I wrote this on another thread related to the issue of
Telogen Effluvium vel non:
I am not certain that it matters if we have two brothers, a father, two grandfathers and six uncles with hair like a young Mick Jagger once one perceives any sort of Telogen Effluvium or male pattern baldness. It might be that just minute changes in one's hormonal patterns can trigger male pattern baldness or Telogen Effluvium and then essentially we've seen our own hole card that says "already balding or
thinks he is balding". This changes the mathematics greatly in favor of "Dude, get treatment now regardless of what anyone says about Telogen Effluvium".
Or to put it this way, people with Telogen Effluvium appear just as likely to have male pattern baldness as guys who don't have Telogen Effluvium so both things could be happening and without treatment, it could be disastrous and impossible to recover from when a year later, it's clear that it wasn't Telogen Effluvium. So male pattern baldness is already started but say stress does set off Telogen Effluvium, this is just part of the ongoing male pattern baldness process and if anything, I would predict people with so-called Telogen Effluvium to be more likely to suffer from male pattern baldness than the white male population at large.
To my knowledge we have no studies showing that Telogen Effluvium (or are sheds that are benevolent for that matter) is easily recoverable from, regardless. Since scalp hair seems to be of low priority to white male bodies, it might just shrug its shoulders and do nothing to fix it or by the time it fixes it, other hair loss has been expressed outstripping any treatments. Going to the dermatologist is useless and no one should bother unless you are sure you will get your meds. This is similar to trans females who want to be short. They can't wait because they are growing so they need puberty blockers. All guys over 16 who care about their hair need to be on finasteride or dutasteride, regardless unless they simply can't stomach them, and then maybe instead on bica or spironolactone or CPA.
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