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Can i get a hair transplant and take steroids at the same time while taking medication to prevent further hair loss? This is a subject you must discuss with your hair transplant doctor. Bulking up with steroids just causes more hair loss. Why do a hair transplant and lose hair at the same time?

I have been using Minoxidil AND Finasteride, and I developed pericarditis. The VA did not warn me of these possibilities. Today, I am aware of the Minoxidil connection but not about a Finasteride connection. Is there a clear Finasteride connection I can get data on?

There are reports that this drug (Finasteride) can cause pericarditis (a swelling and inflammation in the sack around the heart).tc

hi doctor im 30 years old and took propecia for 3 years with amazing results. Prior to propecia my hair was horrible, thin, and was losing it. Then I started propecia and after 3 years my hair was amazing, thick, looked like when I was 20 years old again. it looked thick and amazing, it was like a miracle drug. A year ago I stopped it because I didn’t know I had to take it6 everyday forever and stupid me didn’t even consult my doctor. worst mistake I ever made. and my hair loss has picked up and looks thin and just like it was before propecia and even worse. I went to my doctor and got a script and started again last week. My doctor said it should help again and I should gain back what I lost but he is a regular family doctor, and I want an experts opinion. Will I get the same results again now that I have started taking it again? I hope I get the same hair I had a year ago back. In your opinion from your experience people who have stopped and re started does it work and bring you back to before? or all that beautiful hair I hair on propecia is gone and will only keep what I have now?

I can’s say what will happen in your case. Chances are that there will be some advantages to go back on it, but the full benefit you had will be a touch challenge. This is the reason that having a good doctor and keeping an eye on your repose is so important. You must have had yearly renewal requirements that this would have been saving you all of this grief.

I’ve been on the Fin and Minox for about a year and a half now. I wasn’t aware of the brain fog side effect of Fin until a few days ago when I researched it, I’ve been struggling with bad brain fog for the past year. I feel dissociated, tired, weak, and like my brain is working at 50% capacity. I chalked this up to me going through a tough time in my personal life but I’m past all of that and the brain fog is still there. I’ve been taking 1.25 mg and I just recently started cutting those in half, so about .625 mg daily before bed. For those who have/had brain fog what would you recommend here to reduce or get rid of brain fog?

If you are one of the few that get ‘Brain Fog’ from finasteride, then stop the drug. We have known that there are central nervous symptoms caused by finasteride since the original research was done, although it was very infrequent.

My practice has been 100% hair transplants since 1991 (27 years). That is all we do. I built a highly specialized team of people who I have personally trained. Many have been with me for years and once they are there, they don’t leave because the environment is great, the wages are good, the results are great and the patients appreciate everyone who worked on them. Since I only do hair transplants, I never get distracted by patients that come in for other reasons. My staff have been practicing and improving their skills every working day for years. We have no salesmen working for us and we do all of the consultations ourselves, one-on-one with each patient and give about an hour of our time which is free to the patient. Most of our patients do their research before coming to see us, so that they know who we are and why we are so highly rated. I have published almost every advance in the field over the past 27 years, from Follicular Unit Transplants, the Megasession, the FUE and we even invented the hair transplant robot with two patents issued to us and we licensed it to the company that built the ARTAS robot. We hold Open House events every month where you can meet our patients, one-on-one, see a surgery and get a free consultation with the doctor. I have been doing this for 27 years because I am proud of our patients and our work. Doctors who don’t do this full time can’t have the experience we do. We have performed over 16,000 hair transplant procedures since 1991 and the first FUE patients in the world was presented to the world through publications in peer reviewed journals. So, check us out on Realself and Yelp, but better than that, come to one of our Open House events so you can meet and see many patients who are examples of our work.

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This patient had an FUE 5 days earlier. What I want our readers to note, is that there is not only no crusting on the recipient area, but the donor area is completely healed, I get emails frequently which show terrible crusting after a hair transplant in the recipient area. I tell everyone our routine, which I will now repeat here:

I don’t like the idea of anyone removing grafts that have scabs on them because we have published a paper in a formal medical journal, that when a person pulls off a scab (crust) from a recipient area in less than 12 days (possibly longer), the risk of losing the graft is very high. See the medical paper we wrote here: https://baldingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/mp-2006-graft-anchoring.pdf

In FUE or any transplant including a beard transplant it should be treated just like a regular hair transplant with regard to the recipient area, but if the donor area has open wounds (FUE), it requires daily washing with soap and water. Within 3 days of surgery, you can resume full activities, heavy exercises if you wish. The recipient area requires daily washes as well to keep the recipient area free of crusts. I generally recommend the use of a sponge and supply my patient with a surgical sponge to fill with soapy water and press on the recipient area daily in a rolling motion, never rubbing. By repeating this daily, all crusts can be washed off without any fear of losing grafts. IF any crust are present, use a Q tip and dip it into soapy water, and roll it on the crusts and that will lift them off without dislodging them, but never rub them, just roll the Q tip on the recipient crust. I like to see no evidence of any crusting in the recipient area and the crusts from the donor area gone in 5+ days with daily washing.

Do most of the younger men (18-22) that you have prescribed fin to also experience a stabilization of their hair loss? Or is the hair loss too aggressive when it happens so young?

I see the younger man with advanced balding and aggressive genetics is often difficult to stabilize. The young man’s response is variable while the older men (over 35) seem to stabilize much easier.

I consulted with this 30 year-old man five years ago. At that time, he had frontal hair loss and did not want to take the drug Finasteride. The HAIRCHECK instrument showed no crown loss but today, five years later, he lost 50 percent of his hair in the crown since the test was last taken. Because his hair is so curly, you can’t see the crown loss very well in the photos, but had he taken the drug Finasteride, I doubt that he would have lost the crown hair had he taken the drug finasteride. The HAIRCHECK instrument is very sensitive in picking up early hair loss. He will go on the drug now to see if there is possible reversal of the crown loss which happens at times, but until a year passes, we will not know. He will get a hair transplant in the frontal area where the lines were drawn.