Is your male pattern baldness pattern fixed for life?

[chewbaca]

As above anyone knows if male pattern baldness pattern is fixed for life?

Meaning if u are a diffuse sufferer or someone who had full fledged classic male pattern baldness..u will coninue to lose hair in the said pattern?

 

[global]

I feel yes although it remains to be seen just how far we can halt this process because the latest treatments like dutasteride just haven't been out long enough yet.

Also everyone may respond differently to a particular treatment.

 

[The Gardener]

AND, people lose their hair in different timing, and in different locations. Speaking for myself, waaaay back in high school I was losing my hair at such a rate as to make me think I'd be Phil Collins in six months, but this stopped, and my hairline held at a certain point for years.

Then, it started receeding again about five years later.

My point being that hairloss is not a continuous thing. You will lose hair to a certain point, then it will hold, then at some future point you will have another hairloss event. The timing and affected area pattern is different for each of us.

 

[chewbaca]

AND, people lose their hair in different timing, and in different locations. Speaking for myself, waaaay back in high school I was losing my hair at such a rate as to make me think I'd be Phil Collins in six months, but this stopped, and my hairline held at a certain point for years.

Then, it started receeding again about five years later.

My point being that hairloss is not a continuous thing. You will lose hair to a certain point, then it will hold, then at some future point you will have another hairloss event. The timing and affected area pattern is different for each of us.

When your hairloss stopped, were u on treatment?

 

[Dave001]

AND, people lose their hair in different timing, and in different locations. Speaking for myself, waaaay back in high school I was losing my hair at such a rate as to make me think I'd be Phil Collins in six months, but this stopped, and my hairline held at a certain point for years.

Then, it started receeding again about five years later.

My point being that hairloss is not a continuous thing. You will lose hair to a certain point, then it will hold, then at some future point you will have another hairloss event. The timing and affected area pattern is different for each of us.

That's very true, and also one (there are others, to be sure) of the reasons that I think anecdotal reports of hair loss treatments are especially weak. When someone announces that [insert product] has arrested the progression of his male pattern baldness after six months of use, I wonder exactly what it is he was expecting to happen after such duration in the absence treatment.

 

[The Gardener]

AND, people lose their hair in different timing, and in different locations. Speaking for myself, waaaay back in high school I was losing my hair at such a rate as to make me think I'd be Phil Collins in six months, but this stopped, and my hairline held at a certain point for years.

Then, it started receeding again about five years later.

My point being that hairloss is not a continuous thing. You will lose hair to a certain point, then it will hold, then at some future point you will have another hairloss event. The timing and affected area pattern is different for each of us.

When your hairloss stopped, were u on treatment?

No. It stopped and restarted a few times on its own in the years before I started to treat it.

 

[chewbaca]

AND, people lose their hair in different timing, and in different locations. Speaking for myself, waaaay back in high school I was losing my hair at such a rate as to make me think I'd be Phil Collins in six months, but this stopped, and my hairline held at a certain point for years.

Then, it started receeding again about five years later.

My point being that hairloss is not a continuous thing. You will lose hair to a certain point, then it will hold, then at some future point you will have another hairloss event. The timing and affected area pattern is different for each of us.

I guess this is very true and likely. This may explain why sometimes people on treatment get the illusion of their treatment not working?

 

[incubusor]

AND, people lose their hair in different timing, and in different locations. Speaking for myself, waaaay back in high school I was losing my hair at such a rate as to make me think I'd be Phil Collins in six months, but this stopped, and my hairline held at a certain point for years.

Then, it started receeding again about five years later.

My point being that hairloss is not a continuous thing. You will lose hair to a certain point, then it will hold, then at some future point you will have another hairloss event. The timing and affected area pattern is different for each of us.

Hm..

Lets assume both people have the same progression of hair loss.

Person A Noticed his hair thinned on top this year.
Person B Also noticed his hair thinned on top this year.

Person A gets on propecia ASAP. Person B doesn't do anything about it. Months down the road, person A starts shedding like crazy due to the Telogen Effluvium effect of propecia. Person A looks a lot worse on top than Person B at this point due to the excessive shedding. Person B's scalp coverage remained the same. By the 1 year mark Person A begins recovering the Telogen Effluvium hair loss due to propecia and both now look the same again? Or will Person A have improved upon his original thinning?

83% maintain their hair on propecia. Isn't that what the commercials say? Well maybe the 17% that didn't maintain their hair - had aggressive male pattern baldness. The 83% that maintained it had their male pattern baldness come to a halt (naturally). Years later when it starts back up again they think their bodies developed a resistance to propecia, when in fact it could just be their male pattern baldness starting again.

I'm not trying to discourage anyone from using propecia....just curious to know if anyone else feels this could be true?

 

[Guest]

Cheewbaca has a good point here. i've been asking the same question myself.. Anybode any comments on this??

:wink:

 

[Deaner]

Yep, and I'm sure the fact that the hair on the top of my head has thickened back to almost its original density is just part of the natural male pattern baldness progression as well. C'mon man, Propecia DOES work for some people.

 

[Chujgcha]

All you need are before & after pics to prove that at the one year mark propecia is effective at not only maintaining but also regrowing hair.

You know what they say...a picture is worth one thousand words, but I say a feeling is worth one million words. I would be tired and you would be jealous if I described what it feels like to run my hands through Matthew Mcconaughey's hairpiece. Yeah that's right I stole it from his trailer.

 

[Deaner]

You sir are hilarious.