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You should see a doctor who specializes in hair, get a diagnosis which looks like early male pattern balding, and get treated for it with two drug options that work well for someone of your age (finasteride and minoxidil).

The pictures show nice filling in hair behind the hairline. It may still get better in the next year if you keep it up.

I am devastated. No girl would even talk with me. I feel like I have been isolated from everything that someone of my age should be involved in. I never take off my baseball hat anywhere I go.

Topical finasteride with minoxidil might work and is worth a try if you can’t handle the oral finasteride but considering your age I would want to work a Personalized Master Plan with you so we could plan for your future professionally. You might respond to the use of a dermaroller as well if you add it to your routine and apply the minoxidil immediately after using it.

I believe it is much better after a year. What do you think doctor?

Because your hair is curly and you can’t replicate the exact same hair style and hair length, you must use subjective evidence of the value of the year on minoxidil unless you were checked with the HAIRCHECK test (https://baldingblog.com/haircheck-test-how-it-is-done-video/) which will give you a clear measurement of what has happened to your hair over the past year. Everyone who cares about their hair should do this if you are going to take the time and spend the money on saving your hair. See this post: https://baldingblog.com/follow-haircheck-test-5-years/

I‘m about to do one at the age of 25. However since I’m not an extreme case (a slower hair loss) I’m scared that my hair behind the new implanted hair will fall out. How often does this happen? Will this happen if I don’t use finasteride?

The key to doing a hair transplant is to develop a Master Plan with your doctor. Balding develops patterns that are inherited from your family. Depending upon the pattern you inherited, the balding will progress sooner or later to your inherited pattern and if you start having a hair transplant now, you will have to accept that you will follow the hair loss until your hair loss pattern is reached by having more hair transplants. Of course, the reason for a Master Plan is to know where your hair loss is going and if you have enough donor hair to follow that pattern. You never want to look ‘half done’ which would happen if you did not plan properly. After a hair transplant in someone of your age, shock loss may develop which is common in men in their 20s (an acceleration of the hair loss process) so to avoid this, the drug finasteride is the ONLY drug that can stop shock loss in its tracks.

When the hair is cut short, it is easier to see the benefits of microneedling plus minoxidil. This combination works well when hair loss is early.

As men get older, their testosterone often drops along with the DHT levels in their blood. That is why balding reduces. Actually, when DHT levels are the highest in your teens and early 20s, the impact of the DHT on genetic balding is highest also?. For women it works in the reverse because the high estrogen levels of fertile females, counter balances any androgen (testosterone is an androgen) her body produces and genetic balding it put at bay.

in reference to a quote at the end of this article:

Link: Baldness cure could be for sale in just two years

I am concerned that in the next two years they will come up with a drug that will retain hair, and I (25 yo male) will be the last generation of bald people. The rest of my life it won’t be normal to be bald…. urgh? do any of these ‘on the horizon’ cures actually regrow hair???

I wrote about the possibility of the baldness cure being just a couple years away here.

You’re assuming a lot to suggest that it won’t be normal to be bald for the rest of your life, and even then, there are options like Scalp MicroPigmentation (SMP), hair transplantation, and even medication, to make it so that you don’t appear bald. I expect that we’re more than just two years away from the cure being a reality, but research is ongoing. And even if balding is somehow completely eradicated for future generations, there will still be millions of men around the world that have hair loss, so I wouldn’t get too worked up about it being abnormal.