18 Year Old Female with Thinning Hair

I am an 18 year old female college student and I have been noticing for about 3 months that right at my bang area, my hair is thinning and I can see my scalp. It not real bad, I mean you cant look at me and say your going bald.I am the only on that notices it. So yeah its not in horrible condition to where it is noticable. I just see it because of cousre I am a girl and look for things like that. What could it be: stress, diet, dying my hair? How can I help my problem? Please help me it bothers me so much even though its hardly noticable except by me when im staring at it…HELP!!

There is a typical female pattern of hair loss just behind the first 1/3 inch of hairline, in the area of the forelock. Whatever you have, you need to see a doctor who can evaluate you in person for miniaturization and determine if you do have female genetic balding. For your peace of mind, you should know that there are things that can be done for it. Overall testing of women for a variety of conditions are well discussed in this blog (see Female Hair Loss category).