Randomguy02

So my anxiety about this has come back after a few days due to having been finding several small (1 inch long or shorter) hairs laying on my desk? Is this normal? I am starting fear that the I really do have an early stage MPB instead of Telogen Effluvium. Is it possible the scalp biopsy results i had three months ago were wrong

5 hours ago, jj51702 said:

Looks like a normal head of hair to me. Can you compare pics to a few years back and see any difference?

 

i guess if you’re really concerned you can get a miniaturization study done by a good derm/hair transplant surgeon and if it shows u really are losing hair then u can try treatments such as finasteride 

Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of the crown from a few years ago and every picture I have of the front my hair is covering my hairline

8 hours ago, Lennney said:

Welcome to the forum! 

You have a better hair situation than many of our 26 year old members.

About your question of losing hair- If you are losing hair, you're at the very early stages, so this is great news.

1. Who are you? - What is your history with hair loss? Look at your grandparents and work your way down. Was your mother's father bald? Her brother(s) (uncle of yours)? What about your father's family?

Balding typically follows the mother's line, and I think the consensus is you're a lot more likely to follow your grandfather's path (maternal).

2. Your haircut. - You have a lot of hair length. I used to have a similar hairstyle as a high schooler. It's a mop. Do yourself a favor and go to the barber and use feathering scissors (thinning scissors). They cut away the bulk, which tents to lie flat on your head. You'll still keep the length if you want it. Some of that cowlick area is a function of too much hair in one spot.

I don't want to tell you what to do as far as treatments go, because I'm no doctor and you're uncertain. The good news is: if the hair loss progresses (which may be necessary to determine if you are experiencing hair loss), there are treatments which will either return you to pre-hair loss levels and/or stabilize you.

 

Now, why you're rocking an unprofessional hairstyle at 26 is your business. Do know that you're more proactive than your (balding) peer group, and you have the resources here to help should you need them. Without certain knowledge, we're playing a guessing game. You're in a comfortable position in which your hair loss is starting later in your life, or that you may escape hair loss until old age. Try to avoid paranoia. You're doing everything right. Keep a level head.

Thank you for the response.

1) in terms of family history I do at least have genetics on my side. My father has a Norwood 1 hairline into his 50s and only now is starting to have diffuse thinning all over. My paternal grandfather did go bald but not noticeablely so until his late 30s. My maternal grandfather never receded past a norwood 3 with some thinning in the crown.

Sadly I do not have any uncles to compare with and my brothers are all younger than me. That said the eldest of my younget brothers who is 20 actually has a worse hairline than mine. Though he also has finer hair than mine (my hair has always been very thick) and a higher juvenile hairline than I did.

2) as for the hair style, I just badly need a haircut. Its been two months since my last one and have been putting it off for a bit too long 

So at this point should I keep monitoring the situation for now and see what happens? Is there any noticeable difference between the pictures from this week and those from three months ago?

The one bright spot I have seen is that from January until the end of March I was shedding a lot of hair, but since then the ammount of hairfall has decreased to less than half. So assuming the Telogen Effluvium diagnosis wasn't incorrect, hopefully that's a sign that had cleared up.

I added a few more pictures from today to the above post. Are these of any concern, or no decernable hair loss here?

I have a few more pictures of the crown that I fear show some defuse thinning. Are these normal?

For comparison here are two pictures from about 3 months ago

Few more pictures of the crown that concern me. Do these look normal?

One more quick question. Is it normal for the crown to feel thinner than the top of your head? When I run my hand through my hair there or even just touch my crown it feels thinner.

Sorry, I am just having trouble shaking my worries on this one.

In that case I will just stop with the shampoo until I talk to my derm. It was actually the dermatologist who suggested the biotin supplements to help make sure that the hair that grows back following the telogen effluvium clearing up will be as healthy as possible.

Thank you so much? So the hairline is receding then but since I had a teenaged hairline prior this provably just means my hairline is maturing? In that case I can certainly live with that.

If I recall the biopsy did say there was no sign of minification in the crown, jusy signs of more telogen phase hairs that is typical so they said is was most likely telogen effluvium. I'd actually been noticing a ton if shedding around that time too, though that has stopped as of a month ago, so hopefully that has been cleared up then by now.

In that case I will just stick to the biotin supplements as I can't imagine that would hurt and perhaps keep using the DHT blocking shampoo every other day? Or is that not even worth it at this point? 

Should I just take the lack of responses as meaning it looks fine and that I'm worrying about nothing?

Hello, i am 25 years old (26 in a month) and recently I have been incredibly stressed and paranoid about hair loss. About four months ago I noticed what looked like defuse thinning at my temples and what I thought was a bald spot on my crown (though I've been told this is just a whorl). I started on biotin supplements and anti DHT shampoo while I monitor things, but I am afraid I should be doing more. I have always had really thick hair and I am just so terrified of losing it.

The thing is that in the past few months I have seen two dermatologists to get my hair evaluated. The first looked for about five seconds before telling me it was nothing. The second one did a scalp biopsy which the results said I had telogen effluvium. Still, I can't stop worrying that they may have missed something and I may be going bald still.

I have attached photos of my crown and my temples later. These from decently recently. Am i just being paranoid and should just relax? Or is there something to my fears.

I guess my fear right now is that while it looks fine at this point, that what I've noticed may be the very early signs of hair loss and I'd hate to sit here and do nothing until its too late.

The logical side of me says I should just listen to the dermatologists and the biopsy results, but yet I can't stop worrying about it. I haven't noticed any real change since I first monitoring it four months ago (with no real change to the temples or crown, so if they have gotten worse its so minimal that side by side picture can't show a noticeable difference). 

At this point the constant stress is probably not doing me any favors. Should I just let it be for awhile, or should I be concerned at all at this point?