Hair Loss & Replacement Blog

I am a 24 year old male.

No one in my family lost their hair. NO ONE! I have uncles in their 70’s with full heads of hair. Its white, but still there. Dad, brothers, and uncles all have their hair. And I mean all of it. Same goes for cousins. The women have their hair also. About 3 months ago I lost the corner of my hair line. Not the temple, but the corner. Its right where the hairline meets the temple. It just came out over a period of about 2 weeks. There is a gap there about the width of my thumbnail. It goes straight back about 1/2 an inch. Now the same has happened on the other side only its a bit bigger. Now I’m noticing thinness on the top of my head. The stylist thought I was a bit paranoid, but when my hair is wet I can see plenty of scalp in pictures I’ve taken of my crown. Pictures show hair growing out of the scalp but it clumps together to look like a gap. Its wet when I do this so maybe I am just paranoid. The hair loss at the corners of my hairline is real though. She noticed it too. About 3-4 months prior to the hair loss I underwent serious stress. Landlords tried to evict me (it got nasty and I had to get a lawyer). I bombed a very important standardized test (So important the results have completely altered my life plans) and a relative died. All of this occurred over a 3 week period of time. When I’m stressed I put my hand in my hair and pull at the hair line. Not really hard but I’ll rest my head on my hand and forcefully pull my hand through my hair a couple times. On occasion I’ll pull at my crown. I figured my genes would protect me from doing any damage plus it wasn’t so hard that it hurt. Could the stress itself, the fussing with my hair, and a bad college diet mimic a receding hairline. I’m going to a dermatologist but I fear the worst (Male Pattern Baldness).

I read about a maturing hairline on baldingblog.com , but I don’t know. No one in my family has that. I’m freaking out right now. I don’t want to lose my hair. Have I just got some mutant gene? I always had incredibly thick hair. I mentioned that I had a bad diet. I would sometimes eat only once a day. About 3-4 days a week. Usually pizza or something. Other days I would have an apple and some salami for lunch and maybe a steak or chicken fingers for dinner. No sides with dinner though. Would continuing this diet for two semesters be this harmful? I barely ate at all Freshman year (just graduated this semester) and nothing bad happened. I don’t have an eating disorder just a budget disorder. Oh. I also take copious antacids. I have ulcers. I read they can reduce your body’s ability to absorb nutrients.

My doctor is very busy and I have to wait almost a month. Is there anything I should bring up to her in particular? Any advice on what I just wrote would be very very helpful. No provillus pitches please. I get it. It’s a helpful in treating hair loss. Now that you know I know you don’t have to tell me again.

I know that some men don’t get male pattern baldness but some guys do.

I am going bald. Just want to let you know that I have not had sex in 10 days, no masturbation nothing.

My hair seems to have stop shedding so much. NOT really sure but It seems stronger.

Wanted to know if some guys with male pattern baldness have noticed fewer hair loss if they abstain from maturbation or sex.

Some lucky guys don’t get bald, but for the guys that do, I think ejaculating might speed up the process of lossing hair.

70% of body heat escapes through a human being’s head. Does this have a relationship with male pattern baldness?

People in my family don’t suffer from male pattern baldness(immediate family)and I would like to keep it that way, I’m considering having children but I want the girl that I have them with to come from a family that doesn’t have a high likelihood of mpb, especially the kind where all the hair disappears from the top of the head and only the hair on the sides remain

My hair has been thinning out over the top of my head and the crown (the sides and lower rear of the head are fine), but my hairline hasn’t receded at all. It’s been going on since September of last year, and I’m not entirely sure of what the cause is.

Is it possible this is male pattern baldness, even though there’s no receding?

I’m having the genes of male pattern baldness kick in at age 23. I am very aware of the stigma this brings living in America in 2008. Is there such an emphasis placed on mens hairlines in other countries around the world, say Europe for example? Do they spend as much as we do advertising and consuming "remedies" to deal with mens hair loss?

From which part of the family comes the gene responsible for the male pattern baldness. From the father on your mother side or your dads side???

I’ve been working out since September of last year, but I’ve only really starting working out on a consistent basis (3 times per week) since January. Oddly enough, I find that my hair has thinned out, on the top of my head, considerably over the past five months. I already have a little bit of a receding hairline, but it’s not noticeable at all, but now that my hair around it is thinning out, I’m beginning to look noticeably balding.

I know male pattern baldness is unpreventable, but I find that it’s pretty coincidental that my hair overall is thinning out at the same time as I began to seriously work out.

Exercising DOES increase testerostone (DHT) in your body, but does it ever increase it enough to accelerate hair loss this rapidly? I’m not taking anything (supplements, drugs, medication) at all. I am working out au naturel. Has anyone ever had this experience, or know of anyone who had this happen to them?

hi – My BF is 25 and he has been loosing his hair since he was about 20 – it started out as a little spot in the back and now that spot is pretty bald and the top of his head is getting pretty thin – I guess that is male pattern baldness….what is strange is that his whole family has a ton of hair – even his grandparents in their 80’s! It frankly doesn’t bother me – and I would love him even if he was totally bald – but he is very upset about it and wants to know what products would help — like Rogaine for men and things of that sort — he was actually thinking of getting a hair transplant done – but I want him to try other options first —

Your experience and advice would be great!

thanks!