You can either (1) try a laser hair removal which may take a few sessions and runs the risk of depigmenting your skin if it is tan or dark (2) removing them with FUE directly which works well. I would love to see photos of what you don’t like, what was done wrong and if it could be fixed
I’m trying to fix the right temple hair above my eyebrow, instead of going up straight it curves 2 inches back messing up my line and making a triangle at the right? Should I go with FUT or FUE, I don’t care if it’s uneven or not because I can simply get my barber to match my left side after my right side has been fixed. Is Saw Palmetto better than nothing? I know it’s not fin or duasteride but I’m trying to block dht, I’m planning to use either Kirkland or Rogaine
Saw palmetto will not work as it is a very, very weak DHT blocker. A hair transplant can balance the hairlines but you should be over 25 before considering it or you might start getting a hair transplant every year as you chase an accelerated hair loss. Make sure that you get a Master Plan with a good, caring, honest doctor
If those hairs which are short hairs do not grow, then these hairs may eventually fall out. You might be developing a mature hairline. In advanced miniaturization, the hairs stop growing before the fall out. The use of finasteride with or without minoxidil might reverse it. Many young men will add microneedling to it as well
Men think that balding is a male problem, but women have it too and it is even more devastating when they are young and they often feel that they are looking old as a result of it. Believe it or not, almost 50% of women who go through menopause develop generalized thinning and often force them to make lifestyle adjustments. If you don’t believe it, look to your mom, aunts and grandmothers and many of you will see a ‘see-through scalp’. Post menopausal women get their genes for hair loss and express the balding when they lose their estrogen support at menopause. Then, without adequate amounts of estrogen, their androgens (e.g. testosterone) has no counter balance, so the genes for hair loss express themselves without estrogen protection. Many women go to the beauty parlor and dye their hair blonde or lighten their hair color to reduce the color/contrast between their skin and hair color making the thinning less obvious. We offer Scalp Micropigmentation for many of these women (see here: https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/).
Some young women also have genetic hair loss and it can express itself in two manners (1) by recession like a man can have where the hairline goes up or with a slightly different type of hair thinning pattern and (2) generalized thinning impacting the hair everywhere on their head. When recession occurs, a hair transplant can work well, but when generalized thinning occurs, we often just do Scalp Micropigmentation for them (see 33 year old female with photo here: https://baldingblog.com/i-am-a-33-year-old-famale-can-anyone-help-me-photo/). Some women will respond to finasteride (less than 50% for post menopausal women and even less for pre-menopausal women who must be very careful not to get pregnant because pregnancy and finasteride causes birth defects in the baby).
Women have hair loss from many causes including: Birth Control pills, all sorts of medications, thyroid, anemia, low Vitamin D levels, low Zinc Levels, and other endocrine problems. I often order a battery of blood tests for women (https://baldingblog.com/common-blood-tests-for-female-hair-loss/) when they come to me for evaluation to see if there is something wrong that should be fixed first.
Women have other problems including a variety of autoimmune diseases of the scalp (frontal fibrosing alopecia, Lichen Pilanoplaris, scarring alopecias from other causes) so women should see a good dermatologist to make sure that these diseases are not present. Getting a hair transplant while these diseases are present will fail.
Article: https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/3/71/71ec24.full
The article from science magazine above discusses the stem cells that are found in the bulge of the hair follicle (in the upper third of the follicle) and that these cells can generate new hairs to populate the bald head. It reminded me of a classic article by Jung-Chul Kim et.al. when he performed partial graft implantation to determine if two hairs could be produced by transplanting two different anatomic parts of a single hair follicle. As stem cells are in the bulge of the upper hair follicle and also in the bulb at the bottom of the hair follicle, he had hoped that two full terminal hairs would rise from the fragments of the original hair as the stem cells in each fragment was capable of generating a hair. In a limited study, Kim removed the upper 2/3rds of the hair follicles from his donor area and transplanted it into his leg. He also removed the lower 1/3rd of the follicle to include the bulb and transplanted that into his leg as well. He showed that the upper 2/3rds of the hair follicle can generate a full hair follicle and the lower 1/3rd can also generate a hair follicle; however, the growth rate of the upper 2/3rd was only 40% and the hair was finer in character (which has much less cosmetic value) and the lower 1/3rd of the follicle growth rate was 27%. By adding these two growth rates together (27% + 40%) the total growth rate was 67%. This study was performed on 67 human hair follicles, i.e. a feasibility study and the conclusion is that the process didn’t work as hoped. So when he cut the hair follicles into two, he ended up with less than the full cosmetic value of the original hair. I wish it worked! Many people have replicated his experiment with similar results.
Hey guys, i get hypertrichosis all over my body from topical minoxidil after 4 years on it . Will it disappear if i stop ? how long will it take? Does reducing the dose alleviate this side?
It may take about 1-2 months for the hypertrichosis to disappear after you stop taking minoxidil.
How much hair does a non-bald person have on top of their head. Not the back or the sides, just the top. I know it depends on thickness. But what is the minimum amount of hair needed on top so as to not appear to have thinning hair?
I have told the story of a famous doctor who got a patient with black hair and white skin to allow him to pluck out 50% of hair on one side of his head. With good photos and expert advisers, nobody could tell which side had the hair plucked out. When the skin is darker and the hair is brown or light brown, salt and pepper or blonde, the balding shows less. So what I am telling you is that addressing thinning or hair loss is both a science and an art form, and doctors who have a lot of experience, can help you determine what you need to cover a balding area. I left out other factors as hair shaft thickness (coarse hair) and hair character (curly or kinky hair) which further skew the answer to your question.
I will not vouch for the contents of this video, but worth looking at if you have PFS. One poster on Reddit said his PFS was cured following the advice given in the video
There is some miniaturization but it is around 20% which generally is not considered significant miniaturization. For a female, I would be interested in the views from both the back of the head and about one inch above the ears as FPHL has significant miniaturization above the ears as well as in the back of the head.
I took fin for 11 days, stopped because i was afraid of the sides. Then four days later i tried to have sex with my gf, but i couldn’t get it up at all. After some days it went back to normal. But some weeks later i tried to have sex again, and my penis didn’t get up. I had this on my mind before the act, so that may have been the case. We had sex later that day, and i felt better, and the next day we had sex three times.
I maybe suffer with PFS? Going to an neurologist soon. I have also tried a quarter pill of viagra, but that doesn’t help much. Is this just me overthinking?
Yes, you are focusing too much on your penis and performance. That, by itself, can give a man ED.
Body hair can be used but each body hair part has different characteristics that you must be aware of, particularly growth cycle. Beard hair is similar to scalp hair in its growth cycle with a long Anagen phase and a short telogen phase. It is, however, more curly and course possibly than your scalp hair. Arm, chest, and leg hair has a very short Anagen phase and a long telogen phase which means that much of the hair will not grow longer than 6-8 months and ‘sleep’ for 5-6 months so its value will be less in terms of length. These hairs are also finer and often do not have the appearance of normal scalp hair when they grow out. ?Pubic hair of course looks like pubic hair but works well as does underarm hair with its sweat glands.
I have been using finasteride for a year and my shedding had only increased. I thought that because I am young finasteride would be enough but I don’t think so now. My scalp has become more itchy, inflamed and red. All the dermatologists I have visited don’t know what it is or what to do. They have already tried nizoral, topical steroids, anti fungals, antibiotics but nothing has worked. I am going crazy from the itching and shedding, so I am hoping you can help or give advice.
So my questions are: Is this inflammation preventing finasteride from working? Would you recommend switching to dutasteride? What should I do now because my Gp has given up?
I hope you respond please, as I am getting desperate now.
I am not smarter than your dermatologists. If the shedding continues on finasteride than I might think that you are balding and finasteride is not controlling it. If I were to see you, I would start off getting a HAIRCHECK test on you to see how much hair loss you have had (hair must be long). That would give me data points on the hair loss and from there, based upon the test results, I would have an indication of you and the degree of your balding and if so, what pattern you might be developing. What is your age?
The best way to reverse this beard transplant is to use an FUE hand unit and remove them one at a time. Beard transplants are shallow and should be easy to remove this way
Hair systems never look good, IMHO. I know a guy who makes a lot of money and went very detailed on hair system versus transplant and explained very well why he got the system and it’s the first thing I notice every time I see him. Yeah, I know he has it and I can’t unsee it. So that creates a bias, but even if I didn’t know there is no way I would think it’s hair.
Some transplants look terrible, too, especially when I see one on UK celebs for some reason. A lot of unnatural looking hairlines. But I’ve seen a lot of good natural looking transplants, too. Micropigmentation looks good but only for a very specific style.
When hair transplants or SMP is performed in the right hands, it looks natural. The key is to get someone who knows what they are doing. You wouldn’t say Elan Mush’s hair transplants looks bad, would you?
I found this article in a Sports Medicine Journal from the Editor: https://journals.lww.com/cjsportsmed/Citation/2010/05000/Creatine_Supplementation_and_DHT_T_Ratio_in_Male.13.aspx
Frankly, the answer is not clear to me