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Thanks. If you don't mind me asking, did you also take a look at my pictures in post #1 and post #13? If no, are these photos of my crown ok in your opinion? Thanks

Thank you for your reply. I think some of the photos do have flash, but even if they don't, I've found that the rear iPhone camera 'saturates' the photo to make it look worse. If I take the picture with my front facing camera, I think my crown looks ok, but I may be wrong. (Front-facing camera picture attached below) In regards to the shampoo is that Nizoral? I have been prescribed nizoral for over 4 years now and it's really bad for my hair. It doesn't get rid of my scalp eczema and it makes my overall hair and scalp extremely dry. I currently use Dermax - Dermax Therapeutic Shampoo - Summary of Product Characteristics (SPC) - (eMC) - although I am looking for a more gentle shampoo as I feel that dermax may also be too strong. Here is the picture of my scalp using the front camera. This is my bed hair and unwashed for about a day. The other picture (in the green and blue stripy top), is a picture of my crown area from 5 years ago. Do you think there is a difference?

Do you think I'm balding because of the "hole" in my crown? The thing is, when I hold up a mirror there I have loads of hairs in that hole, however when I take a picture, the hole looks big for some reason, and doesn't appear to have hairs sprouting out of it.

Hi. I've attached some more pictures which are hopefully clearer. Please let me know what you all think. Thanks

Hi. Thanks for your reply. In terms of recommending Fin, does that mean you think my crown is balding? It's funny you mention Tar based shampoo as I was prescribed it some time ago for my scalp dermatitis. Do you recommend I start using it? How many times a week? And what shampoo should I use as my 'daily driver'? I will hold out on Fin for now and will take regular pictures and post back after some time, to see what everyone here thinks.

Yes I will keep consistent photos from now on. I live in the UK and am yet to find a clinic that will check my hair for miniaturisation. When I call up clinics and mention the phrase "minitrusation study/analysis/test", they are perplexed. It's like they have never heard of the word before? Do you know anywhere in the UK or even Europe I could get analysed for miniaturisation? Yes I'm going through a scalp eczema phase right now. Hair is very greasy, got dandruff and am shedding the disgusting yellow flakes. Scalp is also itchy. Due to this, I wash my hair daily, and have bought one of those plug-hole hair stoppers. I count around 30/40 hairs after every daily hair wash, is this ok?

Nope, the crown hair is exactly the same colour as the rest of my hair. I only have a few brown hairs on my beard, but the rest of the hair on my head are jet black.

I'm going to take regular pictures of my crown area every couple of weeks/months and then compare. Thanks for the advise on rogaine. I think for now i'll stay off it unless God Forbid my hair gets worse or something. Does anyone else have any opinions?

Thanks for the reply, Etownone. Do you suggest I start using rogaine? Do you think I'm losing my hair from the crown area? Will my hair become 'addicted' to rogaine in order to grow?

Hi all New poster here from the UK. I'm a 24 year old male. I've attempted to attach a few pictures of my crown area in this post. My hairline is fine and I also suffer from Seberroichiec dermatitis, so I use some quite potent steroids etc in my hair. I have been told by my GP that my hair is fine, but tbh I don't feel they are properly trained in hairless, as they only looked at my scalp for about a minute, so I googled around and found this forum. The pictures were taken today. The first 3 were taken with natural light behind me, and the last one directly under a bathroom ceiling light. If you need clearer ones I can try and take some, but this may be the clearest my phone camera can get. Thanks all