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Short story on myself, my first hair loss started at the last summer, it doesn't have any pattern which means it is all over the scalp(With miniaturization), my dermatologist putted me on finasteride(1.25mg/day)+ Minoxidil. One month later, my hair became significantly thicker, and I barely loss even 10 hairs a day, even my hair dresser told me about that. About 10 months later, even my mature hairline got reversed(Got it since high school, long before I lost any hair), my hairline right now is actually started to rounding at temple. Although I'm happy about the result, but I'm suspecting that my hair loss isn't caused by genetic. For these reasons:
1: Three generations on both side of my family doesn't have hair loss.
2: I had depression and anxiety(Social anxiety, and I tend to worry about everything) during the summer, and my hair loss started since then.
3: During the past 12 months, I've had mini shed happens occasionally, 5-8 times, each time mini shed happens, I lost around 15 hairs a day. AND it's usually followed by anxiety.
4: I got burning scalp syndrome, it happens and usually followed by hair loss, which sounds like what most you guys encountered while losing hair. BUT, my burning scalp ONLY happens when I experiencing anxiety. It's so consistent that I can predict when my scalp gonna feel pain. An interesting example is that one day I have a plan to take and have no time to put on minoxidil and finasteride, I start to panic during the rest of the day, my scalp is burning too. After I got off the plan, took my luggage, I took a finasteride(It's in my luggage...) immediately, within 1 minutes, my burning scalp feeling disappeared, amazing right?
5: As my mental health also improved, my hairless became less severe(Seems like).
So what do you guys think? What a chance do I have genetic hair loss?
And also, is miniaturization happens IF AND ONLY IF it's genetic hair loss?
My hair loss daily recording starting from the day I started treatment:
1: Three generations on both side of my family doesn't have hair loss.
2: I had depression and anxiety(Social anxiety, and I tend to worry about everything) during the summer, and my hair loss started since then.
3: During the past 12 months, I've had mini shed happens occasionally, 5-8 times, each time mini shed happens, I lost around 15 hairs a day. AND it's usually followed by anxiety.
4: I got burning scalp syndrome, it happens and usually followed by hair loss, which sounds like what most you guys encountered while losing hair. BUT, my burning scalp ONLY happens when I experiencing anxiety. It's so consistent that I can predict when my scalp gonna feel pain. An interesting example is that one day I have a plan to take and have no time to put on minoxidil and finasteride, I start to panic during the rest of the day, my scalp is burning too. After I got off the plan, took my luggage, I took a finasteride(It's in my luggage...) immediately, within 1 minutes, my burning scalp feeling disappeared, amazing right?
5: As my mental health also improved, my hairless became less severe(Seems like).
So what do you guys think? What a chance do I have genetic hair loss?
And also, is miniaturization happens IF AND ONLY IF it's genetic hair loss?
My hair loss daily recording starting from the day I started treatment:
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