Month: January 2023

Very impressive early results. I particularly liked that you kept your hair comparable between the two photos and with good lighting

It is hard to believe that this much hair came out in just one month treatment with dermaroller, finasteride and minoxidil. Hair length could have something to do with what we are seeing. Your before picture should have had the same hair length as the after picture

There are many variables needed to address the question if one hair transplant is enough they include: The size of the balding area being treated, the hair thickness (fine, medium or coarse), the color contrast between hair and skin (e.g. Blondes do better with less hair moved in proportion to the balding area), the character of your hair (straight vs very curly), your goals (are they realistic?), the experience of the doctor and his/her team, the density placed at the recipient area. So if the bald area is small, then yes, one hair transplant can probably achieve reasonable goals.

So I started Proscar (1.25mg for AGA) in a hope to prevent/slow down any possible hair loss (25 years old male with NW2, only a receded hairline and I have mid-back length of thin curly hair).

After my very first dose, I (after like 17 hours) felt some discomfort in the breasts/chest/upper abdomen, is this even possible? I gave it a try for 4 days and it’s still persisting (it’s not a full blown pain but rather a discomfort), I stopped the drug out of fear of Gyno, was this a sign of Gyno? This is my 3rd day off-drug and the discomfort is still there, what should I do? I really should take Finasteride and I am planning to restart it at 0.5mg once the discomfort resolves, is this the correct action?

If you believe you are having negative side effects, why would you want to continue the medication? The correct action is speaking to you doctor about this.

Anything is possible but it seems improbable. Gynecomastia from Propecia use takes several week if not months of use.

Finally a Norwood 2 is not generally considered balding and Propecia only treats the vertex (crown) area of the scalp – (not the front corners). We routinely offer actual tests to determine if you have genetic pattern balding routinely on every patient coming in to see us who are like you. We don’t want people on drug that do not need them.

I have been asked lately to show more pictures after the surgery so that prospective patients can understand what they may look like. Each patient is different because of hair and skin color. The lower the contrast, the less detectable it is, the grater the contrast the more detectable the ‘beard look’ of new hair is. This patient is 9 days after his surgery. His skin color is olive but his hair is brown so what we are seeing is his brown hair in the recipient area against his olive skin color and an FUE donor area that is one day post-op. Note that there is no crusting present in the recipient area and the FUE wounds are almost undetectable at one day.

The first patient on the left has 1505 grafts and the patient on the right had 700 grafts. Note that both patients don’t look like that had a surgery and there are no crusts (scabs) present as each were washed off the day of and the day after the surgery. These photos were taken less than 24 hours after their hair transplants.

I have been asked lately to show more pictures after the surgery so that prospective patients can understand what they may look like. Each patient is different because of hair and skin color. The lower the contrast, the less detectable it is, the grater the contrast the more detectable the ‘beard look’ of new hair is. The redness you see will be gone in a day or two. The tape was put there to prevent swelling from creeping down in the forehead into the eyes. Note there is no crusting and the recipient area looks clean because we wash it very carefully. We don’t usually see the patients after the first day post-op to get daily pictures, but as the patients come in, I will try to update these photos.