No, I didn't take any pictures when I started because I didn't really expect to see any difference with my hair. It's been very gradual in the past. However, because of the crazy amount of shedding that's going on, I took my first photos this last week - especially as I am really beginning to notice thinning now. So I can certainly update in terms of going forwards.
To be honest, my hair has always been notoriously difficult to photograph in terms of monitoring hairloss - my hair is super-fine (like baby hair), straight, and also quite long. It's been speculated that I seem to have a lot more hair than normal to compensate for how fine it is. Even for post-hair transplant pics, it's hard to tell how much improvement has been made through photos. The most surefire way I can personally tell by how much hair I've lost (or grown) is by how easy or difficult it is to style and how full it is. If I've lost hair, my hair typically looks much shorter and flatter because after I've styled forwards to conceal my high hairline, there's little else left to style to provide extra fullness.
But below is a photo of how much hair I'm shedding at the moment from just one shower. Not that I'm counting them, but it must be 200-300 hairs. And then more fall out when I style. I know shedding is generally no measure of male pattern baldness, but that size of shed can't be normal?
My fear is that one of three things might be occuring:
1) Age and genetics have caught up with me (I've just turned 40) and no amount of these meds are going to make a blind bit of difference.
2) Finasteride worked for me (to an extent) but Dutasteride doesn't so I'm now losing all the ground I made on Finasteride. (These has largely been dismissed by others on the grounds that dutasteride does everything finasteride does but more).
3) Something else is going on that is causing the hairloss, which isn't male pattern baldness. And maybe I should be getting it checked out. By whom though? A doctor?
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