Category: Hair Loss Causes

Hello Doctor. I have not found a satisfactory answer to my question. Please help me.

I am a 43 year old Caucasian male. I started losing hair at the crown at 36 years old. I have baldness on the crown (8cm in diameter). I have a few strands at the crown that are healthy. I’ve always had great hairline corners that have advanced very little (especially at the temples). My baldness would crown with NW2 NW3. I still have very straight hair, bulky, and heavy on my head. I have plans to have surgery at 46 years old because it will be the best time for me.

My questions are:

1) My crown will increase in size?
2) At what age can I feel safer?

Please, I know that the answers are hypothetical. But I wonder if baldness never ends.

Congratulations for your work. Thanks for your replies. Sorry my english.

You may continue to lose more hair in the crown, but I have no way to know for sure without examinations. There’s also no way for me to give you an age at which your hair loss will stop. Everyone is different, and there’s no math that will tell me exactly how long someone loses hair for.

The best treatment for crown loss is the drug finasteride, which is available by a doctor’s prescription (talk to your doctor).

A quick question that I haven’t seen addressed on here.

I had a bout of trichotillomania that lasted a few years and left a small sparsely populated patch just to the left of my crown. The reason I pulled from that area was that I had some hairs there that grew in very kinked and coarse; they were jet black and sort of twisty. My hair is normally dark brown and straight.

What causes those differently-textured hairs? Do they forecast hair loss?

Thank you!

Sometimes hair color and characteristics may vary in individuals. It can be totally normal. Kinked or coarse hairs do not forecast hair loss.

Hello,
Can Androgenic Miniaturization occur in the eyebrows and eyelashes. I hear many reports that hair loss in these areas must be something else. I have exhausted all other possibilities; hormone checks, diet, fitness training, you name it. The hairs fell out in unison and the ones that grew back grew in thin and fragile. Could you tell me if Telogen Effluvium can present with the loss if thick hairs being replaced with thin (shaft diameter) slow growing hairs

I don’t know much about you and I obviously cannot diagnose your condition, but telogen effluvium can causes eyebrow loss in some cases. Some people just lose the outer 1/3 of their eyebrows as they age. If you have exhausted all possibilities and ruled out all medical issues, eyebrow hair transplantation may be an option. Have you seen a doctor?

Hi there, i just found your website and it is great.

I am a 26 year old white male. In 2006-07 i did a tour in Iraq. About a month before i headed back to the U.S. i developed a bump on my scalp, almost like a cyst or a boil. It came to a head and popped, but i noticed a bald spot in that place.

A few weeks later two bumps appeared and now 5 years later it has basically spread across the entire crown of my head sometimes one or two will appear close to my neckline also up top near my forehead.

I have mentioned this to my VA doctor and told him i want referred to a dermatologist or someone specializing in scalp conditions. He takes pictures and then i never hear anything again.

These bumps are extremely painful, sometimes causing me sleepless nights. I have researched and researched and dissecting cellulitus seems to resemble it the most.

Are there any shampoos that you recommend? Any advice will be taken very seriously, i am tired of, not only the pain, but the embarrassment of my scarred scalp and puss filled bumps.

Thank you for your time.

Based on what you’ve described, this sounds like carbunculosis, which is a contagious folliculitis (infections of the hair follicles) that moves from one hair follicle to another. The causes of this are bacteria or fungi, so a culture of one of these boils should be done by one of your doctors and the treatment will be determined once the cultures are reported back.

I am surprised that you are struggling to find a doctor who can make this diagnosis.

Snippet from the article:

Forget hair transplants, pills and hair regrowth serums. A University of Pennsylvania researcher has a better alternative for balding men: shave it all off.

In three experiments, researcher Albert Mannes, a lecturer at the Wharton School at U. Penn — and a balding man himself — found that guys with shaved heads are not only perceived by others as more manly and dominant than other men, but also taller, stronger and having greater potential as leaders.

Read the rest — Shave It Off! How Bald Guys Can Look More Manly and Dominant

We have been performing Scalp MicroPigmentation to give a balding shaved head the appearance of a full-looking, non-balding shaved head, and it is quite popular. Of course, we also provide hair transplants for men that don’t necessarily agree with this researcher’s experiments. Different strokes for different folks.