Stopping the finasteride after a hair transplant has been done with a few of my patients with success. The risk of shock loss is mostly in the first 4-6 months, and those that stopped it after the transplanted hair grew out did not have a problem with shock loss. Of course, they had the benefit […]
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Some of my patients do not take Propecia (finasteride 1mg) by their personal choice. It is your choice as well. The risk is that you may have increased shock hair loss without taking Propecia before surgery. Shock hair loss is common in men under 30 years old or those who are losing their hair actively […]
You should take the drug for a full 6 months (minimum) after a hair transplant and then after stopping it, watch as the hair gain (or retention) you saw from Propecia will be lost over a few months.
The transplanted hair should be permanent if it is taken from the permanent zone (called the donor area)… and as long as you don’t have any underlying disease that causes hair loss in that area, such as alopecia areata. Propecia (finasteride) should be used by men to halt further loss in the non-transplanted area and […]
Alopecia areata will often disappear months after it first appears. There is always a risk of it reappearing at any time, but considering how many years it is since its last appearance, it seems unlikely. Alopecia areata (AA) is often regional so if you are genetically balding (more patterned loss) and the diseased area is […]
At 7 months, you should see growth from the transplants. It sounds like it’s possible that your transplants grew in right away (seen in 5% of patients), but you may have experienced shock loss in the surrounding hair, leaving you no better off than before you started. As for redness, it should’ve subsided months ago. […]
I do not know of anything that will block the possible breast and erectile side effects of finasteride that a tiny percentage of men will see. If you experience erection issues, Viagra or Cialis will likely solve that. For my patients that might see a side effect (real or otherwise), cutting the dosage is better […]
Scar formation and wound healing is not that simple. Aside from the technical aspect, everyone heals differently and scars differently. Leaving staples in for about 10 to 14 days is what we generally do. We leave the staples in for up to 21 days in some patients. Sometimes leaving staples in longer will cause the […]
This is quite unfortunate. Hair transplantation on a 21 year old woman is usually performed by doctors who want the money and do not care about the patient’s welfare. Indeed, about 80% of women with hair loss are not candidates for hair transplants and may suffer the same outcome that you did. You should have […]
It’s not guaranteed that you’ll get that same pattern, but the odds are certainly not in your favor based upon what you are saying. Hair loss can skip generations. Any surgeon that would transplant hairs into that area in a 21 year old without significant balding occurring is probably a crook and will be doing […]
If you have seen a good dermatologist and had a good hair transplant doctor, I can not add much here as I would have less information than they have. You could be experiencing some shock loss in your eyebrows, but I’m just not sure, as I’ve not examined you and am not familiar with your […]
The state of the art today is to limit transplanted scars to just one, even with multiple surgeries. If, for any reason, the scar gets wider (5-10% of people) then a single scar can often be corrected in a special surgery that addresses the need for a scar revision. Some surgeons go into untouched areas […]
I generally recommend waiting between 8-12 months between hair transplants as 80% of the hair will be at styling length by the 8th month. Shock loss is rare in a second hair transplant within 2 years of the first. I generally think of Propecia/finasteride as a lifetime decision, because stopping it would allow the progressive […]
Just to clarify for readers, the above email was received in response to My Crown Is Starting to Thin and I Want to Thicken It Up With a Hair Transplant. Now that we’re all on the same page, I may not have been clear in that posting so I’ll attempt to fix that now. Some […]
It is difficult for me to guess at what you are talking about. Existing original hair may continue to be lost to the balding process and even at 6 months shock loss can occur by accelerating the hair loss in the areas you are discussing. You doctor should have good photographs from just before your […]
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