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[collegedude19]

Thanks for clicking on my post since this is my first one ever. To start things off I'm 19 years old and I first noticed my hair becoming different when I was a senior in high school. I have a auto inflammatory disease called Ulcerative Colitis and for those who don't know what that is it's like Chrons. Anyways, last year i got tired of worrying about it and I saw a dermatologist and she told me to start rogaine (even tho she barley looked at me). But I had a severe shed when I started and it changed my hair texture I think and possibly made my hair loss worse. I believe I may have chronic telogen effluvium because 6 months ago my hair was looking good and around september a huge shed started. It was right around when I started college again and some stressful events happened and now my hair is looking worse then ever and I'm really depressed. I buzzed my hair with no guard so I was pretty much bald because I couldn't even look at my self any more and now it looks like I have the thinnest scalp hair. I also have a weird thin shinny patch on the middle of my scalp. I also stopped laser hair treatments a little before i noticed the shedding again and so far my hair hasn't gotten any better. Please respond if you've heard of anything like this or think i have telogen effluvium or are am just have male pattern baldness. Ill attach a picture from like 7 months ago from where my hair looked decent and where it is now. The picture where my hair looks darker is when i wasnt shedding.

 

[GoldenMane]

We can't diagnose you here, you may have Telogen Effluvium, but the pattern of hair loss looks like male pattern baldness, and a particularly agressive case given the speed it's happening at.

You know minoxidil causes an initial shed that can last months, right? Usually by the 6 month mark shedding should have stopped and you should be seeing solid regrowth. Finasteride is the best way to stop the cause of hairloss (DHT), but if you do have really aggressive hairloss maybe you should try dutasteride, though that drug isn't FDA approved so GP's probably won't prescribe it...

You have to act fast man, best of luck!

 

[collegedude19]

thanks for responding, what bout the weird patchyness of my hairloss though?

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and how could i get dutasteride then?

 

[GoldenMane]

You haven't lost any hair at the back or sides have you? But your hairloss is mostly at the vertex and front. That's diffuse thinning male pattern baldness by the looks of it. Dutasteride you may have to buy online, or have a GP prescribe it and tell them that you accept any potential risks and side effects, thoughit may be difficult to persuade them. See a hairloss specialist though, maybe I'm wrong, maybe it's Telogen Effluvium. You need to see a professional who actually knows something about hairloss, and that won't be a dermatologist or a GP, they rarely know anything about hairloss or treatment options and effectiveness, they just aren't interested in that field so ignore it.