Bald spot on fin.. Do I quit?

[Artista]

Hi Ziggy'! Thank you for answering my question.
So you are only 24 years old...thats cool!
Ziggy' I feel that when you look at your hair, your not looking at it with objectivity and I can understand that.
After all you are still so very young.
As I said before, your hair may very well only be MATURING now.
Not necessarily going to bald! The best thing that you can do for yourself is to not focus so much on it.
Your young emotions can and do make your hair look worse ONLY to YOU than it really is bro!
Im sure that others around you, friends ,acquaintances and family DO NOT see a problem with your hair like you do.
Like I said before, stress WILL cause a difference in ones hair, more than likely.
Be positive, you have good looking hair.
Of course it probably doesn't look like it did when you were 16 years old--of course.
Be realistic my friend. Do not become stressed out!!

[jamesst11]

I'd just like to say, Artista I appreciate what a positive influence you are on this forum. Your posts always make me feel better.

[Dench57]

You've got to LOVE the enthusiasm with all that bold/underline/italics.

[Artista]

Hi Jamesst11 !
I was glad to have read your response from yesterday! Thank you so much!
I am sincerely trying to help others, especially with commonsense.
Ive not been as active as I was before because LIFE gets in the way.
I will be creating a new thread here at some point in time.
Hey Dench57, your response
"You've got to LOVE the enthusiasm with all that bold/underline/italics." was humorous indeed!
I hope your doing OK too Dench' !!
How about you James' ? Are you OK?
Back to Ziggy', what is your update Ziggy'??

[Ziggyz123]

hey! Yeah, I'd have to agree that Artista has some extreme optimism and a very caring heart on this forum. With that being said, thank you for that upbeat response unfortunately I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I definitely lost a lot of hair, but it could have been due to minoxidil and also quitting. Can't really explain the scalp pain though. Odd thing is that I was using bot treatments at the time of my massive shed and ongoing scalp sensations. I'm getting blood work for some hormones Saturday, but my primary doesn't know how to check dht ??? Lol idk anymore. I'm very close to not opting for fue and doing fut with Rahal because I can afford it. It's all getting very tiring, but you guys know what I mean.

If blood comes back decently normal, I think I'm going to start dutasteride as a last attempt before transplantation. Of course, I will let you caring peeps know!

Thanks again guys

[Artista]

Great to hear back from you again Ziggy'!
Although you have spoken of your issues, it seems that you are going into a more positive mode!
Staying positive with commonsense can only help you my friend!
Remember what I had said about STRESS...I wish you luck and Im glad that you are here!!
All WILL be WELL -in time so be patient .

[Dench57]

Hi Jamesst11 !
I was glad to have read your response from yesterday! Thank you so much!
I am sincerely trying to help others, especially with commonsense.
Ive not been as active as I was before because LIFE gets in the way.
I will be creating a new thread here at some point in time.
Hey Dench57, your response
"You've got to LOVE the enthusiasm with all that bold/underline/italics." was humorous indeed!
I hope your doing OK too Dench' !!
How about you James' ? Are you OK?
Back to Ziggy', what is your update Ziggy'??

Haha you really are a breath of fresh air on these incredibly depressing forums.

[jamesst11]

Ziggy, I have to ask - What made you come to the conclusion that you even had MPB in the first place? Looking at your photos, aside from the area that thinned out a bit, I personally see no signs of MPB, but I could be wrong. Did you get a miniaturization test or biopsy done?

[Dench57]

Yeah your hair still looks really good and in my opinion you should not even be thinking about a hair transplant. You just need to get that inflammation under control, same as me.

I'll post some pics of my situation at some point as it's similar to yours, in that I barely had MPB and taking Fin just opened up a whole can of worms with the inflammation/itch/scalp pain.

[Ziggyz123]

Ziggy, I have to ask - What made you come to the conclusion that you even had MPB in the first place? Looking at your photos, aside from the area that thinned out a bit, I personally see no signs of MPB, but I could be wrong. Did you get a miniaturization test or biopsy done?

Well, long story short, when I was like 20 I realized my hairline was a v and it freaked me out even though I never looked at it lol. It was probably like that all along, but I went to true and Dorin in the city and they told me just to use minoxidil. I used that and I was getting itching on my right hairline with some recession where the itch was. Then went to my derm and she put my on fin. Used it for a year and kept on minox and then got crazy shedding, short tight pains in my scalp, etc.. Now I'm losing my hair really badly. I mean my hair was GREAT this time last year. Sucks..