I would like to believe that this Class 5A patient achieved a complete reversal of his hair loss on finasteride and minoxidil use over a 5 month course; but I can’t believe it because the hair growth to long hair alone can account for the change in this picture. This man, if he wants to be fair, needs to show comparable hair cuts and comparable views.
2021-07-02 01:34:562021-01-15 10:39:33Class 5A before and after 5 months on finasteride & minoxidil
I’ve done a lot of research on here. I love how I’m not the only one dealing with this. Father went bald at 22 and my grandfather is bald as well.
I noticed hairloss around my sophomore year of highschool. Pretty mild crown bald spot. Had a person come tell me my crown had no hair and that I should move it. Little did I know there was nothing to cover the spot with.
I have very curly hair from my mothers side. I took a lot of her genes from some reason but it seems like the big gene I took from my father is hairloss. Around a year ago I started to use Shea moisturizer curling cream since again I have curly hair. I didn’t realize that the curling moisturizer itself was doing something to my hair until I stopped using it during quarantine. My hair started falling out quite rapidly. ALOT of dandruff which it itched a lot not sure because it was amount of showers I was taking or what. Then again still unsure. I never went outside during this period so my body was all over lol. I returned back to Cantu curling and my hair looks a lil better after a week I don’t know if there’s something in the cream that helps my hair. Anyways besides the point.
I knew I was going bald. My hairline has be receding. There’s nothing but single strands of hair across my hairline that was once there. The top of my head is also. I can pretty much see a lot more of my scalp. But the back of my head has perfect hair. I want to try fin. I’m not to worried about the whole beard and facial hair issue. I have a thick full beard at 18 and seems like I’ve hit the peak of my puberty I guess you can say. I see there’s a lot of side effects going on with ED and stuff then again I’ll just stop taking it if it’s severe. I wanna get this discussed with a doctor first but I would like to hear from the other teens here since I know there’s much more commenting then posting.
-how was fin treated you ? -how bad are the side effects if so how long did they last? -should I really take this at this age?
If your father went bald at 22 and you get his genes, the only possibility to hold on to your hair is the drug finasteride. Men who get a Norwood Class 7 by their mid-20s have never been studied with finasteride at an early age like 17-18. With the HAIRCHECK instrument, the diagnosis may be much easier when the hair loss first starts along this path, possibly as early as 18 years old. This type of balding is aggressive so the treatment with finasteride has to be timely and consistent.
2020-07-10 02:31:512020-06-27 09:52:28Class 7 at 22 years old?
For 18 years of age, you already have an advanced Class 4 pattern of balding and based upon your family history, you may lose all of your hair. I would want to know who you take after in your family. You appear blonde (that is good) but you are a person who needs to see a doctor and develop a Master Plan because it looks like you are likely to lose all of your hair other than the permanent rim of hair around the back and sides of your head. There is no substitute for a one-on-one with a good doctor who specializes in genetic hair loss in men.
2021-04-24 02:21:432020-12-07 12:23:36Class 4 pattern of hair loss in 18 year old (photo)
This is a patient I treated with a single surgery last year with 3,300 grafts. The after photo is on the left. He was thrilled with the results, and now he doesn’t think about his hair much of the time, which is the takeaway here.
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I just renewed my persciption of propecia for anther 3 months, but my dermatologist has added clobex spray for the burning and itching that I am experiencing in the areas that I am thinning. The only odd part is, during his exam he seas nothing like flakes, excess oil, or irritation. I would just like your opinion on the clobex and or your experience with it. Thanks for all that you do, and it was cool seeing you on John and Kate plus 8…
Clobex is a strong topical steroid and I generally save prescribing that drug until I try something more mild if it is for treating eczema. Ask your doctor what he is treating you for.
2019-01-23 05:52:272019-02-14 11:37:39What Classification of Hair Loss Am I Showing?
I have a scar on the upper side of the lip and I need to get a hair implant/transplant. I’m nearly 18 years old and I have a beard/mustache and the scar doesn’t help at all. Any help or advice will be appreciated
A hair transplant into the scar will completely hide the scar. This is an excellent solution. If the scar is small and you don’t have to grow a mustache or can’t because you don’t have enough mustache hair, then a highly specialized cosmetic tattoo called SMP can hide it. You can actually do have both SMP and a mustache transplant for the absolute best result, see https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/
What can be accomplished for someone with that low of a donor density and finer hair though? Especially if they’re like a NW7. Have you ever had such a patient with satisfactory results? I’ve seen your results on some NW7 patients and they are brilliant. But don’t those guys have a higher than average donor density?
Take a look at the second man in this post. He had super fine hair and had a Class 7 pattern. What we couldn’t get with hair, we got with SMP. Of course, in this situation, I would want to examine you in advance and make sure that you understood the risks and balanced your expectations with reality. I have found that men with fine hair generally understand that their hair is not great, so that they expect less but still can get good results as shown in man #s here: https://baldingblog.com/two-class-7-patients-treated-with-hair-transplants-and-smp/
2020-10-09 02:33:512020-10-08 06:53:55Class 7, low density, fine hair, what can be done?
Is my donor area too thin to use for a hair transplant? I have sent the same pictures to a doctor who said we could do 5000 grafts, with permission to use around 800 grafts give or take from my beard, but I am concerned they just want my business.
I don’t know your age, but you clearly are developing a Norwood Class 7 pattern of hair loss. That means that you MUST develop a Personalized Master Plan to get hair back and always look normal. A good hair doctor will measure your donor supply and your hair mass index and when you believe that a hair transplant is the right approach, the plan must take these two factors into consideration to make sure that you always have hair and always look normal. I believe that if your hair is fine, that 5000 FUE grafts taken from your donor area will be a disaster. Take a look at this man who followed his class 7 pattern from the age of 30 and has always kept hair. We developed a strategic Personalized Master Plan for him to be able to keep up with his hair loss. What is significant about him, is that he had about 250,000 birth hairs on his head (Caucasian is usually 110,000) and his hair was medium coarse and wavy which was highly desirable. His ability to get 11,000 grafts was unusual, but for him, it fit his personalized PLAN: https://baldingblog.com/norwood-class-7-pattern-patient-received-11000-grafts-plus-smp/
This is a real problem for the few men that have permanent erectile dysfunction claimed from the drug Propecia, made by Merck.
The problem that they will face in court will be two-fold:
Quebec court approves class action lawsuit linking erections and hair loss medication from tressless
