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?
We have performed many reconstructions on Transgender females creating a rounded female hairline, and in your case, we would also add hair to thicken the thinning areas as well.
The theory is that tight scalps cause hair loss. There is no evidence whatsoever that this is true. The goal of this video is to sell you a device to loosen up your scalp. I don’t believe any of this but still will present it to you for the purposes of always presenting contrary opinions.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/sq5QYSNL_Ds?fbclid=IwAR0nXulCoyXy4Er3V6XrwwS1tTDx8rVEpU8SRgvyP_C1ApTgxLBF943_Ldc
Does finasteride cause hair shedding? I’m just starting on fin, I’m 22 and have long hair and I don’t know how bad any potential shedding will be? Like are we talking clumps of hair where it looks like I have bald spots or just excess hair shedding, if fin does cause hair shedding?
I have heard that finasteride can rarely cause shedding in the first couple of months, then it stops. Any shedding that lasts more than 3 months is possibly due to the genetic hair loss you are treating.
This woman had hair loss and went to a surgeon a few years earlier who recommended surgery. Her condition is a clear diagnosis to a doctor with experience, a disease called Fibrosing Frontal Alopecia, which will cause any hair transplant to fail. Although this occurs more in women then men, it does occur in men and an astute doctor who is knowledgeable is critical before you get a hair transplant that will fail if you have this condition.
when the T increase as we know is it possible to trigger hairloss more ???
Finasteride does not trigger hair loss under any circumstance that I know of.
This patient had a hair transplant many years before. The surgeon clearly didn’t understand the hairline or the balding potential for this poor man. He is now stuck with a terrible frontal hairline presentation and an isolated hair transplant in the front and top surrounded by his balding scalp. He needs to have a real expert manage his problem today and it will not be inexpensive.
How does one know if a follicle has gone dormant, and can produce a new hair or is dead?
There is no way to tell other than the timing of its disappearance. Recent hair loss often has some active stem cells trying to find the ‘missing link’ to grow out a hair follicle. After years, these stem cells are thought to be inactive or possibly dead, but nobody knows for sure because we can get them to wake up so we assume the worst. If there is anything there, a small miniaturized hair left, medications might reverse it. Some people feel that microneedling might induce the recently hair that disappeared to come back. This is a microwounding process that causes the release of many kinases that can cause hair regeneration. When adding minoxidil to the process, results are even better. I referenced a review of mixroneedling here: https://baldingblog.com/review-of-microneedling-extensive-thorough-from-reddit/
If you use a Macro-lens on your cell phone (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07S5YPPQX?pf_rd_p=ab873d20-a0ca-439b-ac45-cd78f07a84d8&pf_rd_r=CCSSMZGDS79G6AG31TT9) or purchase a digital hand microscope from Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Microscope-Magnification-microscope-Compatible-Microscope/dp/B08HX42NCB/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=hand+microscope&qid=1634397365&sr=8-6), you can take a look at your donor area and calculate your donor density and your total available grafts or hairs for hair transplants for your lifetime. The key to getting photos like the ones shown below, is to closely cut an area (doesn’t have to be large) but the size of the lens you are using. These hairs were cut almost to a shaved level. I have counted the hairs in the field for you in two of the three photos shown here. Each number reflects the hair count per follicular unit (or graft).
In this example (photo #1), the total count is 140 hairs found in 56 Follicular units (or grafts) which means that this person averages 2.5 hairs/follicular unit (or graft). As the average Caucasian hair count is 2.2 hairs/follicular unit, this means that this man has 20% more hair in his donor area than an average Caucasian man. This will translate into more than 20% more grafts (logic will be presented another time) available in the donor area. With significantly more hair per graft, it means that over his lifetime, he will have more harvestable grafts to use for hair transplants. More grafts leads to a fuller look. You need to do this calculation for your donor area (the back and sides of your scalp). If your donor area has 1.7. hairs per follicular unit (or graft) as shown in the second patient photo, then it would mean that your donor supply is not capable of producing a lot of grafts for treating an advanced balding pattern. These patients run the risk of a see-through donor area if they get FUE performed with any significant numbers, especially if they have a medium-fine or fine hair.
The total number of Follicular Units on the entire hair baring scalp is 50,000 for an average head size. To calculate the total number of hairs that you were born with and using Follicular Unit Density from the back of the head (permanent zone) just multiply the average number of hairs per follicular unit times 50,000 and that will give you a total birth hair count. Example, if your average donor density is 2.2 hairs/Follicular unit, then the total hairs on the hair baring scalp is 2.2 * 50,000 = 110,000 hairs (which happens to be the average hair count for a Caucasian Male). From that calculation, the surgeon can determine your lifetime GRAFTS availability of the donor area. The donor area has 12,500 grafts (26,000 hairs), which is 25% of the 50,000 total follicular units on the head. Usually, the surgeon limits his harvest to leave enough donor grafts for (1) future use as balding progresses and (2) for increasing the fullness of the hair transplant with further hair transplants. Enough hair has to be left behind in the donor area so that it doesn’t become visibly depleted (see-through). In men with medium weight hair, between 3000-3600 grafts can usually be safely harvested, but with fine hair, harvesting 3000-3600 grafts with FUE produces a see-through donor area so the number of FUE grafts that are safe is usually substantially less than 3600 grafts and that is where the experience of your surgeon comes into plan. When a person has a coarser hair, the number of grafts that can be transplanted goes higher than the 3000-3600 graft limit of the 50,000 total follicular units. This illustration shows how the individual hair thickness impacts the overall look one gets with a hair transplant: https://baldingblog.com/hair-thickness-vs-density/
There is a warning here for those of you going for FUE. If your hair is fine in character, harvesting a lot of grafts from the donor area will produce a see-through donor area that appears to be balding. This is not a concern for a man with a coarser hair.
I will tell you that doctors opinions vary considerably on this limit of harvestable graft numbers. Some doctor increase the number, extending the donor area above the 3 inch height limit, possibly harvesting 5000 or more grafts of the 50,000 follicular units, but those who do that, are going to harvest grafts that may not last the lifetime of the patient because they were taken outside of the safe donor area zone. If the patient develops an advanced balding pattern (like a Class 7 pattern of balding), harvesting outside of the true donor area will show significant scarring of the scalp left behind from the FUE punch. A competent doctor will put this into perspective for your Personalized Master Plan. Every balding man who things that some day he may get a hair transplant, must understand how to do these very simple calculations and understand what I have said in this post.
High Donor density
Here are two different patients with low donor density, one with my counted numbers and the other without numbers at all. Both of these two lower photos reflect lower than average donor densities.
So basically what I learned is that people who don’t recover from sides after quitting fin are bound to get them regardless, propecia just accelerated the what will happen to them. Because of that how tf do I know if I’m getting ED or whatever in the future ? The doctor said that people who have low testosterone or diabeties have that chance but I have no idea if I have low t levels. I mean I have lots of body hair and some facial hair and I’m south Asian sooo
I don’t know if your doctor knows what he/she is talking about. There is no association between diabetes and PFS. I don’t believe that anyone knows what causes it, but I know that we don’t see it in our practices because we don’t maintain young men on finasteride who have ED, especially if it doesn’t respond to time and/or a reduced dosage.
Is this a common symptom because of finasteride? It also aches a lot when I lift heavy in the gym, especially when doing squats. My left testicle also got bigger than my right testicle, is this normal? My right testicle doesn’t ache at all, only left.
Pain in a testicle can be from many causes, and if it is swollen it would worry me even more. You should see a doctor as some of the causes can be threatening to the testicle.