https://ventsmagazine.com/2021/02/24/man-dies-a-day-after-his-hair-transplant/

I remember a 33 year old marathon runner that dropped dead at the peak of his health.  Nobody knows why it happened. One can suspect that his heart had an ectopic beat that came in a particular part of the cardiac cycle and induced Ventricular Fibrillation (no heart beat).  I knew a 40 year old close friend of the family, who died in a field 100 feet from his house.  Nobody knew why.

There are reports of death after having your dentist give you Xylocaine for a local anesthetic.  It happens.  One of my patients had a heart attack the evening before his hair transplant. It could have happened during the transplant I feared.  The key for good doctors is to know how to respond to the unpredictable.  For those of you who go to Turkey and have a clinic without a doctor, beware as who would address any catastrophe?

In the above magazine example, I saw them mention that this man had significant facial swelling and was hospitalized suggesting something strange happened after the surgery. Could it have been an allergic reaction to a medication he was given?  I don’t know why it happened but lack of blood tests for healthy men is the standard of care in the US today for all ambulatory surgery done under local anesthesia in young healthy surgical candidates so I would be critical of that complaint by the writer of the article.   I always get a medical history on my patients before the surgery and make sure that they are healthy without complaints or on-going medical conditions.

For those of you not actively seeing dermatologists or have prescriptions, how do you get yours? I see sites like ‘all day chemist’ but they ask for an upload of files… yet you can skip this part i think. I’m not sure if they’ll call or email you afterward asking. Also found a thailand pharmacy site that doesn’t require paperwork. Anyway as the title says, what’s the easiest way to get a hold of some? Thanks

This is a prescription drug when given orally. See an expert doctor. An old saying says: “If you treat yourself, you have a fool for a doctor”.

More and more patients are getting FUE by doctors or non-physicians that just don’t understand how to manage the donor area (photos). These photos keep coming to my inbox from all over the world.  Who is to blame? Well the patient must take part of the blame for not doing their proper research and the doctors or technicians who victimize these patients are criminals. Criminals should pay!

Are people just balding but at an acceptable rate ?  Does everyone have a “halting point” at which their hairline will stay for a period if you let it get there?  Does everyone have different strips of hair that will go at random speeds?

Just look at friends and family and you will know it is REAL! I actually learn at airports about the various ethnic hairlines which I study and sometimes ask permission to photograph

Just wanted to update you all on my hair situation. I’m an amazing responder to minox apparently. I had previously, maybe 5 months ago, regrew my hair after being on min for 8 months. I quit and lost all my gains. Months later I decided to start again and in only about a month I got results.

I would say I’m a NW2 and have been looking into getting a hair transplant, preferably FUE. I have a consultation scheduled in a couple weeks but was just hoping anyone with experience could tell me what to expect regarding the cost. My temples are thin but not too noticeably with my hair style. My front hairline is just kind of uneven as well. I’ve been on Fin and Minox for over a year and I have had progress but I think it has plateaued.

If you are really have a Class 2 pattern and especially if you are under 25 years of age, it probably relates to the maturing of your hairline and not balding. A hair transplant would not be good in that situation. Send me photos to iwilliamrassman33@gmail.com and I will tell you if you have just a Maturing hairline