2021-01-19 01:11:022021-01-18 11:11:53How bad is my Right Hairline receding? (photo)
What is the best test for determining hair loss? (Reddit)
The best instrument to quantify your hair loss is the HAIRCHECK instrument test. Find a doctor who has one and this will give you an accurate measurement to determine what your status is. See here: https://baldingblog.com/19-year-old-parent-told-not-balding-according-haircheck/
2019-04-10 03:27:372019-04-07 09:29:12What is the best test for determining hair loss? (Reddit)
How Can I Stop My Body Hair Growth?
Hello,
I’m a 46 year old male and for the past five or so years, I have felt like I’m turning into a Chia Pet! I have hair growing all over my body and it grows fast. Is there anything that will stop the growth of hair? If I pull it out, it grows back within a week.
Thanks
Short of laser treatment to kill the hair area by area, you may be stuck with what nature and your ancestors gave you.
Laser hair removal is a fairly large industry today, and from what I understand, not too comfortable (and could take multiple treatments).
What Is The Importance Of Dihydrotestosterone -DHT And How Does It Relate To Propecia and Brain Fog?
I am curious to know the importance of DHT, post puberty. Is it only significant for men to sexually develop during puberty? Also, is it important for cognitive activity in any way? I ask this second question due to ‘brain fog’ being a reported (although rare I believe) side effect of finasteride.
Thanks for the great site
Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) is one of the many hormones responsible for secondary male characteristics during puberty such as body hair (facial, pubic hair) growth and deepening of the voice. DHT is one of the contributing factors in prostate enlargement as men age. Thus, DHT blocking drugs (Proscar: finasteride 5mg) is sometimes used to treat certain prostate related conditions. DHT is also one of the contributing factors in Male Pattern Balding (MPB) for those who have the genes for MPB. Thus, DHT blocking drugs (Propecia: finasteride 1mg) is used to treat MBP. It is unclear how it may affect cognitive activity but you may read on the Internet that men taking DHT blockers have reported “brain fog” on rare occasions. It is also important to note all drugs have side effects and every patient need to understand the risks and benefits before starting treatment.
How Did People Come Up with the Idea that Saw Palmetto Reduced DHT?
Okay, let’s say theoretically that saw palmetto does in fact help to block DHT. My question is, how the hell did they figure out that saw palmetto berries reduce DHT and not other berries out there such as cranberries and/or bilberries?
Saw palmetto has been around for hundreds of years and has been used successfully for treating prostate enlargement. Native Americans used saw palmetto to relieve urinary symptoms in older men who had difficulty in urinating. It has been shown to reduce prostate size and it is used quite frequently in Europe.
There are many potential side effects of saw palmetto, including abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, erectile dysfunction, breast tenderness and loss of libido. That is the connection that made people think that there is a DHT blockade in process, as so much seems to parallel finasteride’s side effects. Some think that since finasteride works for the prostate and hair, then if saw palmetto works for prostate issues it must also work for treating hair loss. Unfortunately, saw palmetto has never been studied in any well planned clinical endeavor for treating hair loss.
What is wrong with my hair
In a separate picture not shown for confidentiality, I was able to look and measure the proportions of the face. You seem to have possibly two problems. (1) you may have thinning and I would have to examine you to determine this and (2) you have a very large forehead, much larger than the distance between your nose and your chin, a measurement I use for proportionality. If you just have fine hair, then you might have a surgery to consider reducing the size of your forehead. If you have thinning as well, then a diagnosis must be made as to the cause?
2019-10-16 05:07:512019-10-16 08:48:28What is wrong with my hair
How do I tell miniaturized hairs under microscope?
How do I tell miniaturized hairs under microscope?
Here is a photo of DUPA and you can easily see the thin miniaturized hairs that seem to dominate the field of view because it is a case of DUPA: https://baldingblog.com/do-i-have-dupa-photo/
2021-07-01 01:53:092021-07-01 08:55:43How do I tell miniaturized hairs under microscope?
What to Do About Hair Loss After Gastric Bypass Surgery?
(female) Hi….I’m 29 years African American and lossing hair do to the “Gastric Bypass Surgery”.What can I do to help my hair.I eat the protein like I was told too,can I buy anything…Thank You!!
This topic is also discussed in this post: Hair Loss After Gastric Surgery.
To reduce the hair loss after a gastric bypass surgery, you need to stick to your doctor’s diet recommendations that will help you to maintain your minerals, vitamins, and proteins at an optimal level. Patients need to be tested for several factors including vitamin B12 after the surgery on a regular basis. This helps your doctor to diagnose the deficiencies and treat them promptly before they can affect your hair. Stress can also cause hair loss and these surgeries bring on some stress.
2007-02-15 12:34:172007-02-15 08:48:48What to Do About Hair Loss After Gastric Bypass Surgery?
How Does a Surgeon Fill In a Hairline Without Causing Shock Loss?
How does a HT doctor, not recreate, but fill in an existing hairline without causing trauma to nearby follicles. Is shock loss inevitable because of close proximity to existing follicles?
Thanks
We do not recommend surgery if we believe there is a greater risk of shock loss over the benefits of a hair transplant procedure. In other words, we do not blindly advise surgery to everyone.
If surgery is recommended, we use the smallest instruments and take great care to avoid trauma to adjacent existing hairs. There will be some trauma to the hairs, but the overall goal is to minimize this and make the hair transplant surgery worthwhile to be of a cosmetic benefit for the patient. This is one of the many reasons you must pick a doctor and the medical clinic with a good reputation and history of doing quality work.
The causes of shock hair loss after a hair transplant relate mainly to the age of the patient and the degree of miniaturization present at the time of the transplant. A patient with active hair loss who is under 28 years old has a higher risk of shock loss than a man over 40 who does not have active hair loss. The use of finasteride tends to protect the patient against shock loss, even in the patient under 28 years old.
When a Graft Comes Out, When Will it Not Grow?
Hi Dr Rassman, I have an important question for you regarding the study of hair grafts you conducted with Dr Bernstein in 2006. The study states that the Dr. Was able to tell when the growth center for the hair had been pulled out by looking at what he pulled out by eye.
My question is this:
- how do you physically identify when the growth center has been pulled out?
- Is there always blood?
- Does bloody mean that the centre has been removed for certain?
- If a hair comes out and there is a dried out “bulb” shaped skin on the end of the scalp, does that mean that the graft has been lost or the graft was a dead one?
- did this study account for partially loose scabs?
After about 4 to 5 days, some of my scabs started to loosen…i started to gently brush some of them with my fingers and some of them were loosely stuck by a strand of skin, which I pulled gently with enough force to remove the scab. My question is this-
- how can I identify when I have pulled out a growth centre and when I haven’t?
- Do you think there was a good chance that I pulled a graft out?
- Lastly, your study includes 18 gauge needles only. What is the standard size needle use or what range sized needles do you use?
Thanks so much for your time and thanks for the study!!!
Firstly, here is the article you referenced, as originally published in Dermatologic Surgery in 2006 — Graft Anchoring In Hair Transplantation — PDF file or HTML
Your email is not clearly written, but I think that you are asking about the hairs we pulled out on varying days after surgery to determine if the graft growth center was left behind. To answer that question, we asked the pathologist to identify the critical parts of the hair that determines growth (the bulge area near the sebaceous gland in particular) and this would include all parts of the hair and what is called the dermal sheath. If this was pulled out, we could safely assume the the graft would not grow. This was not done with the naked eye, but rather by the pathologist under the microscope. By having a specialist look at the grafts that were pulled out, we had an impartial expert make the judgments. I hope that this answers your questions.
With regard to your other questions, please read the article carefully, as we put it all there. Without a microscope and experience, you probably would not be able to tell the status and that is why we put the article together, to be able to guess what is really happening. When the scab is present on the surface, it is likely that the graft growth center can come out.