Some Interesting Questions About Hair And male pattern baldness

[MJ_2019]

Hi all,

I am 23, male. As you may understand, Im panicking about this whole hair-loss-due-to-androgenic alopecia (male pattern baldness) situation. I have started using Minoxidil 5% recently (2 weeks) and have changed my diet etc to include all good stuff. I am also going to start on Finasteride 1mg.

However, apart from the normal questions, I have some interesting ones and would like to know:

1. People speak of a "shed" phase after Minoxidil. Does this mean only shedding of mostly thin hairs (I understand that some thick hairs may also fall ....) ?
   The way I understand the effect of Minoxidil, shouldn't this be the logical conclusion ?
   
   
2. Has anyone considered purchasing a Trichoscope/Folliscope ? The magnification device that most Trichologists use nowadays to examine your scalp. I think this would be a game changer in the long run
   since visually checking hair growth doesn't sound that good to me, and has led to a lot of delay in diagnosis of my condition.
   

 

[Shay-dvash]

If you take picture and look on the roots

And when the hair gone from places he ones was

Than you know.for 100% thT you lost.that hair

 

[Shay-dvash]

Ive examine.my hair and saw how single graft of hair disspear and than found some random hair on area that once was full