Need honest opinion of my hair loss

[Carve]

Hello. 25-year-old male here looking for some honest opinions regarding my hair. Few things I'd like to mention.

 

- I have no idea how old I was when my hairline began to recede. From age 13-23, I had "skater hair" so my bangs would always cover my forehead. It wasn't until I cut my hair short a month before my 24th birthday that I noticed my hairline wasn't as straight as the look I was going for when I styled the front of my hair.

 

- Over a year later and I would say that my hairline hasn't gotten much worse, so I guess it's not very aggressive. I have no hair loss at the crown.

 

- I tried Propecia just once last November at 0.25 mg and it gave me the worst brain fog ever. Being awake was torture, I just wanted to sleep so I didn't have to deal with the mental sides. Took me over a month to recover. No way did I experience a placebo effect.

 

- I've been using Regenepure DR every other day and S5 Cream every night for a year. I've also been thinking of trying RU58841.

 

- I want a nicer hairline. I have the means to get one. I do, however, believe I should probably wait a little longer before getting one. How long exactly? I don't know. I obviously would like it fixed right now, but I have no idea how much more I'm going to recede in the future. I guess I could always get more than one transplant done... I can't take Propecia.

 

These pictures were taken today.

 

Left side

 

 

Right side

 

 

Thoughts? What would you do if you were me?

[Uk86]

Are you sure nothing else could of caused the brain fog because 0.25 mg doesn't sound a lot to give you sides that strong, and I think if you have a transplant you really should take the Meds to help stop the native hair falling out. Your loss doesn't seem bad at the moment (left side slightly worse). So style it to cover it best you can and keep taking pics to track your progress and see if it has got worse in another year or 2. Also what are the other mens loss like in your family as that's normally a good indicator as to how you will end up..

[Carve]

I've been taking citalopram every day for like 5 years for my anxiety. So when I got Propecia, I took 0.25 mg before bed. Woke up in the morning, felt fine, took my 20 mg citalopram pill, then went to school. At school, I started feeling a little weird in the head, but it was tolerable. Night comes along, I take another 0.25 and go to bed. In the morning I take another citalopram pill and felt very off afterwards. Decided not take anymore Propecia after that. I felt dizzy/couldn't concentrate/clouded/heavy for over a month. It was really annoying. I just wanted to sleep so I could escape it.

 

Once my mental sides finally went away, I started getting these itchy, periodic, bee stinging sensations all over my body. It was constant. That lasted a few weeks, went away for a while, then came back again. I believe the Propecia may have damaged my neurons. Apparently that's a thing, although I've never heard of anyone else on the internet getting that as a side effect. I know it seems crazy because 0.25 mg is so little, but I'm not exaggerating. Maybe the citalopram and Propecia didn't mix well with my body, I don't know.

 

My dad's dad has good hair for his age. My dad has taken lots of steriods and crap, so it's hard to judge, but it's thinned...still OK. My mom's dad went bald. My mom's brothers all have some hair loss. My brothers (19 and 24) have better hairlines than me.

[Garageland]

Asking what we would do in your situation whilst is a good question will get you a whole variety of answers and maybe not what you want to hear. For a large % of guys on here they would see your recession and wish they could swap places with you. At 25 there is a lot of uncertainty about how your hair loss will progress add to that the fact that you cannot tolerate propecia and the risk increases ten fold.

 

I think you hit the nail on the head you should monitor your loss for a while longer before you do anything. This of course will give you no guarantees as your loss may be slow now and can always accelerate as you hit your 30's or even 40's. If and when you do decide to do something you should seek a number of opinions in person to have your donor accessed and the rest of your scalp to see if there are markers that you might progress to a higher Norwood.

 

If you start with restoring the hairline you need to make sure you have the donor to finish the job. One thing is certain that you will loose more hair how much at this stage in unknown from just looking at your hairline.

 

Good luck.

[Carve]

Asking what we would do in your situation whilst is a good question will get you a whole variety of answers and maybe not what you want to hear. For a large % of guys on here they would see your recession and wish they could swap places with you. At 25 there is a lot of uncertainty about how your hair loss will progress add to that the fact that you cannot tolerate propecia and the risk increases ten fold.

 

I think you hit the nail on the head you should monitor your loss for a while longer before you do anything. This of course will give you no guarantees as your loss may be slow now and can always accelerate as you hit your 30's or even 40's. If and when you do decide to do something you should seek a number of opinions in person to have your donor accessed and the rest of your scalp to see if there are markers that you might progress to a higher Norwood.

 

If you start with restoring the hairline you need to make sure you have the donor to finish the job. One thing is certain that you will loose more hair how much at this stage in unknown from just looking at your hairline.

 

Good luck.

You mean there's a way to determine/estimate what NW I'm destined to become?

 

 

Just for comparison, here is what my hairline looked a year ago.