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Yes, the 0.5mg does is 80% effective and you can ease into the full dose it that makes you more comfortable.

I am asked many time how detectable would be the change in the appearance of a hair transplant patient who had his hairline fixed. These pictures from Reddit, show that the change is gradual and not detectable.

I didn’t post this in the other thread mainly because I have a weird bald spot that I’m hoping someone will help me identify.

A few years ago I went to a hair salon to get my hair curled and somehow the hairdresser burned off some some strands of my hair (one in the front and one in the middle). I only noticed it weeks later when the one in the front was just standing out up in the air (it looked weird lol). Around the same time I realized I had a weird bald spot in my scalp. Until this day I’m not sure if it was caused by the blow dryer/curling iron the hairdresser used or if it happened naturally. I still have this bald spot. And I’m saying “the hairdresser used” because I don’t curl or flat iron or blow dryer my hair at all. That was a rare thing and I did it for an event. So now I don’t know if this is part of the alopecia or if somehow the hair root was burned and that’s why it’s not growing back. Does anyone recognize what this is?

Also I feel like my hairline is receding but I do notice some baby hairs growing at the same time. The middle part of my hair is significantly thinning over the past couple of years. Is this androgenic alopecia? And is the bald spot related to this? Should I start treatment and do I have keep doing it for the rest of my life (cue panic mode).

I attached pictures from different distances. Please excuse the dandruff and the frizz (trust me, I’m trying to get ride of it). Thank you so much for your help!

If this is new, you should see a dermatologist who will perform dermoscopy on your to find out if you have any disease in this area. You might have had a partial burn to the scalp that could cause it, but the loss is uniform

Hi Doctor,

When I was young, I was born with an amazing volume of hair. However, I am unsure of what reasons, I started having hair thinning when I was 18. Now I am 32 and my hair volume is only 1/4 of what I was. I am not taking any medication and my family does not have a history of thinning hair.

Can I check what are the possible reasons and what are the steps I can take to quickly regain all my hair?

Thank you.

There is nothing you can do to “quickly” regain your hair. If it was that easy, I doubt we’d see people with balding and this site would be a single post explaining how to regrow all your hair. Unfortunately, the magic you’re seeking isn’t a reality.

You should see a doctor to go over your options. If you have male pattern (genetic) hair loss, finasteride could be a possible treatment for you. Genes are the most common reason for hair loss in men.

I have been on Propecia for the last 3 years and it’s worked well. It has come to a stage where I would like to have a child with my wife. I have been researching for answers about effects of Propecia whilst conceiving on the internet and although there are many answers stating that it’s safe to carry on taking whilst trying to conceive, I am still unsure and not convinced. In the end I would not want to jeopardize the health of the child. May I ask, if I was to halt taking Propecia, how long should I wait to be sure that it is completely out of my system and that the sperm count and morphology would be completely back to normal?

This is a difficult question to answer. There are millions of men on this drug and I don’t believe that there is any report of the defect that is known if women took the drug. Also the semen levels are very, very low and the drug really impacts the growing fetus in the first trimester. Most of the warnings are medical-legal ones. The drug fixes to tissues in the body and this tissue fixation lasts about 1 week. If there are sperm reductions, it could take up to 6 months for this to reverse, probably less.

Doctor Rassman I want to know something about grey hair. Is grey hair caused by stress or simply genetics?

Probably a little of both. Some people almost never go grey. Some people, even in their childhood years have grey hair. Some have total white hairs (Santa Clause). People with little or no stress get grey hairs. There is no clear cut rule.

Aging has a part to do with it as well. If you think about it from a scientific approach with genetics as a partial cause, we all have a certain programmed destiny of the cells in our body. Environmental factors may alter some of this destiny but the point is that if the hairs go through several life cycles (anagen catagen telogen) over a person’s life some of those hairs may be pre-programmed to fall out and never regrow after an “x” number of cycles. Some may be pre-programmed to turn white or grey after an “y” number of cycles. This may be a simplistic way to view biology but it may help understand the variation and why some may lose hair or have hairs that turn grey.