Sooo, over the past 9 months I have noticed that my hair has been increasingly getting thinner and receding. For the past 3 months, I believe my hair has gotten even worse and has also been unstoppably itchy. I went to the doctor several times and he doesn't believe I am balding at all. Several blood tests were done and the only notable odd results were a slightly higher than normal testosterone level. At this point I have started to use Nizoral and Saw Palmetto to begin my "fight" against the itchiness and the hair loss.
Assuming I really am losing my hair, I will be starting a regiment of Nizoral, Finasteride, and Minoxidil shortly. Thus why I am on this site, to seek advice on my current and future hair situation AND to offer help for others based on my present and future knowledge on this situation.
That being said, pleaaaase give me some input on my hair status in the several pictures I am about to post ( Such as if I need to start treatment and what Norwood # I am). And of course I will answer any questions you want to be answered about yourself or you are wondering. I hope this site has a active community, I have been looking for a good one to be apart of. Thanks!
Also, do/did any of you start to have increased itchiness when you started to lose hair before treatment?
Pictures below
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So here's an overlook on my past and background. Just info, not much else...
I've always had a "bigger forehead", and a slight receded forehead, but nothing major throughout my whole life. At the age of 14 I still had a fairly perfect hairline (NW1) . From 14-20 I didnt cut my hair once, it grew extremely long and I wore my hair in loose pony tails when i was 20. Anyways cut my hair, and have had it mid length to long from that point on ( cutting it every 9 months) then when I hit 21 me and my 6 year girl friend broke up. Needless to say, much stress followed for a long time. Also, me being a triple major, I am constantly tested with hard work. This year at the age of 22, 9 months ago, I started noticing hair issues, and for the past 3 months I have had a huge itchiness problem. Based on these photos I have noticed my hair has been decreasing over the years, but its been hard to tell seeing as I have always had my hair long.
Now more on what I think caused an increase in my hairloss. Most of my life I have been slim, from 14-20 I have weighed around (135-145 pounds) at the height of 6 foot, and did minimum exercise minus heavy cardio when I went outside and screwed around alot. At the age of 21 I started to do weight lifting and got into it seriously. For 9 months I worked hard and jumped up from 145 pounds to about 160 doing weight lifting. I was using Creatine, one scoop a workout, and 2-3 scoops of whey protein. Also, I was using caffine pills (400mg a day), green tea pills ( 2-3 a day ), gingko bilba pills (1 a day), daily vitamin, and fish oil. I also was eating a lot in general and a lot of protein (3000calories, 150-300grams of protein). I would work out 4-6 times a week, for about 30-60 mins a workout. Mild cardio, with most emphasis on the weights.
thoughout 14-21 I have had a semi crappy sleep cycle. Sleep whenever, wake up whenever, with half of my nights getting 4 to 5 hours of sleep, and the other half with 7 to 8 hours of sleep, rarely all nighters, but still they occurred. Then came my last year of school. I ended up getting 7-9 hours of sleep a night about 30% of the time, 1-3 hours of sleep about 50% of the nights, and no sleep at all 20% of the nights. That being said, I started believe sleep was pointless, and starting doing it rarely. Lastly, I ended up giving up on working out, and decided to put on weight so I could work out before next summer and get more gains, so I ended up reaching a max weight of 170.
All of this being said, I think last year is what accelerated things the most. I also think that working out so hard and then stopping also caused some negative effects on my hair.
Lastly, my father is thinning and receding, but not bald, he is at the age of 55. My mother has a higher hairline, but not balding. Mother's brothers are balding. One is slick bald (NW6) and the other is a far more accelerated form of my hairloss (Norwood 4?ish). Both are in their 50s. No one else is noticely bald.
Assuming I really am losing my hair, I will be starting a regiment of Nizoral, Finasteride, and Minoxidil shortly. Thus why I am on this site, to seek advice on my current and future hair situation AND to offer help for others based on my present and future knowledge on this situation.
That being said, pleaaaase give me some input on my hair status in the several pictures I am about to post ( Such as if I need to start treatment and what Norwood # I am). And of course I will answer any questions you want to be answered about yourself or you are wondering. I hope this site has a active community, I have been looking for a good one to be apart of. Thanks!
Also, do/did any of you start to have increased itchiness when you started to lose hair before treatment?
Pictures below
==== EDIT ====
So here's an overlook on my past and background. Just info, not much else...
I've always had a "bigger forehead", and a slight receded forehead, but nothing major throughout my whole life. At the age of 14 I still had a fairly perfect hairline (NW1) . From 14-20 I didnt cut my hair once, it grew extremely long and I wore my hair in loose pony tails when i was 20. Anyways cut my hair, and have had it mid length to long from that point on ( cutting it every 9 months) then when I hit 21 me and my 6 year girl friend broke up. Needless to say, much stress followed for a long time. Also, me being a triple major, I am constantly tested with hard work. This year at the age of 22, 9 months ago, I started noticing hair issues, and for the past 3 months I have had a huge itchiness problem. Based on these photos I have noticed my hair has been decreasing over the years, but its been hard to tell seeing as I have always had my hair long.
Now more on what I think caused an increase in my hairloss. Most of my life I have been slim, from 14-20 I have weighed around (135-145 pounds) at the height of 6 foot, and did minimum exercise minus heavy cardio when I went outside and screwed around alot. At the age of 21 I started to do weight lifting and got into it seriously. For 9 months I worked hard and jumped up from 145 pounds to about 160 doing weight lifting. I was using Creatine, one scoop a workout, and 2-3 scoops of whey protein. Also, I was using caffine pills (400mg a day), green tea pills ( 2-3 a day ), gingko bilba pills (1 a day), daily vitamin, and fish oil. I also was eating a lot in general and a lot of protein (3000calories, 150-300grams of protein). I would work out 4-6 times a week, for about 30-60 mins a workout. Mild cardio, with most emphasis on the weights.
thoughout 14-21 I have had a semi crappy sleep cycle. Sleep whenever, wake up whenever, with half of my nights getting 4 to 5 hours of sleep, and the other half with 7 to 8 hours of sleep, rarely all nighters, but still they occurred. Then came my last year of school. I ended up getting 7-9 hours of sleep a night about 30% of the time, 1-3 hours of sleep about 50% of the nights, and no sleep at all 20% of the nights. That being said, I started believe sleep was pointless, and starting doing it rarely. Lastly, I ended up giving up on working out, and decided to put on weight so I could work out before next summer and get more gains, so I ended up reaching a max weight of 170.
All of this being said, I think last year is what accelerated things the most. I also think that working out so hard and then stopping also caused some negative effects on my hair.
Lastly, my father is thinning and receding, but not bald, he is at the age of 55. My mother has a higher hairline, but not balding. Mother's brothers are balding. One is slick bald (NW6) and the other is a far more accelerated form of my hairloss (Norwood 4?ish). Both are in their 50s. No one else is noticely bald.
