This is what I looked like. Did I do any damage to the grafts?
The skin of a hair transplant came from the back of your head which has been protected from the sun since you were born. Now you expose the skin to sun so I would expect it to burn. Also ultraviolet light is not good for wound healing. Use a good sun blocker or a hat and you will be protected. A single sun burn to the grafts probably will not permanently damage them
There has been a suggestion that sperm counts get depressed by finasteride. We know that this happens with dutasteride and this drug even produces azospermia (no sperm) with sterility in some men. The same may happen with finasteride, but the literature is not clear on it. I have now seen many doctor refuse to write prescriptions for finasteride because of the medical-legal risks suggested by articles that discuss side effects that the doctor just doesn’t want to deal with. I continue to write these prescription but place these risks in a consent document that patients must sign.
https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(13)02786-6/pdf
Again, some of the young men posting photos show fantastic results from a combination of finasteride and minoxidil
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10495374/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26636418/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4969473/
All three of these research papers discuss the impact on scalp and systemic DHT. Dutasteride reported a low incidence of sexual side effects 1.7% but although this number is thought to be low, if you subtract the placebo group from the sexual side effects group on finasteride it comes out about 2%.
These photos show the gradual regrowth of the hair at the hairline on finasteride and minoxidil over a 6 month period of time
This young man used just finasteride and microneedling for two months and got good results on his hair growth.
This is a nice result from taking finasteride and minoxidil for just 3 months. This patient is obviously very responsive to reversal of hair loss.
This patient had a hairline lowering procedure. The scar is a complication of this type of surgery, especially when the wound is placed under tension. To avoid this, a low tension closure is critical but this often limits how much the hairline can be lowered. A hair transplant lowering surgeon, of course, does not have this problem. To correct this, a hair transplant should be done in front of the hairline to bury the scar so it can’t be seen. There seems to be enough room for hair grafts to make such a surgery successful. IF the scar still shows after the hair transplant, Scalp Micopigmentation will work well to camouflage it.
It is not normal. It could be from finasteride or many other causes are possible but if you just started the drug and developed testicular pain, the two are probably linked. See your physician who prescribed you the finasteride and then decisions should be made about continuing the drug if it is the cause of the testicular pain.
I’m open to new ideas: https://interestingengineering.com/reversing-baldness-with-an-electric-hat
Great result with finasteride at reversing the right corner recession shown well in these photos
Remarkable results from finasteride in just 4.5 months. This young man must have been very sensitive to finasteride
Excellent responder to the minoxidil and finasteride combination. Keep it up and stay on it and you will only get better.
These are miniaturized hairs that will almost certainly respond to (1) finasteride (2) minoxidil and even (3) microneedling.
The crown often gets good results from minoxidil as shown in these photos 3 months apart
