Hair Loss & Replacement Blog

i’m 27 years old and although I have a full head of hair , it is definitely not as thick as it used to be when I was a teenager. And this is referring to my entire head. It’s been like this for a few years as my entire hair has gone from thick texture to medium texture. Although it’s still dense and there’s a lot of hair, my hair is oily and it can easily clump together and show scalp lines at some areas of my head (mainly the sides and from the top)…much like if my hair was parted.
There’s a slight recession on my head but my hair restoration doctor said it’s not bad enough to do something about it and it’s been stable over the year with no real change.

Could this overall thinning from thick to medium be due to age? I’m only 27 so is this something people go through? My whole entire hair has gone through texture change not just certain spots but I still have a full head of hair

genetic hairloss runs in my father’s side of the family (father/uncle) so I decided to seek a hair restoration surgeon to check the health of my hair. Aside from a small recession in the front, I still have a full head of hair, however, this doctor used some microscope to check my scalp and it showed some of the hairs were miniaturizing. He prescribed some drug called finasturide 5mg and said it was probably genetic loss since I told him it ran in my dad’s family. I look in the mirror and I still have a full head of hair, so I don’t think I buy into what this doctor says. My dermatologist says as we age, we all miniaturize, it is just part of getting older and if I don’t show any visible signs I should be ok. I don’t think I’m going to take this medication for life per that hair surgeon’s advice just because I have a full of head of hair right now. What do you think?

Recently, I’ve been curious about hair loss, for a couple of years I’ve had a very tiny recession but still have a full head of hair throughout. I went to see this hair restoration doctor in NYC, well-known in the field and provided free consultation but I felt rushed through it, he put some device called the densitometer on me, a device that none of the dermatologists or other hair specialists knew about and said that I exhibited very early signs of genetic hair loss.I told him my father started losing hair and thinning at 46 (56 now) so he immediately prescribed Propecia, he rushed me through the whole consultation and I didnt really get my questions answered well (a lot of I dunno). The whole experience made me unsure whether if I should trust him and spend the /mo on Propecia for life if right now I have a full head of hair.I saw a derm and a trichologist and he thought it’s not serious at the moment but if i start to exhibit signs then take it or take it to protect it.
I told the hair doc what my derm/trichologist thought…he got angry and told me to go back to see him, he thought maybe he did rush me through and he’d like to do this thoroughly this time around. The fact he wasn’t like this the first time doesn’t make me want to trust him. What do you think?