I Took Cialis and Grew My Hair Backmassive Hair Loss After a Hair Transplant (from Reddit)
If you are losing hair, it is most likely not the transplanted hair, but your native hair. At the age of 25, shock loss can be expected ,and to prevent this, you should have been put on the drug Finasteride, which usually stops this from happening. You can’t go back and reverse the hair you lost, but you might stop more hair loss from happening with this drug. Get a doctor involved like me, who is experienced in this field and will help you manage the problem. I often help people who have been treated overseas and don’t have a local doctor.
My post-transplant horror story, 25 years old. PLEASE help me. from tressless
Well you should never have had a transplant that young especially with this much hair loss. Any good doctor would never do this because the potential for you to keep going bald is too high. In other words, you only have 6000-7000 transplantable grafts total. You may not have grafts to cover future loss later. The sad fact is the best age for a hair transplant is in the 30s. Now you may be faced with shaving your head and if you have fut, you will have a scar. It’s possible you can have scar revision if it’s bad. You can also have what’s basically a hair tattoo where they take a shaved head and place tiny dots to simulate hair follicles as well as hide the scar. You have other options but not everyone has the correct head or hair for a transplant.
I generally tell patients to get a HAIRCHECK test to find out what their pattern would be and to consider taking finasteride to prevent shock loss. I suspect this man was too young, never had a HAIRCHECK test and was not taking finasteride to prevent shock loss. He paid a very hefty price for his decision to do a hair transplant without adequate research.
William Rassman, M.D.