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What to do next? (Same story, same concerned youth)
Hello people, I've been reading this forum now for the past few weeks and I know these questions come up a lot but please bare with me. 
I'm 19 and have been shedding hair around my pillow for probably around 6 months. I have very thick and above average length hair (though not beyond the shoulders) so I assumed this was normal and thought nothing of it.
A few months later I then noticed what I assumed was a mature hairline that had probably been developing for quite some time. This seemed a normal trait on my mother's side and it wasn't really that bad so once again I thought nothing of it.
It wasn't until I went on holiday where I used a different bathroom with very strong lighting that I noticed visibility on the scalp, particularly near to the crown and I was able to see more visibility on the scalp in general if I attempted to lift certain parts of my hair. After being in denial for about a week I begun to accept that this wasn't normal and made an appointment with the doctor.
My mother was constantly trying to reassure me that I wasn't going bald, that I had her family's hair and that this was all normal, my dad however had quite a bit of rapid hair loss in his early twenties. Even though I have very little in common with my dad's hair both in texture and crown growth I wasn't going to take any chances.
I went to the GP a few days ago and she believed that I was thinning. Obviously I asked about medication but she didn't seem to be in the know of these things, flat out telling me that "the practice doesn't give out propecia" and also having to look up a medical book to know what Minoxidil is and telling me it's pointless as it would hardly grow any hair at all, that I should accept the "cursed" genetics and let it go.
My hair loss at the moment is what I consider minuscule and impossible to notice from an outsider unless they did a thorough examination, but I'm quite neurotic about these things and if I don't at least try and slow down the hair loss at the least I will obsess over it until it kills me.
My question is this: based on the pictures below what should I do next? Propecia is out of the question as I can't get a prescription (and to be honest the less side-effect prone medications are preferable) I'm a uni student so I don't have a huge amount of money but definitely enough to get something of a reasonable price. I would love to be able to hang on to some of my hair for 10 years as (from what I've read) new treatments may very well be just around the corner and taking care of this will allow me to finally sleep easy for the first time in a month.
Thanks for any help, and I'm sorry if the worry of my hair comes across as petty at this point but I'd like to combat it as early as possible.
I'm 19 and have been shedding hair around my pillow for probably around 6 months. I have very thick and above average length hair (though not beyond the shoulders) so I assumed this was normal and thought nothing of it.
A few months later I then noticed what I assumed was a mature hairline that had probably been developing for quite some time. This seemed a normal trait on my mother's side and it wasn't really that bad so once again I thought nothing of it.
It wasn't until I went on holiday where I used a different bathroom with very strong lighting that I noticed visibility on the scalp, particularly near to the crown and I was able to see more visibility on the scalp in general if I attempted to lift certain parts of my hair. After being in denial for about a week I begun to accept that this wasn't normal and made an appointment with the doctor.
My mother was constantly trying to reassure me that I wasn't going bald, that I had her family's hair and that this was all normal, my dad however had quite a bit of rapid hair loss in his early twenties. Even though I have very little in common with my dad's hair both in texture and crown growth I wasn't going to take any chances.
I went to the GP a few days ago and she believed that I was thinning. Obviously I asked about medication but she didn't seem to be in the know of these things, flat out telling me that "the practice doesn't give out propecia" and also having to look up a medical book to know what Minoxidil is and telling me it's pointless as it would hardly grow any hair at all, that I should accept the "cursed" genetics and let it go.
My hair loss at the moment is what I consider minuscule and impossible to notice from an outsider unless they did a thorough examination, but I'm quite neurotic about these things and if I don't at least try and slow down the hair loss at the least I will obsess over it until it kills me.
My question is this: based on the pictures below what should I do next? Propecia is out of the question as I can't get a prescription (and to be honest the less side-effect prone medications are preferable) I'm a uni student so I don't have a huge amount of money but definitely enough to get something of a reasonable price. I would love to be able to hang on to some of my hair for 10 years as (from what I've read) new treatments may very well be just around the corner and taking care of this will allow me to finally sleep easy for the first time in a month.
Thanks for any help, and I'm sorry if the worry of my hair comes across as petty at this point but I'd like to combat it as early as possible.
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