Thinning in front of hair, is this a shared experience of anyone?

[jacuzzipete]

I've been on finasteride for 2 years now and use minoxidil on and off for about 1 year (sometimes I just don't have the time for my hair to be a mess). Lately I've been noticing more and more that different lines of hair running from the front of my head to the back have thinning so you can see the scalp more obviously.

Lately I feel like I can see my scalp through the front of my hair. It is largely not noticeable to someone who isn't looking for it but when I'm close up in the mirror I can literally just see individual strands of hair with scalp around it.

It's almost as if I'm have female pattern balding, the only thing close I'm seeing online is "anterior pattern balding". I've always had a widow's peak even to a point that a doctor once said I wasn't balding and only had a "deep widow's peak". Now I feel like the "peak" of the widow's peak is thinning. Does anyone have experience with this?

 

[Koga]

Post some pictures if possible. So difficult for us to conclude anything in the blind. Remember that fighting hair loss has the very severe side-effect of overanalysing your hair status. Best thing you can do? Take wet pictures periodically. Make a parting where you believe to see the thinning. Then take the exact same picture three or six months later, under the same lighting conditions, etc. That's the best, most objective way to interpret any hair changes.

 

[DoctorHouse]

I've been on finasteride for 2 years now and use minoxidil on and off for about 1 year (sometimes I just don't have the time for my hair to be a mess). Lately I've been noticing more and more that different lines of hair running from the front of my head to the back have thinning so you can see the scalp more obviously.

Lately I feel like I can see my scalp through the front of my hair. It is largely not noticeable to someone who isn't looking for it but when I'm close up in the mirror I can literally just see individual strands of hair with scalp around it.

It's almost as if I'm have female pattern balding, the only thing close I'm seeing online is "anterior pattern balding". I've always had a widow's peak even to a point that a doctor once said I wasn't balding and only had a "deep widow's peak". Now I feel like the "peak" of the widow's peak is thinning. Does anyone have experience with this?

If you have female pattern loss or DPA, and are balding in an A pattern, you would experience what you are posting. I have that going on and my true "widow's peak" has diffused to the point of almost non-existent. My hairline diffused in a pattern that is no longer thick. It looks similar to a hair transplant of fine hairs in area where there was no hair. Basically it looks as if every other hair at the hairline fell out and never came back.