okay, i'm sure you get this all the time and are probably sick of it but i need some impartial advice. a few of my friends are going bald, undeniably, obviously, "don't need the light to shine on their heads in a particular way to see it" bald.
when one of them first accepted his increasing baldness he said to me "i bet you're receding too" a suggestion i laughed off, since my school days i'd wished my unruly mop was thinner and no-one in my family had ever had hair loss (until their 70s anyway)
anyway they kept on mentioning it and so eventually i pulled my hair back to show them my temples and with fits of glee they announced i was receding too. i still didn't take it too seriously, my hairline had always gone back at the temples for as long as i could remember, it didn't seem any worse to me.
eventually though the comments got to me and i've been paying close attention to my head, i shaved it earlier in the year (number 4) and was pleased to see my hairline was as it was the last time i had done the same thing. then, as it grew back i noticed the hair around a cowlick i have at the front of my head seemed a bit thinner than anywhere else and i got worried again, but finally convinced myself once more that it had always been that way, nobody else mentioned it anyway.
now, as it is growing back, attention has shifted from my cowlick to my crown, which i'm having a hard time telling myself "was always like that" but obviously, having never payed that much attention to it before, i'm not certain.
if i ask my friends, they will undoubtedly say "yes, you're going bald, told you so", when i ask my parents they predictably say "no, thats just your crown", so i've finally decided to ask some impartial observers who know a bit more about the subject than me.
sorry for the long rant, but this is driving me way more mad than i should be letting it.
here's the pic, taken with the top of my head facing a window for maximum lighting, i've no idea if you can even tell from this, but i need to try something;
http://img156.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... 084xe4.jpg
thanks
when one of them first accepted his increasing baldness he said to me "i bet you're receding too" a suggestion i laughed off, since my school days i'd wished my unruly mop was thinner and no-one in my family had ever had hair loss (until their 70s anyway)
anyway they kept on mentioning it and so eventually i pulled my hair back to show them my temples and with fits of glee they announced i was receding too. i still didn't take it too seriously, my hairline had always gone back at the temples for as long as i could remember, it didn't seem any worse to me.
eventually though the comments got to me and i've been paying close attention to my head, i shaved it earlier in the year (number 4) and was pleased to see my hairline was as it was the last time i had done the same thing. then, as it grew back i noticed the hair around a cowlick i have at the front of my head seemed a bit thinner than anywhere else and i got worried again, but finally convinced myself once more that it had always been that way, nobody else mentioned it anyway.
now, as it is growing back, attention has shifted from my cowlick to my crown, which i'm having a hard time telling myself "was always like that" but obviously, having never payed that much attention to it before, i'm not certain.
if i ask my friends, they will undoubtedly say "yes, you're going bald, told you so", when i ask my parents they predictably say "no, thats just your crown", so i've finally decided to ask some impartial observers who know a bit more about the subject than me.
sorry for the long rant, but this is driving me way more mad than i should be letting it.
here's the pic, taken with the top of my head facing a window for maximum lighting, i've no idea if you can even tell from this, but i need to try something;
http://img156.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... 084xe4.jpg
thanks
