I was impressed with this review. There is some more guidance on how individuals are using the microneedling in this post.
My thoughts on microneedling depth, based on 3 papers. from tressless
I’m 24 year old with stable nw3 hairloss pattern. Is a hair transplant worth it if I cannot tolerate finasteride?
Many men will seek out a hair transplant if they can’t tolerate the drug finasteride. That works if you are not losing a lot of hair and developing an advanced hair loss pattern at the time you want to do a hair transplant. Hair loss patterns can be stable in some men, so a good surgeon will tell you what your situation might become for planning purposes. I certainly do that for all of my hair transplant patients under 30.
I responded with, “If I go bald, then I’ll just have to deal with it and go on with life”. It felt so empowering to embrace the fact that I might be bald someday. If she thinks I’m ugly, then that leaves another 4 billion potential females who might find me attractive. This girl and I are just friends by the way and I don’t think she knows my hair is thinning.
Society has prejudices. This is well illustrated in two observations: (1) Since Eisenhower was president, no president has been elected that has been bald because society thinks that bald men can’t be trusted. Men’t Fitness magazine did a study that showed that society felt different about bald men vs hairy men. I think that is why our sexy movies stars have good hairlines. (2) I ran a talk radio show called The Inner Man for a year in Los Angeles. Although my focus was not hair issues but religion, sex or social issues, I remember one show where I talked about hair and societies attitudes about it. One man called in and he was the Vice President of Marketing and Sales for a Billion dollar company (he did not say who he was just what he did). He told me that he would never hire a bald man because bald people couldn’t be trusted. As a side note, he said he was completely bald but he was trustworthy, different than everyone else.
People who are superficial don’t look below the surface of most things (balding included). I am sure that your ‘girl’ friend would not abandon her friendship with you if you started losing hair. She would be very supportive.
My wife and I caught dengue in Thailand 3 months ago. She started having rapid hair loss two weeks ago and we jokingly said it was probably dengue (it’s a running gag, since that damn thing hit us with a good dozen different symptoms). Joke’s in us; it’s actually dengue. Apparently it’s common to have it happen 2.5 to 3 months down the line. Anyways, I read on it and it’ll apparently go on for a couple months.
In women who have hair loss following a severe illness, a significant telogen effluvium develops and usually reverses in a year or so. In men, if they have genetic balding, they can kick in the genes and then follow their family pattern that is inherited and it could be that it would not reverse in men unlike women who often do reverse. I would expect similar responses to those people who caught Covid-19 Virus and got very sick but as our office is close, we will not see them for some time.
Is it possible to get a transplant at around 20 years old if you have been on Fin for a couple of years, and had been able to stop further hair loss? Since Fin stops hair loss, and transplants are recommended for people 25+ in order to see what your balding pattern will be, why would you need to wait that much longer?
Never a good idea. Take a look at this: https://baldingblog.com/need-master-plan-think-hair-transplants-photos/ You must have a Personalized Master Plan in the case that your balding pattern follows this man. If he started at 20, he might have used up all of his donor hair before the balding became complete. That means that he might not look right, hair wise. Good planning starts when you begin the hair transplant process and you MUST know your lifetime donor supply.
This is an excellent result from taking finasteride for one year. I tell my patients to stay on it to get the maximum benefit
What you are seeing is not the growth of new hair, but many vellus hairs (small hairs labeled 1 and some miniaturized hairs labeled
Very nice results for one year of persistence.
Started fin in January. If you zoom in, are those miniaturized hairs new? Are those hairs that will be growing in or are they hairs dying off
Too early to tell. Wait a full year and then you will know. With the balding you have, I would doubt significant growth from finasteride, except possibly in the middle of the balding area where I see existing pores present suggesting that the hair loss in this area was more recent. A hair transplant may be the only real solution for you. See some of our patients here: https://newhair.com/before-and-after/hair-transplants-men/#results
I’m a long term user of Fin since 21 years old. Can honestly say I haven’t experienced one single side the entire time I’ve been taking it. I only take a quarter tablet every night 0.25mg I’m almost 31 in a few weeks. I’ve noticed over the past month or so my libido has decreased enough for me to notice.. I don’t have trouble getting erections, and I still wake up with one as well But I can go days without feeling the need to masturbate where I used to get the urge every day. My interest in the opposite sex has seemingly waned as well, I’m more focused on working out/exercising and my other hobbies. I’m trying to narrow down what could be causing it. Fin was obviously the first thing to spring to mind, could it be after years of no sides I could get them suddenly?
Yes, some men reported this to me. The problem is that as men get older, ED becomes a problem without finasteride and so does a reduced libido in some men, so it is difficult to tell if it is the drug unless they stop it and if they stop it, then the could lose considerable hair volume.
This is not what you want to be your story. Good research with good doctors will avoid all of these problems with hair transplants and SMP. The video is painful to listen to. See this Video from Reddit:
Beware failed Bad Hair Transplant SMP(scalp-micropigmentation) Bad Reviews Part #1 from tressless
Understanding what we are seeing is not good with photos here., but a HAIRCHECK test ( https://baldingblog.com/haircheck-test-how-it-is-done-video/ ) would give an actual number to what you think may be increased hair growth. These numbers don’t lie but photos can be misleading. You can see how photos can mislead you here: https://baldingblog.com/photos-taken-20-seconds-apart/
I just tanned my head haha.
Tanning works like anything that changes the contrast between hair and skin color. The darker your skin with dark hair, the less the contrast between hair and skin color. I often recommend that men with very white skin get a tan. Dying it blonde works even better for the white guys, maybe not for darker haired men. SMP also changes the contrast between hair and skin color, see here: https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/
My colleague Dr. Robert Bernstein states: “As you suggest, it would be reasonable to assume that since DHT stimulates beard growth, blocking DHT (with finasteride) would tend to inhibit its growth. In practice, this does not seem to be the case, i.e. we don’t find that Propecia has any effect on facial hair. The reason is not clear.”
I have not seen this complaint in young men either, just as stated by Dr. Bernstein.