Personally I don’t think yours is aggressive enough and looks like a mature hairline. No one would think that’s balding or receding except the Norwood spotters on here. If you really want some preventative thing consider topical dutasteride once or twice a month. Apparently it doesn’t go systemic like finasteride daily and it’s also potent enough to make a difference
Thanks I just wish I didn’t obsess so damn much!
If I were you, first I would try other treatments first and see how you respond. If you start losing ground despite the conservative treatments then I'd try finasteride.
Is hard water known to cause hair loss? Ever since I moved into a new place I noticed my hair tends to get very oily and sheds a little
Yes it does!! Hard water can destroy your hair. I have a water softener in my home and have to add the salt pellets every so often. The hard water will cause calcium build-up on your scalp.
Yeah that would explain, prior to moving I didn’t have any hair problems. How much does it cost to get a water softener system installed?
It just looks so off to me, the right corner looks weird and uneven.
Hairlines are rarely even from what I’ve seen. For example, I think the right temple usually goes back more for most men, even for non balding men
Really? The right side is known to go back more for men? Never knew that. My left side is Norwood 1 I would say and my right 1.5 it’s so weird it throws me off. The main reason im concerned is because ever since i moved in to my new place, i've been shedding more and notice a flaky crusty scalp, idk if its the water that is too harsh here or if shower water in general can cause thinning/loss.
what do you think of the newer pics i posted with better lighting? Does it look worse?
not sure, i honestly shed like 3-5 in the shower and if i rub my hand through my hair i usually just grab 1-2 . I notice if i tend to play with it a lot though it sheds more. I'm just scared because my dad and his dad both went bald, worried i might follow the same path.
It seems you have stabile shedding. If you hadn't one day started shedding lots of hairs its best you keep taking pics every 6 months. If you have hair loss its very slow and treatments will likely work. Aggressive hair loss doesn't come without massive shedding. Unless you can see a clear difference in the next 6 months or one day you start shedding much more than usual then it might be the time to visit a dermatologist. You can also take pics every 3 months or every month or even go to a dermatologist which can look at your hair with a microscope and capture a baseline.
is shedding short hairs a bad thing as well? I also feel shedding can't really tell you if your balding hence, people tend to shed 100 hairs a day apparently, i am nowhere near that mark in terms of shedding. What norwood would I be ?
My opinion has stayed the same. I agree with @Selb
No way to tell. What you can do is try to compare the thickness of the shafts near the bulb of the hairs you shed which should be telogen hairs if the bulb is pigmentless. You can actually pull out an anagen hair from your scalp, it should hurt a bit, that is how you know its an anagen hair. Then clear the skin or keratin debris at the base and you will see its pigmented all the way unlike with telogen hairs where the base and sometimes the beginning of the shaft is pigmentless. Maybe if there is a massive visual difference in different telogen hairs in the same light it might be miniaturization.
