I'm still confused about what male pattern hair loss is. I'm loosing hair and have developed bold spots at the crown. Is this male pattern hair loss?
Male pattern is usually general loss over the top with more noticeable loss at the hairline going back.
When you say bald spots, do you mean completely bald, round spots, like maybe quarter-sized spots? With no hair at all? That sounds more like alopecia areata, which is a hairloss problem un related to PCOS.
However, in some of us PCOSers, sometimes we notice that our hair thins the most at the crown. It's not typical though to have completely bald spots.
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My hair is thinning at the top also. I just always "thought" it was male pattern baldness. I use to ahve super thick hair and gradually its all just falling out. GL
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I have diffuse AND male pattern .. I have receeded temples and losing my hairline ... also thinning all over the tip and all over the head !
I think we're related!
I've been having seriously increased shedding the past month or two, Sally. All along for the past couple years, it's been so gradual, I could never notice on any given day, that I was shedding all that much. But now, I'm noticing. I can run my hands through and ten come out at a time! My only "good" hair in on the back, lower part of my head now. Sometimes I just get so sad about it. I know I'm usually very upbeat and encouraging, and that's really how I am in life about it. But I have times when it just makes me feel like crap for an hour. There's a guy who volunteers where I work...I'm interested...I can't tell if he is. So I start worrying, "what if?" I know, I should cross that bridge when I come to it, but I've never had to go through the "explaining" thing before. Well, he's Indian, maybe he'd appreciate my Indian hair!??? Kathy's sending me some Noriko Clairs in a couple of burgundy shades to try out soon, and a couple of Georgie HH's to see what I think, since I don't think my topper's going to work for me much longer.
Well, at least I am happy with the supplemental hair, and even like cute wig styles. The only thing we can do, is keep on, keeping on. We have to live our lives, and we deserve happiness and fun! I hope you have a GREAT week!
Oh, and to you other girls reading this who are HORRIFIED reading about this, and worried about wigs, well, I don't think most PCOSers hair loss problem gets as bad as mine has, and you're probably not going to get to this point. And Sally is doing well in extensions, and I bet anything she'd look fabulous in a topper. Most of you guys are probably NEVER going to have to worry about wigs. And if you DO get to that point.....it will be OK, really, it will. There are WAY worse things in life that can happen to you.
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Age 46
Obesity, very mild hirsuitism now almost gone with age and met, seriously thinning hair. Regular cycles on met.
Diagnosed with diabetes 8/2003
Maybe your my American Twin huh ... I have had quite a steady shed for years .. I have always had people pulling hairs off my jumper and stuff .. I just THOUGHT it was normal ...
As for this guy your interested in ..... if he likes you for who you are AS a person why should he be bothered by your hairloss ..as you know (or may not) I have been seeing someone for six months now ... (I have been single for six years before other than useless flings) .... anyway I DREADED telling him about my hair in fact I got so worked up and tearful when I told him it wasnt how or anything like I planned.. I was sitting opposit him in a restaurant and he commented on he hated girls with short hair .. GULP .. what about girls with NO hiar ! ... I burst into tears .. I told him to leave me and was practically hyperventaating ... he took it WELL !! in fact he has been marvelous even takes me to the hair place for my fake hair .... my back hair is pretty much the only place tha tis all my hair .. the frnt is ALL fake .. and getting less and less as time goes by.
Big hugs and of course you get your bad days ... its not easy some days are good some days are bad .... and some are TERRIBLE ..
Here is a story to make you laff ... on Sunday I was cooking dinner for seven people I clocked my hair in mirror went bad with hair brush and smashed that brush hard into my head ... OWIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE did my head hurt !!!!! oh my god I thought i did serious damage !!!! it ruined my day coz of the head ache ha hah !!
Chin up
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Why? Why?? What I or anyone else have done to deserve all this.
This is one question I ask myself eveyr day .. what is it that I have done SO wrong to be given hair loss and not JUST hairloss like normal females get BUT male pattern ... as if I dont feel femine alrady I feel like a I am turnnig into a man
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This is one question I ask myself eveyr day .. what is it that I have done SO wrong to be given hair loss and not JUST hairloss like normal females get BUT male pattern ... as if I dont feel femine alrady I feel like a I am turnnig into a man
I think it's important to recognize that not all women conform to the "ultra feminine" pattern. I'm a woman and I'm heterosexual (very much so!) but I could never pretend to be ultra-feminine. At 21 I had moustache growth like a guy, slightly receding hairline at the temples like a guy and -- worst of all -- effectively nothing by way of breast development. But what I could -- and can -- give my husband is a phsyical relationship far more enthusiastic than most (much more feminine) women could or would. "Turning into a man" -- no, but getting much more like a man, undoubtedly yes -- my beard is coming in markedly now and my voice has dropped a bit. But I won't pretend to be something different from what I am -- a woman, but not an ultra-feminine one.
I'm thining at the crown. In some places it's so thin I see some bold spots...argh! Why? Why?? What I or anyone else have done to deserve all this.
You have to stop thinking like that! ABSOLUTELY nothing you have done has made you "deserve" this. You didn't do anything to cause it. It just HAPPENED. It sucks, yes, but it just happened. Very little of what happens to us in life is because we deserve or don't deserve it. It just is.
This is such a horrible thing to go through, that you can make it worse on your self by thinking you in some way brought it on, or caused it, or are being victimized in some way by it. You don't need to add guilt to how crappy this already makes us feel.
It just happens. To a lot of people.
And I sure know I did nothing to deserve it myself!
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Age 46
Obesity, very mild hirsuitism now almost gone with age and met, seriously thinning hair. Regular cycles on met.
Diagnosed with diabetes 8/2003
I've got a bald spot around the size of a quarter on top of my head. I never really thought much about it, but I guess it's probably another PCOS-related thing. I just hate how I can't run my fingers through my hair without any falling out.
loosing hair at the crown 
