Yes it does look like cobblestonning. I would want to know how your surgeon placed his grafts, what was the size of the grafts. Go back and see your surgeon?
What science there is relates to wound healing. When wounds occur, the body’s response it to mobilize a very aggressive healing process with the production of cytokines (a type of protein) that invokes the immune system and migration of healing cells. This may cause enough stimulation to invoke a hair response to the healing process as well. When this is done with the drug Minoxidil on board, it brings the effects of the minoxidil more to stimulate local absorption. We seem to read article suggesting that minoxidil with dermarollers, seem to work. That is my best guess.
Wondering if you have strong hairloss genes in our family that would make you end up at a NW 5-6 at a rather young age and start taking fin were you still able to maintain?
I have had many patients on finasteride since it came out and never had a hair transplant. These men found that it maintained their hair. A few stopped it and were shocked that they lost hair from stopping it and most quickly went back on it but not everyone grew back what they lost from stopping it. I don’t know if finasteride can stop the final progression of hair loss, but it does seem to hold on to some hair in almost everyone. I personally have been curious to see a person who became a Class 7 pattern male when he was 23, what would have happened to him had he been on finasteride. In other words, could it have stopped the progression to his Class 7 pattern?
There has been a huge effort to get the California Board of Medicine to rule against doctor who use technicians to do their hair transplants in their surgical centers or their offices. This has been a real problem in the field, as technicians have been hired by doctor to do this surgery so that the doctor can ‘CASH IN” on the huge rise in demand for FUE hair transplants. Many of these doctors are not trained in the field of hair restoration, never did a hair transplant and don’t understand the basics of the anesthesia or the surgery but, nevertheless, driven by a desire to MAKE MONEY. These doctors hire technicians, or companies that supply technicians or even nurses to do the surgery for them. We have seen terrible complications, including one death in California from a surgery performed by someone who didn’t know what he was doing. Now it is against the law and any doctor doing this type of phantom surgery (many doctors were not even in the operating room while the surgery was being done), will be subject to California Board of Medicine legal action and could lose their license to practice medicine. Most states follow California on such policy matters so I hope that this ruling will propagate in other states and other countries as well.
CLICK TO ENLARGEWhen I was 17 the temples of my hairline had receded and I now have very minimal crown loss . I’ve been using minoxidil with dermarolling for the last 3 months on my hairline but all I can see are very tiny vellus hairs along my hairline. However for the past couple days I’ve been having day long migraines and I suspect it might be the minoxidil so I’m stopping use until around next week.
Hair transplants are personal decisions. Knowing what you might look like by looking at family members might help you understand better, especially if you can speak with those that are still alive and ask them if they could get their hair back (an completely undetectable hair transplant) would they have done it. You need to sit down with an expert in this field (hair restoration) and get a Master Plan worked out for your future hair loss problems if your hair loss should occur.
This is a self promoting link. PRP has never been proved to be effective or lasting if there is any effect at all. There have been no double blind studies done on PRP with objective measurement devices such as the HAIRCHECK instrument and one has to ask why not. If it worked, there would be many such studies. The folks that wrote this link added nothing to the educational process for readers interested in hair loss.
The premise that hair transplants are not good and don’t last, are baseless. I have been doing hair transplants since 1991 and have seen many of my patients from the early 1990s, keep the hair that they got from the hair transplants. Are article does not pose new science, in fact any science, just claims that are without foundation. Yes, a few hair transplants don’t last the lifetime of the patient (less than2% of patients) but the large majority of patients who had either strip or FUE surgery show great results. One of my first patients who had FUE (see here: https://baldingblog.com/first-fue-patient-north-america/) still comes to our Monthly Open House events to discuss his hair transplant. This is his look today and that alone answers any challenges to the idea that hair restoration is not a good solution to hair loss.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/prp-injections-the-holy-grail-for-hair-regrowth-gets-a-makeover-for-2019-300819493.html
I have been slowly loosing since i was 15 about and i have nw 1.5 if that Means anything, anyways i am in a really early stage and i want to keep my hair for AS long AS possible. I am completely new to this and don’t know anything about what to do . Is there any products i should look into or buy straight away to slow down the hair loss. My dad Also did begin loosing HIS hair in an young age. My hair loss is my biggest insecurity and i would love to do something about IT. Thank you in advance (sorry for bad english and spelling errors but english is not my First Language)
Your language is fine and you communicated your problem very well. You need to find a doctor who can work with you, build a Master Plan for you, if they have a HAIRCHECK instrument (https://baldingblog.com/19-year-old-parent-told-not-balding-according-haircheck/) then use this as a guide to your treatment success. Finasteride is a great drug for you if you are really balding, you MUST have a doctor work with you for this.
What would you suggest for this man?
Advanced balding is not unusual in a man over 30 as most advanced balding patterns happen in men under 30. He could undergo Scalp Micropigmentation (https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/bold-shaved-look/ ) and look good or possibly get a hair transplant followed by Scalp Micropigmentation and with the two, he can get a full looking head of hair most of the time (see here: https://newhair.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Combining_Follicular_Unit_Extraction_and_Scalp.98621.pdf)
Anybody else notice a major increase in neck hair after starting fin and min. I have never had hair like this run down the 2 sides of my neck. Going to shave it tomorrow but it’s interesting to see that the medication is possibly working right away . I only apply minoxodil to my temples and haven’t seen much change but I’ve only been on for about a month. I hope this is the medication telling me that it’s working very well!
Minoxidil, when absorbed, can increase hair elsewhere in your body. The neck hair increase may be caused by minoxidil.
Just turned 18 and having a lot of receding in the hairline and some thinning on the crown. All the males on my dads side of the family are bald and most the males on my moms side are bald also so i feel like MPB is inevitable just sucks that it started this early! But i am experiencing scalp pain on my crown just wondering if its normal or not
Scalp pain does not come from male patterned balding. Psychological pain is different
First, see a doctor and find out if you really have thinning from an organic cause. I sometimes treat women like with with scalp micropigmentation as shown in the following photos: https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/smp-for-women/
Could you give your opinion on how i can treat my thinning thinning? I’ve always had thin hair but the crown is noticeably thinning i think. I’ve always had a widows peak even from an early age but i’d expect it may be very slowly increasing in size over time also but it’s hard to say. It may be worth noting but i currently only use Nizoral anti dandruff shampoo in my hair every 3/4 days and that is what has provided the best results for my scalp which used to get dry and itchy. I very rarely apply any product into my hair because of the same dryness/itchiness also.
Your hair loss, if significant, is very early. I wonder if you should do anything about it. Maybe minoxidil liquid applied to the crown is the most benign approach and finasteride for the frontal hairline. The enlarging Widow’s peak suggests that your hairline is moving upwards, maybe just maturing but that is the reason to see a specialist in this area.
