25 Y/o Male Diagnosed With Telogen Effluvium On 2014. Thinning Accelerated!

[Colin_sully]

So ive always had thick wavy hair and in 2013 i noticed it was getting thin on the crown a little and freaked out. When it only progressed I got a biopsy done of my crown and was told I had Telogen Effluvium. But as you can see it's gotten pretty bad. Am I out of luck is it too late and what could help? I tried nizoral but it didn't do anything as well saw palmetto but same results. Want to see what y'all think. Could it be chronic telogen effluvium? And if not could I get my crown and thickness back? I'm getting tired of this :/

1. 2014

2. 2014

3. 2014

4. 2016 March

5. 2016 March

6. 2016 July

2016 July

 

[dralex]

Wtf are you talking about? I don't see any hair loss.

 

[Colin_sully]

Wtf are you talking about? I don't see any hair loss.

Not even in the 2016 pictures? And it would itch a few months Back and under my nails would be short brittle hairs :/ idk I mean I am a pretty stressed out wound up worry wart but I doubt it's from stress. You don't think the crown is thinning?

 

[dralex]

Not even in the 2016 pictures? And it would itch a few months Back and under my nails would be short brittle hairs :/ idk I mean I am a pretty stressed out wound up worry wart but I doubt it's from stress. You don't think the crown is thinning?

Just looks like a cowlick. You definitely had no hair loss in the 2014 pictures. It is hard to say in the newer ones, but doesn't really look like it. I am surprised your doctor agreed to a biopsy unless you demanded one. Did your doctor think it looked like you were losing hair?

 

[Colin_sully]

Just looks like a cowlick. You definitely had no hair loss in the 2014 pictures. It is hard to say in the newer ones, but doesn't really look like it. I am surprised your doctor agreed to a biopsy unless you demanded one. Did your doctor think it looked like you were losing hair?

Well at the time they said they noticed a little lack of density there but that was a couple years ago. It's gotten so bad lately. Stress prob hasn't been helping.

 

[Señor AIDidaS]

Well at the time they said they noticed a little lack of density there but that was a couple years ago. It's gotten so bad lately. Stress prob hasn't been helping.

It's really hard to say, but I'd hazard a guess that you are just fine. In your most recent pics, the back and sides of your hair are cut very short. Take a close look at the hair in the photos from July of 16. The areas where it looks thin is where the hair is sticking straight out at the camera. This gives the optical effect of thinning hair. You can tell because when you take the pic from a different angle, the "thinning" patch moves to a different area.

My suggestion is that you grow your crown area to the same length as in 2014, and then compare. The crown hair in that pic is much longer.

I sort of have the same thing going on with my hair, so I get it. My hair is in a way more suspicious position than yours is though.

 

[Colin_sully]

These are from recent I buzzed my head November/December 2016.

It's really hard to say, but I'd hazard a guess that you are just fine. In your most recent pics, the back and sides of your hair are cut very short. Take a close look at the hair in the photos from July of 16. The areas where it looks thin is where the hair is sticking straight out at the camera. This gives the optical effect of thinning hair. You can tell because when you take the pic from a different angle, the "thinning" patch moves to a different area.

My suggestion is that you grow your crown area to the same length as in 2014, and then compare. The crown hair in that pic is much longer.

I sort of have the same thing going on with my hair, so I get it. My hair is in a way more suspicious position than yours is though.