curiouscharles
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Edit: about a month later, I'm still at odds about what's going on, so I decided to take pics
For reference, I'm twenty four years old, only "thought" I might be balding for about four months now. My father and his brother are completely bald, as is his father. However, my cousins (sons of about 30-33 of my father's brother) show no signs of balding yet.
Hairlines are very strong on my mother's side of the family (her brother is all good, so is her dad).
Here's my pics:
right side:
center: (hard to take a pic of this properly without my camera back home)
left side:
Now what I find really interesting is how the right side seems to be more progressed. Might just be natural variation in hairline structure or something though...
For reference, here's a facebook pic of me from three years ago, when I had shaved my head (the one and only time I've ever done this ;p ):
I'm having a tough time deciding whether my hairline is much or any different from three years ago.
Regardless, should I see a doctor again, and ask them to do a pull test actually at my temple line (instead of at my crown where I swear my hair isn't falling out at all)?
I figure I might as well nip this [potential] problem in the butt before it starts affecting me more than the anxiety of potential male pattern baldness already is.
And thanks for your help/time guys.
I'm twenty-four now, and ever since a few months ago I've been convinced I'm starting to lose my hair. There's been a general "itch" around my temples, and I've been compelled to run my fingers through my bangs and examine them afterward for fall hairs.
Needless to say I'm freaking out. Baldness is a big fear of mine, and would be a huge hit to my self-esteem et al.
I've gone to the doctor, who pulled hair from the back of my head (crown I suppose) only to tell me I'm not going bald, and it's probably just stress related.
I believed her, and things were alright for awhile. The itching went away, and all seemed well.
Then I had a particularly stressful rehearsal (I'm a stage actor) the next week and the itching sensation came right back and didn't go away for another month.
Now, it's probably important to mention that I'm under a lot of emotional stress. I just graduated from the University of Victoria's Acting Major (BFA), and have moved to the big city to pursue my career. These are pretty stressful times. To top it all off, I've been going through A LOT of emotional stress due to girl issues which only recently resolved themselves, and actually, as a result, things were getting better - the itch had gone away, I wasn't noticing my hairline so much, and it seemed like I was on the road to recovery.
That was until this week, when I worked three fourteen hour shifts at work in a row (cooking :/), and the itch has come back, and as I sit here on the couch after waking up, every time I run my hand through my bangs, there's at least a couple hairs in my fingers.
I have four days off now, and am seriously contemplating going back to the doctor.
I've spoken with my father about this on the phone, he's a physician, and seems convinced it's just stress related.
It's just hard... even if it IS stress, my hair is still falling out abnormally, and that makes me anxious, adding to my stress, preventing my recovery.
What do you guys think?
For reference, I'm twenty four years old, only "thought" I might be balding for about four months now. My father and his brother are completely bald, as is his father. However, my cousins (sons of about 30-33 of my father's brother) show no signs of balding yet.
Hairlines are very strong on my mother's side of the family (her brother is all good, so is her dad).
Here's my pics:
right side:
center: (hard to take a pic of this properly without my camera back home)
left side:
Now what I find really interesting is how the right side seems to be more progressed. Might just be natural variation in hairline structure or something though...
For reference, here's a facebook pic of me from three years ago, when I had shaved my head (the one and only time I've ever done this ;p ):
I'm having a tough time deciding whether my hairline is much or any different from three years ago.
Regardless, should I see a doctor again, and ask them to do a pull test actually at my temple line (instead of at my crown where I swear my hair isn't falling out at all)?
I figure I might as well nip this [potential] problem in the butt before it starts affecting me more than the anxiety of potential male pattern baldness already is.
And thanks for your help/time guys.
I'm twenty-four now, and ever since a few months ago I've been convinced I'm starting to lose my hair. There's been a general "itch" around my temples, and I've been compelled to run my fingers through my bangs and examine them afterward for fall hairs.
Needless to say I'm freaking out. Baldness is a big fear of mine, and would be a huge hit to my self-esteem et al.
I've gone to the doctor, who pulled hair from the back of my head (crown I suppose) only to tell me I'm not going bald, and it's probably just stress related.
I believed her, and things were alright for awhile. The itching went away, and all seemed well.
Then I had a particularly stressful rehearsal (I'm a stage actor) the next week and the itching sensation came right back and didn't go away for another month.
Now, it's probably important to mention that I'm under a lot of emotional stress. I just graduated from the University of Victoria's Acting Major (BFA), and have moved to the big city to pursue my career. These are pretty stressful times. To top it all off, I've been going through A LOT of emotional stress due to girl issues which only recently resolved themselves, and actually, as a result, things were getting better - the itch had gone away, I wasn't noticing my hairline so much, and it seemed like I was on the road to recovery.
That was until this week, when I worked three fourteen hour shifts at work in a row (cooking :/), and the itch has come back, and as I sit here on the couch after waking up, every time I run my hand through my bangs, there's at least a couple hairs in my fingers.
I have four days off now, and am seriously contemplating going back to the doctor.
I've spoken with my father about this on the phone, he's a physician, and seems convinced it's just stress related.
It's just hard... even if it IS stress, my hair is still falling out abnormally, and that makes me anxious, adding to my stress, preventing my recovery.
What do you guys think?
