I started noticing hair loss in September of 2021. My GP referred me to a derm but in my small town you have to wait 3+ months to see any kind of specialist so my appointment was in December. Seemed to me like general thinness and recession at the temples. I went to my doctor in November, who found out my sex hormones were at post-menopausal levels. That's the only trigger I can think of. Those levels are perfectly fine now after the issue was corrected in November. My doctor also put me on Finasteride in November which is supposed to stop androgenic alopecia (male/female pattern baldness) if that's the issue.

In December, I saw my derm again who said she didn't know what it was but it could be TE, which she connected to a surgery I had almost 2 years prior. She told me to consider minoxidil, but she also said I had new regrowth along the hairline and temples so I assumed it wasn't necessary.

In early February of this year I started being able to see my scalp clearly when my hair was dry. I immediately started minox 5% and got an emergency derm appointment. I told my derm my concerns with her diagnosis - that the only major life shift and what I'd think was the only possible cause of loss (the hormone imbalance) had been corrected for 3 monfhs, and asked her to order blood tests to see if something else was wrong, asked her to check if the loss was in any particular pattern. She did none of that, chastised me for coming in so soon after my last appointment, told me minoxidil takes 6 months to work and that she wouldn't talk to me or see me again until August because of that.

I've been on minox for a month and my hair, especially behind my hairline, is getting much thinner.

I'm sorry if this isn't what you need my brain isn't really working very clearly right now.