23 going on to 24 losing my hair :(

[naj9]

Hi guys,
I am 23 years of age and over the last few years have seen my hair slowly thin out. When I was younger I used to have thick hair that the barbers would comment and say I would never go bald with such thick beautiful hair, haha guess they were wrong.

I am in graduate school and appearance is important in my field. So losing my hair concerns me. I can not really tell if I am really losing hair a great deal or not. This last summer I sought the opinions of 3 dermatologists, the first one said here is a prescription for propecia. The second said nothing was wrong and that my hair was normal. The third recommended I try rogaine.

This being about 6 months ago, my hair literally over the last few days seems to show up a lot on my pillow case. I can routinely pick out over the day 30 hairs or so from the pillow, some in the shower, and maybe 30more over the day course.

I am young, unattached, and want to keep my hair. I have started none of the recommended prescriptions. I do have the rogaine but have no used it. My father was pretty much bald at 30 and had several hair transplants to maintain a somewhat natural look. Shall I start the rogaine?(I am afraid to) start the propecia(I am still so young and worry I would prefer not to alter my body chemistry at this age)?

Any advice? I feel desperate and sad every time I look in the mirror, I sometimes even avoid looking at my head bc I don't want to see if things are getting worse.

Thanks for the advice.
Alex