What if you cannot notice your male pattern baldness progression

[bwaters2000]

I understand the progression can be very doifficult to notice so I will be taking pics of my head on a monthly basis and compare to monitor, but my feelings is that I am very uncertain if my male pattern baldness (as I was diagnosed by a derm) is really progressing. No bald spots yet. I have thinnings on the side and maybe on the vertex. Hair shedding does not seem to be excessive at all.

Due to current medinces not being great as there are those who encounter problems after few years of success and then regress and those who claim they have become more bald from medicines, what I am inclined to do it to monitor it about 6 months, and then decide.

Do you know what I'm asking? This is a very important question. If you can't notice the progression of male pattern baldness, would you just monitor and use non-medicinal stuffs such as scalp massaing, LLLT and maybe some supplements and hope it will stay the way it is today for about 5 more years? In about 5 years, who knows, we may have better medicine?

 

[malo]

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[malo]

If you really are concerned and unable to tell find a hair transplant doctor who does miniaturization exams and have them done yearly. They measure the density all over your head in balding and non-balding areas and compare the two. It's not cheap but it will probably tell you how fast it's progressing and if you need to be on meds or not.

 

[oldmpber]

I understand the progression can be very doifficult to notice so I will be taking pics of my head on a monthly basis and compare to monitor, but my feelings is that I am very uncertain if my male pattern baldness (as I was diagnosed by a derm) is really progressing. No bald spots yet. I have thinnings on the side and maybe on the vertex. Hair shedding does not seem to be excessive at all.

Due to current medinces not being great as there are those who encounter problems after few years of success and then regress and those who claim they have become more bald from medicines, what I am inclined to do it to monitor it about 6 months, and then decide.

Do you know what I'm asking? This is a very important question. If you can't notice the progression of male pattern baldness, would you just monitor and use non-medicinal stuffs such as scalp massaing, LLLT and maybe some supplements and hope it will stay the way it is today for about 5 more years? In about 5 years, who knows, we may have better medicine?

I can tell from your numerous posts that you are very concerned about your hair. That is normal and most of us are like that too.
You should monitor with photographs taken at around 3 month intervals and if you do see loss, then do not waste time with non proven supplements.
I would only consider minoxidil and finasteride. If I were to use finasteride, I would use a very low dosage and keep an eye out for sides.

male pattern baldness is very variable in speed. It can be aggression for a few years then slow down. It can stop and start for no apparent reason.. So what I am saying is no one can say for sure what will happen, you will just need to watch with your photographs and take action if you see progression.

 

[bwaters2000]

I can tell from your numerous posts that you are very concerned about your hair. That is normal and most of us are like that too.
You should monitor with photographs taken at around 3 month intervals and if you do see loss, then do not waste time with non proven supplements.
I would only consider minoxidil and finasteride. If I were to use finasteride, I would use a very low dosage and keep an eye out for sides.

male pattern baldness is very variable in speed. It can be aggression for a few years then slow down. It can stop and start for no apparent reason.. So what I am saying is no one can say for sure what will happen, you will just need to watch with your photographs and take action if you see progression.

Thank you for your empathy. I will definltely monitor it, and defintely start the med if I notice progression to the slightest. I think you've seen my headshot. Are you recommending very low dose of finasteride based on my current hair retention as my retention is relatively good for now?

However, I wish we have meds better than finasteride or minoxidil as finasteride can create gyne, and you kind of have to hope that you will grow thicker hairs after shedding thin hairs. To me, that almost seem like you are experimenting with your hairs, and that is not something I want to do, but we only have the meds the pharmeuctucal companies sell.

 

[oldmpber]

I can tell from your numerous posts that you are very concerned about your hair. That is normal and most of us are like that too.
You should monitor with photographs taken at around 3 month intervals and if you do see loss, then do not waste time with non proven supplements.
I would only consider minoxidil and finasteride. If I were to use finasteride, I would use a very low dosage and keep an eye out for sides.

male pattern baldness is very variable in speed. It can be aggression for a few years then slow down. It can stop and start for no apparent reason.. So what I am saying is no one can say for sure what will happen, you will just need to watch with your photographs and take action if you see progression.

Thank you for your empathy. I will definltely monitor it, and defintely start the med if I notice progression to the slightest. I think you've seen my headshot. Are you recommending very low dose of finasteride based on my current hair retention as my retention is relatively good for now?

However, I wish we have meds better than finasteride or minoxidil as finasteride can create gyne, and you kind of have to hope that you will grow thicker hairs after shedding thin hairs. To me, that almost seem like you are experimenting with your hairs, and that is not something I want to do, but we only have the meds the pharmeuctucal companies sell.

I can't rember your photo as I have seen many in the past few days but I don't remember seeing any male pattern baldness. Honestly a lot of the photos I see are really hard to tell if its just beginning or just normal hair. I would not start on any drug till you are seeing shure signs of male pattern baldness. I said use low dosage of finasteride because that's what some of the guys are doing here to avoid sides. The drugs we have are not perfect but it's still better than what the older guys had. My pattern has folllowed my uncle so close it's eerie . By the time he had access to minoxidil it was too far advanced. So be glad we have a choice and not helpless like his generation was.