How Common Is It To Show Signs And Then..

[Raphael13]

How common is it, that you in your 25-29 show signs of recession, but end up at 35-40 with decent amount of hair?

I'm asking this since I'm a guy in my 28, closing in on 29. I have signs of frontal recession but the crown is full and the overall density is still perfect (knock on wood). Am I still doomed or do I have a chance of beating the odds? I KNOW that this actually happends for a lot of men, to show signs early on and then 15-20 years later they basically have the same hair with some tiny worsening.

Is it somewhat common or you need to be extremly lucky for this to happen, like 1 of 20?

 

[Raphael13]

This is where Im at

 

[recedingornot87]

This is where Im at

What is your family history of hairloss?

 

[Raphael13]

My father is 65 with an ok norwood 3. Not the best but not the worst either. An ok norwood 3. My paternal uncle died at 72 bald. My paternal grandfather I have no idea.

My maternal grandfather had, judging of pictures, decent hair in his 35-45s. 2 of my maternal uncles had (last time i checked) decent hair, maybe a norwood 2 as worst. My third and oldest maternal uncle has lost his entire hairline but I think crown was still full.

 

[curiousone]

I showed signs of recession at 20 years old. Now I am 37 with thick full hair except for recession at my right temple. Everything else is fine. But I have been on finasteride 16 years so I dont know whether or not that is the reason. I recently started minoxidil to try and fill the right temple.

 

[Raphael13]

I showed signs of recession at 20 years old. Now I am 37 with thick full hair except for recession at my right temple. Everything else is fine. But I have been on finasteride 16 years so I dont know whether or not that is the reason. I recently started minoxidil to try and fill the right temple.

Finasteride is def a reason you've maintained your hair, BUT, who knows, maybe you still would without it.

 

[recedingornot87]

For recession I see that happening often. A person who is receding often times just stops and maitains that sh*t for decades. Over half the people with receding hairlines this is what generally happens. But once you see diffuse thinning then that is a sign that you will not be one of those cases and will most likely continue balding. In your case it does look like there is some diffuse thinning going on but not too much.

 

[Raphael13]

For recession I see that happening often. A person who is receding often times just stops and maitains that sh*t for decades. Over half the people with receding hairlines this is what generally happens. But once you see diffuse thinning then that is a sign that you will not be one of those cases and will most likely continue balding. In your case it does look like there is some diffuse thinning going on but not too much.

I have no diffuse thinning actually, its the light and angle which makes it look that way.

 

[abcdefg]

How common is it, that you in your 25-29 show signs of recession, but end up at 35-40 with decent amount of hair?

I'm asking this since I'm a guy in my 28, closing in on 29. I have signs of frontal recession but the crown is full and the overall density is still perfect (knock on wood). Am I still doomed or do I have a chance of beating the odds? I KNOW that this actually happends for a lot of men, to show signs early on and then 15-20 years later they basically have the same hair with some tiny worsening.

Is it somewhat common or you need to be extremly lucky for this to happen, like 1 of 20?

Really hard to say. Personally my guess is its much more common for male pattern baldness to be worse the older you are rather than stopping or staying at a certain point. It happens certainly but most of the time its the area of a mature hairline that Norwood 2 area. Once your past that its male pattern baldness and time to start praying because it usually gets worse before it gets better.
Its tough to think of much that actually stays the same or gets better as decades of time pass you by. Most things only get worse with age. Once you hit like 30 things slowly slope down hill

 

[g.i joey]

I always noticed, if the person isn’t thinning and dealing with recession solely then the balding process will be slooowwww, once the thinning starts whether you get recession or not, well then my friends; and only then, have the games begun