Hi everyone,
Turned 41 this year and to be honest I just recently starting, I wouldn't say obsessing but caring about my hairline. I always did notice my hair wasn't as healthy for some time now, but didn't really care enough to look further into it. I've been researching quite a bit in the last 6 months.
I notice my hairstyle was odd compared to younger but never dawned on me that it's male pattern hairloss and options for treating it. I just thought it was part of getting older.
I do remember there were a couple of periods, perhaps mid 30's, where I noticed there was alot of hair shedding(on bathroom floor). Right now I usually see about 5-10 hairs when I shower daily on my hand.
One side is better than my other as you can see from the pictures. I'm only using Regenpure DR(with ketaconazole). I've also used oils(rosemary,emu,coconut.avocado mix) but now I know it's more to protect my hair from breaking, and possibly some vitamin benefit. It does seem to appear after taking care of myself better and using Regenpure my better side has recovered a bit and my bad side, the hair turning vellus, does appear to have grown stronger and longer, but still thinner than my sides. Although I'm not sure when it started miniaturizing as I only recently paid attention.
It could just also be a hair cycle coincidence where I may have had a unexpected shed, dunno, never really paid attention until recently unfortunately.
I guess the question is, is it worth it to take propecia at my age with my current norwood level. I was one click away from ordering propecia and have second thoughts due to of course the side effects. Mainly I'm afraid of gyno and it being permanent.
I guess I'm looking for opinions/outlooks of some of you who probably have gone through the same fork on the road. What Norwood would you say I am. I'd say norwood 2.5/3.
I know it's odd I didn't care/research this when I was younger and I care now. I also am grateful at 41 I'm not completely balding heavily, but do know it can happen anytime.
Pictures
17.jpg -- current better side(right)
18.jpg -- current bad side(left)
32.jpg -- hair pulled back showing hairline and top forehead wrinkle
20.jpg -- Top of head
21.jpg -- back of head
22.jpg -- how I normally style my hair daily, usually use pomeade to hold up my sides. I also cut my own hair.
24.jpg -- hairline at 21-22 years old.
28-29-30 jpg's are all from the same wedding. I was 33 or so here. As you can see from different angles it looks bad/ok. This is also the first time I noticed my hair was odd subconsciously.
I did notice I have oily hair and sometimes pimples breakout on my scalp. I think I had it fairly bad sometime mid 20's to 30 due to not washing hair daily, which also caused bad dandruff. I usually can only go 2 days at most before it gets too oily and I can feel like my scalp is not healthy. It may have cause some of my permanent hairloss in front as I remember scratching and causing some bleeding. I believe taking care of my scalp has reduced my hair shedding.
Turned 41 this year and to be honest I just recently starting, I wouldn't say obsessing but caring about my hairline. I always did notice my hair wasn't as healthy for some time now, but didn't really care enough to look further into it. I've been researching quite a bit in the last 6 months.
I notice my hairstyle was odd compared to younger but never dawned on me that it's male pattern hairloss and options for treating it. I just thought it was part of getting older.
I do remember there were a couple of periods, perhaps mid 30's, where I noticed there was alot of hair shedding(on bathroom floor). Right now I usually see about 5-10 hairs when I shower daily on my hand.
One side is better than my other as you can see from the pictures. I'm only using Regenpure DR(with ketaconazole). I've also used oils(rosemary,emu,coconut.avocado mix) but now I know it's more to protect my hair from breaking, and possibly some vitamin benefit. It does seem to appear after taking care of myself better and using Regenpure my better side has recovered a bit and my bad side, the hair turning vellus, does appear to have grown stronger and longer, but still thinner than my sides. Although I'm not sure when it started miniaturizing as I only recently paid attention.
It could just also be a hair cycle coincidence where I may have had a unexpected shed, dunno, never really paid attention until recently unfortunately.
I guess the question is, is it worth it to take propecia at my age with my current norwood level. I was one click away from ordering propecia and have second thoughts due to of course the side effects. Mainly I'm afraid of gyno and it being permanent.
I guess I'm looking for opinions/outlooks of some of you who probably have gone through the same fork on the road. What Norwood would you say I am. I'd say norwood 2.5/3.
I know it's odd I didn't care/research this when I was younger and I care now. I also am grateful at 41 I'm not completely balding heavily, but do know it can happen anytime.
Pictures
17.jpg -- current better side(right)
18.jpg -- current bad side(left)
32.jpg -- hair pulled back showing hairline and top forehead wrinkle
20.jpg -- Top of head
21.jpg -- back of head
22.jpg -- how I normally style my hair daily, usually use pomeade to hold up my sides. I also cut my own hair.
24.jpg -- hairline at 21-22 years old.
28-29-30 jpg's are all from the same wedding. I was 33 or so here. As you can see from different angles it looks bad/ok. This is also the first time I noticed my hair was odd subconsciously.
I did notice I have oily hair and sometimes pimples breakout on my scalp. I think I had it fairly bad sometime mid 20's to 30 due to not washing hair daily, which also caused bad dandruff. I usually can only go 2 days at most before it gets too oily and I can feel like my scalp is not healthy. It may have cause some of my permanent hairloss in front as I remember scratching and causing some bleeding. I believe taking care of my scalp has reduced my hair shedding.