A question

[BornIn89]

I'm 21 but I look quite young for my age (minus the bloody hair loss). I don't have a lot of body hair, the hair on my arms is very fine, almost colourless. No chest hair. I can't grow a beard, I can grow a bit of stubble on the tip of my chin, might take a week or more to grow though, I don't have any hair between my chin and sideburns. So surely all this means I have low DHT to begin with? Which begs the question.... Why the f*** am I going bald?

 

[s.a.f]

Its not about the level of DHT its about your follicles sensitivity to it.

 

[BornIn89]

Its not about the level of DHT its about your follicles sensitivity to it.

So I must have extremely sensitive follicles? Great :thumbdown2:

 

[s.a.f]

Yup, me too.

 

[BornIn89]

Oh well, I guess instead of baldness making me look older it'll probably just make me look like a kid going through chemo instead. Great stuff. :/

 

[Brains Expel Hair]

You could have the most sensitive follicles on the planet as the always erudite saf suggests :jackit: or you could have a separate problem that effects all of the hair on your body.

See: http://www.hairlosstalk.com/interact/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=59607

This is just a guess based on the limited info you've provided, but it does remain a possibility especially if the condition started early enough to interfere with normal body and facial hair development during puberty (as was my case, my fathers and my brothers).

 

[BornIn89]

I seem to have a lot of symptoms of Hashimoto's Hypothyroidism, but the ones I don't have for certain are high cholesterol, constipation, slow pulse, low blood sugar. And I recently had a blood test checking my testosterone and thyroid and stuff and they told me everything came back as normal? Wouldn't any problem have shown up then?

 

[Brains Expel Hair]

The symptoms you mention not having I believe are somewhat major parts of that condition so you can possibly rule that out. When you got tested for testosterone and thyroid markers did they tell you the actual numbers or just say you were "normal"? A lot of times doctors ignore chronic borderline readings which can sometimes be a useful puzzle piece but pushing further in this direction may be just grasping at straws.

It sounds like you do have separate health problems that may or may not be related, what are the symptoms that you do have?