Genetics?

[MCxD]

Hey guys,
I need your help.
I think I am suffering from male pattern baldness. I've been losing quite a lot of hair lately and I had to realise that my right temple has receded a little bit. It is only a very tiny spot and there are still some small hairs but I think this is the beginning. My left temple is pretty good, though.
But here is my question: How come, I am starting to lose my hair, when I am only 20 years old. There is NOONE (neither on my mother's side nor on my father's) in my family to who you would have said when he was 35: "man, your hair is thinning." Of course, they all had some loss at the temples but nothing really severe.
However, I am really frustrated because in the last weeks there are so many hairs in the shower and I told you about the temple.
Could it be that the loss is only temporarily quite strong and that it will afterwards be still there, but progressing more slowly? So that I will still have an okay hair status when I am 35, like everyone else? i have been using nizoral for a couple of weeks now but it hasn't helped, maybe even the contrary.
I am so devastated by the realization that I am already losing my hair. I think I am developing some kind of depression, so hopeless lately.
sorry guys for my crying, this is just not so easy to take for someone as young as me. I just want to have an okay hair status while I am young, i have no problem with balding when i am older.

chris

 

[TheGrayMan2001]

From looking at pics my dad's didn't recede til he was 25 or so and my granddad even a little older than that.

My temples and front hairline are receding some and its gotten a bit diffuse all over.

I spent all of 2009 almost in denial. Finally I manned up and starte taking finasteride in May of this year, hoping my loss will stop. I think I am seeing some reversal on one temple though the front and other side isn't showing anything yet.

 

[s.a.f]

It is genetics but the gene can be a throwback, its likely that even though your immeadiate relatives are'nt bald they can still carry the gene.

 

[Hoppi]

Yeah I know it sucks man, I totally know how you feel. Do you think you have any health issues at all that spring to mind? I ask because my male pattern baldness immediately followed digestive and skin issues, so I believe male pattern baldness has a strong connection to health, at least in a proportion of individuals (some I think just have genetically sensitive follicles, etc).

I mean, we are lucky that we live in a time where really good treatments do exist, and so even if this is just the way it is, you have a lot of good tools at your disposal for maintenance and usually regrowth

Try to relax about it - we are guys and this is very common

 

[MCxD]

Over the past 1 1/2 years I always felt so tired, never had that before in my life. In my first year at university I was known for always almost falling asleep in classes. Plus, I had digestive problems, too. I had to go shi*tting three to 4 times a day and it was often kind of fluid.
Might it have something to do with that?

 

[TheGrayMan2001]

Over the past 1 1/2 years I always felt so tired, never had that before in my life. In my first year at university I was known for always almost falling asleep in classes. Plus, I had digestive problems, too. I had to go shi*tting three to 4 times a day and it was often kind of fluid.
Might it have something to do with that?

It doesn't help, but I doubt it

The problem is a lot of us start balding in our 18-25 year old range and this is the same time a lot of people get stressed over stuff or change their lifestyle so they assume it's something else. I did at first.

If it's your hairline changing, you can tell because you'll obviously have miniaturized hairs at the front--these are only caused by DHT affecting the follicles, or male pattern baldness.