What Stage Are You At With Your Hair Loss?

[shookwun]

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

show us your balding head.

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.

Most people who start balding early will show there maternal pattern by the time they are thirty.


I started balding at sixteen, and to this day under wet hair and parted I can see my final pattern being a nw6 at the moment. However this could change, but based on the length of time I have been balding it would be rather odd if it sudden my chang3d. As I hwv3 b3en ezp3ri3nxing hairloss for around 12 years now.

 

[buckthorn]

never seen a case where hair loss 'speeds up'

wtf? seriously?

 

[kj6723]

NW2 at the moment

Why is there no NW7 option?

 

[doyle11]

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 thought that was one of the shittiest things about hairloss. I receeded from norwood 1 to ~2 in my late teens and I was stable until around 23. My hair went to pot in the space of about a year. The amount of hairloss in such a short period of time was insane.

 

[kj6723]

This is my norwood history as I've been able to best put together from pictures:

15/16 years old: NW1.5
19/20 years old: NW2
26: NW2.5 with thinning forelock
28: back to NW2

Currently 29, still NW2

 

[pjhair]

Most people who start balding early will show there maternal pattern by the time they are thirty.

Why only maternal pattern? I thought we are equally likely to inherit paternal or maternal pattern. Is there any reliable data that indicates that we inherit maternal pattern more often?

 

[pjhair]

I started balding at sixteen, and to this day under wet hair and parted I can see my final pattern being a nw6 at the moment. However this could change, but based on the length of time I have been balding it would be rather odd if it sudden my chang3d. As I hwv3 b3en ezp3ri3nxing hairloss for around 12 years now.

I have heard of people suddenly losing hair in their fifties so who the fuk knows when this curse will strike an individual.

 

[shookwun]

Why only maternal pattern? I thought we are equally likely to inherit paternal or maternal pattern. Is there any reliable data that indicates that we inherit maternal pattern more often?

sorry, i meant maternal and paternal.

 

[shookwun]

I have heard of people suddenly losing hair in their fifties so who the fuk knows when this curse will strike an individual.

i am talking for those that experience it early.


I seen my pattern very early on.

I can live with a NW6. as long as the sides, and dip at the back stay high... all is well.

min, finasteride = LIFE changing
LOl at seti

 

[Saurabhaj]

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'

I have experienced it.

Vertex baldness is really weird.Initial I had only bald patch for 2 to 3 years ..but suddenly my hairs from hairline starts falling in non receding manner.

See this..it was little bit similar to this.

 

[davesmith420]

I'm more or less a Norwood 1; I jumped on finasteride due to excess hair fall and having male pattern baldness confirmed by a derm. It's been over 2 years and my hair looks the same. I still like to lurk/post here because of my BDD and slow transformation into an ugly incel.

 

[DoctorHouse]

I'm more or less a Norwood 1; I jumped on finasteride due to excess hair fall and having male pattern baldness confirmed by a derm. It's been over 2 years and my hair looks the same. I still like to lurk/post here because of my BDD and slow transformation into an ugly incel.

Just don't end up like me. I think there is hope for you yet. And you will always be a chad. That won't change.

 

[N003]

I'm such a funny case, up to 33 I even had a 9mm haircut without tonsure. But I've had receding hairline since I was 25.

From mid-30s a complete thinning on the top of the head, you look like a plucked chicken.

My father has thick hair, no hair loss, but now I notice with my mother that she also has hair loss at the top of her head.
My two sisters also have very thin hair, you can even see the top of your head.

 

[N003]

That's pretty bad. But didn't you recover all on finasteride? Your pictures looked good. Least you got through your 20s unscathed.

Honestly: The existing hair became stronger, but new hair? No, I have no new hair under finasteride.

But what I notice is that under Finasteride the hair does not fall out like that anymore. Early on every day severe hair loss, therapy under finasteride is little hair loss.

But new hairs under finasteride? No.

Finasteride is great to keep the condition, new hair = hair transplantation.

 

[michel sapin]

i check davesmith pictures agains , and when hfisrt started finasteride he indeed had slitght miniaturization at the temple . However he is lucky to have recover this ,

 

[michel sapin]

@N003 ; but all your miniaturized hair became stronger? this is basically the best response to expect from fina.

 

[N003]

@N003 ; but all your miniaturized hair became stronger? this is basically the best response to expect from fina.

yes, stronger

 

[N003]

The survey so far is very interesting.

Most of them are at most a NW3, in my eyes not baldness. Any average person would not call an NW3 a bald head or recognize it.

The more severe the hair loss is (NW3 vertex upwards) the less affected it is.

The survey also reflects reality on the street.

 

[blackg]

That's exactly it. finasteride won't give new hairs on most cases, just for the important task of maintaining our native hair and hopefully strengthening existing hair through repeated cycles. You did well as you were very diffuse !

Your new avatar makes me want to go on a South Pacific holiday.

 

[doyle11]

Diffuse thinning, looked like I went from norwood 1.5-2 to 5 in the space of a year. It was probably more gradual than I noticed but it was incredibly distressing.