Phillip
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Hello guys, i been browsing on this forum for awile so i decided to join.
Anyway, i think my type of hair loss is interesting. Ever since i was very little the hair in the fronts and temples was lighter than the rest of my hair. My hair color is like a dirty blond/light brown but the frontal hairline and temples were always quite blond. It wasnt a huge contrast but pretty noticeable. The rest of my hair has always been quite healthy and still is healthy but the blond area has receded back. Im between a norwood 1 and 2 at the current moment but probably more like a 2? All the area that has receded is roughly equal to all the blond hair was once there. My hairline used to be protruding when i was younger meaning the temples were actually further out than the rest of the hairline. Now there is really none of the blond hair left (a small amount near the temples only) and im about 20.5 years old. I started using rogaine 5 percent one time per day my freshman year of college (about 18 and half years old) which seems to have stopped the problem and maybe grown a little bit of hair.
My question is if anyone else has this type of balding? LIke i said, the rest of my hair is very healthy. My hair type is like a medium to fine shaft but i have been told i have a good number of hairs per square unit which i believe is the same as good density? No one is my family is bald that i can think of. Granfather on the mothers side is 76 and probably a norwood 2 or 3 but hes quite old so i guess natural thinning is occuring. The grandfather on my fathers side had a pretty full head of hair from what i heard and looks like a norwood two or so in his pictures in his 60s and 70's. My father is 58 and always had a full head of hair but started taking propecia probably 5 years ago because he said he was "loosing hair". His hair is like a norwood two at the moment but i have more hair than him i know. When i look at his pictures from his youth, he looks like he had the same blond characteristic that i had in the fronts and temples.
I'm wondering if i will end up like him and keep most of my hair or if i will keep receding? At the moment i seem to be remaining the same as i have for the last two years or so since i started rogaine (maybe even gaining a small bit). Yet Im afraid i'll become immune to minoxidil and start to recede more. At this time my hair looks pretty good though so i cant complain. Im just thinking long run. I am also planning to start using nizoral and head and shoulders for their supposed anti dht effects. I also used to take propecia for a few months but my medical doctor said this could damage my testicals so i stopped.
I hoping i dont have that strong of a gene if rogaine is holding it off at only once a day. Maybe i wont even recede in the normal colored hair and only the blond hair was susceptible because it dwindled away from very thick in only a few years time.
Anyway, i think my type of hair loss is interesting. Ever since i was very little the hair in the fronts and temples was lighter than the rest of my hair. My hair color is like a dirty blond/light brown but the frontal hairline and temples were always quite blond. It wasnt a huge contrast but pretty noticeable. The rest of my hair has always been quite healthy and still is healthy but the blond area has receded back. Im between a norwood 1 and 2 at the current moment but probably more like a 2? All the area that has receded is roughly equal to all the blond hair was once there. My hairline used to be protruding when i was younger meaning the temples were actually further out than the rest of the hairline. Now there is really none of the blond hair left (a small amount near the temples only) and im about 20.5 years old. I started using rogaine 5 percent one time per day my freshman year of college (about 18 and half years old) which seems to have stopped the problem and maybe grown a little bit of hair.
My question is if anyone else has this type of balding? LIke i said, the rest of my hair is very healthy. My hair type is like a medium to fine shaft but i have been told i have a good number of hairs per square unit which i believe is the same as good density? No one is my family is bald that i can think of. Granfather on the mothers side is 76 and probably a norwood 2 or 3 but hes quite old so i guess natural thinning is occuring. The grandfather on my fathers side had a pretty full head of hair from what i heard and looks like a norwood two or so in his pictures in his 60s and 70's. My father is 58 and always had a full head of hair but started taking propecia probably 5 years ago because he said he was "loosing hair". His hair is like a norwood two at the moment but i have more hair than him i know. When i look at his pictures from his youth, he looks like he had the same blond characteristic that i had in the fronts and temples.
I'm wondering if i will end up like him and keep most of my hair or if i will keep receding? At the moment i seem to be remaining the same as i have for the last two years or so since i started rogaine (maybe even gaining a small bit). Yet Im afraid i'll become immune to minoxidil and start to recede more. At this time my hair looks pretty good though so i cant complain. Im just thinking long run. I am also planning to start using nizoral and head and shoulders for their supposed anti dht effects. I also used to take propecia for a few months but my medical doctor said this could damage my testicals so i stopped.
I hoping i dont have that strong of a gene if rogaine is holding it off at only once a day. Maybe i wont even recede in the normal colored hair and only the blond hair was susceptible because it dwindled away from very thick in only a few years time.
