Yo. This is a doozy of a post/story of mine. I am currently 22, though turning 23 in a few days.
So here's the issue. Back in the beginning of 2014, I started to trim my hair full time, once every 1-2 weeks. I just did it with the same razor, sometimes got a new one if it broke down, and I never used the specific oil to clean it (yes, not once!) like the info page would tell you to do so. At the time, I had an attraction alopecia problem that was outside of general hair loss, and I went to a hair transplant specialist at September of 2014 to see what the plan was. Outside of the general stuff, the Doctor told me I had general male pattern baldness. "Okay, I thought to myself. My dad had hair loss, and so will I". I never went with the transplant due to money issues. In October of 2014, I started using Selsun Blue shampoo (the one that has the itchy, dry skin, label on it), and I would pretty much use it every 2 days.
Fast forward to all of that in February of 2016, I finally saw another hair transplant, and he said the same thing. I am like, "okay"...
A few weeks later, I finally decided to try to just let my hair grow, and boy, did I see what they were saying. I do have some kind of hair loss going on, but I didn't think it was general hair loss. It had a strange random shape to it. A random bald spot there and there but nothing big. I changed the shampoo that I was using, and let the hair breath. However, and... I mean, however....
All of a sudden, the issues on what the title of this thread is saying started to occur. I have no clue on why it started to appear after just changing my regiment up, but it makes no sense. I have a healthy scalp/hair. I workout and exercise all the time. I eat healthy, for the most part with the occasional bad thing every now and then. Yet, I am getting these issues that are annoying the living crap out of me. This morning, I have a new "bald thinning area happening" and its the exact same spot where the itchy occured. So since then, I tried my best to find the answer for it, and I learned a few things. Hopefully, you guys can help.
First, the razor that I used, since it wasn't super clean, I would consistently get acne/folliculitus from it. I figured that it goes away on its own, but I looked it up and learned that its perhaps possible for some hair loss issues. Since I finally saw it, I went to a walk-in-clinic and the doctor there prescribed Tetracycline. I was prescribed to use it for 3 months but used it for only 2-3 weeks due to couple sleep issues occurring. Not to mention, the pessimist in me kept thinking it wasn't really the problem. My family doctor would tell me that I should only have folliculitus for only two weeks.
Second, I went to the same hair transplant specialist and he told me that he thinks that it has to do with the nerves being damaged. After being in a regiment for so long, especially one like trimming hair, using selsun blue (which contains high amounts of selenium and aka hair loss side effects), and dealing with consistent acne/folliculitus, it's gonna take some time for the nerves to repair. However, it's been 4-5 weeks and I am starting to get worried.
Third, my family doctor recommended me coconut oil and a loreal for men shampoo. The coconut oil didn't really work too much, found some weird looking dandruff substance when doing it. It looked like dandruff or lice or seborrheic dermatitis but again, not sure. Loreal for men shampoo (
http://www.lorealparis.ca/men/men-ex...1-shampoo.aspx), the one for thinning but it doesn't seem to be working as well as I would like it to. Though, I've only been using it for a week so far. I tried
A part of me doesn't want to listen to the family doctor anymore since he was the one that recommended me to use Selsun Blue shampoo every other day, and I feel like, ironically (one that had the itchy label on it), is what started all of this.
Also last week, I started using Head and Shoulders Itchy Scalp and each time I used it, I would notice little bits of hair falling out. I sometimes wonder if that is the actual follicle falling out.
