What’s the Fastest You’ve Seen Someone Lose Their Hair?

Hey Doc

Firstly huge thanks. When I finally realized I was balding scouring the internet was about the worst thing I could have done until finding your blog and information. I made the decision to get on propecia and take control. My question is about how fast balding can progress. What I mean is I know there is no specific timeline, but is it possible for someone who begins to notice their balding to progress extremely fast over a short period of time of say 6months – 1 year? Obviously the timeline varies but I just mean if you have seen cases that have progressed super fast in the form of MPB. If so what was the fastest you saw?

Again thanks for all your help here!

I think the fastest I’ve seen someone bald was in 4 months or so, when a 40 something year old man lost his young child. Hair loss from this absolutely terrible stress is well known. Some men may lose much of their hair in the period of one year when they are stressed (which accelerates the balding patterns in many men). Keep in mind I am sure the process started much earlier on, but the visible dramatic (socially visible) change can happen fast. Usually for those with the Norwood 6 or 7 destined gene, the balding process seems more dramatic as it happens earlier in life (often in a man’s 20s).

The Norwood scale is not necessarily a progression scale where one goes from a 3 to a 4 to a 5 to a 6 and to a 7 pattern. Most Class 7 pattern men will thin to that pattern without going through the other classes of balding.