Curious what norwood scale I am. Hairline corners receding for about a year

[PatientlyWaiting]

I'm not sure, and the dermatologist don't know either. It started last year, they treated it with corticosteroid injections 4 times and it went from bald to how it is now. the spots I outlined with red were completely hairless before treatment. I'm going to get a 5th injection later this month. I'm currently on a topical ointment named Clobetasol Propionate 0.05%, which was prescribed by my dermatologist. It hasn't done anything that I can see.

It's really frustrating battling both types of hair losses at the same time. And just when I started getting good results treating MPB last ear, was when alopecia areata came through to crash the party.

It just came like "Hold on, this party ain't over 'till I say I so hahaha *evil laugh*".

[Paulr1988]

That sucks dude, now you got me paranoid thinking I might get it haha

[Paulr1988]

I'm kidding I can only worry about mpb for and hope in not the 10% or whatever that sees no results

[PatientlyWaiting]

Before I got it, I read about it but never worried about it. I didn't think I was ever gonna get it. Then it just hit me midway through 22 last year.

[PatientlyWaiting]

If by any chance you saw the Spurs vs OKC game today, that's exactly the type of game i'm playing against hair loss. The refs are against me, they don't want me to win. It's rigged game. Just when I think I might win, I get hit with another BS type of hair loss.

I won't give up, not any time soon, especially not with the new treatments coming soon. But it makes it hard to keep fighting it at this moment. I've at least arrested my hair loss. I have the same amount of hair I had in 2010, minus the patches. I guess that's a positive.

[Paulr1988]

I definitely watched it I'm from Dallas but went to OU. Haha that's quite a comparison

[Paulr1988]

I keep hearing about these new treatments but I also hear doubts about them actually coming out. Hopefully I can stick with propecia (if it works) for a while and wait for something to develop. Like I said earlier, my father has been using propecia for over 10 years and has maintained just about everything in that time span

[PatientlyWaiting]

I'm not form Texas, but I grew up a Spurs fan because of Duncan and Robinson. You know the NBA wants to see OKC vs Heat. They don't want the old guys like Duncan and Garnett in the finals. So many bullsh-t calls on the Spurs, and OKC could get away with anything.

[PatientlyWaiting]

Finasteride has definitely arrested my hair loss I can't complain about that. What I haven't gotten was much regrowth not even from minoxidil.

What I think about the new treatments that are "5 years away" or are coming out in "2015", is that they will either not live up to the hype, or they will work but will cost an arm and a leg and I will just be forced to stay on finasteride or dutasteride.

[Paulr1988]

Agreed. There were definitely a number of bs calls. I strongly dislike the Spursbecause I'm a Mavericks fan, much havingmuch respect for there organization/team. Going to the University of Oklahoma, I kept hearing all these kids from OKC talk trash on the Mavs so by default I have to hate them back haha

[Paulr1988]

For some reason, I just have this fear that I'll be a non-responder.

[PatientlyWaiting]

Lol, I have family in Dallas, an uncle and two cousins. They are Mavericks fans.


How's that been going so far? The finasteride. It's been a month yet?

I remember one month in, it stopped my hair loss dead in it's tracks. And has basically kept it there for 1 year and 6 months. But you shouldn't panic if the same doesn't happen to you. I never got an initial shed or any kind of shed, which is bad for me. Because sheds mean you'll regrow I think. All fin did for me was just stop it. I have never gone through a "shed" on fin, I don't think I even get the normal shed that every one gets. I can rub my head with shampoo really hard and if i'm lucky I can see about 2-3 hairs on each hand.

[Paulr1988]

Yeah I've never had a shed. It's been about 3 months and with the minimal amount of hairloss I have, it's really hard for me to tell a difference. My crown looks much thicker, but i dont think i was losing hair there in the first place. The hairline corners still have fine hairs and are very thin and I definitely haven't seen any regrowth. I'm not sure about maintenance, I'll have to see if it gets worse as the months go by

[Paulr1988]

You say it stopped your hair loss in one month? Were you losing hair that quick, to the point where you could see additional hairloss month to month prior to propecia?

[PatientlyWaiting]

Yeah, I was losing a crazy amount of hair. My mother was seeing the hairs every where in the bathroom. I would rub my head downward and it's like snow falling down, but only it was hair.

Then the hair fall was getting less and less noticeable by the weeks. Finally at one month, I was seeing no hair falling at all. It's been like that ever since. I might have regrown some, who knows, but it's not noticeable to me. I suspect my left temple regrew some hair and that's about it.