Declining Propecia Benefits and Shock Loss
If you have been taking propecia for a number of years and you are seeing the benefits slowly decline, but you opt to get a hair transplant done anyways, wouldn’t that still kill the native hair beside the transplanted hair because of shock loss? because the benefits of propecia are declining.
Maybe, but that is were your doctor’s expertise comes in. Your scenario is the worst case outcome, but our experience has shown that finasteride can reduce the risks of shock loss after a hair transplant. Shock loss would be a “worst case” if you do have surgery.
You will have to weigh the “risks versus the benefit” and the inevitability of where your pattern will end up. You will arrive at a point where the surgery will make a difference despite the worst case shock hair loss.
It sounds like its almost better to be completely bald in certain areas and then go for a transplant instead of having some hair and then going for a transplant b/c of the risk of shock loss.
However, I have seen some amazing HT results especially in the hairline as well as behind the hairline in those individuals who are not completely bald.
Thank you doctor.