MikeYikes122
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I was surfing around on the Internet during my day off today trying to find a good forum/site for hair loss. My Google searches aren't turning up much, and I'm kind of getting sick of plodding through the same info. So I figure this forum is probably as good as any for a question like this.
My problem is, I honestly can't tell if I'm balding or if I just have thin air. My hair line isn't receding at all, and the circular part of my scalp on the top of my head still looks normal (the crown I think it's called?). It's just a little bit of the area in between, like an inch away from the crown, where my hair is thin.
Look at picture 4 here:
http://www.americanhairloss.org/men_hair_loss/the_norwood_scale.asp
My thinning is occurring in the area where that guy has hair (from the aerial shot). None of the pictures on there look anything like my scalp.
Also, when I was about five years old, I fell out of my bed in the middle of the night and scraped the top of my head way open on the corner of my nightstand. The fall gave me a concussion/knocked me out, so i just laid there for the rest of the night, bleeding until my mom found me in the morning. She rushed me to the emergency room to get stitches, but the wound had already closed on its own. The doctor said I for sure should have gotten stitched up, but because the wound was closed there obviously wasn't anything they could do for me. This has left me with a pretty huge scar and some sensitive skin, which is in the area of my thin hair.
I also think there is a chance that I might just have thin hair. I can remember being like 13 or 14 (pre-pubescent) and having people walk up to me to say "hey man you're balding!" and other annoying crap like that.
Any experts on this subject here have any thoughts?
I really want to figure out if this is thinning hair or just hair that's always been thin.
My problem is, I honestly can't tell if I'm balding or if I just have thin air. My hair line isn't receding at all, and the circular part of my scalp on the top of my head still looks normal (the crown I think it's called?). It's just a little bit of the area in between, like an inch away from the crown, where my hair is thin.
Look at picture 4 here:
http://www.americanhairloss.org/men_hair_loss/the_norwood_scale.asp
My thinning is occurring in the area where that guy has hair (from the aerial shot). None of the pictures on there look anything like my scalp.
Also, when I was about five years old, I fell out of my bed in the middle of the night and scraped the top of my head way open on the corner of my nightstand. The fall gave me a concussion/knocked me out, so i just laid there for the rest of the night, bleeding until my mom found me in the morning. She rushed me to the emergency room to get stitches, but the wound had already closed on its own. The doctor said I for sure should have gotten stitched up, but because the wound was closed there obviously wasn't anything they could do for me. This has left me with a pretty huge scar and some sensitive skin, which is in the area of my thin hair.
I also think there is a chance that I might just have thin hair. I can remember being like 13 or 14 (pre-pubescent) and having people walk up to me to say "hey man you're balding!" and other annoying crap like that.
Any experts on this subject here have any thoughts?
I really want to figure out if this is thinning hair or just hair that's always been thin.