Receding heavily at 18[Advice needed]

[thebalding18yearold]

Hey everyone, so I finally plucked up the courage to make this post after about 8 months of being afraid to so it all began when I noticed my hair was thinner about September 2015 and as I inspected further I realised I was actually receding. I had long hair before and I actually got my hair cut quite short on my birthday at August the 13th and I didn't notice anything. but here I am about 8 months later heavily receded with no sign in stopping. I'm not denying the fact I'm balding, I just don't know what to do. Can I even stop it? is medication worth taking. Oh and My mothers father was balding in his early 20's, my father is bald but his father has hair and he's in his 80's. My confidence is in the gutter and I am now paranoid because I know how bad my hair looks, I really need some advice thanks. Lastly here are the pictures. p.s sorry for the shirtless pictures

[thebalding18yearold]

Anyone? really stressing out about this

[tipsfedora]

Yeah you are slowly receding but got decent coverage. Go to a derm and ask for finasteride.

[thebalding18yearold]

Yeah you are slowly receding but got decent coverage. Go to a derm and ask for finasteride.

I went to one, It took 5 months to get an appointment and all she said was to use regain foam? I asked about finasteride but she said about sexual problems, I looked online and the regain foam didn't see like it was that great for people. Is it worth taking? and can you only get finasteride from a doctor?

[gzip]

I started very similarly in early my 20s, and shed through college.
I ended up with a mild V, raised temples, but good coverage like you have now. All and all, following college that loss stopped and held into my mid 30'ies. Following getting very sick, and sustaining a major trauma, and dosed with anesthesia and months of antibiotics I lost much more hair. I now have a very pronounced V, which is slightly thinned - I don't see hair on my pillow or in the shower, but the additional loss has not recovered from the trauma.

I started looking at Propecia, but there is potential for severe sexual side effects which in rare cases become permanent. I would consider that strongly, even understanding the undue stress involved with hair loss. For me, the risks outweigh the gains, with propecia though I can understand your stress having been roughly the same age when I began maturing towards the V.

http://www.rxlist.com/propecia-drug/...de-effects.htm

It seemed like you received very rushed boiler plate advice. I had an endocrinologist do a full work up and my DHT levels are safe and shouldn't be impacting hair loss. IDK maybe they leveled off following the initial month's trauma and all meds for the injury. That is one route you can go to get a really good breakdown on what your body is doing.

[thebalding18yearold]

I started very similarly in early my 20s, and shed through college.
I ended up with a mild V, raised temples, but good coverage like you have now. All and all, following college that loss stopped and held into my mid 30'ies. Following getting very sick, and sustaining a major trauma, and dosed with anesthesia and months of antibiotics I lost much more hair. I now have a very pronounced V, which is slightly thinned - I don't see hair on my pillow or in the shower, but the additional loss has not recovered from the trauma.

I started looking at Propecia, but there is potential for severe sexual side effects which in rare cases become permanent. I would consider that strongly, even understanding the undue stress involved with hair loss. For me, the risks outweigh the gains, with propecia though I can understand your stress having been roughly the same age when I began maturing towards the V.

http://www.rxlist.com/propecia-drug/...de-effects.htm

It seemed like you received very rushed boiler plate advice. I had an endocrinologist do a full work up and my DHT levels are safe and shouldn't be impacting hair loss. IDK maybe they leveled off following the initial month's trauma and all meds for the injury. That is one route you can go to get a really good breakdown on what your body is doing.

Hey I appreciate the response, yeah I have heard a lot of stories when people start receding early and it doesn't get considerably worse until many years later, but I don't want to take any chances. I understand the risk of the medication like propecia but I want to try and hold on to my hair as long as possible. And they did do tests to see if It my hair loss wasn't to do with any other medical reasons and they found the tests not to show up anything. It does stress me out, I feel borderline obsessed with my hair. The worst part is the fact that only a year ago I had no hair worries and didn't even think twice of the possibility of me balding but it seemed to just hit me over night.