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This requires an in-person evaluation. I suggest seeing a hair loss expert now to evaluate and go over your condition and provide you information about your best treatment options and answer any questions you have about supplements. There are great non-invasive options like prp/progesterone and/or hair transplantation. See an expert. Best, Dr. Emer
At your age, you should begin with having a complete CBC done by your physician to make sure there is no other health issues that is causing the rapid hair loss. Some hair loss is normal, especially at certain time of the year. A very promising therapy for shedding and thinness of hair is cold laser hair therapy. A good one on the market right now is LaserCap which uses 224 cold laser, FDA certified, for thinning and hair loss.
Consult with a qualified expert in hair loss- only a full examination will help determine the source of your problem.
I'd suggest seeing a hair specialist to review your exact diagnosis and to discuss treatment. The most likely diagnoses for someone with a story similar to yours is early genetic hair loss as well as hairline maturation. See your physician to confirm and to review all the options.
Your biggest enemy is the progressive thinning leading to abalding pattern that is not evident at this point in time. The degree ofthinning that you are experiencing would suggest that you should see adoctor who most likely will get Bulk Measurements of your hair todetermine the degree of the thinning that you are presently having. If thediagnosis is early genetic hair loss (the most common cause of hair lossin young men), then the best treatment would be the drug finasteride whichis highly effective in men of your age and may not only stop the hair lossbut possibly reverse it. If you are developing a more advanced baldingpattern the best test to get will determine the Bulk Measurements of yourhair and this will show, over a one-year time frame, how effective thetreatment will be. Once you know this information, then you and yourdoctor need to develop a MASTER PLAN which will define what you need to doover the years to come.
I usually warn patients that they may get some shedding when they start finasteride, but long term, there is no evidence that taking finasteride can accelerate hair loss,Dr. Robert Jones
In short, hair length should have nothing to do with the mechanism of action for Propecia (finasteride). Minoxidil's success rate is quite marginal to begin with all things considered, but it is my opinion as a physician and a former user of Minoxidil that as long as you massage it into...
Finasteride at 1mg daily shouldn't affect your bone density, but thorough evaluation and tracking by your physician is important.