Poll: Does Your Scalp Itch Or Not?

[opti]

Well i only get hair loss when my scalp itches. In weeks without itching my hair loss is zero. However propecia increased my itching and my hair loss was worse. Minoxidil on the other side made my scalp itch to but due to its effectiveness i gained some hair and thickness. Normally i get also an itching scalp every morning when i'm not washing my hairs 1-3 hours after i wake up, pretty strange.
Wondering how hair can fall out so fast, sometimes i have a good scalp feeling and i can go trough my hair and have no hair in my hand. Some hours or 1 day later with itching scalp i have a lot in my hand...

 

[michel sapin]

how often do you wash your hair opti?

 

[michel sapin]

for me there are 3 kinds of itches :
-dht itch triggers by oily scalp ; lead to thinning an shedding with clogged follicle.
-minoxidil itch: not a bad thing
-dryness itch: cause by nizoral, or happends during accutane course : lead to red scalp and diffuse thinning

 

[Clearingout]

Yeah mine seems to come on after lunch, and can last until night when it dies off again. But the itch I know is bad news. The shedding comes on pretty quick with the itch. The crawling feeling I'm not sure. But I wash my hair everyday.

 

[opti]

how often do you wash your hair opti?

Well normally 2x a day , in the morning in order to make my hair and since i m nearly every day in the gym a second time after that..

 

[inmyhead]

I've used to have itchy scalp but then i washed my hair less and no more itch. Btw only male pattern baldness areas were itching

 

[Armando Jose]

Btw only male pattern baldness areas were itching

This is my idea, that only male pattern baldness areas are prone to itching.....

......

 

[whatevr]

No and it never has.

 

[Grasshüpfer]

-edit-

 

[mr_robot]

Yes in the past and not anymore. I used to have itching, pulling sensation, massive flaking, pimples, pretty bad scalp allround. Switched to T-Gel Greasy (the P.O. baseed one) and it went away, I can't speak highly enough of this stuff, it has been nearly two years now without the kind of scalp problems I used to have. The only places I've had a problem since is where the shampoo has not reached, i.e. sometimes the nape but most of the time my sideburns.

 

[Fullhead1day]

I'm with you on the no shedding, and by that I mean it doesn't appear that I lose anymore than the typical 50-100 hairs per day or w/e it is. Maybe the hairs just aren't as visible because they're blonde. Although I would still see them come out when I scrub/itch my head, yet I never see more than 1 or 2. I DO however itch like a MF'er. And I'm clearly diffuse thinning. It's crazy how everyone is a little different...

My theory is that the more aggressive/rapid the male pattern baldness, the worse the itch. So hypothetically, let's say male pattern baldness only onsets in your 30's and is very gradual. I think the sensation or at least the mechanism behind it is still there, it's just faint enough to go unnoticed. Would you say your male pattern baldness is aggressive or gradual?

Nah. My loss is super aggressive. I have absolutely no itch.

 

[Sonicblu650]

Prior to finasteride (proscar) i had itching at temples and that also happened to be where i had miniaturization occuring. After few weeks to a month of finasteride the itching went away. So for me that was dht related w/out question. At the moment i have a bit of dandruff. The sides of my head itch a bit, but thats uncommon for me. I think its from the "Thickening" Shampoo i use and being a lil to gentle with my hair and scalp. I dont use a comb and i dont scrub my scalp very aggressively in the shower. Two things that can promote dandruff. So this recent itch should be an easy fix

 

[hairblues]

I dont know if this will help you guys or not.

I present physically as Androgenetic Alopecia I have this about 5-7 years
I had a very slow yet thinning on my crown..hair still looks cosmetically fine.
I had a biopsy
I have AA
I have an uncommon sub set of AA that has
1) no exclamation point hairs 2)miniaturization 3)progresses very slowly 4)looks like FPHL typical of Androgenetic Alopecia not AA

Im going to an alopecia areata specialist at Columbia this week to learn more before doing any treatment..

I 'might' have both.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/13261113_Diffuse_Alopecia_With_Stem_Cell_Folliculitis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3161231/

I am itching but i thought it was the Keto 2% i used all Summer.
I dont remember having itch before using this shampoo all Summer.

 

[Beowulf]

My hair loss started after an intense period of seb. dermatitis which lasted about two years. nizoral didn't help at all but Novasone did. It went away and my hair started to regrow, but three months later it looked like I had some thinning behind the hairline so I freaked out, got on finasteride and booked in with the dermatologist and the itching and flaking came back. In the end he gave me nizoral instead of Novasone, and I really don't want to see him again.

Anyway Novasone is a glucocorticosteroid, and I read somewhere that cortisol was bad for hairloss, but I'm honestly thinking of just going to the doctor to get some more.

 

[GoldenMane]

golden mane, how often do you wash your hair ? i noticed that ive got way more itch if i don't wash my hair for 3 days. i usually wash it eod . bur if i overwash my hair , i also get some itch . it is a balance to find
Since i started balding i have noticed that my sebum became "bad" for my scalp ecause of dht inflammatory reaction . before puberty, sometimes i dindnt wash my hair for one week , and i dindt get any itch .

I wash every morning. I could make go EOD but it would be pushing it. I alternate Alpecin, Aussie Miracle moist and nizoral.
None of them help with my psoriasis at the back/for area, but my top is dandruff free and itch free. Minoxidil flakes are a problem though.

 

[pegasus2]

Mine only itches during periods when I'm shedding, so I voted yes. When my hair is stable, it does not itch. When it starts itching and tingling, I know I'm about to see an increase in shedding.

 

[Thespain]

No itch, just burning on my crown/vertex or whatever you want to call it, accompanied by loss of density and weird strips of "bald spots", if you would call it that, as they are more like vertical and horizontal strips that form a T, somehow.

 

[Beowulf]

No itch, just burning on my crown/vertex or whatever you want to call it, accompanied by loss of density and weird strips of "bald spots", if you would call it that, as they are more like vertical and horizontal strips that form a T, somehow.

You might have ring worm...

Google cradle cap/ see a doctor.

 

[abcdefg]

Yes I have that itch all the time and its only mainly where im losing hair. Had it forever and one thing is for sure nothing really fixes it. If I use certain shampoos it might go away for that day, but then the next day its back. When I was younger I tried topical steroids from derms, every dandruff shampoo in existence none of them helped.
Honestly whether is was placebo or not I tried saw palmetto because I heard it was like finasteride but I had a tough time getting finasteride plus scared to try that. Saw palmetto made my itch completely vanish. My head was like numb but I had finasteride like sides and it lasted for maybe 5 or 6 months until I decided it wasnt worth it because I wasnt sure it was helping my hair anyway. Nothing else has ever helped and I tried SP again later and it didnt do anything the times I used it after that.
If I try anything else its going to be finasteride at least then I know it helps with my hair. In my case the itch seb derm type stuff is related to hair loss. I really realized that after seeing these forums and how common it is among male pattern baldness. My hair loss is very slow though im maybe Norwood 2 now at 34

 

[Thespain]

You might have ring worm...

Google cradle cap/ see a doctor.

That's certainly a possibility, especially considering one of the lines extends well below hair that would be saved in a NW6 or NW7 pattern. It basically stops one or two cm above my neckline.