I hate to ask somebody to give any sort of medical opinion over the web but I am totally out of options. It seems 99% of even the dermatologist who focus on hair loss have nothing.
I understand TE is much more common in women but rare in men. I have shed ~50-70% of my hair over last 2 years. No other symptoms at all. Noticed hair coming out in shower 2 years ago and shedding has gone on since. Not clumps but high shedding.
Only area seemingly "spared" the shedding is bottom half of head. No hairline recession. Top of scalp seems hardest hit but might of been thinner to start.
I have never seen any "vellus" hair. Hairs appear ( to me) normal. Maybe half an inch in length to a few inches in length (depends on how long or short my hair is cut).
I keep reading my hair will grow back but it is not happening.I can't find any trigger; no medications, no allergy, no hair product. It just is being lost and even if shed rate drops in half I should be total bald within 24 months. I am in my mid-20s.
I have yet to find any man who has had an actual episode of TE recover. Ever. I spoke to many who had it after Accutane. I can find WOMAN who recovered. Zero men. These are men who did not (or have not) developed MPB yet, they just shed their hairs in a TE episode and it either has not stopped or it stopped and nothing grew back.
I need help badly and I am spinning my wheels.
Sorry writing a novel but besides pattern baldness it seems not much is focused on and very little understood. Hoping maybe you have had experience with men with severe TE or can point me in the right direction.
I understand TE is much more common in women but rare in men. I have shed ~50-70% of my hair over last 2 years. No other symptoms at all. Noticed hair coming out in shower 2 years ago and shedding has gone on since. Not clumps but high shedding.
Only area seemingly "spared" the shedding is bottom half of head. No hairline recession. Top of scalp seems hardest hit but might of been thinner to start.
I have never seen any "vellus" hair. Hairs appear ( to me) normal. Maybe half an inch in length to a few inches in length (depends on how long or short my hair is cut).
I keep reading my hair will grow back but it is not happening.I can't find any trigger; no medications, no allergy, no hair product. It just is being lost and even if shed rate drops in half I should be total bald within 24 months. I am in my mid-20s.
I have yet to find any man who has had an actual episode of TE recover. Ever. I spoke to many who had it after Accutane. I can find WOMAN who recovered. Zero men. These are men who did not (or have not) developed MPB yet, they just shed their hairs in a TE episode and it either has not stopped or it stopped and nothing grew back.
I need help badly and I am spinning my wheels.
Sorry writing a novel but besides pattern baldness it seems not much is focused on and very little understood. Hoping maybe you have had experience with men with severe TE or can point me in the right direction.
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