I am 26 years old and I am going bald. My hair is brown on the edges but it has turned blonde on the top. I used to think the sun bleached it but I think going bald has something to do with it. Is the hair turning from brown to blonde in the balding area connected with going bald?

When the hair miniaturizes, it often loses pigment and will get lighter. I can not tell you what is happening to you without seeing you myself. You need a diagnosis. Get your hair mapped out for miniaturization and find out if you have male pattern baldness (MPB).

Doctor, this is an amazing story that I’d like you to read! Please read, and you’ll be amazed at how some clinics are misleading people into spending hundreds of dollars to cure hair loss.

I’ve had a receding hairline for the past few months, and I’m only 18 years old. So I visit a really reputed homeopathy clinic,and this is what they tell me. ‘Your hair loss is due to bad water in your locality. The water in your locality is too harsh’. Is this true? Does hard water really cause hair loss? If so,then why don’t more and more people lose their hair in my area? I ended up reading a couple of your posts on water quality and understood more.

Then,here was their second reason. ‘There is also a lot of pollution in your area,which is causing this hair loss. You need to be careful about smoke. Also,try not to smoke or inhale smoke, it causes rapid hair loss’. This startled me very much. I felt like everything in this world causes hair loss. They did no miniaturization or pull-tests on me,just directly gave me reasons why I was losing hair-without first checking if I actually was losing or not.

They charged me $100 for this non-sensical stuff.

Now here were the solutions. They prescribed a weird shampoo which was going to combat all my hair loss woes. The shampoo claimed to restore any man’s “crowning glory” within 30 days. This shampoo cost $60. Secondly, they told me to use some strange-smelling oil that cost $35 for a 50 ml bottle. They then prescribed a second sitting a month from the first one.

A friend of mine went to this same ‘reputed’ clinic and told them he smoked. And immediately, they told him that smoking was causing his hair to grey at the age of 18. My friend never knew his hair was greying! And then they tell him that a lot of his hair would grey by the age of 21. They then prescribed him the same shampoo that they prescribed to me.

I’m glad I didn’t listen to them and did not buy any of those strange products. I did go to them for my second sitting (it was included in the cost of the first one). I then told them what I learnt from your blogs-like the only drug approved for hair loss was Propecia, and then asked them about tests for miniaturization and such, and they were dumb-founded. They only mentioned to me that their products were ‘herbal’ and ‘safe’,and that a lot of patients had good results with them. They then showed me before and after pictures of some patients, which looked quite fake.

I then decided to go to a ‘real’ clinic, with internationally acclaimed trichologists. And they told me that I wasn’t even losing hair after doing the tests. They said that I currently had a normal hairline, albeit matured, but it wouldn’t be wise to think that that would be the same for the rest of my life, and told me to get a test done once I turned 19 to see if I need any Finara (which is Finasteride here).

It pains me to see people get fooled this way, and those who actually spend money on the weird products sold. I did waste roughly $100 on stupid things, but well, it was educational after all!

Thanks for sharing this with us. As I have said over and over again, let the buyer beware! This is an important lesson you have learned, and I hope your story helps others. Some people, however, need to learn the same lessons on their own.