17 y/o female with possibly PCOS and hair loss

More and more often I’m getting comments from my family about having a balding area right in the front of my hairline. I’m only 17, and my mom and older brother don’t have any kind of hair loss like I do.  I’ve speculated that I have PCOS because of hair growth around my neck and missing periods and I didn’t know if hair loss was linked to that. Do any of you have advice or have battled this issue? It’s very embarrassing especially as a woman to have hair loss and I hope I can reverse these effects somehow before it becomes obvious to everyone around me.

Women with PCOS often get ‘male like presentations’ in their hair loss with hairline changes. The good news is that most PCOS women don’t bald to the extremes of men. See your OB/GYN and find out if you have PCOS. If you do, sit down with a good hair expert to map out what you are going to do about the hair loss.