Hello
25 yr old male
Over the past two years I've noticed my hair thinning around my crown. My barber once said that I have two cowlicks. But over the past 8 months the loss has gotten bad. I now have to buzz my hair in order to hide it every few weeks. Even when it grows out, it's very obvious that my hair is very thin in my crown now.
Twice a month or so I get a lot of patchy redness around my crown and back of head. I've also been dealing with real bad itching for the past year, and I've noticed "pimple" like things on my head. When ever I scratch, I find white/tan like substances I've concluded is sebum. I also get a painful, inflammatory like feeling toward my crown area. I have also noticed that 75% of the hairs that fall out have a white bulb toward the end (telogen phase) and are varied in size but some are small in width.
So far, I've tried to combat this by taking Nizoral 1% and Pura d'Or every alternating every other day. Also have been taking Biotin 10000 mcg for the 8 months and Magnesium & zinc.
I went to my general Doctor for the hair loss and all the above, he said that its male pattern baldness without looking at me. So I went to a derm, and she looked and is fairly certain it's male pattern baldness but she's worried about the redness, etc and wants to do a scalp biopsy. They also want to do blood tests. I was prescribed 5mg finasteride and 5% minoxidil for now.
Has anyone done a scalp/hair biopsy and can provide input?
Is the redness, itching, pain basically male pattern baldness, or can there be another cause?
Can taking Magnesium and zinc increase testosterone therefore increase DHT therefore causing hair loss?
Anything in specific I should make sure the derm checks with the blood test?
Thank you all for your time with this.
25 yr old male
Over the past two years I've noticed my hair thinning around my crown. My barber once said that I have two cowlicks. But over the past 8 months the loss has gotten bad. I now have to buzz my hair in order to hide it every few weeks. Even when it grows out, it's very obvious that my hair is very thin in my crown now.
Twice a month or so I get a lot of patchy redness around my crown and back of head. I've also been dealing with real bad itching for the past year, and I've noticed "pimple" like things on my head. When ever I scratch, I find white/tan like substances I've concluded is sebum. I also get a painful, inflammatory like feeling toward my crown area. I have also noticed that 75% of the hairs that fall out have a white bulb toward the end (telogen phase) and are varied in size but some are small in width.
So far, I've tried to combat this by taking Nizoral 1% and Pura d'Or every alternating every other day. Also have been taking Biotin 10000 mcg for the 8 months and Magnesium & zinc.
I went to my general Doctor for the hair loss and all the above, he said that its male pattern baldness without looking at me. So I went to a derm, and she looked and is fairly certain it's male pattern baldness but she's worried about the redness, etc and wants to do a scalp biopsy. They also want to do blood tests. I was prescribed 5mg finasteride and 5% minoxidil for now.
Has anyone done a scalp/hair biopsy and can provide input?
Is the redness, itching, pain basically male pattern baldness, or can there be another cause?
Can taking Magnesium and zinc increase testosterone therefore increase DHT therefore causing hair loss?
Anything in specific I should make sure the derm checks with the blood test?
Thank you all for your time with this.
