If your hair is important, find a good doctor and get a Master Plan for your hair loss that will address your situation now, and for the years to come. Good planning is critical and wasting your time looking to a non-professional, who does not know how to help you keep your hair for your life, would be a mistake. A good doctor making a good plan for you is critical. That eventually might lead to a hair transplant.
You might think about Scalp Micropigmentation ( https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/ ). Many men like you had it done and loved it, look at the video on the home page and see what this bald man says!
Very nice results show that some people respond well to finasteride quickly.
Over the past week I have seen three young men (17, 22, 22 years old). The same doctor in Los Angeles saw all three before they saw me. The 17 year old was told that he needed 2500 grafts plus stem cell treatment at a cost of $35,000. The second (22 years old) had three surgeries already and was slated for another couple more (medical malpractice because the doctor used up a good deal of his permanent hair) and the third was told that he needed 4000 grafts (I saw him and told him about finasteride, minoxidil and the dermaroller) to avoid surgery at least until he was older.
I have written before about very young men and that they shouldn’t rush to hair transplant surgery here: https://baldingblog.com/22-years-old-with-4-surgeries-and-more-to-come-from-reddit/ and here: https://baldingblog.com/22-year-old-received-a-hair-transplant-of-2800-grafts-from-reddit/
Clearly some doctors are predators and young men are their victims. Beware of any surgeon that tells you that you should have transplants if you are under 25 years old before your balding pattern is clearly identified.
This man has shared some amazing photos of his 6 month course treating his hair loss. I suspect that if he keeps up on this the hair may all regrow. I believe that the microneedling was critical to the benefits he has seen here. He has used:
The long term question that we don’t know is if the hair does all growS out, how long will it last? The experience is minimal for follow-up of this treatment in men, but I would guess, based upon human skin transplanted in mice with dormant human hair and microneedling, that the hair will last one anagen cycle and then fall out (an anagen cycle in a young man is about 2-3 years on average). At that point the treatment would have to start again, or alternatively a hair transplant may become an option if a restart of the treatment doesn’t work.
I am 20 years old and i am taking 1mg of finasteride for hairloss for a week,i think that i feel more honry than before taking it,dont know why.Nothing else unusual so far.
One of my relatives that I gave Finasteride prescription called me with the same complaint, and it lasted years. He had an agreeable girlfriend and a great sex life. He said he would take finasteride even if he wasn’t losing hair.
Yes, hair transplants are permanent. Yesterday, I saw two patients that came in who had hair transplants in 1994 with me. Both said that they would have been bald, had they not had a hair transplant. One man had a full head of hair in the front (from the transplants but was losing his crown hair, the second guy had lost much of his native hair and wanted it thicker. So, even guys in their 60s (both men were in their early 60s) want more hair to look younger.
The FDA, if it cleared the genetic, believes that there is no difference by law. But sometimes I believe that there is a difference as reported by patients to me. This means that the FDA is not controlling it as it should.
So I am 20, soon turning 21 and I have recently been more and more adamant that a transplant would be the best thing for me. I never did have a perfect hairline since a kid and having a Dad who went bald probably about 30 it was going to happen. But I probably started noticing around 16/17. Then about a year and a bit ago it got really bad. Now I am a constant hat wearer. So my hairs receeded a fair bit at the temples as well as my hairline.
I have looked into transplants and come across various reviews of Turkey. Being a student the cheaper price there sells it immediately. I was wondering if anyone had any advice etc on it and could maybe point me in the direction of well reviewed trust worthy clinics. I have come across this https://www.medaway.co.uk/hair-transplant-turkey/ but just seems bit fishy even with over 3000+ successful transplants???Any advice or guidance would be much appreciated
Yes, don’t do it, not at 20 and not in Turkey. See this blog post here: https://baldingblog.com/22-year-old-received-a-hair-transplant-of-2800-grafts-from-reddit/ This explains the many reasons why you shouldn’t do it now. Get a good doctor who can work with you on a Personalized Master Plan that will insure that you will keep your hair, one way or another, through your entire life. I have had many patients who I worked with (see here for a couple of examples with photos:https://baldingblog.com/difference-between-norwood-class-7-patients-with-photos/ ). Be smart about your hair, please don’t dive into hair transplants now for your own sake.
Again and again we are seeing results from 6 months of microneedling and I suspect as in this man the addition of minoxidil helps move it along. Possibly if he keeps it up, it may get better and better. This man said he got a good result on his hairline. I am surprised that he didn’t get more growth on the crown.
Ever since week two post op, I’ve been experiencing a lot of stress, anxiety, lack of sleep, and even panic attacks a few times. All of this is due to family issues, losing my job, and an underlying depression. These stressful issues have resulted in a very inflamed scalp. I’m now 2 months post op. My question is, can any of this, especially the stress/anxiety and inflamed scalp have permanently killed off my grafts?
Please help me. I’m at an all time low. Thank you
No, your hair will grow regardless of the stress you are undergoing.
My doc put me on a one week course of oral prednisolone for sever tinnitus. The dosage is 70 mg per day for 7 days, but the side are scary.
Although long term use can cause hair loss in men with the genes for hair loss, a short burst should not.
This is a beautiful skin closure, but it has a problem in that the hairs inside of these sutures are being strangulated and will probably die. This will then leave a scar the width of the suture line. What we do is (1) either use surgical stables which go far back from the wound and never strangle the hairs or (2) put very fine sutures (5-0 absorbable) within 1mm or less of the edge so that we make sure that the hairs are not in the suture pull. That minimizes the scar even further.