Causes of MPB

[Davey Jones]

I was wondering everyone's opinion on this thing that I've been wondering about lately. When people are first struggling with hairloss, you hear a lot of them say, "Well, I don' t have MPB, I just so and so..." And I've heard some wacky things. Everything from some guy who thought a sunburn he got at 17 did him in to another who said he'd used too much hair dye as a kid. There are a few people here who believe it was because of medicine, particularly Accutane.

As far as all information I've read, there are many things that can cause temporary, diffuse hairloss; but only one thing can cause lifelong, patterned hairloss: MPB. If you have patterned baldness that does not eventually go away after you remove the suspect cause, then chances are 100% that you have MPB. As far as I can tell, at least. Saying "I don't actually have MPB..." is not only just a sad cushion for your ego, but also, it isn't going to bring back a single hair. What's the deal?

Does anyone have any information that would suggest otherwise?