Norwood 2, 18

[LifeGoesOn]

Hey guys this is my first post on this forum I have been losing my hair since age 16 I am currently 18 years of age I think I am finnally start to get over it though. Yes hair loss is very dramatic to many males you feel you lose your sexual appeal towards women you think you look weried and so on, but I mean all you have to do is look at some of the male stars/athletes these days who are bald and still going big such as guys like Kelly Slater, Chris Daughtry, Jason Statham, freddie ljungberg, Vin Diesel, Tiki Barker, Michael Rosenbaum, Karl Wolfe and so many more. Instead of concentrating on my hairline I have really been concentrating on working out my body these past 2 years I mean if I cannot have any control over my hair atleast I can have a great body.

 

[RaginDemon]

good attitude, I hope treatment will at least maintain.

 

[cal]

If you don't have big hair loss in the family then you might, MIGHT, not lose as much as you think.


My dad was past a Norwood#2 by the time he was 18. He was maybe a Norwood#2.5 or so. And then the loss stopped for about 40 years. I'm not exaggerating, his hair looked exacty the same from age 18 until his late 50's.

My own hair also went to Norwood#2.5 in high school and then stopped. The loss had picked up again by my early 20s, but I was still only a thinned-out-front Norwood#3 even at age 28 when I started using meds. I might go Norwood#4-5A in total, but my sides are high and my crown has never been hit very hard.




I don't wanna give you false hope if you've got male pattern baldness all over the family or anything. (I certainly don't have much male pattern baldness in the family.) But I'm just saying that being a Norwood#2 at 18 is not guaranteed to mean a bald head within a decade.

You might get that impression surfing these 'net message boards that everyone either has no male pattern baldness at all, or goes shiny Norwood#6 by age 33. But this is not the case. There's a whole wide range of hair loss patterns & timelines.

 

[LifeGoesOn]

If you don't have big hair loss in the family then you might, MIGHT, not lose as much as you think.


My dad was past a Norwood#2 by the time he was 18. He was maybe a Norwood#2.5 or so. And then the loss stopped for about 40 years. I'm not exaggerating, his hair looked exacty the same from age 18 until his late 50's.

My own hair also went to Norwood#2.5 in high school and then stopped. The loss had picked up again by my early 20s, but I was still only a thinned-out-front Norwood#3 even at age 28 when I started using meds. I might go Norwood#4-5A in total, but my sides are high and my crown has never been hit very hard.




I don't wanna give you false hope if you've got male pattern baldness all over the family or anything. (I certainly don't have much male pattern baldness in the family.) But I'm just saying that being a Norwood#2 at 18 is not guaranteed to mean a bald head within a decade.

You might get that impression surfing these 'net message boards that everyone either has no male pattern baldness at all, or goes shiny Norwood#6 by age 33. But this is not the case. There's a whole wide range of hair loss patterns & timelines.

Yea my dad is 53 and he is only at Norwood 2.5 but on my mothers side of the family her brothers and her father all bald. I mean I really noticed it when I was 16 it wasn't really anything but you know I was young and it really got me thinking why is this happening so that bothered me for a while. I wen't to my doctor asked him if he could give me a prescription of propecia he said he does not want to put me on propcia at such a young age still he said I shold use 5% minoxdil but I mean it says right on the back of the box to use it only for the vertex (back of the head) and not for a receding hairline. I have dandruff and I use Selson Blue and I was my hair about 6 times a week twice with the selson blue and the other four with VO5 shampoo.

 

[NeedHelp]

That very true you might not progress any further and u might. With these things there is no sure way of telling plus u might just be getting a mature hair line. start saw palmetto instead of propecia just in case.

 

[ghg]

LifeGoesOn, you're wrong. Life doesn't go on. When you go past NW3.784332249191911, you might aswell kill yourself. It's THAT bad.