Do I have MPB or is it stress?

[DontKnowWhatToDo]

I was also eating quite a few eggs as i thought this was helping my hair but it clearly wasnt.

I am stressed out most of the time as it is, always nervous, always fidgeting, and coincidentally I too had recently significantly increased the amout of eggs I had been eating to try to bulk up. As it happens, nearly ALL of the hair I have been shedding recently has had the white bulbs on the end. I'm hopeful now

::fingers crossed::

[appleguy]

Hi,

I had excess sebhorreic oil which was causing my TE but it was also stress related due to what happened to me last year.

Apart from that no real updates. I am getting some regrowth but Donna told me it was fine Velus hair and over the next six weeks will get some Terminals coming through until that happens I won't see any cosmetic difference.

I never got any loss at the front mine was all on the crown.

I still get shed days which pisses me off mightily but as long as I am getting regrowth I'll be happy.

I feel the same as Fruit, a bit shattered over my hair since all this happened and feel like things have changed a bit for me.

[Fruit59]

Don't know,

I would go and see a hair and scalp specialist to diagnose the reasons why you are losing hair. I know it's a bit annoying but try to cut down on the foods mentioned above. Eggs, fish, fish supplements, seafood, and try to cut down on foods that are common for allergies, I.e wheat, milk etc.

Apple your lucky you've not lost from the hairline, problem with me is I already had a high hairline, infect when I look at previous photos taken a few years ago iam amazed at how high it looked but it didn't bother me one bit because I wasn't losing hair and my hair was really thick, I got loads of compliments when I cut my hair wasn't even an issue for me. But now I've noticed hairless I seen to be concentrating more on my hairline which is probably why I think it's receded. I don't know but I know I won't be able to go back to how I liked it.

[guile85]

Hey Ive had basically the same problems as fruit for the last year or so. Im 26 years old and always had a thick head of dark brown hair, widows peak and all. For the last year or so i was under extremely heavy stress about an 8 or so everyday up to about a 10 on a scale from 1-10. Also where i was living we had really funky water, if you put it in a cup it was light grey almost white ish. My mom started commenting that i was losing tons of chest, leg, head hair in the bathroom. And people at work started commenting on how i might go bald. I would wash my hair every day or so and it would never come clean. Almost like it was greasy and lifeless. My father and I both have the same receding hairline, my dads probably 52-53 been grey since his late 30's 40's more noticeable now but no real hairloss minus the receded hairline.And my mom has almost what i would call telogen effluvium where she has hair everywhere but it looks kinda thin in places and you can see scalp. Well anyway i lost my job and started really noticing it and freaking out. Almost as if my receded hairline was inching more towards the center of my head. If you look at my head in the mirror you could see hair every where on my head, but scalp showing plainly through. So i started taking multivitamins and introducing more fruits and vegatables into my diet, and have cut quite a bit of the stress out of my life. Im pretty sure the hair is now starting to grow back there are little sprouts about 3 inches long all around where i thought i was going bald (crown area). And on the back of my head the cowlick spot there is like a post of about 5 hairs comming right out of the cowlick. My sister inspected it tonight and said yes there is little hairs, they look sort of blondish though. I was wondering if this is TE or MPB or a combo of both? Should i take minoxdril or whatever its called?

[ThinFast]

A bit of a thread revival here, but I was wondering how you guys are doing that are on Donna's products? Also, have any of you been to see her lately? I had ordered a couple of bottles of shampoo from her over a month ago and received nothing. I did email her and she responded saying that the shipment must have been lost, said she was sending out a replacement shipment today. I am in the U.S., but I still am always suspicious of ordering things from overseas and via internet.

[appleguy]

She's not a fraud, I think sometimes she disappears up her own arse with work.
I seem to be doing reasonably well the condition is now under control she said I am 70% of the way there. I will soon begin to deplete per week what I use and ween myself off it.
I am getting regrowth but thin Velus hairs I will have to wait for them to thicken up which is taking a while.

[keepingmyhair]

I lurked through this thread, and wondering how you all have been coming along. I'm 28,and have an appointment tomorrow with a dermatology NP (nurse practioner) where I will go into a nervous breakdown if she tells me I've got MPB..

I went back 3 generations on both mother and father's sides and everyone is dead...with full hair. I've always had thick hair that stylists constantly compliment about how thick and gorgeous it is and how lucky I am.

Naturally, I took it for granted, as this past week, despite my hairline looking the same it always has as far as I can tell (always had the triangles in my temples since puberty) the crown of my head near my cowlick seems to either be thinning or just widening in general. Now that i'm obsessing over it I've noticed my whole head just appears sickly and not full and flowing like it used to be. My head has been itching and inflamed for six months but I've thought nothing of it until now (just figured it's dry..it's usually oily).

I do NOT want propecia/endocrine drugs. I already take Valium (nervous system drug), Prilosec (gastric system), and Inderal (blood pressure) I can't handle another one that turns me impotent. I like sex.

I've read of this stress related hair loss (TE) and I have pretty much been in non stop stress since December 2008. The past 2 months alone have included severe stomach flu/food poisoning and surgical routine endoscopy and colonoscopy with anaesthesia... Now I'm going to find out my crown is balding and will lose the only part of my body I have great self esteem for?!!

we don't have the trich specialty here in Florida, just dermatologists and some people say to go to endocrinologists because they can check all the hormone related stuff. UGH. I'M SO UPSET.

EDIT: I went back and viewed a video that I could see the back top of my cowlick exactly a year ago and I can see the same spot was already there.. I don't know what to make of it. Either i've always had this..or i've been going downhill for years and couldn't tell until randomly happening to notice it in 2 mirrors after my shower the other day. I wish my scalp would also stop itching. I've done some research but I can't tell if it's a good or bad sign for MPB diagnoses if your scalp is itching with inflammation.

[TiiWii]

Seems like TE will be something common in the future, with our stressed out society.

Ill tell you about my hair and then about my situation.

A month ago I noticed my crown was thinning severely. I had lots of hair on my head, but my crown was thin as hell. After visiting the barber for my usual 6-month cut (im cheap i only cut every half year) I could notice my crown was almost bald! Almost got a heartattack! Then I noticed my fronts sides were a "little" thin aswell and I thought I must be going bald.

The past 6 years ive been stressed to HELL in my university. Its been nightmare on earth, having a 3 year uni program take 6 years in total. Combine with all these sleepness nights a girlfriend who broke up with me in middle of it all and you could probably say I was depressed even though I didnt know it.
Uni was finally being completed when on the last exam the f*cking teacher had switched around everything and the exam was something totally different than I bargained for! My head became numb and I probably got my lifes first "shock" that didnt recover til 2 months later. I actually aced the exam anyway and now im graduated.

Anyway, 4 months after the exam this balding of the crown happened and atm im still reeling from 6 years of stress . Ive started exercising, ive started using some anti dandruff shampoo my doctor ordained me (about the hair in particular he wasnt an expert so he just presumed im balding even though my family history goes against it).
Im also using some davines products and now ill just see what happens. If its TE itll prob grow back since my stress is slowly going away. Ill update here over coming months what happens. Ill massage head too 10min a day since people say that might work.

Btw im 25 years old.

My scalp is also itching btw since previous guy mentioned his was.