Lustreless
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Hello 
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I wanted to share my story with all of you about my hair loss. I’m 18 and two years ago I had a full set of thick hair with a juvenile hairline. Last year, in December 2009, I started noticing a difference in my hairline. It looked thinner and wider. One day I decided to lift the hair around the temples and realized they had receded, particularly my right temple.
In February 2010, things grew worse. Initially, I was diagnosed with seborrhoeic dermatitis (which is still going on today, itchy all over). Progressively, my hair became dry, brittle and I lost at least half of what I used to have on the sides of my head (which is typically considered the immune donor area) and it refuses to grow longer than 4-5 cm. This angers me particularly because I see men with MBP but the sides of their head are practically untouched.
Up to this day my right temple has receded at a much faster rate than my left one and the front of my hair is progressively miniaturizing. I have been on Finasteride for almost 3 months (as recommended by my doctor) and I am shedding and miniaturizing like NEVER before. I dread showering because my hands get covered in hair.
You can see the before and after pictures of my hairline and the sides of my head. I promise you the overall thickness and recession are worse in real life than these pictures deceptively portray. Feel free to zoom in because that's when it's more evident. The before pictures are from 2008/2009, the after ones are from 2011.
I’m frustrated because I can’t relate to anyone (that I know) at my school with the same condition.
Let me know what you guys think, I’ve never had a real conversation about hair loss and I feel it’s the right time to start.
,I wanted to share my story with all of you about my hair loss. I’m 18 and two years ago I had a full set of thick hair with a juvenile hairline. Last year, in December 2009, I started noticing a difference in my hairline. It looked thinner and wider. One day I decided to lift the hair around the temples and realized they had receded, particularly my right temple.
In February 2010, things grew worse. Initially, I was diagnosed with seborrhoeic dermatitis (which is still going on today, itchy all over). Progressively, my hair became dry, brittle and I lost at least half of what I used to have on the sides of my head (which is typically considered the immune donor area) and it refuses to grow longer than 4-5 cm. This angers me particularly because I see men with MBP but the sides of their head are practically untouched.
Up to this day my right temple has receded at a much faster rate than my left one and the front of my hair is progressively miniaturizing. I have been on Finasteride for almost 3 months (as recommended by my doctor) and I am shedding and miniaturizing like NEVER before. I dread showering because my hands get covered in hair.
You can see the before and after pictures of my hairline and the sides of my head. I promise you the overall thickness and recession are worse in real life than these pictures deceptively portray. Feel free to zoom in because that's when it's more evident. The before pictures are from 2008/2009, the after ones are from 2011.
I’m frustrated because I can’t relate to anyone (that I know) at my school with the same condition.
Let me know what you guys think, I’ve never had a real conversation about hair loss and I feel it’s the right time to start.
