If you have miniaturization on your scalp in the areas you are balding and then have a hair transplant, the miniaturized hairs get shocked out and often fall from the head. So we call this Shock Loss following a hair transplant. Finasteride can prevent this from happening.
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I would like to have your advice on hair transplant without finasteride do you think hair transplant are relevant with patients who don’t want to take finasteride at all ? Because i have seen people report that without finasteride even the transplanted hair are getting hit by dht and the result after ~10/15 years are […]
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’m 23M male with MPB. Currently I’m NW2 however my forehead has always been huge, it’s part of my skull structure. The question I’d like to ask is: does this procedure usually cause shock loss of the hairs (at the hairline or all over the scalp)? I need to reduce my forehead’s size (not my hairline) […]
I would assume it is atypical for doctors not to prescribe Finasteride to their patients after performing a transplant. But has anyone heard of this? I am considering an FUE transplant at some point, but after reading some of the studies and research on Post-Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) I am concerned my doctor will “require” it. […]
I am naturally a Norwood 3-temple recession and minor crown recession as well. Had a 1200 graft hair transplant last year on my temples, and slightly slowered the hairline. The doc did not put enough grafts in, so I am getting a 2nd HT Nov 20 for an additional 300-500 grafts to fill it in, […]
No it is not too early as you are now 25 and your pattern should be generally known by now. The corners are easy to transplant and the area behind the middle frontal hairline is thinning from the photo view. The entire area can be transplanted easily with FUE, about 1300 grafts might do it. […]
This is your call. Finasteride does two things for men in their 20s: (1) it reduces the shock loss that is very common in young man after a hair transplant and (2) and slows or stops the progressive nature of hair loss.
More and more patients are experiencing over zealous surgeons who take out too many grafts from their donor area in doing FUE. I know that many patients want a lot a grafts so that they can get their hair back as quickly as possible, but pushing the envelope is a real problem as many men, […]
This patient had an FUE and lost all of the donor area hair on one side of his head most likely from shock loss. This is often caused by the over-use of epinephrine in the anesthetics. After 5 months, much of this hair came back. Interesting case. I suspect that the FUE grafts numbers may […]
You have something called ‘donor site depletion’ or you could have shock loss which means that the FUE grafts were taken too close and possibly too many for your donor area to support it. Maybe some of the hairs have been shocked out and may return, but if this continues through the 8th month, then […]
I get side effects from fin so I can’t take it. I’m 23 and thinking at 25 I’ll get a hair transplant. I was wondering if I’m required to take fin for it to work. Finasteride protects young men (under 30) from shock loss after a hair transplant. When a young man doesn’t take it, […]
The question I ask is: Is this shock loss or donor site depletion? How many grafts have you had? This is likely donor site depletion. At 8 months any shock loss will have reversed. If this does not reverse, the only treatment for this that is effective is Scalp Micropigmentation (https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/) which, although it is […]
The older you are, the less the needs for medication to prevent shock loss. Hair transplants do not require any medication. I have had some men who don’t want to take finasteride and went forward with hair transplant, nevertheless.
Why can’t the procedure be done under general anesthesia, to avoid the shock loss associated with the local anesthesia and the epinephrine used with the local anesthesia? General anesthesia has risks that local anesthesia doesn’t have (the death rate is about 1:20,000 people). In addition, hair transplants are very long procedures, and general anesthesia would […]
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