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i’m only 21 so i can’t really get a hair transplant until down the line. i got put on 2.5 mg minoxidil earlier this year and i passed on using fin. i’m fine with using this pill for the future because it hasn’t really affected my day to day life in any way and my health is fine, but i was just wondering if it’d even be worth getting a hair transplant down the line if my balding is genetic and it will keep slowly spreading, wouldn’t i have to get like several transplants over time?

I make my living doing hair transplants, but I almost never have done it on someone of your age. I wait until 25-6 before even considering it. Maybe the oral minoxidil will work and you will not bald. Give the drug a chance and stay on it.

Snippet from the article:

The first in a new class of experimental drugs that targets the disease process involved in lupus beat out standard treatment in a large clinical trial, researchers say.

If the findings hold up, the drug, Benlysta, could become the first new drug for lupus in five decades.

About 1.5 million Americans have lupus, a complex disease in which the immune system attacks a person’s own tissues, wreaking havoc on the joints, skin and other organs. Benlysta dampens the abnormal immune signals, calming down the immune system.

Read the rest at WebMD.

This is significant, as lupus affects millions around the world. Hair loss is common with those that have this autoimmune illness, and according to the article this drug is “more effective at reducing pain, hair loss, and skin rash than placebo.” More studies need to be done, and if successful, the pharmaceutical company plans to submit to the FDA for approval.

This is his answer to me: “Thanks for your reply. You bring up a very good point that if I continue to bald behind the transplant it will look strange, however, if that does occur, I do plan on chasing it with further HT’s in the future. I positioned myself in a career where I can financially do this and am very aware that this is not a “quick fix”. I see this initial transplant as the first step in a long process. Please continue to voice your thoughts and concerns.”

If you go forward with this plan, be sure to put together a good Master Plan for your future, and include an assessment of your depleting donor supply, which will occur as you do more and more hair transplants. You must make sure that you never get into a situation where you will run out of hair.

I am 26 and I lost a lot of hair giving me a huge forehead. How many grafts will this take?

First, what I need is a frontal picture with your hair pulled back and your eyebrows lifted high so that your forehead creases. That shows me the anatomic point that allows me to determine the proper place of the hair line. Once I know this, I can give you a recommendation on the number of grafts you would need for a hair transplant. Keep in mind that fine hair takes more grafts than coarse hair. In addition to the picture, I would want to know the thickness of the hair in the back of your head.

Snippet from the article:

Here’s a reason to get your flu shot that you probably haven’t considered: infection with H1N1 may trigger baldness in a small number of people.

A new report from Japan suggests a link between alopecia areata, a condition in which patches of hair fall out, and swine flu (H1N1). The researchers report that seven patients experienced hair loss one to four months after developing the illness.

Read the rest — H1N1 May Cause Baldness

Apparently 7 patients with H1N1 (swine flu) saw hair loss, and although this is an extremely small number of patients to make a link, it’s worth exploring further. The exact cause of alopecia areata remains unknown, so finding even casual links could possibly lead to new information and perhaps even treatments.

It is impossible to know which of the three modalities produced such a nice reversal which seemed to have happened almost immediately after it started to get this hair length. It appears that the miniaturization reversed.

a little more info about the doctor, he’s from Istanbul/Turkey. even though he has license, his assistants will do the actual operation while he supervises. do you think this is a huge red flag? most hair clinics in Turkey operate in the same way and there are so many of them to choose from.

The question is really is he really over-viewing the surgery and the details of how it is being done, Who determines the distribution of the FUE grafts as they are taken out one-by-one. I’l bet he is not involved in that level of granularity and that is where the problems arise with the terrible photos I posted here: https://baldingblog.com/?s=over-harvested+photo . In my office, only the surgeon is doing the FUE so 100% of the decision are made by the surgeon as each graft is excised so we never they the type of problems shown in the reference here.