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I’m 17 Years Old and Just Found a Bald Spot!

I just recently noticed a bald spot on the back of my head. I’m only 17, and both of my parents (who are in their mid 40’s) are yet to show any signs of baldness. Yet, I appear to be going bald before I’m legally even adult.

If you guys could help me out, that would be great. I’m sort of freaking out right now. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you so much!

It could be early balding or possibly something else. Genetic balding can skip generations and come from either side of the family line, so just because your parents aren’t showing any hair loss, it doesn’t mean you’re automatically in the clear.

I strongly suggest that you see a good doctor and get a proper diagnosis. Sorry, there’s not much I can offer you advice-wise beyond that.

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I’m 20 and thinking about a hair transplant

Hello, I am currently a 20 year old college student with a big hairline recession and also thinning hair. It is not that bad, but it is definitely something that is causing me a lot of anxiety and stress. I am entering my 6th month on finasteride and have been on and off minoxidil for about a year. I have not seen any progress and fear it is just getting worse. I really want to get a transplant but feel I may be too young. Any advice on when in life is best for this or if finasteride will eventually start working?

Don’t do a hair transplant until you are at least 25-6. At that time, your final pattern of balding will be evident, and you can build a personalized master plan with a good doctor for your future hair loss, which will continue to occur even at 26. Finasteride will slow, stop, or reverse the hair loss. It is not uncommon for reversal at age 20.

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1 year on finasteride (photo)

This is a predictable response for finasteride. This drug works best on the crown and it is more predictable with response in the crown when compared to the frontal area. The older you are, the less responsive the frontal reversal will be.

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I’m 23. How Do I Stop Losing My Hair?

Get a good doctor who will do a HAIR CHECK test (https://baldingblog.com/haircheck-test-how-it-is-done-video/ ) to see how much hair you lost. After, consider going on minoxidil and finasteride and repeat the test in a year to see your benefit, if any. It gives you numbers to use like measuring your height when you were 6 years old, and your mom put a line on the wall and watched you grow.


2019-10-29 14:33:54I’m 23. How Do I Stop Losing My Hair?

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I’m 30 and now losing a lot of hair

It sounds like you’re way better off than me. I’m 31 and I’m pretty much a diffuse NW5 right now, and exactly 1 year ago I was pretty much a NW2 with some diffuse. I had massive hair loss over the course of one year. The amount of hairs I was losing every day when I had my hair super long were in the several hundreds. If you’re only losing a hair or two when you run your hands, or only 10 or so hairs in the shower, you should be okay. You can try to look into a LLLT helmet, I bought one back in November and have been using it pretty much all the time. Not sure how much it’s really helping my case because I’m in shit at this point, but for your situation it may be perfect.

Find out if you are really losing hair with a HAIRCHECK test ( https://baldingblog.com/haircheck-test-how-it-is-done-and-what-its-value/ ) and the build a Master Plan with a good doctor who cares about you, not your money.


2019-07-17 14:57:50I’m 30 and now losing a lot of hair

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100% Donor Scar Elimination?

Dr. Rassman,

Do you think that 100% elimination of donor scars will be possible in the future? Technology is always improving and it seems like scars could be emliminated. Are there any other possibilities other than Juvista and Acell that are being researched? Thank you for all the helpful information.

Scarring happens as a result of all surgeries. There is no such thing as 100% elimination of a scar and treatments like Juvista and Acell will not dispose of scars entirely. The key to dealing with scars is to keep them very, very small. In the case of a donor scar, it can be as small as 1mm wide naturally in good healers, or reduced to that level on occasion. For bad healers, there really is no solution. By “bad healers” I mean those people who stretch their scars after the wound has healed.

Techniques such as the trichophytic closure repair of a wound in the donor area works well in many, but not all patients. For more info on the trichophytic closure technique, see here and here.

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I’m a Norwood 2 with Family History of Hair Loss, But I Want My Hairline Thicker

In the norwood scale, I beleive that I am a 2. Frontal hair line receding. I’ve done some research about hair loss, and It’s said that there’s nothing I can do to bring back my hair. Now, I can still see some thin short hairs on my hairline where its receding I was told that If I take an “ext therapy” (ext is based on shampoo,conditioners with midoxil and midoxidil pills)I will see some results. since the hairs are thin and not dead, they say that I will get results.If I can just make these little hairs thicker, I will be ok.I just dont know who to believe. And I would hate to spend $3k. Can anything make my hairline thicker? I am currently taking propecia for 3 months. I am 27yrs with history of hairloss in family. I am also considering an fue transplant, since I keep my hair really short, it’s said that that is my best option, since I am in a scale of 2, I dont really want surgery.

Without seeing you right up close and mapping out your hair for miniaturization, I really can not render an opinion. I have seem many men who are afraid of their family balding pattern, fearful that it may hit them. Some, obsess over it and want to jump into the hair transplant process way too early for me. Why are you so motivated to fill the doctor’s wallet? I make my living doing hair transplants, so I don’t make money when I turn down a patient for surgery, and yet I turn down people for surgery all of the time because it is moral to do so. Any hair transplant surgery in a typical Norwood Class 2 patient is not only unethical from the doctors perspective, but also bad for the patient both short and long term. Starting a hair transplant guarantees a long term plan with more transplants if and when the balding occurs.

What is your total hair donor supply? That is a critical question for anyone undergoing a hair transplant so that a reasonable Master Plan can be created to keep the patient looking normal for their entire life. Having some degree of balding is normal, but becoming a freak because you may have jumped the gun and used up your donor hair (especially if the donor supply is low) is the wrong thing for young men.

I would suggest that you find an ethical, competent doctor who will treat you like you were one of his sons. I am glad that you ended the post with “I don’t really want surgery,” but many doctors who chase your money will try to talk you out of that position and scare the hell out of you with visions of balding that may not even be in your future. Just be careful.


2009-07-21 12:28:27I’m a Norwood 2 with Family History of Hair Loss, But I Want My Hairline Thicker