CTE versus FPHL: how to tell? (photo)

This needs an in-person evaluation.  I suggest seeing a hair loss expert now to evaluate and go over your condition and test results and provide you information about your best treatment options. There are great non-invasive options like prp/progesterone and/or hair transplantation. See an expert. Best, Dr. Emer

you do appear to have hair thinning.. I would do a thorough lab evaluation which would include hormones, vitamin d as well as iron levels.  a biopsy might be helpful..the proper treatment depends on the right diagnosis... you have none.. minoxidil, spironolactone, finasteride.  dutasteride. prp ..... are all possible treatments.. for androgenetic alopecia there is great treatments.. find someone interested in your problem

We don't diagnose CTE from photos or blood tests so I can neither rule that in or rule that out. There is certainly a very high likelihood that you have FPHL as one of your diagnoses. But other diagnoses are possible. That would be incorrect to say you would have no chance of benefit from those stated treatments. It is a low chance but far far from zero. If CTE is present it alters things a bit

You might have both simultaneously, or reaction from your surgeries, and a biopsy would not likely differentiate the two.  HairCheck and hair counts may help.  Those therapies DO have a high success rate and may help significantly if you use them consistently (and the spironolactone usually requires a high dose).  Also consider low level light (the helmets) and off-lable oral minoxidil.  Bottom line is an internet doc probably cannot tell, so find someone who is interested in your type of hair loss that you trust.  The earlier you start on treatment the better your results, too.
Good Luck!

I never treat women like you with hair transplants when there is diffuse thinning present because it does not produce value for you and certainly does not reverse the hair loss. The diagnosis sounds like typical female genetic balding and if I am correct, your donor area will show significant miniaturization, which always makes the diagnosis for me.  The only treatment is a cosmetic one, the use of scalp micropigmentation (SMP),