I Need Someone To Describe The Norwood Scale To Me Like I'm A Child

[hanginginthewire]

Particularly in relation to eligibility and expectation for transplant. All the hair on the top of my head is diffuse and I have about (I guess) a Norwood 3 or so level of slick bald recession. It seems like I have high-ish sides and I don't think my crown loss dips very far down on the back of my head.

My hair is fairly thick and wavy when grown out, donor seems ok except some retrograde.

 

[Afro_Vacancy]

NW1: Incel, or slayer, depending on height, face, body composition.
NW2->NW6: Incel, regardless of height, face, and body composition.

Just kidding, here goes:

A norwood 7 is somebody who doesn't have enough donor for a proper hair transplant. Likely the same thing of a Norwood 6 as well, I'm not sure. At your stage, you should be ok, better than ok if you can hold on to your hair.

 

[hanginginthewire]

NW1: Incel, or slayer, depending on height, face, body composition.
NW2->NW6: Incel, regardless of height, face, and body composition.

Just kidding, here goes:

A norwood 7 is somebody who doesn't have enough donor for a proper hair transplant. Likely the same thing of a Norwood 6 as well, I'm not sure. At your stage, you should be ok, better than ok if you can hold on to your hair.

Thanks Lol. Is the defining Norwood 6 charateristic that the crown dips down quite a bit? I feel like 4a or 5a is my emerging pattern.

 

[buckthorn]

Particularly in relation to eligibility and expectation for transplant. All the hair on the top of my head is diffuse and I have about (I guess) a Norwood 3 or so level of slick bald recession. It seems like I have high-ish sides and I don't think my crown loss dips very far down on the back of my head.

My hair is fairly thick and wavy when grown out, donor seems ok except some retrograde.

NW1 - Life is good, lots of pussy, no worries in the world
NW2 - You realize you're balding, cover it up and only think about it occasionally. Still lots of hot pussy.
NW3 - You start to become a combover artist. People think you have a mature hairline, and it's still not too big of a deal. Less pussy as you become more self conscience with women touching your hair.
NW4 - fucked
NW5 - fucked
NW6 - fucked

 

[Afro_Vacancy]

Thanks Lol. Is the defining Norwood 6 charateristic that the crown dips down quite a bit? I feel like 4a or 5a is my emerging pattern.

That's what it looks like.

What treatments are you on? Are they working for you?

 

[hanginginthewire]

That's what it looks like.

What treatments are you on? Are they working for you?

I take prescribed finasteride and internet duta. Its hard to say if they are working because I started treatment at about 36 when I had already diffused a lot. Pull tests at the the temples still consistently pull hairs. The true crown of my head less so and everywhere else doesn't really fall or pull out anymore. Even my temple points seem to not pull as they did before, which is great.

Is there any guide to determining if you have "high sides" or not, like something else on my face I can measure it against?

I have visited two hair transplant docs for consults, one felt I was a good canidate, the other seemed concerned about the level of diffusion up top but still gave a quote and was willing to proceed. There really isn't an amount I would not pay to be restored, and up to 3 surgeries seems doable to me. The extent to which hair loss is controlling my life is insane and I need a way out of this.

 

[Afro_Vacancy]

I take prescribed finasteride and internet duta. Its hard to say if they are working because I started treatment at about 36 when I had already diffused a lot. Pull tests at the the temples still consistently pull hairs. The true crown of my head less so and everywhere else doesn't really fall or pull out anymore. Even my temple points seem to not pull as they did before, which is great.

Is there any guide to determining if you have "high sides" or not, like something else on my face I can measure it against?

I have visited two hair transplant docs for consults, one felt I was a good canidate, the other seemed concerned about the level of diffusion up top but still gave a quote and was willing to proceed. There really isn't an amount I would not pay to be restored, and up to 3 surgeries seems doable to me. The extent to which hair loss is controlling my life is insane and I need a way out of this.

If money is not an issue, and you're willing to use treatments, then you should be ok.

Go see a top hair surgeon, @kj6723 and @shookwun can advise you.

Your treatment is good. Adding nizoral might help, minoxidil too. However, it would take you a few months to know if it's working for you.

 

[hanginginthewire]

Sorry for the crappy quality this is a recent ish pic of my hair buzzed down to like a 1 or so, top a little LONGER even though it appears shorter due to the diffusion. That looks to me like i will lose all the hair on top, but that only puts me at a Norwood 5, right? THe impression i get is that if you are a Norwood 6 or 7 you might as well not try, so I am really hanging on to NOrwood 5 status. I also have a pic of the back of my head and temples shaved.

 

[shookwun]

it rely comes down to finances, and how well you respond to medication. Afterwards we can take in consideration donor availability, and norwood status.

 

[hanginginthewire]

it rely comes down to finances, and how well you respond to medication. Afterwards we can take in consideration donor availability, and norwood status.

Because of the diffusion I find it difficult to asses how well I'm responding to finasteride (since Aug. 2016). I can still pull hair out easily from my temples, and behind the temples as well.

But your formulation seems upside down to me. Don't most respond pretty well to the medication? And we've got multi millionaires with plenty of money who are bald. Like I say, I'm willing to pay I just don't have the confidence that I'm an appropriate candidate with donor and norwood status. The frustration of this is pretty intolerable. Money doesn't buy happiness.