How do you know if you're hair can grow back?

[hairnewb101]

Hello everyone,
I don't know the right term but i've been shedding or losing hair for the last 3 years. I'm asian and now 27 years old and i'm still losing hair. I'm pretty much convinced that it was stress, coupled with depression and anxiety that caused my thinning hair. To be honest, i'm not exactly sure what is receding hairline. But my hair is thin and won't grow any thicker. Now i do have hair on the two temple areas but they're not growing. So how do i know if it's growing back? Do i just go to a dermo and let him/her examine me just to be sure? And what sort of tests will they do?

thanks

 

[sammo]

Yeah, just have a look at some photos online, and try and identify the stage on the norwood scale your at. See a dermatologist for a second opinion, but again like the many many people here - like myself, you suggest that hairloss began after a series of anxiety / stressful events and / or emotions.

Just stay positive and make an informed decision if you decide to pick up a regime.

Sammo

 

[hairnewb101]

Thanks for replying. I searched online for norwood and found that i'm at norwood scale 1. So i am not receding. But what bothers me is that the temples are thinning. And i don't see anywehere else that's thinning. I am losing hair still from top, back, and sides. I guess i'm losing or shedding more at the top then the back and sides. I do see hair at the temples but they're not growing longer and thicker. They're no more then a few millimeters. If my shedding is stress/depression related, aren't i suppose to see thinning at the sides as well as the back?

Thanks

 

[sammo]

Umm its hard to really judge that. We as a race have very limited basic understanding of male pattern baldness. Basically its possible it could be primarily stress related, but by the sounds of temples thinning it means that part of your genetic baldness gene are being triggered early in someway.... whether you're not stressed now and you wait abit to see how it goes or your going to continue to thin is impossible to tell.

I personally had around 5-6 months of full on stress, then i gradually became very healthy mentally until now even. My temples thinned first even though I seemed to lose hair everywhere in the shower and in bed. My hair is still thinning but I have family history of male pattern baldness. Thats with the treatments im using now.

Sammo

p.s. the dermo simply looks at your hair to identify thinning... its quite simple, most of the guys on her including myself can identify thinning purely on the grounds of self education on these boards and pictures etc. Feel free to post a pic and I'll give you feedback / my oppinion.

pp.s your guess is probably right, if your only thinning at temples its probably male pattern baldness.

 

[hairnewb101]

I am not naive. I know i will lose my hair some day. But i don't believe i will lose this much at such an early age. I started losing hair 3 years ago after a traumatic event. I'm asian and 27 btw. So i'm certain that caused my hair loss. My stress hasn't gone down because i have some other problems to deal with. So i'm still losing hair. My dad is balded from the temple but i believe he's been through a lot. So stress and anxiety played a big part in his hair loss as well i believe. I don't have a history of family with male pattern baldness. On my dad's side, only my dad is thinning from the temple. My big uncle still has a full set of hair. And my grandpa, at 81 i believe, also still have much of his hair.

Maybe i have the bad gene. I don't know. What i do know is that 6 months after that traumatic event, my friend noticed that i was thinning from the two areas in the temple. And three years later, i'm still losing hair. Like i said, i'm losing hair from the sides, back, and top. Last summer, i was losing so much hair every wash. Now, not so much maybe because that stress has gone down. But i know i do have other issues to worry about. Maybe that's why i'm still losing hair.

I heard that if you see hair, however short, they will still grow. Is that true?
btw, my friend told me that the baldness gene comes from the mother's side of the family, is that true?
Thanks

 

[Avery]

What i do know is that 6 months after that traumatic event, my friend noticed that i was thinning from the two areas in the temple

By the time you notice you're thinning, you've already lost 50% of your hair in that area. It's the 50-50 rule, or something. So you were losing your hair before that event. It's male-pattern-baldness, chief. People constantly overdiagnos stress as a cause. If it bothers you, start one/some of the treatments you read about on this board. There's no way any of us can accuratly predict what your hair loss will be like; it's different for everyone.

btw, my friend told me that the baldness gene comes from the mother's side of the family, is that true?

That is false. It comes from both sides.

 

[hairnewb101]

What is thinning anyway? Does it mean that you're losing hair in a particular spot and the hair will never grow back?

What if you still have hair in a particular spot on your head, but it's only a few millimeters and thin? Is there a term for that? And i guess the biggest question is: Will the hair grow longer and thicker?

Thanks