Thinning in the Middle of My Hairline Started In My Mid 40s
I am a 48 year old male. About 3 years ago I started noticing significant amounts of hair in the shower after showering. I didn’t think much about about it because my very full head of hair didn’t look any different. About a month ago I noticed that I have thinning in the middle of my hairline. The thinning goes back about 1 cm and is about an inch wide. There is no thinning at the temples or the top of my head at all.
Could this be an unusual presentation of MPB or could it be something else? Note that I am vegan and at one time I did have a zinc deficiency. Also my thyroid was borderline low at my last physical. Please advise.
Thanks in advance
Unfortunately, I cannot really guess at what you have just based on an email, unless it seems specific and obvious. In other words, you’d need an examination. Keep in mind we have about 100,000 hairs on a non-balding scalp. You can lose 50,000 hairs and still look normal. If you have male pattern baldness, then it should occur in a pattern. Perhaps your hair loss is too early to see a pattern and it is just starting in the front? Maybe a miniaturization mapping to see the state of your hairs at a microscopic level may be helpful. You should see a doctor for this.
I am not sure how a zinc deficiency or being vegetarian has anything to do with what you describe.
Like the poster, I started noticing thinning at the hairline at age 48. There is no thinning on crown or sides. People still say, “Wow, what a head of hair for your age,” but I can see that the first 2cm in the front is not as thick as it used to be. The question is: is miniaturization the only way to tell whether this is just normal thinning as part of the aging process, or whether it is the start of male pattern baldness? I mean, the hair does get thinner by the time we hit 50, doesn’t it?