No, I don’t believe that time of day you take the drug has anything to do with its effectiveness because the drug really works by its fixation on the hair follicle which holds for at least one week or more.
2021-03-12 02:51:272021-03-12 06:35:53Does the time of day taking finasteride make a difference?
I am considering a hair transplant of 2200 grafts and am 50 years old. I am in good health and I have plenty of donor hair. I feel that this would make a tremendous difference in my hairline and appearance. What are the risks and pain involved for a man my age and with that amount of micrografts? How long would it take to heal? thank you
2200 grafts is a moderate-sized surgery that would likely take about a week to heal in the donor area. The risks for someone of your age if you are in good health are roughly the same as those for most other ages – to be more precise, there are surprisingly few. As with any surgery you risk the possibility of scar formation, infection, and possible adverse reaction to anesthesia or other drugs are very, very rare. These are the big ones we worry about and incidences are very uncommon in a proper surgery center and with a trained and experienced doctor and team. There is also no excuse for this elective surgery to be any more painful than a mild dental visit. Good pain medicines and effective techniques are available, well known, and should be used.
To be completely honest, your biggest risk is in the choice of your surgeon and the team they use. Choose a surgeon with a good reputation whose hairlines you like, and make sure they are willing to let you meet their patients and evaluate their results for yourself. Check the facility and ask the surgeon who is on the surgery team. An experienced staff makes all the difference in the world both in your experience that day and in your final result because of the way the staff members treat the grafts. Lastly, choose someone with whom you feel comfortable. Many of my patients who come in for corrective work had a less than good feeling when they went to their doc or they chose them solely on price. Remember, you are the one who gets to live with the permanent results after all, so be a little picky.
Source: NY Post: “Teenagers are fighting the “recession.”
The battle against baldness is sprouting to new heights as boys as young as 16 flock to surgeons for hair transplants, doctors and patients told The Post.
These young men have a high return rate for their hair when put on Propecia. Propecia is an elective medication and like all drugs, it has it’s side effects. The side effects are well publicized in the Internet balding forums and hotly debated. The reality is that Propecia works and the side effect only affects 1 to 2 % of men.
Doing a hair transplant commits a young man for a life time of hair transplants without giving him the opportunity to reverse or stabilize the hair loss. Doing surgery at an early stage can often accelerate the genetic balding in young men. The overall profession does not look kindly on hair transplant surgeries on teenagers. The only exception may be if the teenager is completely bald (Norwood 6/7) and understand the full implication and limitation of a hair transplant surgery.
2015-08-12 07:59:212015-09-05 23:02:02Doing Hair Transplant Surgery On A Teenager Is Not Good Standard Of Care
I noticed on the pamphlet with my rogaine bottle that it says the medication has not been proven to work past 48 weeks. Does this mean that Rogaine doesnt work pass that many weeks or that the study was only conducted for 48 weeks? I have been using rogaine for 4 months and have seen fantastic results. Before then I was only using propecia without any results, now I use both.
I found the following statement, “hair regrowth has not been shown to last longer than 48 weeks in large clinical trials with continuous treatment with 5% minoxidil topical solution for men”. This implies that the study only went out 48 weeks. I have seen people on this medication for years and years and when and if they stop it, they lose hair. This phenomenon suggests that the Rogaine held the effect and benefit for the years it was used.
Doc,
I have slowly come to rely and trust this site on a day to day basis, so thank you.I am considering an FUE surgery and have been reading a lot about “donor recharging”, where body hair is placed into FUE sites to help the donor region out. Ive unfortunately been around the block with this whole field and now feel the only way FUE should be done is by adding body hair as you remove a follicle from the donor.
My Question… Why aren’t more FUE specialists offering this technique? Won’t an FUE surgery be detrimental as the area will thin to the point of very shallow density in anyone with a norwood 3 and beyond.
I was hoping that the A Cell treatments would make this more viable but no one seems to be talking about it. Hence my question and my wishes for a great day for you and your staff!
“Donor recharging” is an interesting term I have not heard before. I do not buy into recharging the donor area from the scalp with hair from the body. I am just not convinced that the quality of the body hair will make for a good substitute for the donor hair that has been transplanted earlier.
It is easy for a doctor to do this to make more money, but unless there is proven value, I do not want to get on that bandwagon.
2011-01-17 10:50:182011-01-13 10:18:16Donor Recharging — Using Body Hair to Fill Out the Scalp Hairs Used in FUE
2019-06-05 04:40:462019-02-12 06:41:12There is a rush to see results with minoxidil and the dermaroller as shown below (from Reddit)
These double swirls are not common and from a surgeons prospective, when I transplant such a crown I must follow the double swirl to make the hair reconstruction look normal.
I will qualify this video as it is not based upon good science so take what you read with a grain of salt. A huge number of men use this medication. Some studies show it has some DHT blocking effects and other studies show it has no value.
2020-02-09 10:36:372020-02-09 21:01:12Saw Palmetto Video discusses how to use it and personal results
Here’s a question. YOu mentioned in one of your posts that your son suffered from a Norwood 4 MPB before he started taking Propecia. As a hair loss expert and his father, why didn’t you have him go on Propecia much sooner??
To be honest, my son was stubborn about it and just wouldn’t listen to reason. Like the old expression, “The cobbler’s children have no shoes”, I probably could’ve spent more time pressing him about it, but he’s an adult and it was a harsh lesson that he learned. He’s since been on Propecia to halt his hair loss situation with good results.
2008-05-14 09:33:282008-05-12 10:56:31Dr Rassman, Why Didn’t You Put Your Son on Propecia Sooner?
Dr.,
I came across this web site: https://www.hairloss-reversible.com/my_approach.htm
I’m curious as to your opinion on the possibility that these “scalp exercises” might possibly regrow hair in some individuals after 8 or so months of doing the exercises as a result of increased blood flow to the scalp. It seems like a bunch of unscientific, hocus pocus to me, but if you read the other info on his site, it appears to be very accurate and makes the author
sound very credible.Thanks.
I visited the above referenced link. It is based on the authors’ personal assumptions on the mechanism of hair loss. He tries to come up with a novel method for treating baldness based on his observation of his bald family members. Although it is interesting to follow his thought process, it is not scientific. Today’s medicine has changed drastically in comparison to 200 years ago. Back then, doctors had their own individual methods of treating different diseases, which at times where completely different and even conflicting with the others.
We use evidence-based medicine to support most of our treatment plans. Although lack of blood and oxygen of the scalp was once thought to be the main cause of baldness, today we know that the scalp oxygen level and blood supply is the same in balding and non-balding people. Massage therapy to increase the blood circulation can not stop the balding process.
