First of all, I know I need to post pics but I currently can't. I will post as soon as I can.
I'm currently 17 year old (almost 18) male. I've always had my hair cut short since I was a child, but last year I decided to grow it out. Before I did though, my mom gave me some medical shampoo that helps against thin hair. My hair was (and is) extremely thin. The shampoo definitely helped as I could finally grow my hair out and everything was well. I've had that hair for maybe 7 months. During the summer of that year I noticed that I couldn't style my hair that way I used to like. The left and right side of my FRONTAL hairline were getting thin. Yes, no temple recession (even now). I never really paid much attention as I could always style some other cool way. I THINK I stopped using that shampoo after I noticed the thinning as the bottle finished and I was too lazy to get another one. I also lost a lot of weight during the year. Probably 15 kilos in 2 months or something like that.
School started and it had become way much harder to stylize. Someone even commented that I was balding! During this same time, I had gained lots of zits so I decided to tell my father to make me an appointment with a derm. I didn't actually care about the zits, I was just using it as an excuse to diagnose my hair. At first I was too embarrassed to talk to him about my hairloss because he was my dad's friend, so I just told him about the zits and the dandruff that I have. He gave me some pills for the zits and nizoral 2% for the dandruff. Before I left, I mustered my courage and spoke up about the hairloss. Ehh it was pretty anti-climatic as he just glanced over it from 3 feet away and said I have early male pattern baldness.
I became extremely depressed and self-conscious about my hair. I would always look at a mirror or reflection of myself too see if my hair was stylized in a way that would hide my thinning or not. I became tired of checking a lot so I just increased my usage of hoodies. My hair was also slowly going back to its normal thin state. To make it worst, I don't know how but hair just suddenly appeared on my forehead where it never was. The hair that appeared formed a small v-shape. This part was extremely weak and thin. You can see my forehead under from anywhere you can see me. It would ruin my styling and and it was just hard to maintain, so I just shaved it off (Probably the worst thing I've ever done to my body). My frontal hairline finally was back to where it looked like. Still some thinning but extremely manageable. Oh and my hair has been becoming thinner and thinner as time goes by. The thinning included all my hair. My moustache was starting to grow unequally, beard becoming much less thick after every shave, and even the two sides of my head hair experienced this thinning.
I started to look up old pics of me. OMG I was shocked. My 14 year old self had EXTREMELY thin hair and a f***ed up hairline. Like it was receding on one side while the other was full. I tried measuring my where my 14 year old hairline (if you can call it that anymore lmao) was from my eyebrows and wrinkles. I couldn't find a good reference point, but I did notice that even though my hairline is high, my forehead wrinkles are extremely low and close to my eyebrows and temples. Yeah, I know. Random fact'n'all, but I just want to see if it's normal. everyone in school had forehead wrinkles covering their whole forehead and were relatively close to their hairline. I was only the exception.
So, to summarize:
Thinning all over my head, f***ed up frontal hairline with weird v-shaped hairline growing on my forehead, no temple recession (Hopefully it remains that way). Will post pics as soon as I can.
Oh I forgot soem questions:
1- For privacy reasons, is there a way to delete this thread later? I need to know before I post pics.
2- Will hair regrown by minoxidil remain with only finasteride? Is it okay to drop mino after the desired regrowth and remain on finasteride only?
I'm currently 17 year old (almost 18) male. I've always had my hair cut short since I was a child, but last year I decided to grow it out. Before I did though, my mom gave me some medical shampoo that helps against thin hair. My hair was (and is) extremely thin. The shampoo definitely helped as I could finally grow my hair out and everything was well. I've had that hair for maybe 7 months. During the summer of that year I noticed that I couldn't style my hair that way I used to like. The left and right side of my FRONTAL hairline were getting thin. Yes, no temple recession (even now). I never really paid much attention as I could always style some other cool way. I THINK I stopped using that shampoo after I noticed the thinning as the bottle finished and I was too lazy to get another one. I also lost a lot of weight during the year. Probably 15 kilos in 2 months or something like that.
School started and it had become way much harder to stylize. Someone even commented that I was balding! During this same time, I had gained lots of zits so I decided to tell my father to make me an appointment with a derm. I didn't actually care about the zits, I was just using it as an excuse to diagnose my hair. At first I was too embarrassed to talk to him about my hairloss because he was my dad's friend, so I just told him about the zits and the dandruff that I have. He gave me some pills for the zits and nizoral 2% for the dandruff. Before I left, I mustered my courage and spoke up about the hairloss. Ehh it was pretty anti-climatic as he just glanced over it from 3 feet away and said I have early male pattern baldness.
I became extremely depressed and self-conscious about my hair. I would always look at a mirror or reflection of myself too see if my hair was stylized in a way that would hide my thinning or not. I became tired of checking a lot so I just increased my usage of hoodies. My hair was also slowly going back to its normal thin state. To make it worst, I don't know how but hair just suddenly appeared on my forehead where it never was. The hair that appeared formed a small v-shape. This part was extremely weak and thin. You can see my forehead under from anywhere you can see me. It would ruin my styling and and it was just hard to maintain, so I just shaved it off (Probably the worst thing I've ever done to my body). My frontal hairline finally was back to where it looked like. Still some thinning but extremely manageable. Oh and my hair has been becoming thinner and thinner as time goes by. The thinning included all my hair. My moustache was starting to grow unequally, beard becoming much less thick after every shave, and even the two sides of my head hair experienced this thinning.
I started to look up old pics of me. OMG I was shocked. My 14 year old self had EXTREMELY thin hair and a f***ed up hairline. Like it was receding on one side while the other was full. I tried measuring my where my 14 year old hairline (if you can call it that anymore lmao) was from my eyebrows and wrinkles. I couldn't find a good reference point, but I did notice that even though my hairline is high, my forehead wrinkles are extremely low and close to my eyebrows and temples. Yeah, I know. Random fact'n'all, but I just want to see if it's normal. everyone in school had forehead wrinkles covering their whole forehead and were relatively close to their hairline. I was only the exception.
So, to summarize:
Thinning all over my head, f***ed up frontal hairline with weird v-shaped hairline growing on my forehead, no temple recession (Hopefully it remains that way). Will post pics as soon as I can.
Oh I forgot soem questions:
1- For privacy reasons, is there a way to delete this thread later? I need to know before I post pics.
2- Will hair regrown by minoxidil remain with only finasteride? Is it okay to drop mino after the desired regrowth and remain on finasteride only?
