What Stage Are You At With Your Hair Loss?

What stage are you at with your hair loss?

  • Norwood 1

    Votes: 4 10.8%
  • Norwood 2

    Votes: 13 35.1%
  • Norwood 3

    Votes: 4 10.8%
  • Norwood 3 Vertex

    Votes: 6 16.2%
  • Norwood 4

    Votes: 3 8.1%
  • Norwood 5

    Votes: 5 13.5%
  • Norwood 6

    Votes: 2 5.4%

  • Total voters
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Dontwannabeabetabob

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Stay on alert.
Check your rate of hair fall..
if it's accelerating..avoid hair transplant.
Don't waste follicles on top..use it wisely for hairline in future.

Such type of hair loss do accelerate very fast after 5/6 years.
Good point. But I think it's fair to say my hair loss has stopped, being on finasteride for 15 months and minoxidil for 10 months. Sure as hell hope it doesn't accelerate anytime soon.
 

CopeForLife

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buckthorn

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Pas is hot. I would marry her but too bad she is in love with my bro @buckthorn ;)

you bet your *** she is. You will be my best man at our wedding. Just don't show me up with your hair... we may need to thin it out.
 

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this thread is filled with priviledged little b****s with no hair loss.

try being sickly diffused across the entire NW7, half way down the sides and back... with the left and center of your head having NO native hair, just thick 2-4 graft transplants sticking out in every different direction...

I win.

Pussies.
You win nothing, buckthorn. Hair loss is not a competition.
 

buckthorn

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sunchyme1

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Stay on alert.
Check your rate of hair fall..
if it's accelerating..avoid hair transplant.
Don't waste follicles on top..use it wisely for hairline in future.

Such type of hair loss do accelerate very fast after 5/6 years.

is this even true?

i thought hair loss patterns were always linear

no matter what age and speed of loss

never seen a case where hair loss 'speeds up'
 

pjhair

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is this even true?

i thought hair loss patterns were always linear

no matter what age and speed of loss

never seen a case where hair loss 'speeds up'

That's not true. Hair loss can indeed speed up or even get triggered due to factors such as medication, changes in hormones, shock, diseases, etc. Although, I have read that hair loss due to shock can recover on it's own.
 

sunchyme1

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That's not true. Hair loss can indeed speed up or even get triggered due to factors such as medication, changes in hormones, shock, diseases, etc. Although, I have read that hair loss due to shock can recover on it's own.

i meant just by itself. just purely male pattern baldness. no triggers

never heard of someones hair loss speeding up, then slowing down, then speeding up again etc
 

pjhair

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i meant just by itself. just purely male pattern baldness. no triggers

never heard of someones hair loss speeding up, then slowing down, then speeding up again etc

Really? I would think such a scenario will be common.
 

sunchyme1

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Really? I would think such a scenario will be common.

i have no idea

but i always thought people had their pre disposed patterns and that was that, outside of any externals triggers

you lose your hair for a certain amount of time, with the same speed throughout, then it stops at whatever age. so 18 -25 bald. 18-45 semi bald, 35-45 bald. 40-80 semi bald. etc etc

all linear progressions.

never seen a case where some one goes from nw1 to nw3 in ten years, then nw3 to nw6 in two

but i guess hormones change as you get older so f*** knows

i am nw4 right now. and have been balding at a steady pace for 13/14 years. i dont expect my hairloss to just suddenly speed up soon and hit nw7 in 2 years or something. i expect to reach that norwood in another 10 going off my pattern for the last 14 years
 

pjhair

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i have no idea

but i always thought people had their pre disposed patterns and that was that, outside of any externals triggers

you lose your hair for a certain amount of time, with the same speed throughout, then it stops at whatever age. so 18 -25 bald. 18-45 semi bald, 35-45 bald. 40-80 semi bald. etc etc

all linear progressions.

never seen a case where some one goes from nw1 to nw3 in ten years, then nw3 to nw6 in two

but i guess hormones change as you get older so f*** knows

i am nw4 right now. and have been balding at a steady pace for 13/14 years. i dont expect my hairloss to just suddenly speed up soon and hit nw7 in 2 years or something. i expect to reach that norwood in another 10 going off my pattern for the last 14 years

I think there is a bit of unpredictability involved when it comes to hair loss. You seem to be losing hair at a constant pace. I have a cousin who started balding when he was 18 and was NW4 by 21. After the initial rapid loss, his balding slowed down and 12 years later he is Norwood 5. If he was balding at a constant rate he should have reached NW5 a lot sooner. He will probably end up Norwood 6 eventually as his hair seem to be like his maternal uncle and maternal grandfather who are both NW6 or 7. His father is NW4 in his mid sixties with thick enough donor density to get to NW2 if he goes the transplant route. Too bad he didn't take after his father.
 
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