Is Thinning Hair Always Hair Loss?
Can a person who’s not balding have a certain degree of hair thinning? or is it that hair thinning has to be associated with hair loss?
I think I used this analogy before, but just because it is cloudy outside does not mean it will rain. Yet when it is raining, it is cloudy. In other words, hair thinning is just a state of the health of your hair and one part may thin while other parts may not — or all of it may thin. The cause is multifactorial, from nutritional status to drug exposure to aging to genetic balding. Thinning in a certain male pattern hair loss may potentially be an early sign of the genetic type. When a series of hair shafts are thinner than others (miniaturized), then this usually indicates something is wrong. There is no way to make this simple, so that is why people like us exist. We try to analyze what is happening to each patient, establish baselines for future hair loss, sort through the possibilities of causes, some of which may be correctable, and then suggest actions (medications to hair transplants) as they are appropriate to each of our patients.
About a year ago I shaved my head with a half inch gaurd..no hair loss…I moved home, baecame really stressed out, and by that I mean, i used to get panic attacks, and this time, it was like an all the time panic attack, for almost the past year, and always felt like I couldn’t breath b/c of it…I am just now getting over all of my stress ( started school again, was broke, 2 car accidents, etc.) I have thinning hair in the front, on the sdies, but it seems that the hairs alternate from resting stage, to sometimes growing…so my question is, does this look like it was stress related? By the way….from the time i shaved my head with clippers, to how thin it is now, was about 3 motnths, so pretty fast…do you think I have a shot at regrowth?? I have had a thyroid test, and all normal…