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Im currently experiencing hair loss for the first time Im 22 years old, student and my family history with baldness is none on my mothers side and my dad still has good hair for 60 no obvious bald spots but thinning and my Grandad eventually went bald in his 30 or 40s I think. At first I really couldnt tell if my hair was thinning cause I had such long hair at the time I said surely not, so I got it cut and it was still there on my hair line, I could see it thinning out. So I had a massive panic attack, as to what was causing this and I said please no, not to me and so fast, out of nowhere too.
I first saw the doctor and he said I had good hair and nothing to worry about but I just couldnt beleive him cause I knew my hair was different, so I later saw a specialist and they confirmed I was losing my hair.
So then I was really like no, I felt a bit depressed to be honest, I seem to be the only one in my family out of 18 cousins about half guys who is starting to go bald. I kept thinking to myself just surely not.
Anyway the specialist gave me some tools to help stop the thinning.
They gave me a Nioxin kit and CIT rollers to help. Later that day I thought it would be best to tell my parents, to find out what was happening. And they also said surely not as Dad confirmed he didnt start thinning until his early 30s and same with his father.
Anyway I carried on with the programm the specialist gave me. Daily washes, shampoo and conditioner, then CIT roller with different mm needles. I quickly found out that at the start the Nioxin was working I found no hair loss in the shower at all, no strains lost for the first 3 showers, however the aftereffects of shampooing daily caught up to me and I had no idea it could effect hair loss.
So now I had a dry scalp which ramped things up and I also had a very itchy head, I lost about 30 strains per day in the shower until I said this isnt right, the specialist must have this wrong.
At around this time I got a facetime from my mother who was over in Europe at the time and she was with none other than my twin brother I completely forget about him when this ordeal started and I didn't want to tell him because of the embarrassment but mum had told him, so as soon as he got talking he said hows the hair loss and I was like oh f*** mum. But I played it cool like it wasnt too bad and I asked him if he was losing any and well he said he wasnt. And to confirm the last recent pictures hes sent me hes had perfect hair with no signs of thinning, normal like I used to have it.
Now this baffled me even more as arent twins (we are identical) meant to have the same genetic codes, like throughout puberty we grew together, everything was very similar. And now me going bald seems so unfair. I am now asking for help as to what could possibly causing my hair to thin.
In my current situation Im at University, in my last year, in a pretty sh*t flat, with some average people, my diet hasnt been amazing neither has my excerise (maybe three excersices per week). I seem like quite a healthy young male.
However in terms of University im one of those students who likes to leave things to the last minute and then heictically stress out and try fix it all up, ive done this over the last two years and Im wondering if this could be the case.
I also like to worry about a lot of things and being intertwined with University sometimes things just feel overwhelming.
What Im trying to say is please tell me the case I have at the moment is not hereditery and that it may have been caused by enviornmental factors or something.
*currently I have just my routine to shampooing every 3 days and CIT 0.5mm per week.
*my hair loss has predominetley been on my temples and I cant confirm if its happening on the crown,
Im currently experiencing hair loss for the first time Im 22 years old, student and my family history with baldness is none on my mothers side and my dad still has good hair for 60 no obvious bald spots but thinning and my Grandad eventually went bald in his 30 or 40s I think. At first I really couldnt tell if my hair was thinning cause I had such long hair at the time I said surely not, so I got it cut and it was still there on my hair line, I could see it thinning out. So I had a massive panic attack, as to what was causing this and I said please no, not to me and so fast, out of nowhere too.
I first saw the doctor and he said I had good hair and nothing to worry about but I just couldnt beleive him cause I knew my hair was different, so I later saw a specialist and they confirmed I was losing my hair.
So then I was really like no, I felt a bit depressed to be honest, I seem to be the only one in my family out of 18 cousins about half guys who is starting to go bald. I kept thinking to myself just surely not.
Anyway the specialist gave me some tools to help stop the thinning.
They gave me a Nioxin kit and CIT rollers to help. Later that day I thought it would be best to tell my parents, to find out what was happening. And they also said surely not as Dad confirmed he didnt start thinning until his early 30s and same with his father.
Anyway I carried on with the programm the specialist gave me. Daily washes, shampoo and conditioner, then CIT roller with different mm needles. I quickly found out that at the start the Nioxin was working I found no hair loss in the shower at all, no strains lost for the first 3 showers, however the aftereffects of shampooing daily caught up to me and I had no idea it could effect hair loss.
So now I had a dry scalp which ramped things up and I also had a very itchy head, I lost about 30 strains per day in the shower until I said this isnt right, the specialist must have this wrong.
At around this time I got a facetime from my mother who was over in Europe at the time and she was with none other than my twin brother I completely forget about him when this ordeal started and I didn't want to tell him because of the embarrassment but mum had told him, so as soon as he got talking he said hows the hair loss and I was like oh f*** mum. But I played it cool like it wasnt too bad and I asked him if he was losing any and well he said he wasnt. And to confirm the last recent pictures hes sent me hes had perfect hair with no signs of thinning, normal like I used to have it.
Now this baffled me even more as arent twins (we are identical) meant to have the same genetic codes, like throughout puberty we grew together, everything was very similar. And now me going bald seems so unfair. I am now asking for help as to what could possibly causing my hair to thin.
In my current situation Im at University, in my last year, in a pretty sh*t flat, with some average people, my diet hasnt been amazing neither has my excerise (maybe three excersices per week). I seem like quite a healthy young male.
However in terms of University im one of those students who likes to leave things to the last minute and then heictically stress out and try fix it all up, ive done this over the last two years and Im wondering if this could be the case.
I also like to worry about a lot of things and being intertwined with University sometimes things just feel overwhelming.
What Im trying to say is please tell me the case I have at the moment is not hereditery and that it may have been caused by enviornmental factors or something.
*currently I have just my routine to shampooing every 3 days and CIT 0.5mm per week.
*my hair loss has predominetley been on my temples and I cant confirm if its happening on the crown,
