I Made a Foolish Mistake in Experimenting with Anabolic Steroids — Now I’m Losing Hair!

Dear Dr. Rassman,

I am not 28 years old and made the foolish mistake of experimenting with anabolic steroids a few times a few years ago. My first two attempts, I had zero hair loss and then all of the sudden the third time I had quite a bit of hairloss in the diffused pattern all across the top. My question is was there a chance that I was not going to bald at all or was not balding at the time and the steroids started mpb that might not have started for another 10 years or not at all?? Just curious to if I would be losing any hair had I not experimented with the anabolics. Does it have the power to start mpb if you weren’t going to bald and can it start it up to 10 years earlier? I am asking this because my dad didn’t start to bald until his 40’s.

Thanks for the time.

Anabolic steroids can accelerate hair loss if you have the gene for male pattern hair loss. Even without taking anabolic steroids, you probably would have had hair loss at some point in your life. Anabolic steroids are illegal unless prescribed and managed by a physician and only for special health purposes. Anabolic steroids can not only accelerate hair loss (that is usually not reversible), it can also cause other medical problems such as liver damage, etc.