Why The Hell Am I Losing My Hair So Fast?

[dralex]

This is just me ranting because I am pissed off that nothing is working for my hair. I am back home for the holidays, and it blows my mind that no one else in my family even close to my age is losing any hair. I am 23 now, and I somehow started losing my hair rapidly at 20, when male pattern baldness doesn't even run in my family before late 30s (and even then only my dad started losing hair that early (around 35 years old), uncles/grandparents lost it later than that or haven't lost it). Sucks seeing my older brothers who are 2 and 4 years older than me with no hair loss at all, especially given that I have been on finasteride for the past 2.5 years and it hasn't done sh*t. I hadn't seen my oldest brother in around a year and I at least expected to see some male pattern baldness starting to kick in, but nope, none at all. I used to be the one with the best hair out of my brothers, and now my hair looks like absolute crap. I don't understand how I can get such aggressive male pattern baldness, that is non-responsive to finasteride, at such a young age, when it doesn't even run in my family. Really blows.

 

[Agustin Araujo]

Genetics can be completely unpredictable from our current scientific understanding of it.

Male Patteren Baldness runs rampant in my family, but the men didn't start experiencing it until their late thirty's or early forty's while not being very aggressive. Mine started when I was 16 and diffusing badly in a Norwood 6 pattern, and currently on Dutasteride. All my cousins around my age on both sides of my family have absolutely no hair loss retaining their Norwood 1. Life's simply just not fair with crucially important things.