Weird/unique Type Of Hair Loss At 18??

[baldingmikelol]

Hey guys, new here! Anyway, I recently turned 18 (I'm a male) and I'm experiencing a different type of hair loss. So a little background story...when I was about 13, I started ripping out of my head whenever I got anxious. I usually ripped out the hair in the center of my hair line so you can imagine how dumb I looked. However, these hairs would always grow back and just as thick. Now fast forward a couple years later and I kind of got into the habit, albeit not nearly as bad. I used to literally bald the area...now it just looks kinda thin. But the hair isn't growing back. Now before you jump to "you probably damaged the follicles", I don't think it's that simply because hair was growing completely fine within the past 5 years. On top of that, it was growing up until I plucked it out of my head. And even now, if I pluck a hair out of my head, it won't grow back. It's weird. The hair is fine up until I take it out. I read somewhere that NSAIDs like advil and other medication like benadryl can cause hair loss after chronic use. For the last 6 months, I've been taking about 400-1600 mg a day of advil and 50 mg a day of benadryl. I've been off of both of them for a few weeks now but still no improvement. Do you guys think it's the meds? Should I just wait a bit longer? Or have possibly hit the age where DHT is starting to kick in and keeping my hair from growing? Any ideas as to what's causing this and/or what I can do??

**Side note: I've been using rogaine for a 1-2 months now with no changes.

 

[biddybomb]

you need to stop that asap, theres a reason why females wax their legs as opposed to the far less painful method of shaving. Prolonged exposure to that trauma results in a weakened follicle that eventually grows in a lot finer if at all.

And even if you are prone to male pattern baldness, the hair should still grow in albeit finer. Its possible that the hairs you are talking about have actually stopped growing and are in the dormant phase, so pulling them out will mean it won't grow in again until it hits the growth phase. I remember reading that roughly 15% of all hair on ones head is not actually growing and is just sitting there until the new hair grows through and pushes it out. I highly doubt it is the medication.