Is this a male pattern baldness or diffuse baldness?

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So I had a hairfall suddenly, my Age is 23 and I am a male.

This picture I took it recently, there is a straight even lines of baldness throughout the entire scalp starting from the hairline until the end of the crown, it looks like this ( |||||| )

this hair fall happend in the course of 6 months approximately, i already lost like 30% or more of my hair.

I had noticed that the front side and some places in my head had not recovered so about two weeks ago, approximately on 2024/7/26 I went to the doctor and he informed me to use a 10% minoxidil in the night,a hair spray i am not sure whats the name but in the morning and A general Vitamin pill that contains Iron, B9,B12 etc,once a day.

please can you confirm what is this ?,

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I had checked 3 doctors 2 had said this is a normal hair loss since I did a blood test and I noticed that I had a very low Iron,B9,B12, and D3 percentage, and one doctor had informed me its a pattern baldness and I can’t do anything about it.

a word from you means a lot to me since my mentall status had been largely effected because of what happened to me and I even want to hurt myself sometimes because of it.

sorry for the bad English, its not my first language.

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Diffuse thinning is male pattern baldness. It’s best to check with dermatalogist/scalp biopsy to be sure. To me it looks like male pattern baldness. Cure to male pattern baldness is finasteride/dutasteride.

I would try to fix your blood work. If it doesn’t work, you can hop on finasteride.

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Diffuse thinning is male pattern baldness

Diffuse pattern loss can have completely different causes compared to typical androgenic alopecia, that’s why it’s differentiated in terminology. But also yes, a subset can sometimes settle into mpb. Hair loss is complex.

@nkrata just had an amazing post about this:

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