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There is no way it can be male pattern baldness. You had such great hair with juvenile hairline for the most part of your life. You are in the minority of men not susceptible to male pattern baldness. Almost all men slightly recede in their teens or early twenties and only 2-5% don't. Male pattern baldness always start with temporal recession. Only in female pattern baldness hairline stays intact. Having a juvenile hairline means that you have hair as much as young woman does and you lost none of your hair, and since nearly all men have received at least very mildly by time they are 20(25 max) and you are already 30, 35... and nothing happens, means that you are not susceptible to androgenetic alopecia. You have genetic protection against increased scalp DHT causing fibrosis, or send no or too little DHT to the inflamed areas, affected by the tissue tension caused by the chronic contractions of the muscles surrounding the top of your scalp.Perfect teeth never had a cavity. Again, I’m just looking for answers.
3 seems and 3 of the top hair transplant doctors have looked at my head and the answer as been ‘idiopathic Telogen Effluvium’ with early onset AA. They all say the AA is mild but the shedding abnormal. I’m no longer losing Telogen hairs though. I know guys have it far worse in here, I’m just trying to stabilize and stop risky meds if they aren’t needed.
I am still concerned this starts and ends with Thyroid medication. Though I stopped for 6 months and the shedding continued. If this was normal male pattern baldness I’d keep grinding on Finasteride hope for the best for a few years, but 10 months in and she is only getting worse.
No man can get female pattern hair loss unless he has abnormally low levels of testosterone like a female and low levels of estrogen like a post-menopausal woman at the same time. Or no man can have female pattern hair loss, unless he has small head, as a woman's head, his balls are chopped of or under chemicals castration. Women have smaller heads, much less muscle mass and scalp tension is applied differently and in different areas. All men, black, white, asian bald in the male pattern. The tension is highest in the temples and vertex and most DHT builds up in there and these areas go bald first. Tissue tension evokes inflammation. DHT builds up as a response to inflammation but a low testosterone: estrogen ratios in men and estrogen: testoterone in women is required for this DHT to cause fibrosis. That's why most women don't develop FPHL until menopause and most men develop advanced hair loss when they are older. But they lose their juvenile hairline when they are younger first. This mild recession is what the testoterone: estradiol ration in young men allows and this recession continues as a man get older and testosterone levels drop. If you have no recession at all - you are not susceptible to this process.
Your scalp on the photos looks smooth and healthy. You don't have that shiny, hard scalp, people with pattern hair loss have. You don't have fibrosis.
If you have juvenile hairline and hair loss finasteride would do nothing for you. It works only for people with hereditary hair loss. Since you are not susceptible to genetic hair loss, the reason for your hair loss is different.
Do you have stressful lifestyle. Your hair loss might be chronic telogen effluvium due to stress. Relieving stress might be a good idea for you. With relaxation...