Thinning hair - not just in typical male pattern baldness areas

[HomerJ]

Hey,

Besides a rapidly receeding hairline, and some hair loss on top (at a much slower rate than the hairline), I am actually losing hair rapidly on the sides, around the ears and the back of the head/upper neck area...ie: areas not typical for hair loss. In fact, my sideburns are even thinning and the rate of growth of existing hair in these non-male pattern baldness areas is really slow.

Anyone else experience this? Any ideas as to why my hair loss is all over the scalp as opposed to just areas typical for male pattern baldness?

Thanks in advance.

Happy holidays.

 

[al_pacino]

Hey,

Besides a rapidly receeding hairline, and some hair loss on top (at a much slower rate than the hairline), I am actually losing hair rapidly on the sides, around the ears and the back of the head/upper neck area...ie: areas not typical for hair loss. In fact, my sideburns are even thinning and the rate of growth of existing hair in these non-male pattern baldness areas is really slow.

Anyone else experience this? Any ideas as to why my hair loss is all over the scalp as opposed to just areas typical for male pattern baldness?

Thanks in advance.

Happy holidays.

I have patchy hair loss on the head/upper neck area as well...could anyone try to reassure us whether or not this is male pattern baldness or not. Could this maybe be due to minoxidil?

I can say for sure that it wasn't like that pre-treatment.

 

[coffee]

My sideburns and the hair above my ears are also thinning - been so for about 6 months now. It's pretty dramatic loss actually. I've read that since this is atypical, it's probably not male pattern baldness. I disagree though. My brother experienced the same thing as part of his temple and hairline recession about 10 years ago. It sucks HomerJ but I think that in some fellas it's part of the horseshoe recession.

Good luck with it.

 

[Side Show Bob]

It almost sounds like a allergic reaction. You can get some weird symptoms from that , sometimes.