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I’m 23 and losing about 50-100 hairs per day. Can I have a hair transplant

I would need to examine you and find out what classification of hair loss you have. For example, do you have some frontal recession? At this age, the best treatments are finasteride with minoxidil. I would try it for a full year. A hair transplant at your age, would catch you in a transition to balding and just make it worse. There is never a rush to do a hair transplant because so many young men who rush are sorry that they did it.


2018-11-02 08:01:10I’m 23 and losing about 50-100 hairs per day. Can I have a hair transplant

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I’m 30 Years Old and Not Much of a Beard — Could Finasteride Slow My Facial Hair Development?

Dear doctor, I am 30 years old and development of my secondary sex characteristics was always far behind persons of same age. My beard is still not fully developed, I have hairs around my chin and under nose, but almost nothing on cheeks and around ears. I have first noticed starting hairloss about the age of 28 and I started with finasteride treatment. Could this drug affect my beard developing and slow down this process yet more?

Finasteride does not affect beard hair. I wouldn’t expect you to finally start growing a beard at 30 years old (with or without finasteride). Some men just have patchy facial hair, and that is your genetics.

You can consider doing a hair transplant to your face where the beard is not present if it’s bothering you that much.


2013-02-13 13:15:38I’m 30 Years Old and Not Much of a Beard — Could Finasteride Slow My Facial Hair Development?

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I Had 1000 Grafts and Am Concerned That My Donor Supply Is Used Up?

You need to develop a Master Plan with a good doctor to determine your lifetime hair supply and how much has been used so far. You must know this for future planning. Your residual donor density can be measured by your surgeon to establish what the future possibilities are.


2019-02-14 06:17:37I Had 1000 Grafts and Am Concerned That My Donor Supply Is Used Up?

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I’m a scratcher and worried about a hair transplant

I will use hair fibers when I go out, and if I take a quick shower before going to bed, there would still be some fiber that I didn’t get out. I wake up and notice black fibers under my nails which means I’m actively scratching my head during sleep. I am planning on doing my surgery in a few months and I’m worried about scratching while I’m sleeping. What can be done to stop this? Other than tying up my hands I can’t think of anything else

Discipline! Realize that if you scratch your grafts out, you will lose a lot of money and possibly introduce infection. I have seen this just twice in 16000 surgeries. Both men were told to wear mittens.


2020-07-16 08:10:22I’m a scratcher and worried about a hair transplant

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13 Year Old Getting White Hairs

Hi. I’m 13 years old and i’ve been having a lot of white hairs. about 5-10. I’m not sure if its because of stress. but i’ve only started to notice when i was about 11-12. Do you think it’s maybe generic or something on the lines of that? because my dad thinks i have an illness…

Getting white hair at an early age does not mean you have an illness. Some people will see their hair turn white or gray at a very early age. It is genetics. In very rare instances, if there are gray hairs in a patch it can sometimes signify a rare genetic disease such as Waardenburg Syndrome, but you are not describing that problem.

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I’m Going Back to Finasteride from Dutasteride Because I Am Now Getting Sexual Side Effects?

This is an important comment because so many young men want to switch from finasteride to Dutasteride- they feel it is stronger, but this is something I recommend against. Too many young men think that Dutasteride will not give them sexual side effects and they are wrong.


2020-04-19 09:43:24I’m Going Back to Finasteride from Dutasteride Because I Am Now Getting Sexual Side Effects?

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15 Year Old Female with Hair Loss

Your information on female hair loss was helpful, but the information on teenage female hair loss was not as informative. I’m fifteen, and I feel I need more information. When I was a child, I had thick hair. When I was around seven, I cut it short. It was still thick then. Around seventh grade I decided to grow it back out, but still, it was thick then. When I started my freshman year in high school, though, mid-year, it began to thin. It has shown no sign of stopping, and it does worry me. My ponytail has significantly gone down in size. I can’t wear my hair down without having loose strands cover my back – which is not popular at school. Plus, I lose an extreme amount of hair each time I shower – at least fifty strands. My hair is also lackluster in shine, and crooked and crinkled when it falls out. My mother took me to a doctor, who told me it was not my thyroid level. A week or two ago, my father told me to start taking vitamins and trying to eat better – the latter of which is hard, when you go to high school. Personally, though, I’m not sure that I believe this is a diet issue. If it was, why wouldn’t it affect more teenage girls at my school? I wish to know if there are medical conditions that I might have that give a symptom of hair loss, and possibly also slight depression – I have noticed that my mood seems to be getting worse and worse. I am also on birth control, which I noticed you said might cause problems… but it shouldn’t, because I have been having hair loss much longer than I’ve been on birth control. I just want to know what I could have, and how I can get this to stop.

You need to have a good doctor do a thorough work-up on you. There is no way I can help you without getting a full opportunity to get a good history (including detailed dietary history) and a full examination of your scalp and hair for miniaturization. This will determine the health of your hair and your overall health. There are no shortcuts and no internet site that can get you what you want, because what you need is a good doctor (one who is interested in this field) first. Also, look through the Female Hair Loss category, as there are many posts that discuss the various conditions and tests that are part of what a good doctor will be able to perform on you.

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I’m Not Losing Grey Hairs, But My Natural Colored Hairs Are Falling Out

some of my hair have turned grey or white. i have noticed that all the hairs I lose are black, and not a single grey hair falls out. Would you say that if hair turns grey they wont fall out?

That’s an interesting observation, but I really don’t know. Melanin (eumelanin is the type of melanin) is what produces the black hair color, and when it is lost in aging, the hair turns gray. It only impacts hair color, not the hair follicle itself.


2014-02-04 13:02:04I’m Not Losing Grey Hairs, But My Natural Colored Hairs Are Falling Out

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I am 17 and losing hair. I can see through the hair to the scalp which was never that way before

Your biggest enemy is the progressive thinning leading to a balding pattern that is not evident at this point in time. The degree of thinning that you are experiencing would suggest that you should see a doctor who most likely will get Bulk Measurements of your hair to determine the degree of the thinning that you are presently having. If the diagnosis is early genetic hair loss (the most common cause of hair loss in young men), then the best treatment would be the drug finasteride which is highly effective in men of your age and may not only stop the hair loss but possibly reverse it. If you are developing a more advanced balding pattern the best test to get will determine the Bulk Measurements of your hair and this will show, over a one-year time frame, how effective the treatment will be. Once you know this information, then you and your doctor need to develop a MASTER PLAN which will define what you need to do over the years to come.