of male therapies the clock is always ticking, tick tock tick tock.

 

[Jacoby77]

I mean, yours looks like mine when I was about 20 and first noticed thinning. I was one of the first to be able to use min and then finasteride and that held me for 30 years. For adoption of male therapies the clock is always ticking, tick tock tick tock.

So basically, no one here 100 percent can know and I need to see a professional.

Finasteride is such a gamble. Get perm sides, also go bald, double dose of sh*t.

Get sides, go off, go bald, sides go.

No sides, hair grows thick.

It's russian roulette with 20 bullets instead of one.... So dangerous. Are there seriously no alternatives to mantain hair for 10 years?!

 

[Jacoby77]

Are you and Jacoby linked psychically?

No, just he mentioned his vitamins are low so I figured I'd bring mine up. I'm a different person lol.

But he's in the same boat, just has tons of hair lol

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

So basically, no one here 100 percent can know and I need to see a professional.

Finasteride is such a gamble. Get perm sides, also go bald, double dose of sh*t.

Get sides, go off, go bald, sides go.

No sides, hair grows thick.

It's russian roulette with 20 bullets instead of one.... So dangerous. Are there seriously no alternatives to mantain hair for 10 years?!

Little to none of that is true about finasteride. Millions of people use it without issue. finasteride is to many guys like Estrogen for some reason. They literally just see it as something that diminishes maleness and it's all complete and utter garbage. Going bald is way worse for health than anything finasteride does. To my generation finasteride was what we had been waiting for for ever. It is relatively stable and lasts many years in a best case scenario and most treatments require at least some hair to be left for results like HRT, min, and finasteride.

 

[Jacoby77]

Little to none of that is true about finasteride. Millions of people use it without issue. finasteride is to many guys like Estrogen for some reason. They literally just see it as something that diminishes maleness and it's all complete and utter garbage. Going bald is way worse for health than anything finasteride does. To my generation finasteride was what we had been waiting for for ever. It is relatively stable and lasts many years in a best case scenario and most treatments require at least some hair to be left for results like HRT, min, and finasteride.

Understandable. I pray I have no issues with it. I'll just become a woman. Joking but that is something some do, so hair is a massive issue.

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

Little to none of that is true about finasteride. Millions of people use it without issue. finasteride is to many guys like Estrogen for some reason. They literally just see it as something that diminishes maleness and it's all complete and utter garbage. Going bald is way worse for health than anything finasteride does. To my generation finasteride was what we had been waiting for for ever. It is relatively stable and lasts many years in a best case scenario and most treatments require at least some hair to be left for results like HRT, min, and finasteride.

I will work with you if you want but you have to shed your preconceptions not your hair.