This young man from Reddit showed his grandfather proudly still having hair at the age of 102. It reminded me of my maternal grandfather who had Ronald Reagan’s hair at 102.
These are unusually good early results!
Stay on the course as it takes sometimes 18 months to see full benefits. The finasteride has just started to work and may take another 18 months to see full benefit.
I have a friend who still have a a norwood 0 at 26 his hair is almost full grey but is better to have grey hair than no hair. My father is 56 still have NW0 only now it starting the thinning of the crow area. I unfortunately receive the genetic hair from my mother side and I am already on 1 or 2 on the scale) And going bald is inevitalble ? every man become bald when they become older like at 60-70 ?
Yes, the slower the appearance of balding, the less you may bald (that is if you are going to bald at all). My Grandfather on my mother’s side died at 102 with his 5 year old hairline still present.
A picture is worth 1000 words. This is a nice result from a hair transplant in just 6 months.
Some people get a good early response.
22y/o here with diffuse thinning. I’ve accepted that growing my hair out long isn’t an option due to thinness and my hairline has started to go. I look fine with a buzzcut but would look great if I could fill in my temples. Ive stabilised loss with fin and min (on for 6 months) but am wondering if getting a small transplant (1k) to fill in temples is a a good idea (aged 24 or so). I think it would look better than some dodgy SMP. Has anyone done this/got any opinions
A small hair transplant is like being a little bit pregnant. You should never start the hair transplant process unless it is part of a Master Plan that looks into your future (see here: https://baldingblog.com/so-if-i-replace-my-receding-hairline-what-happens-in-ano).
I have finasteride 5mg pills. I crushed up the pill until it was very fine powder. I put it in an empty bottle of Minoxidil. I added 5ml of Minoxidil. Shook up the contents My intention is to shake up this mixture prior to applying and apply 1ML of this mixture a day via the Minox dropper. Thus this mixture should last 5 days Am i missing something here or is this sound?
The finasteride will not absorb into the skin and be effective the way you are using it. The real topical finasteride has a liposomal base that allows skin absorption. That is why you pay good money to a compounding pharmacist.
Here, an area was left untouched, and the FUE was done above and below the untouched area. From looking at these photos, you can see that the FUE was distributed in the normal donor area nicely, but more FUE than this will cause significant depletion. The FUE was done above and below an area which has SMP done.
Just curious but has anyone had experience with telling their work colleagues or bosses that they were going to get a hair transplant to clear the air, etc.? Or have you told them after the fact at all? If so, what was their reaction like / how did people take it generally? I’m planning on getting a HT this year and honestly considering just telling my 2 main bosses straight up what I’m gonna do because I’m 100% sure they will notice it when I’m back at work; I know this because I’ll have at least 2500 grafts done in the front primarily, which WILL be noticeable even with a concealing hair style, and i know both of them are very clued in to appearances and somewhat vain themselves. One of my bosses literally even makes comments about my appearance and my hair sometimes if I have a ‘bad day’ or if something is “off” – he does it sort of in a prick-ish endearing way but he’s literally said multiple times like “what the fuck!” or “You need a haircut man!” So my point is i know 100% they will notice either way when I come back to work, and I feel that by just telling them up front, I may not only clear the air completely and remove any anxiety or awkwardness, but could maybe even gain a little respect or support. Anyway, does any one have thoughts or experience on this?
I have had men successfully hide the hair transplant, that is, if they do the strip method as the removed strip area is covered with hair and the recipient area is cleanly washed. If you have frontal hair you can come it forward and cover the recipient graft. I have had men successfully hide the hair transplant, that is, if they do the strip method as the removed strip area is covered with hair and the recipient area is cleanly washed. I also wrote a post on hiding FUE here: https://baldingblog.com/go-man-hide-hair-transplant/
This is the result of a single hair transplant. His smile shows his satisfaction
I understand you probably get plenty of messages so thanks for taking time to read this. My girlfriend is 5 months pregnant and Ive been on Finasteride for 7 months. I’m just wondering if I can contribute to take Finasteride whilst she is pregnant and also continue to have sex with her without the use of a condom. Will this lead to birth defects?
There are no problems with birth defects caused by you being on finasteride.
You rarely need more than 40% of the original hair density to get good coverage. It depends upon your hair thickness (each shaft) and the color / contrast between your hair and skin color.
The post he commented on is the following: https://baldingblog.com/new-report-that-finasteride-does-not-cause-sexual-side-effects/
Comment: This survey method is so flawed that its ‘findings’ are not just unhelpful, but actually misleading. It’s really quite simple actually.
They just surveyed a bunch of guys who had been taking Propecia for hair loss and compared it to presumably random guys who were not on Propecia. If you develop side effects from Propecia, which often happens fairly early on, you are going to stop the drug quickly. 85% of the guys surveyed had taken Propecia > 12 months so you can be sure they didn’t have side effects. Even the other 15% would have likely filtered out most of the guys with side effects.
That’s why the authors erroneously conclude finasteride use resulted in no connection to sexual dysfunction. Their own data doesn’t even show that. Their data shows the finasteride group had a lower incidence of sexual dysfunction but that is only after you naturally exclude people who quit due to side effects. To say this study is controversial would be to give it way too much credit. It’s just flawed.
Only 4% of people have sides? That sounds low. But, everyone online is talking about the side effects and how dangerous the drug is.
If you sat on a nail, you would remember it and every time you sat on a chair you would check for a nail. But sitting on a nail is very very very rare, not as rare as side effects from finasteride but those who have them are like the guy who sat on the nail, get it?