21 years old...receding hairline

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Hello everyone,

This is my first post to this forum. I'm a 21 year old male who is experiencing hair loss. I joined this community to get in on the wealth of knowledge and empower myself with the latest and most up-to-date understandings of hair loss.

I'd say I'm just a little worse than a NW 2 but not quite as bad as a NW 3. My hair is thick towards the back and on top. I just have a thinning/receding hairline. Hair loss, to me is one of the worst things to experience. It attacks lots of people at young ages when it is completely devastating to their self-esteem and social life, It progresses rapidly in most cases, and from what I understand, there is still no cure. On top of this, the only known treatments we have available either cause very sketchy side-affects, or they don't work in the right areas (i.e. minoxidil is not supposed to work for receding hairline, when that is where the majority of hairloss happens). So hairloss is basically an omnipotent super-villian to a great extend. It comes and takes over and is almost immune to any attack you throw at it.

However, I'm not going to give up without a fight. As stated above, I have a receding hairline. I thought I would give minoxidil and nizoral shampoo a try. I bought a 3-month supply of rogaine foam and a bottle of nizoral 1% strength from Wal Mart and have been using it for 3 days now. I've only used the Nizoral once as it states only to use it every 3rd day or so.

Now, I've heard that minoxidil is not supposed to work on the hairline, but I have also read that it DOES in fact work on the hairline, it's just that it was never tested on that area so it cannot be marketed for the hairline. Is this true? Another reason I think it may work is because my hairloss is fairly recent. I'm also using rogaine along with nizoral so I figured these two together could possibly restore my hairline. At least this combination may help until I have the time and means of doing something else about it, like a HT.

Anyone's input is appreciated. Thank you!