theEvergreen
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A few years ago, I came here looking for advice after a recently buzzed head. Realizing it was just paranoia and nothing to worry about (which was true), I just ignored it and everything was fine. A few years pass and nothing. That is up until a few months ago. I noticed the point in the center of my hairline starting to get thinner and easier to see through under light. It's always been sort of thin there even through college. Like a little dot where it was thin. It didn't really bug me because you really needed to look hard to see it and it was very situational. I didn't really worry until about 2 haircuts ago. The chick who cuts my hair says, "Are you cutting your own hair?" I didn't know what she was talking about. When I got home, I looked in the mirror to see what she was talking about. Almost all the hair in the first 2 or 3 rows of hair were only 1 inch long. Keep in mind I keep my hair about 4-5 inches long up front (I'm one of those trendy-styled hair mofos). Anyway I just chalked it up to me playing with it, as I did notice I was accidentally causing breakage by teasing it out of nervous habit. Fast forward to next haircut, no change. Still same length and everything in those areas. Now I started to get worried. Now here I am looking the mirror at work and noticing how thin and short the frontal region of my hair is becoming. I don't know if this was triggered by stress, health, or anything else. I know I've had some rampant heartburn over the past year to the point I've given up alcohol and I've heard that something like GERD (a stomach affliction) can cause hair breakage.
No one ever believed me or noticed because my hair is so dark, but I sent a picture to my friend, whose wife is a hair stylist and his first reaction after scoffing at me was "Wow, yeah that's weird." His wife told me to get on Biotin and a bunch of B-Vitamin Supplements, but I'm extremely skeptical when it comes to that. I've also been diagnosed with Seborrhea over the past year, so maybe the itch and irritation caused this? Anyway, I'm dropping a few pictures to show you in comparison to a year ago and this past week. Any advice would be helpful. I just want to know if I'm actually balding or if this is some temporary thinning of some sort. Thank you all so much.
This one was taken about a year and a half or so ago. I had gel in my hair so I put it up like this just to screw around. Nothing serious.
This I think was around the same time. This might've been the second coming of the beard. Forgive me for the tasteless selfies. I don't even send them to people. I was just seeing if you could see through my hair.
This was the pic I think I sent to my friend. You can see a lot of tiny broken hairs around the hairline. I'm getting anxiety just looking at this.
These next few were some I took a little bit ago. The side I'm showing you is the only side that looks like it's thinning really badly at the moment. I get really bad anxiety just thinking about it.
I put a part in it because I was going to grow it out long again, but I guess not anymore...
I'll post the rest in the next post.
No one ever believed me or noticed because my hair is so dark, but I sent a picture to my friend, whose wife is a hair stylist and his first reaction after scoffing at me was "Wow, yeah that's weird." His wife told me to get on Biotin and a bunch of B-Vitamin Supplements, but I'm extremely skeptical when it comes to that. I've also been diagnosed with Seborrhea over the past year, so maybe the itch and irritation caused this? Anyway, I'm dropping a few pictures to show you in comparison to a year ago and this past week. Any advice would be helpful. I just want to know if I'm actually balding or if this is some temporary thinning of some sort. Thank you all so much.
This one was taken about a year and a half or so ago. I had gel in my hair so I put it up like this just to screw around. Nothing serious.
This I think was around the same time. This might've been the second coming of the beard. Forgive me for the tasteless selfies. I don't even send them to people. I was just seeing if you could see through my hair.
This was the pic I think I sent to my friend. You can see a lot of tiny broken hairs around the hairline. I'm getting anxiety just looking at this.
These next few were some I took a little bit ago. The side I'm showing you is the only side that looks like it's thinning really badly at the moment. I get really bad anxiety just thinking about it.
I put a part in it because I was going to grow it out long again, but I guess not anymore...
I'll post the rest in the next post.