High schooler possibly going bald at 17 years old.

[Cosmogenesis]

The title says it all... I feel like there is a lot to talk about, but at the same time there isn't. The fact is: I might be starting to go bald at 17 years old.


To be honest, I had already accepted baldness as a cruel fate a long time ago, because it is in my genes. My grandfather had no hair on the top of his head, and my father is almost there. But I did not exactly expect it before the 30s! Due to the hairline that I have, people always said that I have a -tendency- to go bald, whether you can scientifically relate a hairline to balding tendencies or not. I believe I was 10 or 11 when I heard it for the first time, from another 10 or 11 year old girl. But on the past few months, or weeks, or whatever, a two close friends of mine have been saying that my hairline is starting to creep its way up my forehead. They're dudes and we pick on each other all the time. But I am not sure whether they are picking on me or not. Recently, I have noticed that some of my hairs are falling out. When I wash my head, for example, some hairs just fall out and wrap around my fingers, or a single hair just gently lands on my desk when I am in class. Not many, if you ask me, but I don't know how much can be considered as a lot of hair loss.


As I stated previously, I am not older than 17 years old and I am still in high school! Going bald at 30 is one thing, but going bald at 17, might be the beggining of the end. We all here know teenagers are evil when it comes to aesthetical matters. Not that anyone has been picking on me or anything, but in the upcoming months or years, it might start happening. I am desperate, and might be starting to feel a bit depressed about it. I have taken the liberty to snap a few pictures of my hair as it looks right now. So please tell me whether I am going bald or just mad.

I AM NOT READY TO EMBRACE THE BALDNESS! Please help a desperate soul. Photos:











This last photo in particular brings tears to my eyes. What do I do? Please help me!

Thank you in advance

 

[Gymshady]

In my opinion, it looks like my hairline at 17, if I were you I would look into minoxidil/nizoral.

 

[dusty]

So you are telling me that you are balding?
Hmm honestly looking at these pics I have a hard time believing it.
Though your sides do seem to be thinning a bit.
The only advice I can give you is to see a respected hair transplant specialist and have him take a look

 

[ceez]

I don't think you should stress. When it happens, you'll know, trust me.

 

[Vlatch]

There is a clear temple recession in the third picture (the one taken from the front).

No doctor will prescribe you finasteride at that age, but wait until you're at least 18 and see a hair transplant doctor if you want a prescription.

If you start treatment early, you'll do just fine. If I were you I'd take finasteride at 18-20 and that's it, nothing else unless it gets worse.

 

[Fuentesx]

I not that bad .... Yet

 

[johnnyboy1991]

Doesn't look bad to me!

 

[Dench57]

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This last photo in particular brings tears to my eyes. What do I do? Please help me!

c:

 

[Eightballd]

You are balding all these guys making fun are potatoes ignore them, you have the same hairloss pattern as me.

like the other guy said only thing that stops it is finasteride / Dutasteride for sure but you are a tiny bit too young, perhaps you should try S5 cream / Ru5881.

and use a shampoo like nizoral, I don't really want to recommend minoxidil since that will have to stay for life of you start using it, I'd just say try s5 / ru till you can use a treatment that has a lot of evidence behind it like finasteride / dutasteride


Just pray you loss isn't aggressive

 

[Cosmogenesis]

So I am officially balding?

 

[Vlatch]

yeah according to the internet, why don't you go see a dermatologist

It's obvious from these pictures he has Androgenetic Alopecia. A dermatologist will either tell him there is nothing he can do or recommend minoxidil and not finasteride because of his age.

 

[NinthWave]

If it's making you that upset, go see a dermatologist.
What's the worse that could happen?

 

[Eightballd]

You are balding man oh well it happens to most of the male population obviously it sucks for us cause we were young when it started, no such thing as a matured hairline, that's just what happens when male pattern baldness is dormant for whatever period of time but it will most likely come back.

you can go to a dermatologist I remember when I went to mine and just tried to tell me I had. A matured hairline, being in denial I believed him but why am I still here? Cause he is a potato. You know what the tools are its just a matter of when will you jump on them, massaging your head and taking vitamins won't fix your sensitivity to DHT

 

[Cosmogenesis]

You guys are seriously freaking me out, it's not helping me at all.

I am only 17 years old, I am not out of high school yet, and I do not know these biological/medical terms you guys are using. This is all new to me. I am not ready to embrace this yet. This is affecting me psychologically, and throwing those pieces of information at me is just making things worse. What exactly is going on in my head? How long until things go real bad? Should I really go to the dermatologist?

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By the way how bad is my crown doing?

 

[Bottlecap]

You guys are seriously freaking me out, it's not helping me at all.

I am only 17 years old, I am not out of high school yet, and I do not know these biological/medical terms you guys are using. This is all new to me. I am not ready to embrace this yet. This is affecting me psychologically, and throwing those pieces of information at me is just making things worse. What exactly is going on in my head? How long until things go real bad? Should I really go to the dermatologist?

It's hard to tell how quickly you will lose hair. Best way to gauge it, is by looking at male members of your family. Is your father bald? Uncles? Grandfathers? and when did they all go bald?

Your hair doesn't look bad at all. No one would think your loosing hair, but you have got the early signs of temple recession. Thing is to catch it early or you will regret it. Next year when you are 18, get on finasteride which is a drug that reduces the hormone that causes baldness in males. Many people have managed to stop their hairloss ande even regrown hair on this.

Try not to panic, your not bald at all, and it's quite likely you'll be able to stop it getting any worse.

 

[shookwun]

Ur balding.

Reminds me of myself at your age. Get on finasteride

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

None of us can tell you for certainty by looking at some blurry photos, kid. Think about you family history. Were any of your close relatives bald at a young age? Is you father bald? If so, how bald is he? Your temple peaks look to be extended pretty far out, which is a good sign. You're really young, and it's entirely understandable to be worried about going bald before you've even plowed your first fatty in your college dorm room with your roommate passed out five feet away from you.

That being said, get yourself to a dermatologist that specializes in hair loss. Avoid commercial places like Bosley because they'll more than likely tell you that you're balding just so they can get you to spend thousands on a hair transplant without you actually needing one. It could be something besides male pattern baldness. It could just be your hairline moving back from Norwood 1 to Norwood 2. You can't take the word of a couple of guys on a hair loss message board as gospel. Go get yourself examined if you're really worried -- which in all likelihood you are. Nothing is worse than not knowing for sure.

 

[Eightballd]

Bro please stop with the psychological non sense it affects everyone that's why we are all here, be glad you didn't start receding when you were 15 like me. My dad was like 24 when he was losing his hair so trying to estimate a timeline from previous generations won't work out too well for you. male pattern baldness is a strange condition because you can lose hair and be like Norwood 1.5 and your hairline won't move for like a decade, then one day you start to lose hair again, or you can be a guy that slowly but progressively loses all his hair in like 8 years. I've seen guys go from nw1 to like nw6 in 18 months

im guessing you might have an iPhone or a phone with a frontal camera, don't use that camera its potato quality retake these photos with the back camera, however even though pics are blurry I am 90% sure you have miniaturization, no type of alopecia gives you receding hairlines other than male pattern baldness, infact you know you are balding that's why you made this thread but you are in the pity denial phase of hairloss, it happens to all of us but you caught it early so don't ponder how the future is going to be try to find a treatment.


none of us are doctors so we don't want to recommend stuff like finasteride or dutasteride since we don't want to be responsible if it affects your development since you are still 17

But there are topical treatments like s5 cream and ru5881 that don't go systematic so you probably won't get any side effects from them, you might want to look into those since you need that to prevent further hairloss


Minoxidil / rogaine / kirklands etc is like a really good growth stimulant for hair and helps you regain lost ground however it doesn't stop the underlying cause of male pattern baldness so using minoxidil with out RU/finasteride/dutasteride/s5 is like using a bandaid on a gun shot wound

ketoconazole is a shampoo and it isn't like majorly needed but I think it helps with people that get inflammation like the dreaded DHT itch and I think it shows very mild properties for aiding male pattern baldness I'm not too sure tbh I don't use it cause I don't get dandruff / DHT itch etc


best bet is see a hairloss specialist and see if they believe you are fully developed and might perhaps let you take finasteride/dutasteride

 

[Cosmogenesis]

My father is somewhere in a Norwood-IV, I think. But the question is: he is 52 years old. His baldness started early too but it progressed very slowly throughout the years. I don't know if slower or faster than mine, impossible to say. Unfortunately, bald genes run in my blood. And no, I won't take anything for now. If you guys have missed it, I am still legally underage, which leads me to two problems right now:

1-Parents won't take the problem serious. They are not taking me to a doctor because they think I am way too young to be worrying about baldness. But, as you folks said yourself, I am blazing my *** all the way into a clear bald head.

2-Dermathologists won't prescribe me drugs or any medicine at all because, as I mentioned a few times before, I am legally underage. I don't know how law works in your countries, but here in Brazil you have to sign some paper stuff before a doctor gives you a recipe. Underage people cannot sign this paper stuff, only their legal guardians. And since my parents are not willing to do anything, I won't take any meds.

Get it? All that's left for me to do is to watch hair wrap around my fingers everytime I wash my head, watch my confidence get buried 6 feet deeper, get depressed and see my relationships getting destroyed for AT LEAST another year. It's not that easy, get it?

Don't try to compare going bald at 25 to going bald at 17. It's different.

 

[Eightballd]

Who's comparing that? I was losing my hair at 15 and I'm 20 I know more than you in this subject and my hair loss wasn't noticeable until 18 /19 I could hide it with my hair styles so you are being a drama queen one of those self pity morons, there is numerous online websites where you can order medication with out having to see a doctor but judging by your personality you probably don't have a job and your own PayPal / bank cards etc. perhaps you have older friends or sisters you can get to order etc hell if it's that bad you would be motivated enough to go get a job in order to save your hair.

s5 cream and ru5881 don't require prescription in fact you can make s5 cream on your own.



What ever your choice is, you should probably lift and do some kind of sport like boxing BBJ probably help with you always feeling sorry for yourself

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Also, baldness destroying your relationship? Lol dude why in the hell would you associate with shallow people like that, probably because you're just as shallow. You should probably get better friends / girlfriends if it's a huge deal my friend who was hit hard at 18 with male pattern baldness has a pretty good looking girlfriend and she is chill as fu