Hi.
Since about 18 my hair suddenly stopped growing beyond the length of a few inches. I never did anything about it until about half a year ago when i tried RU and in the last 4 months added finasteride to that. The hair at the very front which was actually thinning has improved, these were still terminal but have thickened and look like the hair on the rest of my head now. I asked a similar question before and someone said these were all miniaturized, but from my understanding miniaturized hairs don't look exactly like normal thick healthy hair, they are usually noticeably thinner. But that's exactly what they are in my case and they still don't grow, which i find strange.
The thing is none of my hair which looks completely healthy grows around the top and sides beyond maybe 4 inches. I went through some recession over the years but its completely stabilized now on this treatment and still it wont grow beyond that length..The hair on the back of my head does grow at a normal rate and grows till i cut it like normal hair should. So basically i can only grow a mullet if i want to grow it beyond a very short length. Anyone ever heard of anything like this or experienced it? Maybe I need to go on minoxidil because the follicles have been damaged to the point where they can only support hair of a certain length?
Its male pattern baldness related for sure since the back which is generally the dht resistant area grows fine. The front and sides still not growing even on what I'd imagine is a near complete suppression of DHT with RU and finasteride combined is pretty odd.
I should mention that I have a yet undiagnosed condition where I'm constantly fatigued...but no blood tests have ever shown anything unusual which rules out thyroid or iron problems so its probably chronic fatigue syndrome, which has no effect on hair. Could always be something else though i guess, but even the hair on the back of my head would be affected in the same way as the rest in that case.
Since about 18 my hair suddenly stopped growing beyond the length of a few inches. I never did anything about it until about half a year ago when i tried RU and in the last 4 months added finasteride to that. The hair at the very front which was actually thinning has improved, these were still terminal but have thickened and look like the hair on the rest of my head now. I asked a similar question before and someone said these were all miniaturized, but from my understanding miniaturized hairs don't look exactly like normal thick healthy hair, they are usually noticeably thinner. But that's exactly what they are in my case and they still don't grow, which i find strange.
The thing is none of my hair which looks completely healthy grows around the top and sides beyond maybe 4 inches. I went through some recession over the years but its completely stabilized now on this treatment and still it wont grow beyond that length..The hair on the back of my head does grow at a normal rate and grows till i cut it like normal hair should. So basically i can only grow a mullet if i want to grow it beyond a very short length. Anyone ever heard of anything like this or experienced it? Maybe I need to go on minoxidil because the follicles have been damaged to the point where they can only support hair of a certain length?
Its male pattern baldness related for sure since the back which is generally the dht resistant area grows fine. The front and sides still not growing even on what I'd imagine is a near complete suppression of DHT with RU and finasteride combined is pretty odd.
I should mention that I have a yet undiagnosed condition where I'm constantly fatigued...but no blood tests have ever shown anything unusual which rules out thyroid or iron problems so its probably chronic fatigue syndrome, which has no effect on hair. Could always be something else though i guess, but even the hair on the back of my head would be affected in the same way as the rest in that case.
