I absolutely love my hair, it's my favorite part about me. Several girls have told me I take better care of my hair than they do. My hair has been what people know me by for the past five years. And as a diehard Metal fan I feel it's my duty to grow it out. Now I think it's thinning.

I don't know exactly when I noticed, but my ponytail seemed a lot thinner than usual. Shortly after that I noticed that quite a bit of hair was coming out whenever I washed it (usually every 2-3 days). I just washed it again after not washing it since last saturday and just as much hair, if not more, came out; I even used a different shampoo than I usually do.

So what can I do to get this shit under control? I realize that I can't grow back the hair that I lost but I'd at least like to stop this before it gets worse.

I figure if there's no way to stop it I'll just bust out the trimmers and give myself a grohawk.

Get a hair cut you stinking fuck bag!

Joking, ask your doctor about it.

That always happens with long hair. I used to have that long shaggy hair and it happened, I don't know why, but it happens. Even girls get that, especially when they brush their hair.

Yeah, that's what my mom said. It's been happening ever since I've had long hair, but it's just worse now.

Hair thinning in men is usually caused by an accumulation of DHT overtime in the scalp, which is a steroid hormone derived from Testosterone.

There's medications you can take to slow the process of DHT being accumulated in the scalp, most common med is Propecia.

This might not be your case, but I'm just throwing it in there.
How old are you?