Dr. William Rassman – Page 1081

July 20, 2011

Hair Loss InformationAll Men on Both Sides of My Family are Bald! – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

Dear Doc,

I am 18 years old. Every single male in my family is bald except for me. From my father, older brother, both grandfathers, uncles and cousins on both my mother and fathers side. Everyone! I should be concerned right? Is there anything I can do to prevent going bald before it has begun?

Thank you in advance.

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You should connect with a good doctor and have your hair bulk measured for a baseline measurement, and then have that done every year to be sure that the balding did not kick in.

I would not recommend the use of drugs like finasteride unless or until you actually show a decreasing hair bulk. This is a very sensitive way to follow your course. If most of your family is balding, keeping your hair forever doesn’t look to be in the cards.

July 20, 2011

Hair Loss InformationDUPA and BHT – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

hello mr Rassman long time reader here, you doing a great job here i must add. my question today is regarding my Diffuse Unpatterned Alopecia (DUPA). i’ve had dupa since the age of 17 im now 24 and i still have a decent amount of coverage.

i was thinking about a possible body hair transplant in the future and was wondering if hairs in the beard, pubic area and chest are viable as im looking for the fullest coverage. i for one don’t care about growing this hair out i would plan on keeping it very short shaved. as i am still 24 and still going through changes in terms of body hair i want to wait till im in my 30’s so i have more hair to harvest

what do you think of my chances in terms of having a transplant like this? would i need to take meds after this to maintain the new hair? is the hair permanent? thank you for your time

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Body hair may or may not be permanent. I have never done a complete body hair transplant for a DUPA patient so I can not talk with experience under my belt. I suspect you can find someone willing to experiment on you to achieve the goal you defined above, but it would not be my recommendation.

July 20, 2011

Does Stress or Lack of Sleep Contribute to Gray Hair? – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

Hi Doc,

Is there anything (medicine or lifestyle related changes) that can be done to reverse or at least prevent greying of hair?

Does stress or inadequate sleep contribute to or accelerate greying of hair?

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I can advise you to get adequate amounts of sleep to be healthy and figure out ways to reduce your stress, but that advice would not necessarily deal with your graying issue. Gray hair may be caused in whole or in part by genetics in your case.

July 20, 2011

Roundup of Questions Asked Many Times Before… – Balding Blog

hi,

i’m 18 and i have hairy shoulders and chest. could that affect my hair ? because all the hairy people i know are all (or almost all) bald.

is it true that you have to look at your grandfathers to see wether your hair is going to fall? because my grandfather didn’t have hairloss and my father has it :/

i have a high hairline in the shape of a V kinda is that a result that i’m loosing my hair?

are masturbation & hairloss directly correlated ?

We get questions like these all the time, and the answers don’t seem to change. Here we go:

1. The amount of body hair you have doesn’t relate to the amount of scalp hair you lose.

2. Hair loss can skip generations, so you can’t just look at your grandfather (from either side of the family) to know what your pattern might be. It’s not that easy.

3. Your high V-shaped hairline could be hair loss, a mature hairline, or just you having a high hairline. I don’t know anything about your hair loss history to make that determination.

4. This is one I’ve probably written about it at least a dozen times on this blog — masturbation and hair loss are not linked. People love to tell me I’m wrong about this one, and that’s perfectly fine. But if you do or do not masturbate, it won’t make a difference to your hair. It’s a myth.

July 19, 2011

My Son Was Born While I Was Using Propecia – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

Hello,

We have generic here for Propecia, and on the instructions they say that on propecia we should use a condom during intercourse. It seems that it is pretty new, and there is nothing on the intructions of Propecia. My first kid is a boy and was born while I was using propecia. It seems normal.

Is there really a risk ? What is the position of Merck on it ? It seems that we have different opinion and it is quite difficult to have an opinion. Why this warning has appeared ?

Is there a proof somewhere that a newborn has trouble while the father was on propecia ? Thank you for your answer.

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There must be thousands of boys born whose father’s took Propecia (finasteride) during conception.

We know that in the womb during the first 3 months, if a woman is exposed to sizable doses of finasteride it can alter the sexual development of the fetus. If the man was taking it, however, there is no evidence that the drug will cross to the woman and into the fetus. I know that the formal concerns are published and they are unfortunately more a statement of what the lawyers want the drug companies to say rather than a scientific observable risk.

I haven’t seen the Propecia packaging that mentions using a condom during sex, but I will also refer you to this letter we received from Merck about this very issue a few years back. In part, it states that “no significant mechanism-based or non-mechanism-based teratologic effects have been observed in infants born to women exposed to finasteride via semen during pregnancy.”

July 19, 2011

How Effective is Rogaine Foam? – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

Hey doc, been using Propecia for 2 1/2 years its slowed things down a lot, just added Rogaine Foam last week. Just wondering if I can get a straight answer on the effectiveness of Rogaine Foam. The commercial says 85% of men see regrowth, ive heard other people say it only works for 50% of men and then I saw a post from you in your archive where you say it only works well for 15% of men. Well which one is it?

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Rogaine Foam We are prisoners of our words, so I will stick to what I said.

If you are in the 15% of good responders, then it moves you into the 100% category (playing with numbers, or course). Some people feel that the Rogaine Foam works better than standard liquid Rogaine drops, because it is easier to use and thus better for those who find the drops difficult to titrate. If there are 85% of men that see some growth, I’d estimate that maybe 15% of men see it work very well.

July 19, 2011

Short Haircuts with Strip Surgery vs FUE? – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

I like to to have a buzz cut during the summer months. How short can someone cut there hair if they go with a traditional hair transplant vs a FUE?

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The visibility of the linear scar from the strip surgery partially depends upon how you heal. Some people heal with a fine line scar that will allow the very short hair cut (not a buzz cut) while others will develop a wider scar that could, at worst case in a single surgery, get to 1cm in height. If the worst case happens, the haircut must be longer to cover the scar.

July 19, 2011

Masturbation and Hair Loss, Part 514 – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

i masturbate more than 5 times per day. And i continued it for 5 yeras. And i now noticing that my temple hair is totally gone.it is curable or uncurable? My message to masturbate dont be its addict

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I really don’t know how much clearer I need to be about this. I have nothing to gain by lying to you.

Hair loss isn’t related to masturbation. Your genetics caused your hair loss. The link between masturbation and hair loss is a myth. There is no cure for hair loss.

July 18, 2011

Hair Loss InformationCan I Have Darker Scalp Micropigmentation (SMP)? – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

I have seen the results of scalp pigmentation for people with what I presume to be naturally fair hair, and it seems that the pigmentation, although successfully creating a full look, is very faint and almost invisible in some lighting. Can a patient opt for a darker pigment, and have their real hair ever so slightly longer? Or if not, would a dark blonde/ olive hair colour allow for a darker pigment in the first place?

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It is important for you to keep a few things in mind:

This procedure is absolutely permanent, so too dark may be your destiny if it does not lighten
There it a good chance that there will be some color change, as the first session often gets lighter when the pigment is absorbed by your body — but then again, there is the chance that it may not change color
The risk of color change from dark to a tint of blue or green is one that will be accentuated by a darker application. These variations are what create the art of what we do for Scalp MicroPigmentation (SMP) and we try not to go too light or too dark.

This is why you want a doctor with experience to do the SMP process. The final color will be decided between you and your doctor.

July 18, 2011

Hair Cloning Presentation By Dr Ken Washenik (Video) – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

Hello doctor, I don’t know if you already have seen this but I think you might find this interesting. Maybe you have comments on it?

YouTube

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Thanks for sending the video. I had not seen it before. The video is of Dr. Ken Washenik from Aderans Research discussing where his company is at in the hair cloning race at the ICRAH (International Congress Research Against Hair Loss) meeting in France earlier this year. Even though it seems his voice was replaced with a female speaker in the video, this is very exciting stuff. It appears that we are getting closer to the final solution to the hair loss problem.

I’ve embedded the video below: