Rapid Recession -- Perfect Hairline To Balding In Months

[JUSTking]

I'm kind of freaking out right now. My family on both sides has kept their hair well as they've aged, and i've always had a lotttt of hair density -- i wasnt at all worried about balding until about 3-4 months ago when I started noticing **changes**

PLEASE take a look at these photos and advise on a course of action. i...dont like how this is looking...it seems like obvious recession, but given that i'd never had a 'mature hairline' some part of me hopes that is what is happening. ...i....i thought i had more time bros.

Please confirm: am i balding - how can you be sure - could this be a 'maturing hairline?'does the fact i don't have any shedding hairs make any odds (if i shower or shake my hair, nothing comes out) do i have noticable minuterization ?

Apologies if this seems dumb -- i'm just wanting to be as sure of possible of the state of things before I try to do anything.

stats:

27 years old
grandfather mothers side hair till death, father decent hair at 60, grandfather fathers side decent hair onto 60.
didn't notice this change AT ALL until recently.
seem to have 'the' baldness gene listed on 23andme, but stil overall rated as 83 percent likely not to be balding

 

[Jimm]

Dude, I'm not trying to freak you out or anything--and I'm sure someone will answer your question--but you do know your hairline is receding, right? Anyways, I hope you're doing good. Nice walls btw

 

[Jimm]

Sorry for being a c*** back there dude, that was totally my bad. Anyhow, looks like you're on your way. And I wouldn't be surprised by the sudden progress as far as the loss goes: I've known I was losing my hair since 16--I'm 23--and literally 75% of my loss has occurred since November--it's been absolutely insane. I'm a bit worse off than yourself.

April 14th there's a conference regarding a new treatment that's been much anticipated, so keep an eye out for that. You can try minoxidil now if you want to be proactive. I would suggest deferring the use of finasteride until after the conference in April. There's been talk of the Italian lotion being released sometime during the summer, but no one really knows for now. You still have a lot of hair, and it doesn't look bad at all, so I'd just hold off and see what happens on the 14th. We're all hoping for the best.

 

[DiffThinner35]

You still have good hair and if you want to preserve what you have, start taking finasteride (propecia).

 

[JUSTking]

seems like you were always receding, judging by the corners of your frontal hairline.

these selfies (maybe not super clear) are from november 2016! But i have other (more grainy sadly) pics from November 2017 which show it in a similar situation! the recession, at least the 'visable' recession on the temples vs thinning, has ALL been in the past few months!

 

[Georgie]

I’m sorry honey but yes you are balding. Finasteride, minoxidil and ketoconazole.
Good luck xx

 

[Obesecat]

Mature hairlines are like Santa Claus. You can believe in them but they don’t exist

 

[Xyz23]

mature hairline is a polite way to say ur balding

 

[biddybomb]

hairloss is very unpredictable. Noone can tell you one way or another (with seemingly mild temple recession that is). All we have is opinions. My opinion is, that at your current state, you have a very good hairline. But it is also my opinion, that your hair is showing the characteristic recession where your hair recedes back in sharp triangles at the temples leaving a square bit of hairline at the front. Jim Carrey has this kind of recession and it looks perfectly fine, he has a great head of hair for his age. Welcome to hair loss my friend, noone can tell you where you will end up. All you can do is define your own lines of what is acceptable or not and this is partly why hairloss is such a b**ch. You could end up like Jim Carrey with virtually no appreciable loss (for his age) or you could end up like Bruce Willis. The only hint as to what your destiny will be is your family history.

The reality is over 4/7 men have the male pattern baldness gene so don't freak out, the vast majority of us will lose hair over our lives. Try to understand it and your pattern and try to negotiate within yourself what you will find acceptable because at this point I believe all you can do is play the waiting game, as right now, your hairline is good enough that I would not take meds for it because there is every possibility it will stay like that for a long time if not forever.

 

[hollow11]

Yall just a bunch of retards. The guy is 27 and barely NW2 and you're scaring him as if he's NW7 and even transplants wont save him.
@op i would consider finasteride but you're in no way in a bad situation right now. Go talk to a dermatologist and ask for a prescription, just so you're safe from receding further.

 

[JUSTking]

Mature hairlines are like Santa Claus. You can believe in them but they don’t exist

its pretty obvious that most men don't have the hairline they have at 17 their whole lives - without going bald in any
obviously aesthetically bad way. if you lose hair you can say that's technically balding, but it isnt really what people mean when they refer to BALDING ya know i..e. you will lose a lot of hair and look like sh*t during your non senior lifespan

 

[JUSTking]

thanks a lot --- i was really freaking out about this.

do you know if there's any particular way that is most cheap to get finasteride? Not in a super good money situation rn!

 

[hollow11]

thanks a lot --- i was really freaking out about this.

do you know if there's any particular way that is most cheap to get finasteride? Not in a super good money situation rn!

Yeah, there's generic versions which are the same as the brand name. Proscar for example contains the same active ingredient as Propecia. All depending on where you live, there's different variations. Your dermatologist will tell you more about it, probably.

 

[JUSTking]

hairloss is very unpredictable. Noone can tell you one way or another (with seemingly mild temple recession that is). All we have is opinions. My opinion is, that at your current state, you have a very good hairline. But it is also my opinion, that your hair is showing the characteristic recession where your hair recedes back in sharp triangles at the temples leaving a square bit of hairline at the front. Jim Carrey has this kind of recession and it looks perfectly fine, he has a great head of hair for his age. Welcome to hair loss my friend, noone can tell you where you will end up. All you can do is define your own lines of what is acceptable or not and this is partly why hairloss is such a b**ch. You could end up like Jim Carrey with virtually no appreciable loss (for his age) or you could end up like Bruce Willis. The only hint as to what your destiny will be is your family history.

The reality is over 4/7 men have the male pattern baldness gene so don't freak out, the vast majority of us will lose hair over our lives. Try to understand it and your pattern and try to negotiate within yourself what you will find acceptable because at this point I believe all you can do is play the waiting game, as right now, your hairline is good enough that I would not take meds for it because there is every possibility it will stay like that for a long time if not forever.

wonderful post - thanks a lot.

I must ask - is there any particular reason why I should avoid meds? the difficulty is that while nobody in my family is bald, this change in the temples is quite severe and has happened after only a few months! If there's no real concern, i'd probably prefer taking a tablet every day just to be safe?

 

[Obesecat]

hairloss is very unpredictable. Noone can tell you one way or another (with seemingly mild temple recession that is). All we have is opinions. My opinion is, that at your current state, you have a very good hairline. But it is also my opinion, that your hair is showing the characteristic recession where your hair recedes back in sharp triangles at the temples leaving a square bit of hairline at the front. Jim Carrey has this kind of recession and it looks perfectly fine, he has a great head of hair for his age. Welcome to hair loss my friend, noone can tell you where you will end up. All you can do is define your own lines of what is acceptable or not and this is partly why hairloss is such a b**ch. You could end up like Jim Carrey with virtually no appreciable loss (for his age) or you could end up like Bruce Willis. The only hint as to what your destiny will be is your family history.

The reality is over 4/7 men have the male pattern baldness gene so don't freak out, the vast majority of us will lose hair over our lives. Try to understand it and your pattern and try to negotiate within yourself what you will find acceptable because at this point I believe all you can do is play the waiting game, as right now, your hairline is good enough that I would not take meds for it because there is every possibility it will stay like that for a long time if not forever.

its pretty obvious that most men don't have the hairline they have at 17 their whole lives - without going bald in any
obviously aesthetically bad way. if you lose hair you can say that's technically balding, but it isnt really what people mean when they refer to BALDING ya know i..e. you will lose a lot of hair and look like sh*t during your non senior lifespan

“Mature hairlines” are just a polite way of saying slight male pattern baldness. They are caused by the same process as regular male pattern baldness- dht sensitivity. In addition having a “mature hairline” It’s a sign you are not immune to the baldness gene and will go bald sometime in the future.

There is a lot of confusion especially with younger guys. People on this site + hair transplant doctors throw around the term as if it were a separate process than regular male pattern baldness, which sadly it is not. This can be confusing and cause people not to seek preventative treatments when they should.

Personally, I think hair transplant doctors Push the term as an excuse not to transplant the temple area since it is a difficult area to work on. You will see on a lot of hair transplant websites “ we will only restore mature/age appropriate” hairlines. Which sounds better than “ we will only restore you to a hairline with slight male pattern baldness”.

Honestly your argument about most men not having the same hairline as they did at 17 doesn’t make much sense because most men go bald. “Mature hairlines “ is just the start of the balding process. I would take it as a warning to seek treatment

 

[JUSTking]

“Mature hairlines” are just a polite way of saying slight male pattern baldness. They are caused by the same process as regular male pattern baldness- dht sensitivity. In addition having a “mature hairline” It’s a sign you are not immune to the baldness gene and will go bald sometime in the future.

There is a lot of confusion especially with younger guys. People on this site + hair transplant doctors throw around the term as if it were a separate process than regular male pattern baldness, which sadly it is not. This can be confusing and cause people not to seek preventative treatments when they should.

Personally, I think hair transplant doctors Push the term as an excuse not to transplant the temple area since it is a difficult area to work on. You will see on a lot of hair transplant websites “ we will only restore mature/age appropriate” hairlines. Which sounds better than “ we will only restore you to a hairline with slight male pattern baldness”.

Honestly your argument about most men not having the same hairline as they did at 17 doesn’t make much sense because most men go bald. “Mature hairlines “ is just the start of the balding process. I would take it as a warning to seek treatment

the reasoning is that mild baldness aka 'mature hairline' is both very common and not *generally* seen to detract significantly from one's appearance. it's no doubt the same process as classic male pattern baldness but it seems useful to distingiush here because the impact (for most people) between NW2 and NW5 onwards is so night and day.

 

[JUSTking]

“Mature hairlines” are just a polite way of saying slight male pattern baldness. They are caused by the same process as regular male pattern baldness- dht sensitivity. In addition having a “mature hairline” It’s a sign you are not immune to the baldness gene and will go bald sometime in the future.

There is a lot of confusion especially with younger guys. People on this site + hair transplant doctors throw around the term as if it were a separate process than regular male pattern baldness, which sadly it is not. This can be confusing and cause people not to seek preventative treatments when they should.

Personally, I think hair transplant doctors Push the term as an excuse not to transplant the temple area since it is a difficult area to work on. You will see on a lot of hair transplant websites “ we will only restore mature/age appropriate” hairlines. Which sounds better than “ we will only restore you to a hairline with slight male pattern baldness”.

Honestly your argument about most men not having the same hairline as they did at 17 doesn’t make much sense because most men go bald. “Mature hairlines “ is just the start of the balding process. I would take it as a warning to seek treatment

the reasoning is that mild baldness aka 'mature hairline' is both very common and not *generally* seen to detract significantly from one's appearance. it's no doubt the same process as classic male pattern baldness but it seems useful to distingiush here because the impact (for most people) between NW2 and NW5 onwards is so night and day. you are completely correct that it can be used as a sort of denial technique, but i think it's definately a useful term, as it effectively distinguishes between 'will it stay 1-2cm up from my 17 year old hairline for a long time' or 'is this the start of being 'bald' in the eyes of people/women'

 

[Murkey Thumb]

Your 27 you have good hair don't worry about it. Monitor it for the next 2 years if it gets any worse jump on finasteride or RU but it looks average for your age.

 

[Obesecat]

the reasoning is that mild baldness aka 'mature hairline' is both very common and not *generally* seen to detract significantly from one's appearance. it's no doubt the same process as classic male pattern baldness but it seems useful to distingiush here because the impact (for most people) between NW2 and NW5 onwards is so night and day. you are completely correct that it can be used as a sort of denial technique, but i think it's definately a useful term, as it effectively distinguishes between 'will it stay 1-2cm up from my 17 year old hairline for a long time' or 'is this the start of being 'bald' in the eyes of people/women'

Ok to answer your question then. I doubt any non balding person would notice your hairline. However I believe it is the start of male pattern baldness. So I would seek treatment to prevent future loss.

 

[DHTcel]

this guy is a chad holy crap, @OP go out there and start slaying, u have white skin and a good face. Just shave it bro, run Jason Statham game. Its us uglies that have to worry about balding cause we will look like freaks