What norwood am I? Should I start finasteride?

[jackaly]

Hello all.

Can anyone tell me what norwood stage I am and help me around with finasteride?
My hair has been a huge bottleneck on my mind past year and I need to move forward from it cause it's starting to make me feel depressed and controlling my mind.
It's important for me cause I got bipolar disorder and sometimes I feel nothing is wrong with my hair and others days I get nauseated by the ''signs of balding'', which leaves me very confused and unstable regarding my hair..

My hair is currently still really thick with some thinning on the corners of my hair and the right temple. The left temple points seem to be fine. Is this normal?

I'll be 23 in march, I barely lose hairs when showering, styling etc.

Here are some picture's

Hair combed back
http://www.anony.ws/i/2015/02/20/Untitled-5.jpg
http://www.anony.ws/i/2015/02/20/DSC_0410.jpg

Left side. Notice little hairs growing back after I shaved them off, they looked really odd and thinned out so I removed them to see how it looked like if they were just completely receded.
http://www.anony.ws/i/2015/02/20/Untitled-3.jpg
http://www.anony.ws/i/2015/02/20/Untitled-8.jpg
http://www.anony.ws/i/2015/02/20/Untitled-4.jpg


Right side, which appears to be worse
http://www.anony.ws/i/2015/02/20/Untitled-6.jpg
http://www.anony.ws/i/2015/02/20/DSC_0402.jpg
http://www.anony.ws/i/2015/02/20/Untitled-7.jpg
http://www.anony.ws/i/2015/02/20/Untitled-9.jpg

This is me when I was young
http://www.anony.ws/i/2015/02/20/Untitled-10.jpg

So what norwood am I on atm? Do you think it's wise to start finasteride now? and how much should I take?

Honest replies are really appreciated. I know it's probably not as bad as most people are experiencing here but i'd just like to know if I'm receding faster than I should of for my age.
Also a little information on what you guys look at when determining whether ill recede further or not would be amazing. thanks

 

[themiz1234]

Dude, you look fine. Just take a picture like every month and monitor it. If it gets noticably worse over time, start treatments.

 

[BiqqieSmalls]

Norwood I. You are good

 

[pearleen]

you don't seem to be receding at an alarming pace.
you can chill !

 

[jackaly]

Thanks for the replies. Is there a difference between receding and maturing of the hairline?

And why am I not Norwood 2? Just trying to understand how people rate that.

 

[bilboswaggins]

receding hairline usually has a tonne of minituarised hairs and thinning regions at temples and frontal hairline
Mature hairline is basically around a nw2 with no thinning and thick hair and has stayed there for a while. Examples include Jon Hamm, Ewan mcgregor, david beckham (I think)... google them to have an idea
Right now your hairline is not far back enough to be nw2. It might not be fully straight but I think you just have a natural widows peak. Take photos and re examine in say 6 months but chances are you will be fine for at least a few years