first time poster - (hairline is receding like crazy. help!)

[RecedingAt26]

Hi,

I'm new here but I've been reading the forum for a few days doing some research. Let me give you a quick run down of my story.

I'm an Asian-American male, 26 years old, about to turn 27 in 2 months. My hair has been full and healthy up until about 3 years ago when I began to notice thinning along my perfectly straight hair line. Fast forward to the present, and now I have a very pronounced widows peak, and a lot of shedding. I find stray hairs in the bathroom, on my bed, on my desk at home, and on my desk at work. The hair on top of my head seems ok, but it could be possible that it's starting to thin now.

On my mother's side of the family, pretty much all of her brothers have heavilly receded hair lines. Her father is pretty much bald on top and wears a hair piece out in public.

My father has thin hair, but still has a pretty full head of hair without too much recession. All of his brothers have pretty decent hair as well.

Please see the following pictures:

right temple, with flash

left temple, with flash

right temple, no flash

left temple, no flash

Does anyone have any advice on what I should do to slow or stop my hair line from receding? Any opinions are welcomed.

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

wow surprising that you're asian with that kind of hair loss. truly unfortunate

anyway i'd get on propecia/proscar(finasteride) immediately to halt any further progression.

 

[doggfather]

I'm Asian and 27 too and I have receding temples just like yourself except mine have receded more than yours. Here's what I suggest:

If you don't want to take an internal drug (Propecia) then apply topical spironolactone 5% cream preferably twice/day but if that's not possible then at least once/day.

Maybe add copper peptides like Tricomin. Tricomin is very easy to apply, has no side effects, and doesn't mess up your hair. Once/day would be easy.

I would hold off on Rogaine unless you really want to do everything you can to thicken up your existing hairline. I doubt you'll regrow anything of significance on your bald temples though unless you are a really good responder. If you do decide to use rogaine get the foam one that just came out since it will be a lot easier to apply and won't mess up your hair too much

Here's my story if it helps you out at all:

I noticed my temples were receding at age 23 when my bangs weren't really covering my temple area that well anymore. At the time I was in Korea and I went to a doctor and she gave me a prescription for Propecia. I hardly knew nething about propecia at the time except that it could potentially cause libido problems. But I took it every day and did so for about 12 months. My hairline didn't thin at all but it didn't regrow at all either and in fact probably was slowly receding still. about the 13th or 14 month my crown started to itch and i had this kind of weird dull pain in the right area of my crown. And sure enough my crown was thinning in that area. I started freaking out and eventually at the 16th month mark decided to drop propecia and just go revivogen/spironolactone because i thought i was a non-responder to propecia and actually thought it was making things worse. After 8 months though of revivogen/spironolactone my hairline was noticeably worse and so I decided to go back onto Propecia although I wish I had never dropped it in the 1st place.

If I had to do it all over again I'd probably try spironolactone first to see if that alone would be enough and so I wouldn't have to take an internal drug forever because once you take Propecia you better not stop. Plus, I'm wondering if propecia made my crown more sensitive to DHT because I never had any noticeable itching or thinning in the crown before propecia and I thought propecia was supposed to help the crown area the best so i was kind of surprised when my crown was thinning a little bit while on propecia. That's why if I had to do it over again I'd just try topical spironolactone to see if it would just halt the hairline and see if my crown would still thin or not.

But, if you can't stick with a topical routine like applying spironolactone everyday then the easiest, most convenient option is propecia. Just be diligent with either route you go.

Oh and don't forget the Nizoral Dandruff shampoo which you can get at any drug store.

Your recession isn't too bad yet so if you could halt your hairline from receding anymore I think you should be ecstatic, but I can understand why you are stressing, as most Asians our age don't have any hairloss whatsoever. So if you have more questions ask away.[/list]

 

[ANDREW_J_I]

first u shud definately get on propecia. im worrying bout my recession now also, so i may have to look into sumthing else.

 

[RecedingAt26]

doggfather, it's great to hear from a fellow asian with a similar experience. Propecia interests me, but scares me at the same time with all of the potential side effects. Your experience with propecia doesn't sound too promising for me either, since we probably have somewhat similar genetic qualities and traits (although I'm Vietnamese, not Korean... still, that's close enough to consider anything you've experienced may be similar for me, though).

I haven't really read up on spironolactone or Tricomin. Are they cheap and easy to get a hold of?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

receding at 26,

you cant go by one person's experience and anecdote to determine what yours might look like. propecia has worked for plenty of people in stopping further hair loss and even regrowing in some cases. i recommend that you try it.

 

[RecedingAt26]

how has propecia been for you? how long have you been on it, and have you seen any results?

 

[Guest]

how has propecia been for you? how long have you been on it, and have you seen any results?

well i haven't lost any more hair. i've only been on it a month and a half and i recently started taking dutasteride(avodart) in conjunction wit h it to regrow some hair in the front and provide even more maintenance. i don't recommend dutasteride for you yet though because what i'm doing is kinda risky.

i would just try 1 to 1.25 mg of finasteride(proscar, propecia or generic) per day and it should halt your hair loss within 6 months.

 

[RecedingAt26]

one of the problems i have with Propecia (other than the potential side effects) is the fact that the trials and research hasn't shown that it works on receding hair at the temples... it's mostly for hair on top of your head from what i understand.

 

[Guest]

one of the problems i have with Propecia (other than the potential side effects) is the fact that the trials and research hasn't shown that it works on receding hair at the temples... it's mostly for hair on top of your head from what i understand.

the trials didn't show that it regrows hair at the temples, it just focused on hair on the crown. but that doesn't mean that propecia can't MAINTAIN your current temple situation. Or do you just want to skip propecia and continue receding?

 

[doggfather]

Recedingat26,
I’m not saying that you shouldn’t take Propecia. In fact, I think it’s probably the easiest and most effective option, but in my case I just wish I could have seen if topical spironolactone alone would have been able to halt my receding hairline. It’s much ado about nothing since I can’t go back in time and see if spironolactone would have been better or the same as Propecia. If you want peace of mind that you are using something that gives you the best chance of halting your hairline, go with Propecia. If you want to try topicals first before having to take a pill forever and worry about what it might do to your body in the long run then go with topical spironolactone. I didn’t know anything about Propecia sides when I first started taking it and I don’t remember experiencing any so although you may get side effects don’t let that discourage you from taking it. But don’t base your decision on my experience alone because the numbers speak for themselves, and Propecia will probably give you the best chance at keeping your hairline intact. I just personally was disappointed with the results because I was expecting regrowth since all I know when I first started taking it was that it was a pill for hairloss. And while my recession wasn’t completely halted, at least it was slowed considerably.
And no since you’d be only using spironolactone and Tricomin on the hairline, I don’t think it’d be that expensive since it would last you for awhile. Topical spironolactone 5% (cream version) costs I believe $30-$35 for one container from http://www.minoxidil.com
And you can search for Tricomin on Yahoo stores, Google, or Pricegrabber and get the best price. I get mine for around $50 per bottle. I’d suggest if you get Tricomin that you get a bottle with a dropper instead of using the hair spray like mechanism that the Tricomin bottle uses. Hope this helps.

 

[deck28]

I'm 28 and have a receding hairline but otherwise my hair is full and thick. I started propecia a little over a month ago and just added minoxidil. I'm only applying minoxidil to my hairline and temples. At the very least I'm happy to maintain what I have, but I have seen a few new hairs pop up since I started properica which is giving me some hope. Still to early to tell.