Sir_LagaLot
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i've tried 1 mg finasteride for 2 years. Avodart 0.5 mg every other day for 8 months. Minoxidil 5% applied twice and then switched to one at night since past year. Tried nizoral. Borage oil, salmon oil, cod liver oil. Vitamins, different conditioners and shampoos, yet nothings helped in even the slightest.
Thinning in a weird way... my dad was a thick NW2 till his 50's and now hes thinned diffusely. But i've been shedding and shedding since the past 5 years.. i'm 24 now. I still have decent coverage i suppose, but the problem is i keep shedding vellus during treatment and things arent looking good.
Pattern: The most amount of thinning right behind the hairline. Temples very thin but still holding ground for now.. very slight amount of hairline recession. Area around ears very thin and now the weirdest part.. the second thinnest area after my hairline is the donor area and nape of my neck. In fact i lose the most hair from the nape of my neck where now i have loads of vellus hair.. and i'm losing hair from the nape in a sort of V shape.. the hair on the sides of the V are thinner than the center, and growing out 'finner' and more vellus like day by day... coincidentally i started losing hair from the donor area + nape and sides upon starting finasteride 3 years ago..i'd been shedding like crazy even before that but not a hair from these regions.
i'm suspecting DUPA , diffuse unpatterned alopecia, which would explain why i havent had any luck at all with any treatment so far.
anybody else besides me with this pattern of thinning? anybody else losing nape hair, donor hair and hair around the ears?..
and if so, has anything helped at all? i remember i even tried 50 mg spironolactone every other day (very low dose i know) but i've had bad luck with both the finasteride and dutasteride. Weight gain, incredible brain fog and feel tired all day long. fat face from either the minoxidil or finasteride, not sure + Tired eyes.
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/9563/17655486zb0.jpg <-- this is how my nape looks like..notice the thinner sparse hair around the perimeter?
Thinning in a weird way... my dad was a thick NW2 till his 50's and now hes thinned diffusely. But i've been shedding and shedding since the past 5 years.. i'm 24 now. I still have decent coverage i suppose, but the problem is i keep shedding vellus during treatment and things arent looking good.
Pattern: The most amount of thinning right behind the hairline. Temples very thin but still holding ground for now.. very slight amount of hairline recession. Area around ears very thin and now the weirdest part.. the second thinnest area after my hairline is the donor area and nape of my neck. In fact i lose the most hair from the nape of my neck where now i have loads of vellus hair.. and i'm losing hair from the nape in a sort of V shape.. the hair on the sides of the V are thinner than the center, and growing out 'finner' and more vellus like day by day... coincidentally i started losing hair from the donor area + nape and sides upon starting finasteride 3 years ago..i'd been shedding like crazy even before that but not a hair from these regions.
i'm suspecting DUPA , diffuse unpatterned alopecia, which would explain why i havent had any luck at all with any treatment so far.
anybody else besides me with this pattern of thinning? anybody else losing nape hair, donor hair and hair around the ears?..
and if so, has anything helped at all? i remember i even tried 50 mg spironolactone every other day (very low dose i know) but i've had bad luck with both the finasteride and dutasteride. Weight gain, incredible brain fog and feel tired all day long. fat face from either the minoxidil or finasteride, not sure + Tired eyes.
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/9563/17655486zb0.jpg <-- this is how my nape looks like..notice the thinner sparse hair around the perimeter?