Other physiological changes around onset of hair loss?

[marker20]

Hi all, I noticed that when I first started experiencing significant thinning (about a year and a half ago, at age 28), I also began to feel a number of other physiological changes. Most prominently, I began to feel tired/hungry more often (not exhausted, but I tend to want to sit more when used to stand so much that it'd annoy other people) and my earwax changed consistency. Well... some of it. I still have normal earwax, but in strange places (I think where a few beautiful strands of ear hair are growing... awesome) it's almost crystalline and somewhat painful to remove.

Not sure what to make of all this. Perhaps they're general symptoms of aging. But what other physiological correlates to male pattern baldness have people seen?

(P.S. on 1mg finasteride daily, but this stuff started happening earlier.)

 

[Cassin]

Sounds a bit like depression.

 

[marker20]

It does, and I almost put a note in my post to that effect. However, I'm fairly sure it's not depression because I don't feel particularly depressed or unhappy, don't have trouble waking up, no substantial weight loss/gain (gained about 10 pounds over the course of a year, but was lifting and was in Chicago, where everyone puts on weight... have since lost it), no loss of motivation, haven't isolated myself, etc. etc. I think it's perfectly feasible that at some point, one becomes less energetic than he/she was a few years earlier.

Plus, I'm fairly certain that ear hair and strange earwax is not a symptom of depression.

 

[Cassin]

All of these symptoms don't have to have one cause. Ear wax could be anything.