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Yes your hairline is receding for sure.
Please Help I Am A Balding 14 Year Old
- Thread starter Timothy Q
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I really want to believe I’m not balding but there have been so many people that told me I am balding so I’m not sure what to believe anymore
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Dude, For about a year I read posts on hair loss forums, determined to figure it out myself. In that time I tried adjusting my diet, saw palmetto, various hair tonics, ketoconozole (which did nothing). I even ordered dutasteride without a prescription. In that year I lost another 1/2 inch of hairline. Finally ... I called around and found a dermatologist that had good reviews from men seeking help with their hair. He looks at my head for 30 seconds, then sits back and listens. I said, I've been doing a lot of reading, and what I think is this ... he listened, then responded, and said, no, what you have been reading is wrong. That's not how it works. You have androgenic alopecia. Your other hair conditions have no bearing on your hair loss. Forget about that other stuff you've been trying. Here's what my other patients are using to good effect. I'm prescribing it for you.
That's what you need. A professional to look at your actual head. Not pictures. Your head.
Don't wait - you have a long life in front of you. Might as well jump on matters now, and preserve what you can.
To hell with your parents. You won't give a sh*t what they think after you move out. Or about high school experiences. Those all fade away. Then you really start living. Dating women, making money, traveling the world. This is your life. Take control.
Cheers
That's what you need. A professional to look at your actual head. Not pictures. Your head.
Don't wait - you have a long life in front of you. Might as well jump on matters now, and preserve what you can.
To hell with your parents. You won't give a sh*t what they think after you move out. Or about high school experiences. Those all fade away. Then you really start living. Dating women, making money, traveling the world. This is your life. Take control.
Cheers
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No, the crown is fine.
Tests are not advisable in my opinion. If you have hair loss it might not be hereditary hair loss, but something pathological (a result of a health issue) which might not be something that the tests you were to get would be looking at.
There are so many different things that can cause hair loss that you can get blood tests for that you will never be able to convince a GP to authorise them all.
The best thing to do is to speak to your parents and consider visiting a good derm.
Maybe even better is a 'trichologist' which is like a derm but they specialise purely in scalp and hair pathology.
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You seriously think that the discrepancy that he has outlined there is 100% typical of healthy hair?
My way of thinking is, clearly the kid isn't some incredibly vain person who has a case of body dysmorphia, he looks like a totally regular young kid and if he has been drawn to something happening on his head it has probably happened for a reason (because there is something there).
The problem with this forum can be that a lot of people on here have nigh on no hair left and when they see someone with a norwood 0/1 hairline in the early throes of hair loss they harbour some kind of cognitive bias as they are comparing photos of new people with way more hair than them to their own situation and in that context everything seems just fine.
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He has the temple points of a Norwood 6 or 7 lol. How can anyone say this kid isn’t balding?
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They're just thin in some pictures but a norwood 0 or thereabouts shape is there.
Makes me think it is a health concern rather than some type of hereditary hair loss because at his age and the thinning in an area that is meant to be androgen-resistant suggests something other than traditional male pattern baldness.
Either way, a good derm is the place to go.
The more you bottle it up and put off speaking to your parents about it the more the anxiety about talking about it and the whole situation in general will build up inside you. Just speak to your parents and see what they say and be 100% honest about how the thought of it is making you feel - don't be ashamed!
It will feel like a weight off your shoulder and it could likely turn out that there is nothing wrong with your hair at all and it can be fixed by addressing a health concern that's causing any issues - because belive me they do. Stuff like autoimmune makes weird loss that is very atypical and if you have any thinning it could very likely be that.
Don't carry around the anxiety and worry of having to talk to people and being honest about the situation you think you might be in with your hair because then that is another worry you have (talking about it and being honest with other people) as well as worrying about any possible hair issues as well.
And, as everyone on here will tell you. The sooner you address the loss/ thinning the easier it is to reverse, although in your case if those pictures are accurate I think it might be a underlying health issue and in that case once you address that it should resolve.
But just get it off your chest.
I know it's hard but you're in the situation you're in now (apparently) and you're going to have to address it sooner or later, just depends how long you're going to try live with it and let it build when resolving it is the only way to make it stop and being honest and speaking to people about it and then seeing a professional about it is going to comparatively look like nothing in hindsight once you've done it.
Good luck!
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Timothy,
People are undecided concerning your case because it is impossible to say if you are balding or not on the only base of those photos since it doesn't show any evolution in time. You need to compare your hairline now to what it used to be few years ago to determine if your temples were always like that or not. Not everybody have the same hairline shape and you might just be born with this one. My impression is that your temple points are a bit receded but maybe it has always been the case and you did not notice it because kids usually don't pay attention to their appearance until they hit puberty. I would add that those velus hair do not look like miniaturized ones, which makes me think that it has nothing to do with androgenetic alopecia. And as you stressed it, even NW7 have hair left in front of their ears : which is another positive argument to say that this is not hair loss, or that the hairloss is not genetic and it will most likely not progress, meaning you are not balding.
However, your family seems to have a historic of agressive Androgenetic Alopecia so maybe you are going to bald, but i don't think it started yet. You should go see a dermatologist if that worries you, and take several opinions, because they are usually total garbage when it comes to hair. Taking any medication at your age would be retarded since they are very heavy compromises.
Take pictures every 6 months, and compare, if you have photos if you don't want to face your parents. But i want to point out that if your father jokes on you about this complex, he might have a vagina instead of a brain in his head as he was probably pissing hisself to death back then, when it hits him in his 20s. Which makes me think he is not going to do that, or just tell him it's not funny, cry or send him a plate in the nose, it usually brings people to a certain degree of realism. Or hate. Or death if you are that good at sending plates in people face.
Regards
People are undecided concerning your case because it is impossible to say if you are balding or not on the only base of those photos since it doesn't show any evolution in time. You need to compare your hairline now to what it used to be few years ago to determine if your temples were always like that or not. Not everybody have the same hairline shape and you might just be born with this one. My impression is that your temple points are a bit receded but maybe it has always been the case and you did not notice it because kids usually don't pay attention to their appearance until they hit puberty. I would add that those velus hair do not look like miniaturized ones, which makes me think that it has nothing to do with androgenetic alopecia. And as you stressed it, even NW7 have hair left in front of their ears : which is another positive argument to say that this is not hair loss, or that the hairloss is not genetic and it will most likely not progress, meaning you are not balding.
However, your family seems to have a historic of agressive Androgenetic Alopecia so maybe you are going to bald, but i don't think it started yet. You should go see a dermatologist if that worries you, and take several opinions, because they are usually total garbage when it comes to hair. Taking any medication at your age would be retarded since they are very heavy compromises.
Take pictures every 6 months, and compare, if you have photos if you don't want to face your parents. But i want to point out that if your father jokes on you about this complex, he might have a vagina instead of a brain in his head as he was probably pissing hisself to death back then, when it hits him in his 20s. Which makes me think he is not going to do that, or just tell him it's not funny, cry or send him a plate in the nose, it usually brings people to a certain degree of realism. Or hate. Or death if you are that good at sending plates in people face.
Regards
Dude .. do me a favour . Next time you’re out look at women who have their hair up . A lot of women have that hairline . We don’t all have these perfectly forward hairlines especially if you’re a more fair skinned Caucasian .
He has his little baby hairs in his temples still ... he isn’t balding . He just has a naturally sh*t hairline .
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The thinness that appears on the beginning of the temples which is totally discrepant from the density 5 cm back from it is not typical, mate.
I am not talking about the hairline. I'm talking about what is happening within it.
I think my hairline is NW0 if you count the weird small hairs (that i don’t understand cause i haven’t had a haircut in a real wrong time) but according to Me VS DiffuseThinning i have temple points of a norwood 6 or 7 while i still have a lot of my hair, can this happen with androgenic alopecia? I also want to say that i don’t care too much about how i look so if its just maturing I’m definitely ok with it it just feels like more. I haven’t been able to find any pictures of the 2-3 years without my hair covering what might or might not be bald spots. I do think health related hair loss could be possible because I’m no where near a healthy person with diet and excersice (underweight).
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It may just be his natural hairline. Like myself, some people have always had higher hairlines and a forehead that protrudes outwards, and sometimes that can get mistaken for a receding hairline.
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Bro you're balding. Get on minoxidil and nizoral. Hop on finasteride when you're 18.
What Norwood do you think?
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Normal to see skin at the sides. What I suggest is to keep on eye on it.
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You are norwood 0, but if you were to have some type of hair loss, who knows how long that will last for. Is it really worth waiting to find out?
You don't want to use minoxidil either unless you have to as it plays with blood pressure a little teeny bit so wait until you get an official diagnosis before considering using.
You don't want to use minoxidil either unless you have to as it plays with blood pressure a little teeny bit so wait until you get an official diagnosis before considering using.