YoungandBalding
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Hi all. I am a member of this forum for maybe a year. Just wanted to give my story and 12 month update.
I had always had ultra-thick dark hair, but started to lose my hair in a diffuse thinning pattern when I turned 19. My Dad's side all have hairloss problems Norwood 6-7 by age 35. My grandfather on mom's side has just a fairly receded hairline and some diffuse thinning. I think I take after my mom's side, which is my asian side. I am half white/half asian by the way.
Went to see the Doctor. My Doctor examined me and gave me a script for propecia. I got on propecia in August of 2003, and got on generic 5 percent minoxidil a couple months after that, and used it just on the vertex because the box said so and I didn't know any better. I didn't even have vertex hairloss!
During the college school year, my hair loss diffused a lot, I added saw palmetto and it diffused even more. I came to HairLossTalk.com.com and then dropped the saw palmetto and decided to just go with the finasteride.
In December of 2003, my hairloss was at its worst. I was Norwood 1 but extremely diffuse all over the place. Shedding stopped, but what was left was very diffuse and see through, all the hair on my head was limp and thin. Weirdly enough my hairline and temples were intact. I shaved my head completely to try to gain illusion of thickness. Some people called me baldie because I shaved my head, but I put up with it.
I added minoxidil to the temples starting december anyways because I had very slight recession and thought it could use buffing up a bit. In February of 2004, my hair started coming in really thick. By March, nearly all my hair was back and extremely thick, great hairline too. I let it grow out longer than an inch.
I have gone through a small shed this summer. Unfortunately my temples kinda receded this summer though =( maybe a little more than a centimeter or so all around. I have a natural widow's peak hairline. The peak hasn't really budged, but the temples, especially right temple moving backwards from from NW1 to NW2.
All in all, my hairloss has been nearly completely reversed. I have extremely thick hair on top and back and I am now 20 years old. Just wondering what I should do about my receding temples.
Hope this post gives encouragement to you all out there! The treatments do work! Hang in there.
I had always had ultra-thick dark hair, but started to lose my hair in a diffuse thinning pattern when I turned 19. My Dad's side all have hairloss problems Norwood 6-7 by age 35. My grandfather on mom's side has just a fairly receded hairline and some diffuse thinning. I think I take after my mom's side, which is my asian side. I am half white/half asian by the way.
Went to see the Doctor. My Doctor examined me and gave me a script for propecia. I got on propecia in August of 2003, and got on generic 5 percent minoxidil a couple months after that, and used it just on the vertex because the box said so and I didn't know any better. I didn't even have vertex hairloss!
During the college school year, my hair loss diffused a lot, I added saw palmetto and it diffused even more. I came to HairLossTalk.com.com and then dropped the saw palmetto and decided to just go with the finasteride.
In December of 2003, my hairloss was at its worst. I was Norwood 1 but extremely diffuse all over the place. Shedding stopped, but what was left was very diffuse and see through, all the hair on my head was limp and thin. Weirdly enough my hairline and temples were intact. I shaved my head completely to try to gain illusion of thickness. Some people called me baldie because I shaved my head, but I put up with it.
I added minoxidil to the temples starting december anyways because I had very slight recession and thought it could use buffing up a bit. In February of 2004, my hair started coming in really thick. By March, nearly all my hair was back and extremely thick, great hairline too. I let it grow out longer than an inch.
I have gone through a small shed this summer. Unfortunately my temples kinda receded this summer though =( maybe a little more than a centimeter or so all around. I have a natural widow's peak hairline. The peak hasn't really budged, but the temples, especially right temple moving backwards from from NW1 to NW2.
All in all, my hairloss has been nearly completely reversed. I have extremely thick hair on top and back and I am now 20 years old. Just wondering what I should do about my receding temples.
Hope this post gives encouragement to you all out there! The treatments do work! Hang in there.
