Long intial story after reading board for a year

[johnsingleton]

Hey guys,

I've been reading the board for over a year now and finally ready to make my initial post. I am a 29 year old white male.

First I guess I can say that my fathers history (although from what I read is irrelevant) is non existent. He is adopted and I've barley met him.

My mothers side of the family is a sight for sore eyes with hair. My grandfather was bald for all except sides, my uncles are basically the same and even some females have thinning hair. I know what your saying already so without further wait here's my story.

I don't have pics yet but can get some soon.

Throughout life I've had very coarse wavy blonde hair. Again as many here have had jokes that, with hair that thick I'll never go bald. Well, cut to a few years ago an ex girlfriend from high school said 'are you going thin in the front?'. Of course I give the brush of because at the time I still didn't feel I was. Then it was my crown had to be manipulated by hair stylist and I would always say it's because of how severe in the crown it fans out made it seem 'thin'.

Well now at 29 my hairline has not moved (which is the weird part) but I have very noticeable thinning throughout the top from the front hairs all the way back to crown. And now this past year the crown is not bald per-say but I def need to bring the top hair back with my part to cover it. My hair, for the most part is still thick, but per one thick hair is a few very thin ones and creates a sparse landscape. I notice literal gaps the size of a pencil eraser where no hair is at all throughout the top of my head. So wet hair makes the top look thin, any product does too. Just basically dried and parted is how I wear it and no one even thinks I'm suffering when I mention it to close friends.

I guess my question is , without pictures, how can with no frontal recession can the whole top just start thinning in uniform fashion? And I have also been on rogain foam for the crown coming up o a year and its maintained but feel lately it's getting worse. JUST started the shampoo everyone uses, the only two other options besides surgery for thickness is Propecia (which my dermo is very very hesitant on prescribing due to side effects and how young I am. She says she sees results but feels comfortable only in older patients) and the other effort not tried is laser comb.

Last but not least I have noticed that aside from my thick blonde hairs are random very black, very jaggedly curly short hairs all over??? Not sure what that is either.

That's a long first post but I have waited so long because my symptoms don't fall under a lot of what I normally read. Thanks for reading and any input would be appreciated!