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What are the symptoms of hair loss?
Your symptoms will depend on what kind of hair loss you have.
If your hair is thinning, it happens slowly over time. You may not notice the hairs falling out. If your hair is shedding, then clumps of hair fall out. You may lose hair all over your scalp, which is called general hair loss. Or you may lose hair only in one area. This is called focal hair loss.
With inherited hair loss, men usually get bald spots around the forehead or on the top of the head. Women have some thinning all over the scalp, but mostly on the top of the head.