Starting in your 40's

[benmcd]

Hi All.
Interesting to read everyone's story in regard to hair loss. I have been shaving for a while now, nearly 10 years (on and off). I now have clear recedeing and thinning going on in the front and a thinning happening all the way back to the crown, clearly heading to a horseshoe. Were any of you guys in your 40's when you really noticed your MPB? If so, was it a rapid or slow process. I have always been of the belief that later balding was not as aggressive as balding in younger guys.

[Razor X]

I have always been of the belief that later balding was not as aggressive as balding in younger guys.

There's no hard and fast rule.  If you're in your 20s and are beginning to lose a good bit of hair, then it's more likely than not that the hair loss will progress over time, resulting in complete MPB.  That doesn't mean that guys who don't start losing until later than life won't end up in the same place.  It all comes down to individual genetics.  I also think it depends on how much hair you have in the first place.  If you're starting out with a relatively thin mane, you may end up balder than a guy who started out with thicker hair.

Regardless, the solution is the sam: shave it all off to look a lot better and be a lot happier.

[D.A.L.U.I.]

When it starts--well mine started in my 20's w/ a hole in back and progressed slowly from the front.  I, together with a barber, engineered a combover for years and used enough hair spray to be a major contributor to climate change.  I should have gotten with the program years before I did, but it wasn't "done" in those days, damn it.

[baldaholic]

I am in my fourties and have only very slight thinning in front and high temples.
Never had great full head of hair, it has always been thin, so I took the bullet by the horns and took it off
Like the look and feel. :-)

Regards
Sometimer
PS: should I change my name now?

[The Noggin]

PS: should I change my name now?

Maybe sometime...

[hammerdrill376]

I always had a pretty thick head of hair until my early 40's when it began thinning. By the time I was 45 I was quickly approaching the "horseshoe look" so in 2008 I broke out the razor, off came what I had left and have been slick or at least closely buzzed since. Usually a day or two of stubble is all it takes for me to shave so the buzz look is few and far between for me.