What type of hairloss am I experiencing?

[Guest]

Yea you too but urs is by far the most moderate. Then again I dont think ive seen your hair wet and spiked up but from what I have seen you're @ the initial stages...lucky bastard

Nah I'm not in the early stages at all... I'm about the same as you and I've lost a lot of ground during this past year. When my hair is buzzed it's easy to see the "ring or horseshoe" in the center where the hair is thinning.

 

[hair today gone tomorrow]

Like I said...take a look @ the 3rd guy...ive seen even worse..actually when i was @ a casino all the guy literally had was a hairline . If he tilted his scalp even slightly below eye level he was pretty much bald...for all intents and purposes diffuseness never leads to baldness but it can become so bad you're pretty much a Nw5...Nw6 or sometimes even 7...Hell im a Nw6 technically right now, it jus depends on the angle light hits my head @.

where are you getting this info from? I am just curious.
From what i understand a diffuser without treatment will usually end up being a full blown nw6/7

I am still waiting for an answer please.

 

[Pereira]

where are you getting this info from? I am just curious.
From what i understand a diffuser without treatment will usually end up being a full blown nw6/7

I'm the guy of the first photo.. :hairy:
Yeah, you rigth. If i didn't go with the treatments i would be completely bald nw7 by now. i'm pretty sure.

 

[MacAttack]

Like I said in a post...i dont know im going off on a hunch but because the mechanism of balding is different im willing to bet you might not end up Norwood 6 or 7 but it can get bad...there is no seperate treatments though and so im sticking with the traditional male pattern baldness treatments in hopes of maintaining what I have. If i can maintain my guard 1 cut for life with current density id be ok.

 

[Sal Collaziano]

When my hair is wet and spiked up, it looks like I have about half the hair I was born with. It's bad. I basically look like a bald guy with some hair. However, when dry, it's almost completely fine.. Very strange..

I'm using Minoxidil with Azelaic acid and spironolactone daily - and shampoo with 2% ketoconazole and 3% salicylic acid. I wonder if what I'm doing will help this type of diffuse hair loss. I wonder if diffuse hair loss is from DHT like male pattern baldness is.. Any thoughts on that?

 

[MacAttack]

Supposedly it is...but I havent seen too many great responders from the original Big 3 treatments...especially not if its DUPA (diffuse unpaterrened alopecia where you lose hair everywhere even from the horseshoe) I personally have always felt and petioned for another forum here for diffusers because even if it is DHT related I feel somehow it works by a different mechanism. Something that normally happens in females, where females have little DHT just feels strange...it feels that its more then bad genes diffuse thinning really looks and feels (by reading the info on woman diffuse thinning) you're afflicted with some sort of disease. It is hard for me to go against it tho when despite all my feelings..my thinning is going into an eventual horseshoe shape.

 

[MichaelMurfy]

I’ve been following this thread for a while now and it’s interesting to see so many people share their experiences with hair loss. It’s something that affects a lot of us, and understanding the different types can really change how we approach treatment. If you're looking for some great resources or solutions, check out spin mama, they have a variety of options that could be helpful. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed with all the information out there, but finding the right support can really make a difference in how we cope with it. Keep sharing your stories; it’s great to know we’re not alone in this!

 

[Ĺawton]

Personally I believe diffuse thinners are a strange breed. I dont think the mechanism is the same as receders and I think treatments either do jack sh*t (90% of cases) or respond EXTREMELY well (the remaining 10%). I tried to explain this analogy before. In receders: The DHT army smashes into the front lines of your hairs. Your hairs mixed with treatments attempt to fight back Spartan style. In diffuse hair loss, the DHT army uses another strategy. They launch nuclear missles that strike random targets. Being fast moving random missles, they are hard to shoot down. I just think diffuseness will never wipe out the scalp hairs as much as a receder, but I also think its 100x more difficult to combat and that could be because of the difference in mechanisms that I suspect. A lot of people I notice think because they have an small area thin its diffuse thinning. It is not. Even crown thinning isn't diffuse thining (if you start to thin there first but keep your hairline.) It's a rare type of loss that affects ENTIRELY your top and sometimes your sides and back. Me, the 3 people I showed you and Jayman are the only ppl I've seen on this site who TRULY suffer diffuse thinning.

This is an interesting post. I have always wondered what is up with diffuse thinning myself especially where a strong NW2 hairline remains intact. I actually had bad vertex balding with pretty slight frontal diffuse thinning that has corrected itself now. My thinking was the bad vertex area was sending enough bad signaling (cytokines or something) to effect that area a little bit also.