Need advice!!!

[Dakota]

I am a 19 year old and I have very fine curly hair... or so ive been told. When my hair is longer it looks much thicker but i find there are still areas where i can see my scalp. However when its short i get worried. I dont seem to have a receding hair line it just seems extremely thin on top. I dont find that im loosing abnormal amounts of hair but im still paranoid any advice. (pics attached)

PS
These pictures were taken under a quite bright light i donno if that matters but ya :(

[Dakota]

One more pic, Im open to any suggestions please and thank you

[Colt4587]

One more pic, Im open to any suggestions please and thank you

Have you been going through a lot of stress in the past couple of months?

[Dakota]

I have started my second year of university but i feel like the reason im stressing is because of my hair

[Dakota]

sorry for the double post but when i grow my hair out ill try and find a picture it looks thicker but i still have areas where i can see my scalp

[soyoungsobald]

do you have an itch?

[Dakota]

on occasion? its so hard to explain some days it looks better some days worse i just dont know what to do. Ive asked my mom haha but she says i just have very thin fine hair? i mean my hair has been like this for a while but i donno i think shes lying to me!

[Dakota]

another pic

[soyoungsobald]

Maybe you arnt living healthy enough. If you think its been like this for a while, maybe start supplying your hair with nutrients, like herbs that help hair growth and strengthing it and what not. Look it up

[Dakota]

could be true i do live on my own its hard to eat healthy, ive read vitamin b6 and b12 are helpful maybe i try finding a multivitamin

[soyoungsobald]

Do you have a picture of your crown, the back of your head?

[Dakota]

ya Ill post some when i have a chance, ill also try and take pictures under a not so bright light my hair is light brown and some of these pictures make my hair looks worse then it is

[Mulder89]

I would rule out mpb as I cannot identify the usual pattern! You might be dealing with a telogen effluvium.. Since you don't remember any form of severe stress lately my guess would be the same as someone else said before: malnutrition. Try eating more healthy food. And correct! vitamin b12 deficiency is related to hair problems so try to introduce food which has B group vitamins... Cereals, meat, milk and fruit!

[Dakota]

ya i didnt think it was mpb i dont feel like im loosing hair. its just so thin on top when i run my fingers thru it, its feathery like there is nothing there it sucks

[Colt4587]

ya i didnt think it was mpb i dont feel like im loosing hair. its just so thin on top when i run my fingers thru it, its feathery like there is nothing there it sucks

GO see a dermatologist and mention Nizoral and Diprolene to him/her. See what the doctor thinks.

[Dakota]

I will do that and come back with my results I really hope it helps. My brothers and dad all have full curly heads of hair and my hair is curly when its longer but it just lays flat down on the scalp, even when its long i can see areas of my scalp I just don't understand

[Dakota]

my scalp also appears to be a little red? does this mean anything

[Mark]

It does look pretty thin. I'd do a miniaturization test and compare the donor area on the back of your head with the thin area on top. That would be a good way to see if you've got TE, which you may have because that's a pretty odd pattern.

Unfortunately, there really isn't any cure for TE. Usually we try to get people on Finasteride to see if it helps, but it doesn't help much in most people, but occasionally it does work. Something to think about.

[Dakota]

Mark could you perhaps explain to me what TE is exactly I dont quite understand

[Mark]

This is a quick search. (http://www.google.com/search?q=telogen+effluvium&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a) I don't have a whole lot of time to write a big post about it at the moment, so I'd just read through some of those links and get a feel for it.

-Mark

[Dakota]

ill post new pics my hair is long but still very thin. i still dont feel like im actively loosing it, but its thin it seems lifeless and like almost like baby hair its there but u see thru it

[Dakota]

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