Hello everyone, at first i would like to remark that english is not my mother language so sorry for the mistakes i'll make. I've been reading this forum for a while and I learnd a lot and acquire lot of knowledge about hairloss, but I never had the courage enough to write any post, so this is the first one.
Here´s my story: I´m almost 25 years old (the next week it´s my birthday) and i've been losing my hair for at least 5 years. When i was a teenager i noticed some little temples in my hairline, but it wasn`t until 3 years ago that I noticed that they were receding, it is a very slow recession and that's why i didn´t realised they were receding earliear. Well, this is the thing, I thought that temples were my only problem, with some loss of density though. But today I noticed in the mirror that my crown is thining too. It´s only visible if I put a light pointing to it and you look very close, but there it is. I freaked out, and felt very depress when I saw it, this balding thing makes me feel very anxious.
In february I saw a doctor and he recommend me to use Minoxidil once a day, I asked him about finas, but he told me that I wasn´t that bad. So there´s been 8 months using it, some weeks before today I felt very happy because I saw a little temple regorth, always had that colourless hairs, but I noticed that they were thickening up and turning dark lately, so it was a hughe relief for me seeing that my treatment was working (little regrowth ment for me that there was no worsening, and thats ok for me). But seeing my thining crowm eliminated any good feelings i had before.
Now I'm thinking that maybe I didn´t saw my crown well (only took sometimes some pics, but not as closed as today with the mirror and not using this powerful light) before and this thining spot has been always there, or my f****** tratment is not working at all and i'll be balding whatever i do...that it very depressive seeing all the people that get great results whit treatments.
This is my problem, I hope this text would be easy to understand, and I write here looking for some advice or any help to get some hope for me and bring some light for my situation. I know that treatments need time to work, and use only minoxidil only once a day is not a very strong treatment and mainteance or slown down the hairloss is all that you might expect, but I'm feeling hopeless now and depressive and thinking that maybe I've already lost this battle and the hairloss will beat me whenever the treatment I take.
Any comment will be appreciated. Thanks
Here´s my story: I´m almost 25 years old (the next week it´s my birthday) and i've been losing my hair for at least 5 years. When i was a teenager i noticed some little temples in my hairline, but it wasn`t until 3 years ago that I noticed that they were receding, it is a very slow recession and that's why i didn´t realised they were receding earliear. Well, this is the thing, I thought that temples were my only problem, with some loss of density though. But today I noticed in the mirror that my crown is thining too. It´s only visible if I put a light pointing to it and you look very close, but there it is. I freaked out, and felt very depress when I saw it, this balding thing makes me feel very anxious.
In february I saw a doctor and he recommend me to use Minoxidil once a day, I asked him about finas, but he told me that I wasn´t that bad. So there´s been 8 months using it, some weeks before today I felt very happy because I saw a little temple regorth, always had that colourless hairs, but I noticed that they were thickening up and turning dark lately, so it was a hughe relief for me seeing that my treatment was working (little regrowth ment for me that there was no worsening, and thats ok for me). But seeing my thining crowm eliminated any good feelings i had before.
Now I'm thinking that maybe I didn´t saw my crown well (only took sometimes some pics, but not as closed as today with the mirror and not using this powerful light) before and this thining spot has been always there, or my f****** tratment is not working at all and i'll be balding whatever i do...that it very depressive seeing all the people that get great results whit treatments.
This is my problem, I hope this text would be easy to understand, and I write here looking for some advice or any help to get some hope for me and bring some light for my situation. I know that treatments need time to work, and use only minoxidil only once a day is not a very strong treatment and mainteance or slown down the hairloss is all that you might expect, but I'm feeling hopeless now and depressive and thinking that maybe I've already lost this battle and the hairloss will beat me whenever the treatment I take.
Any comment will be appreciated. Thanks