Strange hair question

[jako9999 (imported)]

Hi all just wandering if any one else has has this, its now 10 month after my castration and my T is very low with just a small dose of Testim gel Libido low and I only get erect if I work at it. I have been bauld on top for 20 years but over the past 3 months Ive got large bauld patches in my beard and at the same time my bauld head has started to grow quite a few strands of baby hair very strange I knew my beard and chest hair would fall out a bit but why is my head starting to look silly with the odd bits sticking up.

Has anyone else had this or thy is it happening?

Thanks

[~Tiamat~ (imported)]

Beard hair can get lighter, finer, softer and grow slower but as far as I'm aware it doesn't ever really fall out. Is this what your bald patches are like?

DHT kills follicles very slowly - they just grow back thinner and thinner. If your follicles aren't completely dead they'll pick up a bit when the DHT is gone. I've got a lot of fine white hair back on my forehead by the temples but so far it's like baby hair like yours

[tugon (imported)]

My beard is no longer as full as it once was. I shave about every third to fourth day. I have to be careful trimming sideburns since the whiskers are thin. It is tough to get a good edge since shaving since they are few and far between. Then of course there is the gray patches that make me look like I have mange.

[jako9999 (imported)]

Some of my beard is still thick and dark other bits are white but there are patches that have just gone the one patch is 2cm round I dont mind but it just seems strange but I would rather my head stopped sprouting bits as they look realy silly.

Thanks

[Riverwind (imported)]

You are not alone, I have thousands of new hairs on the top of my head, its a light fuzz but still I have only had about 7 hairs on top for 40 years, now HAIR. The beard grows much slower and is not as course body hair has all but gone, a little and light on my lower legs and forearms but chest or underarm no I don't shave is bare. Welcome to the new look, don't worry about it, its normal.

River

[nvrgag44 (imported)]

Sorry if I'm repeating other posts. I'm intact but T levels run high 100s to mid 200s due to partially cooked nuts from radiation. Maybe the natural aging process is also a factor. I've always had thin hair but now it's really thin. I don't experience the missing clumps or fine "baby" hair on my head like others describe but it is thinner and slower growing than it once was. I can get away with shaving 2 or 3 times a week or when the wife says, "You look like you live under a bridge."

It's especially noticeable on my body. My legs and arms are hairless except for the few I can see if I look in the light and search. My chest once had plenty of dark hair but now it's thin, sparse, short and lightly colored. Same goes for my pits, butt and the small of my back right above my butt. My pubes are also thinner and I wish they were thinner altogether. Last summer I went completely smooth from head to foot and loved it. It was much easier to maintain that I planned. A five minute once over in the shower was all that was needed. I stopped shaving after mid September, except for my face. My pubes could use some attention now but the hair on my head is only about a 1/2 to 3/4" long. Other than a trim around my ears I bet it can go all winter until I'm ready to go smooth again come the next warm weather. I wish it all would just disapear on its own.

[foxytaur (imported)]

Beard hair can get lighter, finer, softer and grow slower but as far as I'm aware it doesn't ever really fall out. Is this what your bald patches are like?

DHT kills follicles very slowly - they just grow back thinner and thinner. If your follicles aren't completely dead they'll pick up a bit when the DHT is gone. I've got a lot of fine white hair back on my forehead by the temples but so far it's like baby hair like yours

DHT kills hair follicles for those with a genetic predisposition for hair to thin and fall out.Seems also that DHT sensitive folk are the dominant group. I belive as the yrs progress we'll be seeing a decline with men who are still are able to retain their juvenile hairline or mature hairline.It's natural selection I suppose

Doesn't Bill Clinton have a young hairline?

[foxytaur (imported)]

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 7708003873

Found something also. Hair loss caused by genetic predisposition to DHT and Skull shape.

Seems like the type of skull shape one has also somehow affects hair loss

[foxytaur (imported)]

Current hypothesis(i found in link)

"Currently, the predominant hypothesis explains androgenetic alopecia (AGA) as a process reliant upon affected follicles being individually programmed to accumulate dihydrotestosterone (DHT), which then causes progressive follicular miniaturisation. The goal of this paper is to suggest that such miniaturisation may result from an exaggeration of the bone remodelling process causing a reduction in blood supply to the capillary network within the affected region.

The bones of the human skull continue to grow during adulthood and observations made of those with AGA suggest that such growth may be responsible for the development of this condition. Studies of human cranial anatomy indicate that frontal and parietal bone growth can account for the development of the male pattern baldness (MPB) profile and the variations that can occur in the rate and location of hair loss. Steroid hormones such as DHT promote facial and body hair growth. Logically, this suggests that DHT should stimulate hair growth within the MPB region and not hair loss. However, DHT also has an anabolic effect on bone formation, and it is hypothesised that this stimulation of bone growth will overwhelm the hair growth promoting effects of DHT. Androgen receptor sites, 5-alpha-reductase (5α-R) and DHT have all been associated with AGA, but they also exist within numerous types of bone cells. DHT will stimulate the proliferation of osteoblast cells and the formation of new bone.

Verification of this hypothesis would imply that DHT is primarily involved with AGA through its stimulation of the skull expansion process rather than through interaction with individual follicles. Also, increased androgen receptor gene expression, 5α-R activity and subsequent production of DHT within the MPB region of balding individuals, may simply represent the body’s attempt to compensate for the skull expansion expression of hair follicle miniaturisation. Furthermore, it suggests that MPB region follicles are not individually programmed for hair loss. A redirection of genetic research towards the identification of those genes responsible for skull shape and development would be appropriate, and may reveal the genetic connection to AGA including its paternal link."

[Jorge2008 (imported)]

Androgenic hair loss is caused by dihydrotestosterone, a more powerful compound formed through 5 alpha reductase from testosterone. It causes hair loss. If DHT levels fall very low, hair may start regrowing. That's similar to how finasteride - treatment for baldness - works (by blocking T conversion into DHT, so that hair may start regrowing).

Hi all just wandering if any one else has has this, its now 10 month after my castration and my T is very low with just a small dose of Testim gel Libido low and I only get erect if I work at it. I have been bauld on top for 20 years but over the past 3 months Ive got large bauld patches in my beard and at the same time my bauld head has started to grow quite a few strands of baby hair very strange I knew my beard and chest hair would fall out a bit but why is my head starting to look silly with the odd bits sticking up.

Has anyone else had this or thy is it happening?

Thanks