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Hey there,
Before you look at my pictures, I thought I should give you some background/context about my situation. I'm an eighteen year-old male who's always had thick and relatively long hair, no one brought the topic of hair loss to my attention, but with recently starting university and noticing my fellow students [18-23M] with differing hairlines and thickness/volume, and close friends of mine who are going bald, I've started to read more about male pattern baldness and started asking myself whether I'm going bald myself. I was denial when I first saw the images and the thought of going bald has made me sick to my stomach, I'm already depressed as I am and I've not been able to go to sleep because of the prospect of losing my hair, I've always seen people 'over-react' to the first stages of male pattern baldness and thought it was ridiculous, but my father told me that I'll have to go through it one day and I'll see how it is, guess today's the day. As for family history, my father is 56 and has pretty thin hair, a Norwood 3-3.5 would be my guess, and my grandfather had a full-head at 70 (although grey), whereas, my grandfather from my mother's side is bald at 65. I have an appointment with a dermatologist in 3 weeks; I thought I'll get your guys' opinions. The images show my, right temple, left temple, crown when I woke up with the sunlight, crown after a shower when wet, and crown after hair dried.
Before you look at my pictures, I thought I should give you some background/context about my situation. I'm an eighteen year-old male who's always had thick and relatively long hair, no one brought the topic of hair loss to my attention, but with recently starting university and noticing my fellow students [18-23M] with differing hairlines and thickness/volume, and close friends of mine who are going bald, I've started to read more about male pattern baldness and started asking myself whether I'm going bald myself. I was denial when I first saw the images and the thought of going bald has made me sick to my stomach, I'm already depressed as I am and I've not been able to go to sleep because of the prospect of losing my hair, I've always seen people 'over-react' to the first stages of male pattern baldness and thought it was ridiculous, but my father told me that I'll have to go through it one day and I'll see how it is, guess today's the day. As for family history, my father is 56 and has pretty thin hair, a Norwood 3-3.5 would be my guess, and my grandfather had a full-head at 70 (although grey), whereas, my grandfather from my mother's side is bald at 65. I have an appointment with a dermatologist in 3 weeks; I thought I'll get your guys' opinions. The images show my, right temple, left temple, crown when I woke up with the sunlight, crown after a shower when wet, and crown after hair dried.
. Not yet but I will be back on it in about a month, I'm sure by using the topical estrogen alongside the finasteride and oral minoxidil I will make some decent progress. How's your hair?
