I got the surgery done, 2500 grafts, at a top US surgeon 2.5 months ago. So far hair has grown in around the edges, but not in the majority of the center. I’ve been on fin for 4 months. Is this considered normal? I didn’t do ACell/PRP.
You need to wait this out. You will see growth start around 3-5 months and be at styling length by the 8th month. The ACell and PRP has not significant value anyway for hair growth from a hair transplant
Even Kings have hair problems! Actually the hairline he is showing is not bad! Also, many men have changes in their hair character as they get older, for example the curly haired Harry might become a straight haired “Harry” when he is 60.
So I’ve been on fin for about 5 months and have noticed I’ve been having on and off episodes of ED for the past few weeks, some days my dick works normally, and other days I have a hard time getting it up. Do dick pills like viagra or cialis help with the ED? I’ll only take it on a just in case basis.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16781295/
This article demonstrates that finasteride has more of a beneficial effect on the thickness and length of hair growth than on the number of new hairs
I feel like the opposite of the known side effects have happened to me. I’ve been on fin for 70ish days now. Got some minor temple regrowth, so I think its working. No sides except now I’m more horny than usual and can jerk it at least 2x a day when before fin I was usually a 5x a week kinda guy. Anyone experience similar? I can only find online info on decreased libido.
Yes, some people (one of my son’s is on finasteride) had a prolonged increase in his sex drive.
I’ve been on finasteride 8 months. Hair is great. Freaked out about sides for the first few months but eventually calmed down and stopped visiting this forum. My sex drive is fine; however, I do have what seems like it could be the start of gyno behind one nipple. Its either that or just a swelling of tissue there (i mess with them a lot and could have squeezed too hard once). Its sometimes has a dull pain when i press on it, but the nipple isn’t sensitive.
See a doctor for an examination as that will identify and hopefully solve the problem.
When I see such pictures of hair transplant results, I realize that both the doctor and the patient have some responsibility to this. The patient had a veto of the hairline as it was drawn on his head prior to the transplant being done. The patient also probably didn’t research his doctor because had he done so, he would not have selected this doctor. The doctor clearly didn’t understand hairline design for men (as this was a female hairline design), did not put enough grafts to give it a full look (that was fortunate for the patient as it will be easier to remove these grafts) and the surgeon (or the technician) who did this, put multi-hair grafts at the frontal hairline, making it look pluggy.
The value of reducing the dose of finasteride is seen here on this dose response curve: https://baldingblog.com/finasteride-inhibition-curve/
I put dots on the left side of this man’s hairline to show where his hairline probably was when he was 12 years old. The movement of the hairline upwards from this dotted line is where the mature hairline develops. The juvenile hairline would extend from the bottom of the widow’s peak to the temple points. The widow’s peak is a genetic remnant of the juvenile hairline which shows nicely in this photo. IF this man got photos when he was 12 years old, I suspect that he would see a rounded concave hairline as I just described. Now what we see is a mature hairline with a gentle V-shape that hopefully will stop receding here.
I have this extreme widows peak. Where would you put me on the scale cause I’m not sure if I should look directly at the wrinkle or a couple of millimeters above where this change in skin structure appears. Having a widows peak to begin with makes recession so much more obvious.
The tip of the widows is where your juvenile hairline was located. The widows peak is a unique genetic remnant of the juvenile hairline so people like you are easy when determining the presence of recession as shown in my article here: https://newhair.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/phenotype-article-published.pdf .
17M, i’ve only been on minoxidil for a lil over 6 weeks, fin for almost 2 weeks. is this an illusion or am i actually already seeing progress?
From a hair growth perspective, 6 weeks in a very short time. Give it more time and then you will know. A 17 year old man tends to be very sensitive to stimulus for hair growth with such approaches as minoxidil, finasteride and microneedling. So you can expand what you are doing if it doesn’t get you were you want to be.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24773771/
“we found that sulfotransferase activity in plucked hair follicles predicts treatment response with 93% sensitivity and 83% specificity.”
Isn’t it even more than that? 50% of men by age 50 have hair loss…age 80 it’s more like 80%…so at the end of the day it’s definitely a majority, even if for some it happens very slowly and gradually..
That is not true; however, there is a change in hair as men and women get older and older. A good percentage of people in the 80+ range, have very fine hair develop which looks see-through. I am going by the statistics I have read to make the above statements.
This Wikipedia review is excellent for all people taking topical or oral minoxidil: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoxidil