Slow balding... then sudden. Is this normal?

[Swimswiy]

My hair loss was very strange. I started balding at about 20 and I'm 30 now. For the first 9 years of my balding my hairline simply receded until i was a norwood 3. I kept the same hairline from about 25-29. I knew it would thin on top eventually but in the past year the hair on the top of my head has pretty much gone to hell. Within a year the hair on the front of my head went from total coverage where my hairline still existed to small thin nearly blonde hairs that almost completely show my scalp. Its rather frustrating because it came out of nowhere with a vengeance. If I knew it would happen so fast I would have started my hair loss regiment much sooner. I have noticed that all the hair I'm losing is very light and short and thin and the "bulb" on the ends are barely visible anymore.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is it even normal? why would my hair loss be so slow and gradual then all of a sudden speed up by like 10x? I'm wondering if the concealer may have hurt my follicles in some way?

I started the big 3 recently. Is it more likely than not for it to grow these small thin blonde hairs back to what they were a year ago? Will it likely give me large healthy follicles again?

 

[GoldenMane]

That's kind of how hay fever works. You can tolerate pollen for a long time then once a certain threshold is reached you suddenly start getting hay fever. Seems like DHT works in a similar way, but symptoms manifest earlier, then at a certain point everything goes to ****. Quite normal. You'll probably restore the small, fine hairs to terminal hairs, yeah.

 

[Swimswiy]

Its honestly quite depressing and shocking. You are ok with your looks and then almost overnight your hair is just gone. It literally felt like a night and day difference within a couple months, almost to the point where I thought there may be something wrong with my head.

I don't need a low hairline again, butI feel like I went from a norwood 3 to a 4 overnight. Luckily toppik fills everything in pretty well. My only real hope is that the regiment will thicken my hair, not even asking for regrowth.