1 Year on finasteride and minoxidil (photo)
1 year minoxidil and finasteride (photo)
1 year after a hair transplant and it looks spotty
At one year after a hair transplant, I would expect to see at least 95% of the growth to styling length on your head. Go back and meet with your doctor and see what your doctor has to say. If you were my patient, I would want to know for sure that you don’t have some autoimmune disease and if you don’t then your doctor should make it right financially for you
1 year finasteride question
Have you seen first sign of improvement on Finasteride after one year?
This is not uncommon. Sometimes just slowing the hair loss is hard to notice, but if, while taking finasteride, your biological hair loss activity slows down, then the finasteride may become more effective. This might explain why you see improvement appearing at one year after starting the drug. This drug, in sensitive men, can give reversal of hair loss especially in the young men under 25 or even 30. It works better in the crown than on the frontal areas.
1 year finasteride, minoxidil and microneedling (photo)
This is an amazing reversal of the hair loss in a young man who kept to a good plan. He is going to have to keep it up to maintain this achievement. The microneedling may or may not be critical to the maintenance program.
1 year after 3000 FUE graft surgery and I am unhappy (photo)
There are many comments I could make here. There are teams of technicians working on a case of your size and if any of them had less skills than others, the grafts placed by the less skilled technicians could have caused this problem. There are many technical nuances in a hair transplant and any of them could have caused this problem, so speaking with your doctor is a good idea, at the least to get the feedback you need.
2017-12-08 06:43:252017-11-19 15:44:301 year after 3000 FUE graft surgery and I am unhappy (photo)
1 Week After Transplant, I Accidentally Hit My Head
i had 1200 graphs put in one week ago. after reading your blog, i wish i had done them with you. i was planning on another 1500 or so in my next procedure and i will come see you first for sure. so you will be seeing me about 12 weeks from now. unfortunately, today i was getting into my car and hit my head on inside part of my car door. ( again i am one week post op) i hit it relatively hard…when i reached to see if there was bleeding( i hit in the area of my recepient site) it was bleeding. I did not stop bleeding for about 35 minutes. Did i likely dislodge new transplanted graphs as well? The cut is about 2 inches long, not very wide not too deep. After one week am i likely to have dislodged graphs? i did not see any follicles, but you never know? your opinion?
It is difficult to answer your question without examining you in person (you’re in Los Angeles — we’re in Los Angeles). That being said, the hair grafts are generally considered permanent after the first couple of days. It is very, very difficult to dislodge a graft after they get set-up and I have seen people get lacerations of the scalp from accidents at about 1 week and when I examined them, all of the grafts were intact and in place (unless they were inside the laceration itself). If you did not see any grafts, you probably did not do any significant damage. However if you have a cut on your head, you will get an inevitable scar and hair may not grow on the scar.
If you do decide to make an appointment to have your injury looked at, please mention this blog entry to me (or to Dr. Pak, who is a contributing editor to this blog).