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I've been looking at this site for a while and finally decided to sign up. So hello! I guess I'll skip straight to the strange part for those that don't want to read the rest of my story. Currently my hairline has receded pretty far at the top corners where my hairline used to meet. Strangely the hair that has receded is mostly still there, but it's very short and thin. Like peach fuzz where all my hair used to be.
My more detailed story:
I was very overweight in my early 20s. I wanted to be happy with how I look, so I started dieting an exersizing. I also found out I have a mild dairy allergy, so my diet changed greatly in this time. Fast foreword to 25 and that is around the time I had mild recession at the temples, but it was so slow I didn't notice it for years. At 26 I realized my hairline was bad at the temples, but the receded areas were so smooth I still didn't realize it was actually receding. Around the last year and a half (26-28 years old) is when everything went down.
I had finally hit my goal of losing 55lb, all while gaining muscle, and greatly improving my look. I went from nearly obese to having abs. But my satisfaction was robbed from me, because I realized that my hairline had receded far enough to make me ashamed. Instead of being proud of my accomplishment I developed debilitating Body Dysmorphia, no longer able to work or go in public.
Last summer I started to look for solutions. Hairloss was so strange to me because no one on my dads side has ever experienced hairloss. Only my mothers father has the horseshoe, but even his dad had full hairline into his 70s (he was so lucky). After a blood test I found I was deficient in vitamin D. I started taking suplements and fine hairs grew where my hairline used to be. I was so excited at first, but it never progressed further. That was about 4 or 5 months ago. Shortly after my hair started shedding like mad. Not just from the top, from all sides, and my hair changed texture. About a month ago I found out that retinol can cause hairloss exactly like mine. I was using retinol creams twice a day as well as taking a vitamin A supplement. I had hoped that stoping vitamin A and retinol would help. For a while it did. The tiny hairs on my right temple started to thicken up, but the I got carried away. I tried a prescription shampoo and rogain. Then it shed back to match my left temple (which sucks cause my right temple hadn't recessed as far up to that point), so I stopped rogain and the shampoo.
As of now it's so weird; the tiny hairs form almost a second hairline, and it's LOWER then where my original hairline was when I was a teen. I've always had a big forehead, but if all these little hairs grew, my forehead would look normal. They seem to be getting longer very very slowly, but in the meantime, other hair is miniaturizing normally and my real hairline continues to get worse. So confusing. It's like the thin hair hairline is there to taunt me, and show me what could have been.
Sorry if that was long. I'd be so thankful if anyone would be willing to read and comments.
My more detailed story:
I was very overweight in my early 20s. I wanted to be happy with how I look, so I started dieting an exersizing. I also found out I have a mild dairy allergy, so my diet changed greatly in this time. Fast foreword to 25 and that is around the time I had mild recession at the temples, but it was so slow I didn't notice it for years. At 26 I realized my hairline was bad at the temples, but the receded areas were so smooth I still didn't realize it was actually receding. Around the last year and a half (26-28 years old) is when everything went down.
I had finally hit my goal of losing 55lb, all while gaining muscle, and greatly improving my look. I went from nearly obese to having abs. But my satisfaction was robbed from me, because I realized that my hairline had receded far enough to make me ashamed. Instead of being proud of my accomplishment I developed debilitating Body Dysmorphia, no longer able to work or go in public.
Last summer I started to look for solutions. Hairloss was so strange to me because no one on my dads side has ever experienced hairloss. Only my mothers father has the horseshoe, but even his dad had full hairline into his 70s (he was so lucky). After a blood test I found I was deficient in vitamin D. I started taking suplements and fine hairs grew where my hairline used to be. I was so excited at first, but it never progressed further. That was about 4 or 5 months ago. Shortly after my hair started shedding like mad. Not just from the top, from all sides, and my hair changed texture. About a month ago I found out that retinol can cause hairloss exactly like mine. I was using retinol creams twice a day as well as taking a vitamin A supplement. I had hoped that stoping vitamin A and retinol would help. For a while it did. The tiny hairs on my right temple started to thicken up, but the I got carried away. I tried a prescription shampoo and rogain. Then it shed back to match my left temple (which sucks cause my right temple hadn't recessed as far up to that point), so I stopped rogain and the shampoo.
As of now it's so weird; the tiny hairs form almost a second hairline, and it's LOWER then where my original hairline was when I was a teen. I've always had a big forehead, but if all these little hairs grew, my forehead would look normal. They seem to be getting longer very very slowly, but in the meantime, other hair is miniaturizing normally and my real hairline continues to get worse. So confusing. It's like the thin hair hairline is there to taunt me, and show me what could have been.
Sorry if that was long. I'd be so thankful if anyone would be willing to read and comments.
