This is interesting. I found some reports on Google that suggested changes in hair color. What was original hair color? Did it go back to the original hair color. It does look like you have more hair now which looks healthier than your before picture.
Any tips or suggestions on how I can hide this spot in front? Shifting my style to bangs, doesn’t work (tried it already). Been tackling AA for the past 2 years, any cosmetic suggestions would be most appreciated
The use of concealers like Toppik along with styling works well for women. For men with this problem, Toppik also works well along with Scalp Micropigmentation, with or without shaving your head. See here: https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/ and look for examples with alopeca areata
I am a 25 yo NW2 with good density (little bit of thinning at the top and the crown) and pretty healthy donor area. My hairline is fairly stable and I am not experiencing any significant hair loss. My surgeon recommended for hairline correction with 1600-1800 grafts. I was hoping to get it done in 1000-1200 grafts but he said I need more to match my overall density. Should I give big 3 a shot and try to restore my hairline a little bit (although these procedures mainly help you save what you have and not get any hair back) or get a HT straight away. I am leaning towards HT but I’ve heard that my MPB may become aggressive because of shock of the surgery. Is there any truth to that?
Shock loss is common in 25 year old men but if they take finasteride, shock loss is significantly reduced or eliminated. The shock loss impacts the miniaturized hairs that are present on the scalp, those hairs due to fall out soon.
Quick question to start. I’m trying to decide between FUE and FUT. Doctor recommends 1500 grafts. With a 1500 graft FUT, would the scar be much smaller than scars I’m seeing online in the 3000-5000 range? Do they still cut from side to side or is the cut shorter and also is it narrower?
The scars from a first surgery with a strip usually are about 1-2mm wide. About 10% of people will stretch wider than that. Second surgeries the percentage of stretching increases to about 10% of people. I had three strip surgeries and no one can find my scar because I heal well. Strip scars are rarely a problem unless you shave the back of your head to a 1 cut or closer.
Had my HT on 19th December 2019. I am 25 years old. 2100 Grafts FUE. Would love to know your opinions on this.
If you and your doctor had taken off all of the crusting on day one, you would not have to walk around looking like that or wear a hat. Here is what you should have looked like: https://baldingblog.com/one-day-post-op-2150-grafts-photos/ He looked clean every day thereafter.
The key is small incisions and good washing techniques from the start so that nobody can tell you had a hair transplant from the day after surgery.
Receding Hairline? The hair on that spot was less dense already. In the last couple of weeks, it became almost blank there
I would like to see a frontal view with your eyebrows lifted high so that the creases in the forehead show. This will allow you and me to find out if you have a mature hairline which will be one finger breadth above the highest crease. Any above that is a receding hairline.
I am a 28 year old male and I’ve been using finasteride for 2 years. After 7 months I started feeling random hot flashes in my body every day. Reducing the dose to 1mg every other day, it worked for a few months, but the hot flashes came back. What can it be?
This is the first time I heard that from a male. I don’t know what it means. According to a look up in Google, this is a known side effect in older men taking finasteride.
A lot of FUE hair transplants are starting to look flawless and seems way easier to maintain then going the pill, minox, dermarolling routine everyday. I think the price is starting to go down as it becomes more widely available as well. At what cost of a transplant would you just do that once instead of the current regime daily?
Hair transplants are great options, if you are over 25, have determined your future balding pattern (worst case), have your donor area quantified so that you have enough to meet you worst case balding needs and have the finances worked out
Many people ask me if anyone will detect that they had a hair transplant immediately after it. Of course, there will be a ‘beard’ present but if you keep your hair long, it can disappear. I have posted patient pictures to show you what you would look like immediately after a hair transplant.
https://baldingblog.com/two-post-operative-patients-shown-one-day-hair-transplants/
https://baldingblog.com/patient-just-4-days-following-1700-grafts-with-photos/ (This patient used is hair and combed it forward because his hair was black and his skin was white)
https://baldingblog.com/class-23-patient-just-5-days-after-fue-procedure-with-photos/
I’m 31 and noticed hair loss at 30 which was horribly shocking for me, found tressless and got on fin without hesitation. I’ve had a crazy time on finasteride, pushed through more sides than I’m sure most would, developed gyno althought you can’t really tell to look at me and I have pretty low body fat so you should be able to see it but my nipples are puffy and I’ve developed a hard mass. My libido is through the roof and I think my erection quality is actually better than before strangely. I’ve got high test tho which explains all my sides.
You should see a doctor if you believe that there is a breast mass to get it confirmed and diagnosed. Finasteride almost always works to slow, stop or reverse the hair loss. You can’t see it slow the loss of course and that is the problem. I don’t know why your sex drive increased but I have seen it in some of my other patients, even my son reported that side effect and his girlfriend was happy about it. If you stop the medication, the breast mass (if that is what it is) may persist.
I’m assuming the importance of the solid diagnosis is to rule out other causes of hair loss like nutritional deficiencies and confirm the cause is mpb. Why is this so important?
If you have a firm diagnosis for genetic balding, then the medications you take are lifetime, something that you don’t want to do if the diagnosis is not solid. Also, one needs peace of mind that a proper diagnosis gives you.
If I can find a dose that doesn’t give me brain fog on finasteride, should I take it.
You can go down to 0.25mgs and get 50% effect from that dose. IF that works for you without brain fog, then go for it. For men with Brain Fog from finasteride that can’t be controlled by a lower dose, I tell them to stop the medication
So I recently started taking finasteride since Tuesday. For the past 2 days, my erections have been harder and I feel an increase in my libido causing me to constantly masturbate compared to prior to starting the medication. Is this normal?
This is not an uncommon experience. It happened to one of my own family and stayed that was for as long as he took finasteride.
So I started seeing thinning around my 18th bday, I put off treatment as there was no history of MPB in my family and I was iron deficient. After a biopsy it was confirmed to be MPB. I started a regime of Min and was all well until 8 months in I started to shed, I thought this was due to hair cycles. After I realised it was to aggressive to be the case I added Finasteride in Dec 2020. I have seen some regrowth but I feel this is mainly due to Fin as I have experienced no shedding from min as I did originally. I am 22 and although I know I won’t have a full head of hair, something to work with would be nice. Adding micro needling in the last few weeks is hopefully going to help with that. I would just like to ask those more experienced in this area if it would be right to start considering a HT for a few years time or is the Fin progress seen after 6 months going to progress and get better. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Take a look at your family history to try to guess what your final balding pattern would be. Ask each of your balding relatives, what they looked like at your age. Then get to see a doctor who can quantify your donor supply and your hair mass index to find out what can be done in the future if you get a hair transplant. I call this a Personalized Master Plan and you have done well so far. The picture shown in this post is what you must try to guess: https://baldingblog.com/need-master-plan-think-hair-transplants-photos/. Then with a great surgeon at your side, plan the timing of a surgery
The treatment itself is relatively quick and painless, with no downtime and very little recovery. A local anesthetic is used for patient comfort .Very fine, hollow needles (think acupuncture) are inserted under the scalp, leaving behind a nearly microscopic thread which will create a foreign body response, triggering the bodies’ own natural healing mechanism. Threads dissolve naturally, absorbed by the body over the course of 4-6 months. This process of forced cellular activity will promote new tissue growth, improve circulation and ultimately help to regenerate the hair follicle.
PDO scalp threading is new to me. I want to see some published articles on it and its benefits and liabilities. I would not recommend it until I see some good published data. It actually makes no sense to me because putting a foreign body in the scalp can only produce down sides that I can only imagine