===Very important pls read :what causes male pattern baldness after puberty?==

[chewbaca]

As testosterone (but not DHT) is responsible for sexual function after puberty, administration of PROPECIA is not theoretically expected to induce sexual dysfunction.

this above quote os from another thread which made me to ponder this question


my male pattern baldness(temple recede) started at 21 and chest/armpit hair started to devlelop at 21..sexual ruges were their peak before this period...by 21 then think i have finished puberty...before that i had scalp hair which grew at an extremely fast rate that i had to visit the barber often...i dont remember seeing a single hair in the shower during the time..but now it seems all the gone downhill......i was wondering why i didnt lose hair during my teens when others were losing it as young as 17 or 19....what is there during puberty which made my hair grow fast and hard..anyone can give an explaination?

is it just a mature hairline or is it just normal hair shedding?
OR
is it the dreaded male pattern baldness?

 

[chewbaca]

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[global]

It seems you are not sure if you have male pattern baldness or not, which means you probably dont because if you did you would almost certainly know. It is normal for the hairline to move back into a mature hairline when you get out of puberty.

Why dont you post some pics of your hairline so we can see and give you an opinion?

 

[Guest]

Well believe it or not, when you go through puberty your hair is under attack already from DHT. It was just later on that the effects become visible. male pattern baldness takes a while to kick in. The hair could be under attack for a few years until it gives up.

That's what I think anyway..

 

[chewbaca]

Well believe it or not, when you go through puberty your hair is under attack already from DHT. It was just later on that the effects become visible. male pattern baldness takes a while to kick in. The hair could be under attack for a few years until it gives up.

That's what I think anyway..

it seems not possible cause i had thick luxurious growth up till age 22...even when the temple recede started at 21, hair didnt fall out ,the .shedding happened only 1 year after temple recede...i am beginning to have doubts cause during my teens i didnt shed a single hair in the shower..maybe only 1 or 2 hairs at the most...is it cause all these hair refuse to shed b4 is shedding now?.....so am i just expereincing the normal shed cycle (not male pattern baldness) that kicked in so late as the body changes after puberty?
and somehow the temple recede is just a mature hairline?.........one more thing, the temples seem to have improved over time in the fact that they got smaller over time.....in other words "stabilization"....another crucial factor is that i enrolled into the army during the time i had temple recede...they gave me a GI cut for 3 months which could smehow had made my frontal hairline thinner than it was before..i never cut my hairline after finishing basic training 3 months later..and both these things combined to give a coincidence which made me to mistake it as male pattern baldness?

and some people claim that their supposed male pattern baldness seem to have stopeed after sometime...could it be this reason i stated above?.....so is it just a tempory male pattern baldness like symptoms or what?........i understand that women do go thru temporary symptoms due to changes in their body after pregnancy

 

[Guest]

Well believe it or not, when you go through puberty your hair is under attack already from DHT. It was just later on that the effects become visible. male pattern baldness takes a while to kick in. The hair could be under attack for a few years until it gives up.

That's what I think anyway..

it seems not possible cause i had thick luxurious growth up till age 22...even when the temple recede started at 21, hair didnt fall out ,the .shedding happened only 1 year after temple recede...i am beginning to have doubts cause during my teens i didnt shed a single hair in the shower..maybe only 1 or 2 hairs at the most...is it cause all these hair refuse to shed b4 is shedding now?.....so am i just expereincing the normal shed cycle (not male pattern baldness) that kicked in so late as the body changes after puberty?
and somehow the temple recede is just a mature hairline?......and both these things combined to give a coincidence which made me to mistake it as male pattern baldness?

Have you been to a derm to confirm otherwise?? I would do that, then at least you will know.

But what I am saying about DHT. It attacks the hair at puberty and continues to do so. My guess that it depends on how well the follicle defends the attack to when the affects are shown on the scalp.

But of course, you could be shedding at the moment. My girlfriends knows i'm shedding because she keeps finding hairs in the bath. This time around I'm not worried as I know it's a shed. Maybe you are in the same boat. Do you have any pics to post up?

 

[chewbaca]

can i send my pic to u by email cause i dont know where to host them.....

now my Q is why i was i losing only 1 to 2 hairs during my teens?
thought that normal humans without male pattern baldness shed more than that a day?

and why did m armpit and chest hair started to develop only at 21? and not at 14?

BTW Derms are not really trustable......i dont count my cake on it

and yes the derm diagnosed me as having male pattern baldness and i am on propecia for 3 months now

 

[Guest]

OK, go here.

http://www.imageshack.us/

Upload your picture and then just post a link in here..... easy peasy...

I didn't have chest hair at 14 either. maybe most kids didn't...

 

[chewbaca]

BTW i have a twin brother who ehibits a different pattern of hair loss...only temple and frontal recede and not vertex....whereas i have some vertex thinning and frontal + temple recede..

 

[Bismarck]

BTW i have a twin brother who ehibits a different pattern of hair loss...only temple and frontal recede and not vertex....whereas i have some vertex thinning and frontal + temple recede..

what kind of twin brother is it ?

 

[chewbaca]

Identical Twin

 

[Guest]

Any pics yet???

 

[gonna_win]

I think that a mature hairlines is the begining of male pattern baldness. Say at 21 you develop a mature hairline, it receed's so little from that time until say 40 that it is impossible to notice then at 40 it sort of kicks in and becomes agressive effectivly making you bald.

That's my thinking, without a shred of evidence to support it.

 

[circusrat]

Anyone else notice around 20-23 their body suddenly developing alot more body hair. i.e. thicker chest hair, sprouts of hair on shoulders and back, etc?

Because I've long been done with puberty, but about a year ago or so (23) hair started growing in places it never did before. At about the same time is when male pattern baldness started with the receding hairline. Also, I started sweating (armpit) alot more about this time, even in air-conditioned rooms.

I also started lifting weights about this time, i'm not sure if that has anything to do with it, probably not though.

 

[Guest]

I really think its just different for everyone.

I have had a hairy chest since age 18-19. A little back-hair (between the shoulder blades) yet I had a perfect hairline until about 9 months ago age 26.

My hair is still thick apart from the right temple and hairline which has thinned out a lot since i started treatments.

Hopefully it will get better....

 

[chewbaca]

Anyone else notice around 20-23 their body suddenly developing alot more body hair. i.e. thicker chest hair, sprouts of hair on shoulders and back, etc?

Because I've long been done with puberty, but about a year ago or so (23) hair started growing in places it never did before. At about the same time is when male pattern baldness started with the receding hairline. Also, I started sweating (armpit) alot more about this time, even in air-conditioned rooms.

I also started lifting weights about this time, i'm not sure if that has anything to do with it, probably not though.

I expereinced the same too.....except that the sweating part started much earlier at 17....with the exception of the weight lifting part, i am a lazy guy who just sits at home and watces TV

 

[Guest]

Has anyone else noticed that when you turn 24 you're not 23 anymore? Like, all of a sudden I was another year older, but it seems like it was just overnight that it happened. Also: I find that there's more hair on my body, which is quite possibly the most totally inexplicable thing that could happen to me. I mean, if I'm not hairy at 20, why would I grow another single hair between then and 40? Does anyone else realize that you can't say you're 23 once you're 24, and then get freaked by the creeping suspicion that when you turn 40 you won't be able to say you're 30?

 

[GeminiX]

I found hitting age 30 to be a big deal; all though my twenties I still felt like a big kid, then all of a sudden *BANG* and it's just a decade to my forties... It was a very sad day, lol

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[chewbaca]

i think the key here is to find out what causes excessive sweating and body ordor and hair straight after puberty...hormonal imbalances?

if its hormonla imbalances....then whats the exact adrogen which is responsible for these symptoms?