Feeling Discouraged About Hair Loss

[davesmith420]

Hey @shookwun I have just been experiencing a bit of shedding and had some posters on another board told me that I was starting to diffuse (I don't know if you saw the little video I posted).

 

[resu]

Inspect the hairs that fall out to see if they have different widths, if you see hairs that are really thin next to thick hairs then you're balding and take a pic so we can see for sure.

 

[davesmith420]

Hey @resu here is some hair that fell in the shower today.

 

[kj6723]

Hey @resu here is some hair that fell in the shower today.

Go see a dermatologist lol. You're not likely to get a proper diagnosis by posting pics of shower hairs in an online forum

 

[davesmith420]

Hey @kj6723 I have gone to a derm and he said I had some thinning going on at my temple points. I'm just worried now that I'm actually been diffusing all this time. Been on finasteride for going on 8 months.

 

[resu]

While your hairs are fine they're all of the same thickness. There's really no signs of male pattern baldness. Even if you're losing the hairs in a diffusing pattern the thin patches will concentrate on the forelock, temples and crown.

 

[davesmith420]

https://imgur.com/a/CM6T8

Hey guys I didn't want to make a new thread for this. I was trying out clothes at a store the other day and I thought my crown looked off in the mirror... it made me paranoid. That's just my part/cowlick right?

 

[davesmith420]

It looks like a cowlick. I can't really tell.

You seem to have a lot of hair.

Are you a Norwood zero?

My one temple is like a thinning Norwood 0 and the other is like a Norwood .5. Got on Finasteride because I was shedding A LOT and probably have BDD.

 

[zzzzz]

Wtf, don't waste your time with minoxidil. You don;t even have anything to regrow

 

[Itsmrdave]

I would definitely not add minoxidil at this point. It's just too early. I started it and wasn't able to see it through because of sides. I had already shed some hair and had to stop using it. Now I'm just hoping I get back to baseline because I already had a pretty full head of hair