help needed for 18 y/o

[markymark123]

Quick background: I'm 18 first year at college and my hair has been receded very noticably since school start. About a month a go I did minoxidil for a week, then stopped coming to the realization that i was only 18 i did not want to be dealing with this stuff. Well it has continued to get worse and the hair right behind the hairline seems very thin as if it will be gone soon too, and I absolutely need to do something. The prospects of it getting worse and worse are quite depressing. What do you guys think is the best route? back to minoxidil? something stronger like xandrox (it really is just the front im concerned about)?

 

[zroca]

I would suggest you go see a derm, see if your problem is stress or your diet, if its male pattern baldness get on propecia if that doesn't help consider getting on rogaine also.
Best of luck
Zroca

 

[Kramer3]

Hey man. If i were you I'd get back on the Minoxidil 5%. Obviously noone wants to mess around with sh*t but unfortunetly thats the only way things can ever possibly get any better. I would recommend proscar to you but that can have much more dramatic side-effects then minoxidil which has relatively none. Balding at a young age is really hard to deal with but its better to deal with it now before the damage becomes irrepairable.