Is there something wrong with me?

M.G

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Some weeks ago I made a thread in the Tell Your Story-section. Long story cut short - I started losing my hair at the age of 11, I'm 21 today and hairloss have progressed alot. Here's a pic of when I was 13:
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Losing hair at 11, before puberty, seems pretty extreme. I was adviced in this thread to do a thyroid-test http://www.hairlosstalk.com/interac...ing-since-11-considering-finasteride-My-story

I just got my results back and according to my doctor they all came out normal:
T3: 5.2
TSH: 1.7
T4: 18
Two years before this I had regular blood tests which also came out normal.

Now I'm NOT trying to convince myself that my hairloss is not male pattern baldness, since my pattern is classic diffuse in NW6-pattern and some retrograde alopecia. But I'm just trying to eliminate all other possible scenarios that could be the cause, since I've been on the big 3 for 16 days now and my hairloss haven't decreased. I'm starting to wonder if it is male pattern baldness, then that it may be so aggressive that not even finasteride would work in it (considering the age I started losing), and that dutasteride may be the only hope?

Is there some tests I should be adviced to do?
 

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I would look into other causes of balding, male pattern balding at 11 is pretty extreme as you say. My psycotherapist said there can potentially be many different mental reasons which can affect physical health, acute depression and anxiety possibly. But yeah I would find out about hair loss, or it is possible you are just rather unlucky it's hard to say
 

M.G

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I would look into other causes of balding, male pattern balding at 11 is pretty extreme as you say. My psycotherapist said there can potentially be many different mental reasons which can affect physical health, acute depression and anxiety possibly. But yeah I would find out about hair loss, or it is possible you are just rather unlucky it's hard to say

Yeah, I wrote in the other thread that at the time I was suffering from OCD and my parents had a troublesome divorce, which caused me big anxiety. I've read that stress and such may trigger the male pattern baldness-gene earlier, but I have no idea if that's scientifically proven that it can happen, or if it's just broscience. I mean purely physically, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with me. I'm fit and healthy and the bloodtests shows that too.
 
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