When did you start considerably balding?

[baldingguy23]

At 21 I had 98% of my hair. At the end of 21 I had a balding crown and a worse than LeBron James hairline. That has to be abnormal.

[Cave Dweller]

Follicles started abandoning my head when I was seventeen. It was a fairly slow thinning until I reached my senior year of college. Within the span of a few months, the MPB "W" peninsula formed at my hairline, and the reality of my impending baldness really sank in.

[SweSly]

The first comment I heard about my hair thinning was from my mother at the end of my 19th year, and during the summer the next year I first noticed I was actually balding. At my 21st birthday my crown and temples were visibly thinning. Now, 6 months later it's so significant that I feel I have no choice but to shave it now. So for me it went pretty fast once it started.

[Semi-Sly]

Get your Testosterone levels checked.  I'll bet that you are just an exceptionally virile young man!  I'll bet that you are making free" T" like a young bull in full rut!  That causes the formation of DHT which triggers the loss of the hair follicles which are genetically programmed to close down when you reach reproductive age and start producing oodles of free testosterone.

So, think positively about this - you are above average in the virility department!!!

[greatnessinc]

Mine started slowly around 17, then by 22 I had a definitive widows peak.
It was at 27 that I decided to quit messing with buzz cuts and go all in on shaving.

[reddog]

Hasn't started yet for me. But a few years ago, I had a very stressful job and life in general, and noticed a large amount of hair in the tub drain. I was thinning badly and could see a lot of scalp. When I quit that job and moved home to Minnesota, it grew back thick. Stress is a terrible thing, and can cause numerous health issues too.

[slybeard]

This is not an easy question for me to answer, but my hair in my late 40's was considerably thinniner, but not what I would call balding.  I do not think others evne noticed, because I had no bald spots and only slight receeding.  I still have enough hair to grow it back out if I wanted, but not the thick hair of my early years.

[Mike E. P.]

I first noticed receding at the temples when I was seventeen. It progressed slowly, but I was aware of every change. I don't think people really noticed until my mid to late twenties. By then, my hair had thinned a lot, continued to recede, and a bald spot on the crown started to grow. By my early thirties I couldn't stand to look at it any more, so I buzzed it all off. The buzz cut continued to get shorter and now I shave completely sly. Every time I let it grow a little, I can see the recession is worse, so I try not to let too much time go between shaves!

[geeman]

By the time I was in my mid 30's I was thinning at the temples and had a bald patch...by my early 40's I had more scalp than hair lol....so off came the rest....what a relief

[tobler1]

Well, for me it was when I took the razor to my head back in January, hehe!  Still have a full head of hair here.

[Sir Harry]

My hairline started receding at 26......The bald spot started developing around 34 (I shaved bald occasionally then). Once the vertex started going, I just got rid of the rest of it....six years running and not looking back.

[DannyBoy]

Mine started at 16 i noticed somehing when i was having a haircut my hair was very long so i didnt notice anything before then (apart from a fringe now that i look back not looking to full)...cause my thinning was so small i couldnt put my finger on why something looked wrong so i shugged it off...next time i went maybe about or month or so the bit what looked wrong got bigger i didnt receede or anything but i had a thinning bit on the front bit of my hair (not the hairline)...time went on i was 17 i started to receede round about 18 those bits obviously got worse but i could still grow my hair it was obvious something was up at this point to others...near the end of my 18 year or the start of my 19th year i had enough (i was hiding etc at this point with my hair)...cut it short the next day didnt like it i buzzed it the day after that then as years went on just got shorter to where i am now...last december i cut to the length i am now i was a number 2 for ages...i still have hair in the crown areab ut its weak when its stubble its there but when it gets to a certain length it stops.

[AJ Q-Ball]

It's hard to say for me. I think it was 22 when I really started and it was mostly in the crown area.  I know I had a widow's peak before that but nothing really serious.  From 22 and then on, my mother would comment on me progressively thinning every time she cut my hair.  I had no idea it was as significant as it was until last year when my uncle said something about it while he was looking down at me at the hospital right before my mother died last year.  He was in shock to say the least when he saw it.  His reaction persuaded me to take a look and it was no joke. 

Not too long after that, I started buzzing. I shaved bald two months ago and haven't looked back. I lost my hair pretty fast due to MPB and living under extremely stressful conditions for a long time.  Looking at pics of me when I was 22, I still had some very thick hair.  Now at 28, I'm bald.

[ksshane]

Mine started about 22.   And lucky me I have naturally curly hair so if I was to let it grow out I would look like bozo the clown.

[4fit]

At 16