I am 68 yrs old, very fit, weight lifter, and runner. I have been taking Cialis 60mg usually about 3 to 4 times a week. I also take male enhancement pills.Since I got serious about my sex drive and enjoy it almost daily, I have noticed my hair getting thinner.Could it be the Cialis, or male testosterone enhancements?
male testosterone enhancements of all kinds are known to cause hair loss
Reader responds: RALOXIFEN, is a SERUM. It is a medication that has ANTI-estrogenic effect on breast tissue and esteogenic effects on bone, liver, etc ..
It is used by many bodybuilders and also doctors to prevent and treat gynecomastia.
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2018-10-08 06:51:482018-10-10 11:48:22Treatment of Pubertal Gynecomastia Report
I have heard this from many patients
2020-12-14 02:51:452020-12-14 11:03:53Hair loss stopped after only a week on Fin
A clinic posted two pictures and labeled one as theirs and the other as the competitor. What you are looking at nothing more that two examples of different hair transplant densities. The one on the left had twice the density as the man on the right and probably paid twice the cost. The advertising is clearly misleading and I suspect that it was a set-up because both sides look like different sides of the same patient. The surgeons then would have added more density after the photo on the right was taken so as not to victimize his patient.
Dr. Rassman,
I am a woman who finished an intense bout of chemotherapy and radiation about a year and a half ago. Since then most of my hair has grown back on the sides and back of the head. The center top and crown is still very bald. My dermatologist says it is a typical female balding pattern. Can you give me feedback on this subject? Is it possible I could be a candidate for hair transplants? Thank you.
Your dermatologist sounds correct. Some women develop patterned loss, which is less common than unpatterned loss. Hair transplants work better in patterned loss, assuming that your donor hair is adequate in quantity and quality. If there is diffuse thinning in the sides and back, you may not have enough supply for a transplant. A good assessment by a competent hair surgeon will give you insights into your supply for quality hair transplants.
2005-10-24 15:53:092005-10-24 15:53:55Hair Not Growing Back After Chemotherapy
There are clear risks here, one technician moves to another patient because the team needs help, instruments are crossed between patients, there is clearly not surgeons for each of these patients. All of this can cause life threatening infections transferred from one patient to another. There is a real question of quality control, who does it. Are all technicians equal (some report that the technicians are hired and join the surgical teams that same week).
This would be outlawed in the US or most major Western countries.
hello, I’m a little confused about what hair regrowth is and what hair thickening is. is regrowth when hair grows where it isn’t or is it when a small hair thickens?
Regrowth is when hair grows where it once was. It’s all a matter of semantics. One can thicken the appearance of a head of hair by increasing the number of hairs in the head (regrowing new hair), moving the hair around (transplant), using camouflage (pigments), or increasing the thickness of existing hair (products). This is done by:
So you see, there are many ways to get a fuller look that may not be the results of a full head of hair, but if it fools the eye, then many people will be satisfied using these approaches.
I am in my 40s and have had FUT twice, both times with very high yield and good cosmetic results. I have had a bit over 3,000 total grafts total. My FUT scar in the back of my head also came out well. The scar itself is thin and is pretty hard to detect, even if I cut my hair short. Sometimes I think about having a third FUT. I have a decent amount of donor hair left. How risky is it for me to have a 3rd FUT surgery if the first two went well? Am I risking ruining my good results to date? What are the chances I could get a good FUT scar on the third surgery if the first two went well? Does my chance of a bad FUT scar increase with each subsequent procedure? Should I quit while I am ahead or push for another procedure if I want more hair on top? Thanks for your help, and many thanks for baldingblog. It is very well done and helpful.
3,000 grafts is most likely less than half of your donor supply, assuming that you are a typical Caucasian. I had three strip surgeries myself and have no scar as you don’t with two surgeries. The general rule of thumb for normal healers (not good ones like me) is that the scar risks increase with additional procedures. Considering your history, you might discuss other options with your surgeon such as another strip surgery with a trichophytic closure to minimize the scar. Alternatively, you can have the harvest done with FUE (Follicular Unit Excision) and not worry about a linear scar. The FUE is becoming more and more popular in the past few year and now reflects more than half of all hair transplant harvesting technologies done worldwide.
2018-03-20 06:12:022018-06-22 05:43:29Two Previous Hair Transplants and Wants to Understand His Remaining Donor Supply
I’m 23 years old, male. I was concerned about my thinning hair and my forehead is also very high. I was wondering if my forehead could be lowered along with hair transplant in one session and also a general estimate of what it might cost. Could the surgery be financed?
Another concern that I have is whether my transplant area and donor area would be red and swollen for various number of days. How many days are we talking about here? Since I am a college student I am concerned if people will be able to tell I had a hair transplant surgery after I come home from the procedure. Will the transplanted hair and the hair from donor area shed very badly and leave me looking like I have thinner hair than I used to and how much pain should I expect?
Thanks for addressing my concerns.
Thinning hair in a 23 year old man is usually caused by genetic balding. You should see a good doctor to have your hair mapped for miniaturization and have your hair bulk analyzed to be sure that you have genetic balding. If this is the case, then the use of medications like Propecia will be critical to stopping or slowing the balding process from progressing.
The redness after a surgery depends on two factors — the color of your skin (white skin is more likely to turn red), and the general way your body reacts to a wound (scratch your forehead with your fingernail and then wait 5 minutes to see if it turns red). If and when you become a candidate for a hair transplant by presenting with a clear balding pattern, then you can at the time of the transplant, lower your hairline. Costs vary depending upon what has to be done. Financing is available.
So I’ve been losing hair only only my left side of the hair line. And its gone pretty far back compared to the right. No sign of stopping. But one thing I learned was my scalp would hurt when I moved my hair and thats where I was losing hair. So where every it hurt, when I moved my hair, thats where it was thinning and I was losing hair. So why is that? and why am I still losing it.
2020-11-23 03:55:592020-11-04 10:01:55Uneven recession with Folliculitis Decalvans
