Good evening everyone (or morning/afternoon depending on what timezone you're in)
Looking for some advice really as a long time diffuse thinner. Was long past the point of return before I was able to self diagnose that I had an issue with severely thinning hair. Up until now, for the past 7, 8 years or so I've been able to conceal it pretty well with an assortment of Toppik fibres, root sprays, even eyeliner at one stage but now it is getting increasingly difficult and my self asteem is at 0.
A bit of background info for you. I'm 31. Come from a family with good hair genes; sadly my dad passed away in his late 50's but died with a full head of hair, only my mothers side (which I believe is the important one) her father only began to lose hair well into his 60's. My brother, 12 years my senior has a full head of hair.
So why me?
These are my theories so far
1. I have suffered from anxiety, depression and stress pretty much my entire adult life and initially put it down to this, however I have not read any viable evidence to say that stress affects regrowth, only hair loss (which is not something I have suffered as far as I'm aware, only hair thinning)
2. I bleached the hell out of my hair during my teen years/early 20's. Did all sorts of daft stuff to it and I've destroyed it so much it doesn't wanna grow back.
3. Hormone/iron deficiencies. Plausible but recent tests claim this is all fine. As a side note I suffer from excess sweating which so far has proven undefinable as to whether that is due to mental health or a physical symptom of something underlying. These investigations are ongoing.
I have tried all sorts of remedies. A combination of propecia and minoxidil gave me heart palpatations after only a week or so of use which lead to me having an ECG at the local hospital. This was enough to ward me off this particular line of enquiry.
Rogaine showed no visible improvements over time.when I used that.
No holistic approach has seen any success whatsoever. I'm really at a loss as to where I go from here, other than the obvious - surgery.
Been doing some reading on here and people say diffuse thinners do not make good FUE candidates. Would you stand by that, even in my case? I am also past the elusive '30' bracket and believe I have given adequate enough time and expense to arresting the slide but want to act before I lose ALL my hair. My hair on the back and sides does grow reasonably well so would expect to have decent graft.
I know this is a long shot, if numerous medical professions have been unable to diagnose this for the best part of a decade then I guess I'm all out of ideas. I'm happy to bite the bullet and expense of having a transplant but results are anything but guarenteed.
Any help here would be a godsend.
Thanks,
Simon
Looking for some advice really as a long time diffuse thinner. Was long past the point of return before I was able to self diagnose that I had an issue with severely thinning hair. Up until now, for the past 7, 8 years or so I've been able to conceal it pretty well with an assortment of Toppik fibres, root sprays, even eyeliner at one stage but now it is getting increasingly difficult and my self asteem is at 0.
A bit of background info for you. I'm 31. Come from a family with good hair genes; sadly my dad passed away in his late 50's but died with a full head of hair, only my mothers side (which I believe is the important one) her father only began to lose hair well into his 60's. My brother, 12 years my senior has a full head of hair.
So why me?
These are my theories so far
1. I have suffered from anxiety, depression and stress pretty much my entire adult life and initially put it down to this, however I have not read any viable evidence to say that stress affects regrowth, only hair loss (which is not something I have suffered as far as I'm aware, only hair thinning)
2. I bleached the hell out of my hair during my teen years/early 20's. Did all sorts of daft stuff to it and I've destroyed it so much it doesn't wanna grow back.
3. Hormone/iron deficiencies. Plausible but recent tests claim this is all fine. As a side note I suffer from excess sweating which so far has proven undefinable as to whether that is due to mental health or a physical symptom of something underlying. These investigations are ongoing.
I have tried all sorts of remedies. A combination of propecia and minoxidil gave me heart palpatations after only a week or so of use which lead to me having an ECG at the local hospital. This was enough to ward me off this particular line of enquiry.
Rogaine showed no visible improvements over time.when I used that.
No holistic approach has seen any success whatsoever. I'm really at a loss as to where I go from here, other than the obvious - surgery.
Been doing some reading on here and people say diffuse thinners do not make good FUE candidates. Would you stand by that, even in my case? I am also past the elusive '30' bracket and believe I have given adequate enough time and expense to arresting the slide but want to act before I lose ALL my hair. My hair on the back and sides does grow reasonably well so would expect to have decent graft.
I know this is a long shot, if numerous medical professions have been unable to diagnose this for the best part of a decade then I guess I'm all out of ideas. I'm happy to bite the bullet and expense of having a transplant but results are anything but guarenteed.
Any help here would be a godsend.
Thanks,
Simon