https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/brits-heading-turkey-new-hair-28795103
Deaths have also occurred in the US (very uncommon) and other countries. Most of these deaths related to the use of simple anesthetic drugs like Marcaine or Xylocaine which are easy to overdose if you don’t understand their use.
I’m just 19 and last year I had 2 bald patches. I started using minoxidil and they grew back in just 2-3 months. Then I stopped using it since and lost all of the hair from those bald spots. Why did this happen?
Hair that grows because you used minoxidil are dependent upon minoxidil and when or if you stop it, these minoxidil dependent hairs will fall out Just restart it.
21 days, is sheading, but not all, most are growing, is it possible for most not to shed? has anyone seen this?
What you think is growing might be pushing the hairs below the skin forward and out of your head. You will know in a couple of weeks because if the hair continues to grow at 4-5 weeks at a length equal of 1 cm, then it is really growth.
I’m a diffused thinner and I’ve been on fin for a year and 8 months, but it just stopped working, I’ve been losing crazy amount of hair for 3 months now, to the point that my hair is back to baseline and probably even worse, my hairline is also taking a hit.
PRP. I haven’t see predictable results from PRP while other modalities such as oral minoxidil, finasteride and microneedling have shown great results.
Curious what the consensus is. Is thinning/balding crown that bad? My take is that i would rather have a good hairline than a thick crown. Currently my crown is very thin but my hairline is okay. Should I consider myself lucky?
The man in the mirror is the one you want to treat and that is the frontal hairline which frames the face. Many men walk around with crown balding, but when you meet them, they look at your face when they shake your hand. You rarely look at the back of the head, especially if the man is tall. For this reason, I always start off my hair transplant strategy to make the front and top perfect, as much as possible, then, I will turn my focus to the back (crown) of the head which usually requires a lot of grafts (hair) to make it look respectable. Using SMP to subsidize the crown also works nicely, something I do often.
Note the area on the left side the arrows point to hair that is being lost by fading away. This is what is left of his juvenile hairline. The mature hairline is nicely outlined by the thicker hairs. The area behind the hairline has some diffuse thinning maybe reflecting miniaturization and certainly less bulk than the mature hairline which has a different genetic code.
Currently 23 and seriously looking to get an FUE of about 2000 grafts done in the winter or spring of next year. I’ve had consultations a few months back, some doctors saying I’m too young but others giving me a price point with a conservative outcome I would be happy with.
At this point in time, it is good to get an assessment of your donor supply and your hair mass value so that you know, for your lifetime, what is your donor supply from a practical matter. I do this routinely as a person thinks about a hair transplant, even if it is a few years away. It give the patient the ability to plan, budget and obtain realistic expectations.
That is most likely acceleration of your AGA, not the drug effect
Hair loss is caused by genes, hormones (DHT), age (number of hair cycles) and stress. A hair transplant is a stress. In my career, my group has performed over 17,000 surgeries over 31 years so I have seen the impact of a surgery when a man has miniaturized hairs (they lose these miniaturized hairs with a surgery) unless they are on finasteride. This is a fairly reliable assessment of the situation and that is one reason I am never excited about performing any hair transplant procedure on someone under the age of 25 when miniaturization, which precedes balding, is commonplace. So, if I performed a hair transplant just on the receding corners of a 21 year old male, I would witness hair loss that could decimate this young man well beyond what I came to ‘fix’. We call this Shock loss and it is very common in men in their 20s who get a hair transplant, even a small hair transplant.
Thinking of starting to take Fin but I have to wear a hat for work. Will that affect the progress?
Over and over again, we see this terrible complication from a hair transplant where the recipient site died (necrosis), In this case, we have an after healing result with massive scarring from the necrosis. Out of over 17,000 surgeries done by my group, we have never had such a complication. I suspect that this was the result of using too much epinephrine to control the bleeding during the hair transplant by someone who clearly didn’t know what they were doing.
This man’s balding pattern was probably a Norwood Class 4A pattern. He had hair in the back of his head prior to the transplant. The technicians who transplanted him, clearly over-harvested his donor area. They shaved his head, place 7000 grafts. I suspect that they used up close to all of his donor supply and put these grafts into the entire front, top and frontal portion of the crown (which didn’t need the grafts). You the consumer, must be on alert to avoid such catastrophes from happening to you. No real surgeon did this surgery.
This man nicely reversed his frontal balding with microneedling and other modalities.
2000 grafts was a bit too much. You can see that the surgeon place the overage into areas where you were not balding. 1400 would have been fine.
