Author: Dr. William Rassman

Do you lend any credence to the symptom of “brain fog” while on finasteride? I can’t find much documentation of it in the studies I’ve read.

Yes, I believe that I heard enough of these complaints on various forums to believe that it probably has credence. We do not know finasteride does have brain effects that have been documented.

According to a Google look-up, Dr. Brotzu pioneered this lotion. It is reported to be an “Omega-6 fatty acid. It is supposed to be an anti-inflammatory lotion. It is being promoted in the product as a precursor to PGE1. Specifically, DGLA is converted to PGE1 via the cox-1 and cox-2 pathways.” There are no FDA claims that have been cleared by this. So much of what you read is hypothetical and possibly illegal in the US. I can’t say if it works or not, as I would have to read a clinical scientific paper on it first.

Your family experience is just that, your family experience; however this has been well studied that inheritance is approximately 50/50 from the mothers and fathers side. This has been studied across a large population to determine this. It actually may favor the female side of the family by a little less than 1%. The is the story that I tell:

‘A bald man who sees his son balding, lectures his wife about the poor genes that she gave him and blames her for her son’s balding’. This is a male chauvinistic view of some men in some cultures

I have these bumps since I have had my FUE. What is happening to me?

You have what appears to be burried grafts from a faulty FUE technique. These are probably infected buried grafts which will probably require surgical drainage by an expert.

There is no doubt that his shaved look established him as the tough guy but his hairy look reflects a gentler nature.

Why do so many people complain about bumps/skin discoloration after beard transplants? Is this an unavoidable side effect?

Bumps in the skin should not occur if the grafts are trimmed of most of its skin and placed flush with the surface of the recipient area?

In the early 1990s when I pioneered small follicular units in large sessions, many doctors could not place the grafts with forceps in these tiny holes, so they purchase NAILS from a hardware store, and used them as dilators to open these little holes so that they could get the grafts into the balding area. This was barbaric, but the doctors who did this, did this because they had to. Their patients wanted large sessions of small grafts because it became the new Standard of Care that everyone wanted. I hope that they sterilized the nails before they use it. Dr. Brad Wolfe sent these to me as a reminder of things done in the past (not by him but by others).

My scalp on the left side of the hair line has had a feeling of burning off and on for the past 6 months and in the area the hair line is thinning and receding. I am 19 male and was just wondering if it is normal to feel pain if you are going bald geneticly.

Male pattern hair loss is not physically painful. The burning sensation may be secondary to an inflammatory process or an underlying medical condition. You should see a medical doctor for a correct diagnosis.

Both Caffeine and Minoxidil when applied to the scalp, can induce hair growth. In a recent study in a peer reviewed journal, both 2% caffeine and the 5% minoxidil were both equal in value when applied to the scalp topically.?