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How common is hair thinning/balding?

Started by Preston, August 19, 2014, 09:58:11 PM

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Tossu-sama

I've been on T for more than 1,5 years and I haven't noticed any thinning. I don't think even my hairline has changed.

I can't really say much about my father since I have chosen not to be in contact with him but the last time I saw him ~10 years ago his hair didn't look like it was thinning out, and my mother's father had full head of hair till the day he passed away, can't even remember if he had a thinner spot on the top or anything. I suppose I'm quite lucky with my genes.
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pianoforte

I'm pretty paranoid about losing my hair, too. Taking control of my hairstyle is a huge thing that I'm finally taking back after years of being forced to wear it super girly. Losing that control right away, even if it's toward a style that would piss off my parents, is a scary prospect.

Seems worth the risk, though.
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aleon515

It's as common as it is with cis men. Perhaps a bit more so. Baldness is passed along on the X chromosome, but not usually expressed on it. Though it doesn't guarantee it, of course.

Hairlines will change though. Your hairline will go back a bit as hair does not grow on male heads in exactly the same way. I haven't actually lost hair, but there is a spot on each temple where hair doesn't grow.

--Jay
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Adam (birkin)

I'm almost 2.5 years in and my hair is thick as it ever was. I did lose some at the beginning but it was just the move to a male hairline. I'm not excited about balding, I don't think I'll look very good, but I figure I can cross that bridge when I get there. :P
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Magnus

The Androgen Receptor is on the X chromosome and it is also this which is the predominant malefactor of MPB. For every X chromosome you have, you will have an additional and active AR gene. So to be rather blunt, if XX, you have that much more potential of having inherited MPB... and heaven help you if you were unfortunate enough to have inherited two affected AR genes from both your mother and father because it would be all the more aggressive and rapid.

It's not all bad though, that very gene dictates your entire androgen sensitivity and again to put it bluntly, that's the very reason why we require as much as half less than an XY male in our T dosage volume (and that, in turn, is exactly why not a one of us has any business attempting to adjust or else self-administer our own TRT; if you didn't know that, you'd find yourself in a heap of hurt eventually). Ironically, we're as much as twice more androgen sensitive (syn. efficient) than XY males.

On the other hand, the phenomenon of "recombination" (XX - the "long-arm" swapping; think a shuffling card deck, that is precisely what that is) itself opens you to susceptibility to have spontaneously acquired one or both AR genes affected, without any prior family history of MPB. So, it's fairly pointless to worry about this, really. If it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it doesn't.


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Kyler

Not really sure what the supposed link in family is, but there are various people who are bald or not in my family... My dad is bald, I think his dad was bald, idk about my mom's dad but other people on her side are bald, some aren't, etc.
Regardless, my hair is as thick as it was when I was pre-t and I'm over 3 years on T.
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