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

[Paulr1988]

I don't think you're even losing your hair, I think your hairline is maturing. A lot of guys will recede to where you are headed and then stop for many years, if their hair loss ever gets worse at all. I'd go see a doctor who can look for miniaturization and tell you if you even need to take Propecia. If so, I think it will definitely halt your hair loss.

Ryan555:

Thanks for the response. Although it does appear my hairline is maturing, the fact that the hairs are thinning and miniaturizing (which may be hard to see in the pictures)indicates some form of MPB. Since I have been taking propecia for 3 months given by a doc, hopefully it will work. I think my widow's week (which I have always had) accentuates my hairline corner recession

[ryan555]

Ryan555:

Thanks for the response. Although it does appear my hairline is maturing, the fact that the hairs are thinning and miniaturizing (which may be hard to see in the pictures)indicates some form of MPB. Since I have been taking propecia for 3 months given by a doc, hopefully it will work.

If the hair in your hairline is miniaturizing, that is all normal. It is going to miniaturize before it falls out. If the hair behind your hairline on the top and back of your head are showing a lot of miniaturization, then yes that would indicate hair loss.

[Paulr1988]

Ok, that's good news because I definitely am not losing any hair on the back or top of my head.

[yeahyeahyeah]

Go look at any white guy in his 30's with a full head of hair and 90% of the time you will see a hairline that is a couple centimeters higher than it was in his teens. Look at Ryan Reynolds, Johnny Depp, Anderson Cooper, George W. Bush, etc. Most of the celebrities who have low, juvenile hairlines have had them transplanted, like George Clooney, Sean Penn, etc. Very few caucasian men keep the low hairline they had as children, but this is different from balding. The poster of this thread has seen some recession at the corners and temples, but not in the front yet, so it looks more receded than it is. If his hairline is indeed maturing, he will eventually begin to see some recession in the front so that it comes to balance with the sides and then it will stop. The only way to tell for sure is to see a doctor who can look for miniaturization with a digital microscope or a bulk analysis tool. If the level of miniaturization behind the hairline is the same as in the "permanent zone," then you are not balding and you don't need hair loss meds. You do have to learn to accept that your adult hairline is going to look different than when you were a child.

Aside from George W bush, the rest have always had the V shaped hairline.

[ccmethinning]

It's always a bit tougher to tell with guys that have a widows peak.

What I see though is a NW 1.5 "mature hairline".

[Paulr1988]

Appreciate the replies.

[PatientlyWaiting]

Appreciate the replies.

Look at you all popular, getting 4 pages with your first thread.

[Paulr1988]

I wish I didnt even have to be on here, this time last year I had no clue about MPB and it never crossed my mind, but the more opinions I get the better

[JJacobs152]

Look at you all popular, getting 4 pages with your first thread.

I really think that you're a NW2...you have a strong mature hairline. If you look at my hairline, do a search for my threads, you can see the typical horse shoe pattern.

[Paulr1988]

Thanks for the replies minus that tool scorpion

[PatientlyWaiting]

I really think that you're a NW2...you have a strong mature hairline. If you look at my hairline, do a search for my threads, you can see the typical horse shoe pattern.

I have that too.

People are going by what they see, and they can only see the temples and hairline. I haven't showed a picture of my top. Let me see if I can take one now. But I definitely have the horse shoe shape on the top of my head, plus like three patches of Alopecia Areata hair loss.

[Paulr1988]

Is alopecia areata dht related?

[PatientlyWaiting]

Keep in my mind I shave my head in a way that would minimize the appearance of the "horse shoe pattern" but I definitely have it. Maybe you can not tell in this picture, but if I let my hair grow naturally, it shows up.

Blue and Green: MPB
Red: Alopecia Areata

[PatientlyWaiting]

Is alopecia areata dht related?

I don't think so. It's an auto-immune disease.

[Paulr1988]

Will that hair ever grow back/return? The alopecia areata that is.