If you don't mind me asking, what makes you think that, as well as what may be happening?
I appreciate the input. Scheduling an appointment tomorrow. Thank you both for your responses, this gave me peace of mind.
Just got back from the dermatologist and he said he believes it’s male pattern baldness based off his inspection and the fact that he wasn’t seeing excessive amounts of hair coming out. Thoughts on this?
Well if a derm saw you in person and said you have male pattern baldness, i would believe him.
I would be willing to bet a small wager it's not Telogen Effluvium. Stop telling people it might be that, or is that. It's so rare that that's it's hardly mentionable. He's balding, and will have an egg like head if he doesn't get on finasteride.
Thats why i told him to go to a dermatologists to be sure.
I may be being too optimistic but the only reason I feel like it may not be male pattern baldness is because it happened to quickly and he didn’t test my blood or anything. All he did was quickly inspect my scalp and his educated guess was it’s male pattern baldness.
I agree but I wouldn't wait, I'd be at a specialist in the next week or two. It appears to be female unpatternd diffused hairloss.
This is exactly why I want a second opinion. I’ve heard about 5 different things it could be and I want to get to correct treatment to stop it. I’m going to my doctor over spring break as this was the soonest I could get it and in the meantime I’ll be using biotin and a anti-thinning shampoo
If your doctor did not use a densitometer then you wasted your time. The best way to measure loss is with a densitometer. Your pattern does look rather suspicious and I would learn towards a diffuse pattern loss. If I were getting an opinion from a doctor, I would make sure my doctor has devices to measure my loss and progress. Just looking at someone's hair is not really quantifying the situation.
I heard finasteride and dutasteride can cause more hair loss because it increases your testosterone?
If is doesn't finasteride or dutasteride make it worse because it raises your testosterone?
The testosterone increases only at the beginning, then the excess is converted to Estrogens
