Lost like 30% of my top hair in 4 months. [pics]

[EricGerard]

Hey guys. The title pretty well says it all... Im a 24 year old guy and I've been on 1.25mg/day finasteride for over 9 months, started because I noticed some slight temple recession. Things were great for the first 5 months or so.. my hair seemed to be maintaining. From then on things seemed to go downhill FAST. My temples have remained stable and in fact they look like they are regrowing a bit. However I seem to have lost a huge chunk of my hair density on the top of my head, from the middle towards the front in a diffuse kind of way. What the hell? There is absolutely no history of diffuse loss in my family.. we get the typical hairline recession and bald patch in the back of the head that slowly grows. My crown is totally normal. I don't lose hundreds of hairs in the shower a day.. but when I wash my hair every second day I'll get maybe 30-40 hairs. Many of them are small and miniaturized but not all of them. I only started losing my hair maybe 2 years ago and at this point I feel like I have less hair than my brother who started losing his hair like 7 years ago. He been on propecia for the past 4 years too with great results.

Pics..

Here I am in November with nice, thick hair.

And here is me tonight, after applying minxidil.

I started minoxidil and nizoral a month ago to try and combat this. I dunno what to do.. this is ruining me. Could this be some kind of continual shed from the finasteride? Should I get on dutasteride?

 

[Notcoolanymore]

I would say just keep with your current regimen at least until the year and a half mark. Adding something new like dutasteride might actually start another shed.

 

[EricGerard]

Thanks! You're always the first to respond to my posts. Much appreciated my friend.

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I just did the following test to measure hair density/square cm:

I parted my hair on the top of my head which is thinning, placed a ruler along the part and counted how many strands of hair there were in 1 linear cm. I counted about 14. I can assume that there would be around 14 in the other direction as well... so 14 squared is 196 hairs in 1 square cm of my scalp. The average number of hairs/square cm on a non-balding head is 200/square cm. So basically.. I have all my hairs, it just appears that the roots are miniaturized or something. I notice that the longer hairs I shed in the shower tend to be thinner and less pigmented starting usually no more than a cm or 2 from the root. The rest of the strand appears decently dark and thick. Does miniaturization really happen THAT fast? 1 or 2 cm of thinning/depigmentation on a hair strand corresponds to about 1 or 2 months. Can a hair really succumb to miniaturization in a few months?