If you are losing hair, you should meet with a good doctor and develop a Personalized Master Plan for your long term hair loss problem and its treatment. Be strategic and don’t mess with being your own doctor. There are good drugs for you that work very effectively such as finasteride and minoxidil.
Almost all of the grafts collected by this surgical team was either transected or mutilated. It was surprising that the team was proud of them enough to publish this photo. Significantly less than half of these hair will survive the transplant. Is this a brargain?
PFS patients often don’t follow up with their original doctors (as was the case here). There’s not much of a point really other than to inform the doctor what happened. Sometimes they do and the original doctors downplay the situation, tell the patient it will go away, and when it doesn’t they don’t bother following up. The doctor will often assume the problem went away even though it didn’t. Even worse they say the problems weren’t caused by finasteride and they should seek help from a specialist. Here are just some of the dynamics that play out when patients get PFS. It is getting better now that people are more aware but it is taking far too long and it is all because Merck lied to doctors, the public, and maybe the FDA over 20 years ago.
I never followed up with my original doctor beyond an initial email because he didn’t know any more than what was on the product label. This was over a decade and he probably thinks I’ve recovered. Merck’s warning label basically encouraged doctors to keep patients on the drug because it said side effects discontinued in “most” cases for men who continued the drug and “men who discontinued”. They just lead you to believe it was “all men”.
I make sure to bond with my patients. For example, I will often spend 30-60 minutes with each patient who comes in and it is always free. That establishes a bond between doctor/patient and I believe almost every patient follows up with me because they know that I listen to them.
Be straight out about it. If you can’t, consider Scalp Micropigmentation which solves the problem ( https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/ ).
How old are you? There appears to be some early miniaturized hair along the right hairline and the corner seems to be going upward. Without a full view of your hairline with your eyebrows lifted high so that the forehead creases can be seen, I can’t help much more.
I’m a 22 year old male with androgenic alopecia and diffuse thinning. I’ve been balding since I was 18 years old.
Recently, I’ve been experiencing very rapid shedding all over my scalp (top of the scalp, donor area, and both sides of the head). I went to my dermatologist and had a scalp biopsy (4mm, punch) done to make sure it wasn’t alopecia areata. Turns out, it’s telogen effluvium due to various stressors. 12 days later, I got the stitches removed from the area.
BUT
The hair that is currently growing out and closely around the biopsy site are probably the thickest that they have been in YEARS.
I currently use a topical minoxidil 7%, finasteride 0.1% compound solution ((been using for 1 month), stopped taking finasteride tablets due to sides (used for 2 months)) and I use a microneedling pen (1mm, once per month). Although I’ve had very subtle hair regrowth on my hairline and slight thickening on my temples, the hair from the biopsy site feels and looks thicker than most of the hair on my scalp at the moment.
I’m aware that it may seem like an “illusion” due to my current TE condition, but it honestly feels much more thicker than before the initial shedding started. It almost nearly resembles the texture that it was from when I was a teenager.
If anyone is familiar with the biological components of hair loss and hair regrowth, I would love to hear from you about this matter.
Wounds sometime stimulate hair growth much like microneedling does
There is no relationship between an oily scalp and male pattern balding. These are old wives tales that have been around for centuries
This is an amazing sequence of photos taken every week for 9 weeks after starting on finasteride and minoxidil. If he keeps up on this routine, it looks like he will get his hair back
I am 44 years old so this is an important question for me, “How important is Propecia post-FUT?”
Finasteride is less important because shock loss is less of a problem following hair transplants in a 40+ individual; however, the value of finasteride also includes slowing progression of the hair loss process. Your call. Many times, I go forward with a hair transplant on a 40+ man without finasteride on board.
I’m 20 years old and I’ve noticed the corners of my hair falling a bit, nothing serious but I plan to keep it that way. As soon as I noticed some unusual hair fall I did immense research and came upon these drugs and decided to pull the trigger.
Anyways, I’ve used Finasteride for about a month and got heavy sides upon the first week. I’ve been diagnosed with Major Depression my entire life and don’t take antidepressants but, damn. I had so many suicidal thoughts the first week. I had little to no boners, trouble sleeping and loss of appetite, I even had really bad nightmares. So, a month passes and I push through (probably a bad thing) but I run out of Finasteride because I bought one box of Propecia (thankfully). So, I go back to the pharmacy hoping to get more and they say they ran out. I don’t take any DHT blockers for another month or so, little to no hairloss. I go back and ask a for Propecia and they still don’t have it. I eye a box of AvoDart which is Dutasteride (0.5 mg) and buy it immediately. So far, I’m 15 days in with little to no sides, no improvements but I’m only half a month in. My main concern; is my body immune to Dutasteride? With Finasteride, I got a reaction albeit a negative one from my body but that somewhat confirmed that the drug is working. With Dut I’m half a month in with no sides and I don’t know if I should be concerned or not.
You should get a HAIRCHECK test ( https://baldingblog.com/haircheck-test-how-it-is-done-video/ ) and then once you establish metrics on your hair, if you are balding and it is proved by such measurements, then finasteride is the drug to use not the non-approved Dutaasteride.
This man used a dermaroller for 8 months and as you can see the hair grew in much fuller.
I started finasteride but my hair loss had progressed a bit over the past few months in the temple recession and has thinned on the top and crown as well. A little over a month ago my GP prescribed me 5mg finasteride to be cut into fourths and taken daily. I cut the pills into 8ths and started taking them every 3 days initially. After three weeks, I could tel my nipples were swollen and looked bigger. I also had penile numbness, and I could not maintain an erection at all. After stopping finasteride, I was back to normal within a week. I am really sad that I was unfortunate enough to get side effects from finasteride… Now it seems my only options are to try topical finasteride, or to wait until I am old enough and my hair loss has halted to get a hair transplant.
We need to talk. Topical finasteride is a reasonable alternative which I can prescribe for you over a telephone consultation.
Fake brands probably have too much filler in the pill and less medication. The filler is inert and should have no impact on you
Finasteride works best in the crown as shown in this man that only used finasteride for a year
