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I'm 19 years old and been i have been growing my hair out for 3 years. The idea of going bald is torturing me for one year or more. My father is completely bald and gone bald at a young age, but his father is 89 years old and still has all his hair (not so thick anymore but it's normal at an age like this). My mother's father who passed out at the age of 80 had a little frontal recession in his hairline but he was far from bald. I noticed that my hairline has receeded a little since last year. What's going on? Is it something normal that hapens to everybody? (Nearly all guys at my age have the same frontal recession, even more).Am I going to be bald? I don't know if the type of strands counts, but I think I have my mother's thick type of strands and not my father's thin type. Please help me, I don't know what to do and everybody gets pissed off when I mention it and keep telling me it's only my imagination. I don't know, maybe it's only that but I can't get out of my mind that my hairline is receeding, especially on the left side. On the right it appears that the receeding is smaller.That's another strange thing eh? I think I have 50% to be bald.Arrgh!
I wouldnt worry about it! My hairline has gone back a little over the years and im 14. I dont think it does this very fast at all! so relax, but if its going at a fast rate then you should go ask a professional for advice.
Go see a doctor if your worried about it. I thought i was going bald last year because quite a lot of my hair was falling out, i went to the doctor and he did blood tests and found out i had an iron deficiancy which i developed through my eating disorder. So make sure you eat well!!!!!! As for the everyone receeding i dont know?
Hope this helps
DAve
Testosterone will knock out some hair normally. Of course, it won't make you go bald, but your hairline WILL receede, regaurdless.
Well, thanks guys. Everybody's telling me the same but I wanted to be sure. I just hope that the recession won't develop too fast :)
It's interesting, but you have identified a phenomenom that is sort of a 'rite of passage'. What differentiates young men from young women is their hairline, even with full heads of hair. A woman's is sort of U shaped, going from sideburn area to sideburn area. Men's go kind of straight up from the sideburns, go straight across, and then straight down to the other sideburns. I.E., there is some recession in along the top sides of the hairline.
Totally normal at your age, I'll bet.
Besides, hairloss is less of a problem than years ago. Minoxidil and Propecia are two agents proven to slow hair loss, maybe even grow some back.
Well, these don't happen always, I for example have seen young women having this small recession or even bigger and one day i saw a boy whose hairline was really completely U shaped but he was young, say 12-13 years old. In fact he was looking weird because the small recession that men have is very common :) Actually he had more hair than the girls. Most of them have thinner hair on this area, his was the same everywhere. Like he was wearing a hat or something.