Balding from the sides?

[Helel]

I have a weird kind of balding. I'm close to NW3. I believe I have some diffuse thinning but my hair has begun looking really odd. My hairline is receding so I grew out my hair more to do a comb over to help hide it. I looked at myself in the mirror today and I noticed that you can see the skin visibly from the sides of my head.


Is anyone thinning from the sides? I thought that the sides were the LAST part of the head to start showing hair loss.

 

[mr the hairy monkey]

there is no way the sides could be affected my diffuse alopecia or androgenic alopecia.

I mean , even the baldest man in the world would have his sides intact.
and that's how the combover is possible
just look at the norwood scale

 

[Helel]

I have hair there but you can clearly see the skin. I don't know what to make of it.

 

[Helel]

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2a7hc44&s=8#.U4lDTHbky8U

http://tinypic.com/r/4lht9x/8


I had so much trouble trying upload this for some reason. Here are two pictures. I know that these are a little blurry but you can still see it.

This third one shows it perfectly.

http://tinypic.com/r/2qktdw3/8

 

[2bald2young]

It's retrograde alopecia, I got it to.

 

[2bald2young]

It is a form of hair loss when your hair around your ears, your nape and I think it is called edges are thinning but will never go completely bald.

 

[I.D WALKER]

I'm also experiencing increased thinning on the sides (particularly in the areas above my side burns) and above and around my "ear line". I noticed signs of general thinning there as far back as 4 years or so ago, and it's definitely gotten worse. The hair around the nape of my neck has remained intact for now. I do not think this is text book M.P.B. and I suppose it's conceivable to conclude that some of us are predisposed to more than one form of hair loss. All I can say for me and my issues that the option of wearing a hair system is out.

It is a form of hair loss when your hair around your ears, your nape and I think it is called edges are thinning but will never go completely bald.

 

[Helel]

Wow...losing my hair, I wasn't given any chance at all then. F%$* my life.

This would explain a lot. My hair looks weird. It doesn't look healthy and clean. It's for this reason that I never wanted to try finasteride.