hey guys, im new here.. just starting to bald this is my first post so i might be way off but;

i noticed when pulling a few hairs that the healthy ones in the back of my head had a large amount of that white stuff on the end, where as the skinny ones up front had almost none. DHT attacks from the root and seems to thin the root and the area around it. (almost like giving a plant bad or no nutrients the roots and then the plant itself will start to shrivel up) Im thinking that when you stop DHT the hair can start to regrow again and get thicker. I dont know if dead/dormant hair sockets (forgot what theyre called) will produce hair again if you stop.

Cool some weeks ago I praised the future treatment Hair multiplication. It's the one with stem cells/follicles multiplying in an environment scientists make. They get some donor follicles and make them multiply. They then microinject the new follicles in bald areas.

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I'm not sure exactly how they are injected, but it should have nothing to do with grafts...

What will Merck do then? Lololol

Originally Posted by crisos

hey guys, im new here.. just starting to bald this is my first post so i might be way off but;

i noticed when pulling a few hairs that the healthy ones in the back of my head had a large amount of that white stuff on the end, where as the skinny ones up front had almost none. DHT attacks from the root and seems to thin the root and the area around it. (almost like giving a plant bad or no nutrients the roots and then the plant itself will start to shrivel up) Im thinking that when you stop DHT the hair can start to regrow again and get thicker. I dont know if dead/dormant hair sockets (forgot what theyre called) will produce hair again if you stop.

Stop what? Treatment?

Also yeah in some people Propecia will not only maintain their hair, hair follicles (sockets) can thicken, and this is because of the attack on DHT.

Also, what do you mean by the "back"? The crown? Because it was definitely my thinning hairs that had that white stuff at the roots. Originally, 2 years ago, before I thought I was thinning, I thought they were accumulated sweat because I washed my hair once a week lol. So yeah, your non-thinning hair shouldn't have the white stuff, because occasionally I pluck my underarm hair and I see none of it. Unless somehow armpit hair is different then my theory should be right.

sorry i didnt explain that well at all. The white stuff im speaking of is below the hair line attached to the hair root and only visible when i pluck the hair. I meant when i pluck a healthy hair the root has a larger amount of this white buildup. But when i pluck a whispy hair or in an area that is losing hair (probably shouldnt be plucking them) it has almost to none of that white stuff. Ive done this a handful of times and in all cases the healthy hairs had the white buildup and the non healthy ones had none.

Maybe the healthy hairs just had a better grip in my skin and pulled out some part of the skin with it but i was thinking up till now that it was some indication the hair was healthy and that the DHT was getting rid of this stuff.

i feel kinda weird being this obsessive about this, its not helping anything for me to do this but im trying to understand this more.

From what I've heard the white stuff is caused by the "ending" of the shaft (hair) growth. In other words when the follicle wants to go to sleep it cuts off the hair and the white stuff form at the root, but this has to do with the non-resisting follicles, not the resisting ones, because the strong follicles...hardly ever shed.

Just what I heard, and it explains my situation. Your situation is new to me.

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Originally Posted by jack

Hi

From where i come from it's impossible to do a scalp mapping for minituarization. A prominent dermatologist told that if it were done here it would only be by researchers. I went for a checkup with him and he said that i might be having male pattern baldness after going through my scalp with his hands for a while.

I've thought of doing my own scalp mapping but the handheld microscope only ships in the US and Canada.

The dermatologist prescribed propecia and regaine(minoxidil 5%). However what is worrying me now is that how if i do not have any hair loss problem. I am 18 years old. I noticed that their is a patch on my vertex that looks like balding. However could it be also because of the way i style my hair away from the patch that made it look balding. I do not suffer hair fall of more than 50 strands a day. But i do notice that in that 50 strands maybe half of it are hair finer that the others.

I am worried to start on the propecia and regaine as i fear that i might not have any hair loss issue and that going on the medication would cause hair loss to happen.

Something else i would like to know. What happens to patients that do not suffer from hair loss and takes propecia before finally realising that he or she does not have hair loss and stops the medication?

Thank you.

There is nothing wrong in taking it. They are not actually treat you but prevent you from having hair loss.