I have one of the weirdest hair loss patterns here
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I don't think that I have regular male pattern baldness, dutasteride and min are doing f*** all, the sides of my head are just getting less dense year after year. Who the f*** goes bald on the sides of their head?
Have you ever buzzed your head? Curious if the top would look close to the sides at the same length? I have seen some people with hair like yours though that the scalp area appears to have better hair density at first glance at least.
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From the picture, it looks like there is hair loss in my opinion, but it is happening all around your scalp in a diffuse
pattern.
Your hair is thick, so it is not easily noticeable. The only reason I say that is from the enlarged picture.
There are other causes of hair loss, such as thyroid, and other issues. You really should get it checked by a professional.
I think you have diffuse balding from androgen alopecia, because the density does not appear to be uniform in the
picture.
The truth is I don't understand sh*t about baldness, despite the fact that I visit these sites often. I guess I just feel I do, but the truth is
I'm not a dermatologist and I can only give my opinion.
That said, I had a friend whose older brother had alopecia from his immunity system. He temporarily lost his hair, including his eyebrows/eyelashes, but it grew back.
pattern.
Your hair is thick, so it is not easily noticeable. The only reason I say that is from the enlarged picture.
There are other causes of hair loss, such as thyroid, and other issues. You really should get it checked by a professional.
I think you have diffuse balding from androgen alopecia, because the density does not appear to be uniform in the
picture.
The truth is I don't understand sh*t about baldness, despite the fact that I visit these sites often. I guess I just feel I do, but the truth is
I'm not a dermatologist and I can only give my opinion.
That said, I had a friend whose older brother had alopecia from his immunity system. He temporarily lost his hair, including his eyebrows/eyelashes, but it grew back.
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I've never buzzed my entire head but I used to get skin fade hair cuts when I was a teenager back in 2018 which led me to find out that my hair lacked density on the back and sides because one day I went back to my barber and accused him of f*****g my hair up because it looked patchy as f***, just for him to tell me that it was just the density of my hair
I must have deleted my original photos but these are the earliest non deleted photos that I have found from the beginning of my profile, back in 2018-2019.
https://www.hairlosstalk.com/intera...e-pattern-baldness-or-alopecia-areata.123738/
The density of my sides seems to have always been sh*t but i don't see how this can be natural? most people can't see this amount of scalp at the sides of their heads,
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Thicker than the sides. I used to have a bald spot forming but it filled in after switching to dutasteride and adding minoxidil. Nothing has worked to thicken up the sides, I think that too much hair is dead there.
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Did you notice the sides thin out first? Mine seemed to rapidly thin out back in 2018 but I didn't get on treatment until 2021, I think that many of the follicles there are dead which is why I'm not getting any regrowth there, unfortunately.
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i had a big shedding back in the days, i lost the hair in the top and sides at same time, and still shedding till nowdays.
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Here you can see. There is a delimitation and them the diffuse patternView attachment 191743
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I can't see the link for whatever reason
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What you are describing is the reverse of the usual pattern, which is the part worth attention. In typical male pattern loss, the sides and back are the resistant zone, the areas that hold while the top thins, and the regions a transplant draws from precisely because they stay stable. So, sides thinning while the top stays dense is the opposite of the textbook picture.
Two things to separate. The hair over the ears is naturally the finest and lowest in density and looks worse than it is under a close flash, so some of this may be lighting. But if the sides are genuinely thinning and progressing, that is the part to take seriously, because loss in the normally stable zone points away from standard pattern loss and towards either a non-androgenetic cause or a diffuse, unpatterned type. Those need a real diagnosis, not an assumption, because the cause determines what you would do about it.
I would have it looked at properly, ideally by someone who can put a scope on the scalp and read the miniaturization, before treating it as ordinary loss. The top holding that well is a good sign. The sides are the area I would want examined first.
Two things to separate. The hair over the ears is naturally the finest and lowest in density and looks worse than it is under a close flash, so some of this may be lighting. But if the sides are genuinely thinning and progressing, that is the part to take seriously, because loss in the normally stable zone points away from standard pattern loss and towards either a non-androgenetic cause or a diffuse, unpatterned type. Those need a real diagnosis, not an assumption, because the cause determines what you would do about it.
I would have it looked at properly, ideally by someone who can put a scope on the scalp and read the miniaturization, before treating it as ordinary loss. The top holding that well is a good sign. The sides are the area I would want examined first.
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I know that I have male pattern baldness because I also have thinning temples and a loss of pigmentation there (pretty sure that it's getting worse even on dutasteride) It's just weird that DHT would be attacking traditionally DHT resistant zones.