Photography should be comparable. I suspect that you believe that it is better, so it must be because you manage it, but it doesn’t show up well. Get more comparable photos or give it another 6-12 months and then the results should jump off the page, good luck!
Isn’t it true that even non balding men may have a percentage of miniaturized hair on their heads?
Yes, the normal man can have up to 20% of their hairs in a miniaturized state when you look at them under a hand microscope. When that number increases, it most likely reflects genetic balding in the typical male.
This patient has thinning in the front and top of their head. The leading edge of the frontal hairline shows loss of vellus hairs suggestive of an autoimmune disease such as LLP, FFA or CCA. This patient should NOT get a hair transplant because it will fail. This is why you need a skilled doctor who knows how to make a diagnosis that tells that this is not a hair transplant case
I have only really lost majority of my hair at the crown, some came back due to dermarolling. I’m not on fin or min ( body to sensitive also plan on having kids in the next 4-5 years). It it possible that if I improve my heart health, I can get some more hair back on my crown? Heart Health is proven to effect crown.
The finding that people with pure crown balding get heart disease is an observation in a number of publications. Putting hair in the crown doesn’t impact your heart or change the statistics, sorry!
I’m Male, 22 and had been using creatine for 3 months. I noticed my hair shedding and have been off it for around a month. However the hairfall has not stopped and my scalp still scratches. Any idea how I can reverse this damage? How long till my hair stops shedding? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
If there were steroids in it, you may have just accelerated your genetic hair loss but it is well known that Creatine causes hair loss on its own ( https://baldingblog.com/can-creatine-powder-cause-hair-loss/ )
This man took topical finasteride with minoxidil and applied it to the frontal hairline for 3 months and already has reversed some of the balding
Great results from using microneedling and minoxidil in combination after 4 months of use. Clearly the hair is longer in the After photos but I believe that the change is real.
Lowering a male hairline is a role for a hair transplant if you are over 25 years of age. I would not seek a hairline advancement surgery (another solution to high hairlines) because male pattern balding (genetic balding) might cause you to lose hair behind the surgery site and expose a scar: https://baldingblog.com/had-a-hair-transplant-at-21-now-at-22-he-has-more-hair-loss/. I would try to reverse the early hair loss with medications such as finasteride and minoxidil and with a little luck, you might get a response like this: https://baldingblog.com/10-months-on-finasteride-fantastic-result-photos/. You need a good doctor who cares about you and will build a Master Plan for you so that you will never look freaky while fixing your forehead or balding problem
I was on Androgel since august 2018 after being diagnosed at 208 nG/dL. The reason I got myself diagnosed in the first place was because of my high pitched voice and lack of (muscle) development. While I was on TRT, I did feel slightly stronger and my biceps did get bulkier and feel significantly firmer to the touch (and I don’t work out). However, around the turn of 2019 I noticed my hair was noticeably thinner. I had always had a dense forest of hair on my head ever since I remember. That changed only after I started TRT. I quit Androgel cold turkey in January, but the damage was done. My hair kept deteriorating so I got a DHT test: 747.67 pg/ml. (Normal range: 250 – 990)
I then got on Dutasteride for a month, but taking it didn’t seem to help so I tested my DHT again while I was on it: 1110.8 pg/ml.
I have since stuck to Finasteride, and my DHT levels dropped to 590 pg/ml then rose to 990 pgml. My ferretin was measured at 48 ng/ml on a range of 30 to 440.
My hair is worse than ever. I have a noticeable bald spot on my crown and my hairline has receded noticeably. My hair now parts naturally in a very noticeable path, looks like severe diffuse thinning. I started fin in march and mine in June, but my hair is worse than ever and sheds more than 100 hairs daily. Hair is frizzy and curly whereas it was straight before trt. Shed hairs are much thinner towards the bulb.
I wish I never took TRT. My hair was fine before TRT and that was not the only thing Androgel affected. I wish I could rewind time back to last year and convince my younger self not to make this irreversible decision.
Unfortunately, many men who go on Testosterone therapy lose their hair if they have the genes for balding. Many older man who had minimal hair loss and then take T therapy, start losing their hair big-time
Is there a way to check whether the hair loss is from chemical burns as opposed to a condition like alopecia?
If there is an event where a chemical burn could have happened, then the burn may limit some or all of the hair growth in the area where the burn happened. I generally say if hair has not grown in 8 months since the incident, then the chemical burn is permanent. Hair Transplants or Scalp Micropigmentation give solutions to this problem along with concealers like Toppik.
Microneedling stimulates the release various platelets, proteins, growth factors, stem cells and new vasculature resulting in the formation of collagen and activation of stem cells which may produce hair along with the healing process.
I suffer from MPB, which I’ve successfully been treating with RU58841 plus DHT-blocking shampoo+conditioner and obviously all the must-have daily supplements . My MPB has stopped, I shed zero hair, maybe 5 hairs every time I wash my hair. My hair’s very thick and dense. But my hair/hairline is still disgusting and I can’t style my hair the way I want to style it.In any way . The only difference between those photos and the current me is that my hair’s a bit longer now, hairline’s the same sadly and my eyebrows are now thick due to minoxidl on eyebrows.
A hair transplant clinic I’ve recently been to in person refused to give me a HT just for the temples, to fill them in, because apparently to them they wouldn’t be able to achieve the same density on the temples with the transplanted hair as my native hair so it’d look fake according to them. But I desperately want and need to not only reduce my forehead’s size which is absolutely disgusting to look at, but also to get my temples back. I’m still fucking ugly, and the first step to fix this problem would be to fix my forehead/hairline issue, I swear every time I look at my huge forehead and slick bald temples I feel throwing up on the spot.
So do I get a HT or a Forehead Reduction Surgery (aka hairline lowering surgery)?
In my opinion, young men should never get a hairline advancement surgery because young men don’t know where their hair is going to be lost. If the hair is lost behind where the advancement is, they are stuck with a surgical scar that will become progressively obvious. For many young women, hairline advancement surgeries work nicely because they don’t go on to recession of the hairline as young men do.
This article appeared in a respected medical journal and with a very small study suggests that Botox can help regrow hair
https://journals.lww.com/plasreconsurg/fulltext/2010/11000/Treatment_of_Male_Pattern_Baldness_with_Botulinum.79.aspx
Photos taken from 17-21 years of age daily in video format from Reddit. I would think that if he took finasteride, he might not have lost soo much hair, just speculating
My dermatologist is offering me to take fin. Im 22 and have a receding hairline, but it doesn’t look too bad yet. I wanna maintain my hair and be proactive, but I’ve been reading stories of fin accelerating their balding and not always regrowing what was lost from fin. I’m scared that this will happen to me. What are your guys experience with this?
Not a problem. Putting the side effects to the side, the only problem with finasteride is that in some men it doesn’t work well, but most men see a slowing of their hair loss or a complete stop of their hair loss. A 70 year old patient of mine was prescribed finasteride by his doctor for his prostate and he came to see me to show that he regrew much of his lost hair, with a big smile telling me that I won’t get any money for a hair transplant on him. Ha Ha I said.