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no i still haven't talked to any doctor yet , i wasn't very suspicious about thyroid because i don't have any of it's symptoms rather than hair loss. is thyroid also genetic disease?

hello everyone, I'm 23 and constantly losing hair(probably about nw2-3 now). Let me first tell you about my family history. I have 4 uncles(aged 53, 57, 60, 65) from my fathers side (including 3 male cousins who are 37,40, 44) and 1 uncle from mothers side. My dad is nw 4 and uncles are all between nw5-6 all of their loss started after their late 30's. My cousins are all nw 4 now and one of them was nw4 by the time he was 24 but still he keeps the crown. Both my grandpas died in their late 70's as NW6. Although it may seem like i'm destined to baldness, my mother has a serious thyroid problem occured couple of years ago and now she's using medication that she have to use everyday for the rest of her life. My pattern clearly shows mpb (thinning occuring as to nw4-5 but not too noticable)but recently i spotted some "spots" in my back(low) and sides near my ear that are thinning. They're like small circles and does not match with mpb. My question is may that be related with thyroid and should i have it checked? If it's related with thyroid, can i be able to stop my hairloss? even re-gaining it?

hey everyone, i've been using propecia for 2 months now, truly i haven't seen any side effects nor any good effects since i'm losing hair still. but i think its too early to talk about this. i'm planning on starting mixonidil but rogaine is not allowed in pharmacies in Turkey and most of the ones that buys abroad turns out to be fake. There's this product "minoxil forte" which contains minoxidil which is availible in pharmacies. My main concern is a lot of user of minoxil is complaining about extreme hair loss at the beginning of using it, which i can't risk this. What should I do? Anyone can comment about that? Especially if there are some guys who live in Turkey , has anyone used it?

dakota3, thanks for your answer but i tried that once and only response i got was " hey be careful because you're getting bald." like i don't know about that. i know i'm gonna be worse by the time and that's the fact i can't accept. I know i have to but it's hard really. Everytime i look into mirror i can't stop crying and all i think was i dont wanna live like this. and there's nothin i can do about it.

sorry mattj, i'm on propecia for 1.5 months and taking some vitamins(biotin).

I've been researching this forum over 6 months, sorry to have so dramatic post. The thing is i can't stand it anymore. really.I started to loose hair when I was about 21. Now I'm 23 and NW 3 and thinning everywhere like crazy. It doesn't bother me that much until 3 months ago when I looked my self at the mirror and started to cry . I got into serious depression with high anxiety attacks. I literally locked myself at home, just going to school and going back home immidiatly. ?±t becomes a nighmare to go public and i hate wearing hat. I started taking anti depressants which was good for a while but when i learned that they (paxil and tranxilene) cause more hair loss , i stopped using immidiately. Now things are much worse. I know being bald is sort of my destiny ( all uncles, cousins from both my moms and my dads side are bald) but i can't accept the fact that why it has become at such young age.When I go to school , it kills me to see the guys with full of hair, especially I was one of them 2 years ago. Eventhough I can be considered sort of a religious guy, I curse god everynight why this happened to me. Also I have some friends who have similar losses like me (some of them are worse than me ), they seem to get well with this. I admire them because of that because I can't even recognise myself anymore. In high school, i was the most popular and most noticable guy. Until two years ago, I was social butterfly going out partying, dating with girls etc. Now ?±'m someone who spends all of his time at home in front of a lap top, a loser. Everytime I go out i feel like everyone is looking at me and humiliating me like I have some sort of disability. The word "confidence" has left me a long time ago, i can't even find myself. I researched about hairtransplant , of course. I mailed with Rahal and H&W. My first reaction was to get a HT immidiately but they both replied me im too young and possible candidate for nw5-6. Later on , I knew they were right and there is no way that i can get "perfect" result (no offense, by perfect i mean my exact old hair back). I live in Turkey so both clinics are too far for me and of course since I'm 23, ?± don't have that sort of finances. Eventhough I had, i really don't wanna be the guy who had HT at 23 , everyone will make fun of me and especially the fact that HT will not achieve my goals. So at this point I'm stuck. I can't find anyway to deal with this and it kills me.The worst thing is, it'll get worse and worse. I can't even stand to look at my self in the mirror, how could I find someone to like me ? I feel like a mutant, sort of infected. I can't talk about this to anyone, since I isolated all my friends for the last 1 year. Please give me some ideas, or something to go on with my life.