My doctor said I have folliculitis and he started me on antibiotics, is that the right thing to do
Yes, you have classic folliculitis and it must be treated, first with a drainage of the pus pockets, then a culture must be taken to be assured that the antibiotic selected is the right antibiotic, then wet/warm soaks three times a day until the infection seems to be under control.
2017-09-06 05:35:262017-09-12 07:34:09Do I have folliculitis?
More and more healthy adults are raising the issue of “rational suicide” and we are ill prepared for this concelt. Doctors have thought about it for themselves if they should get very sick an terminal. Doctors are just people with the same concerns and at the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) 2015 Annual Meeting, there was a session dedicated to the issue “aimed to provide guidance to clinicians who may be faced with elderly patients expressing a desire to die by suicide while they are still relatively healthy and cognitively intact”.
If you saw the movie Still Alica where Julianne Moore played a woman who knew she had early onset Alzheimer Disease and while she was rational, she made a tape in the hope that the ‘Alice of the future’ would see. She recognized that the Alice of the Future might be unable to take her life, so she created this video, step by step, on how to overdose herself with a bottle of pills she hid and tole that Alice how to find and what to do with it. OF course, as Hollywood or the writers would have it, she was incapable of following even the simplest instructions and failed to do what the rational Alice (the same person who should have been able to control her destiny, wanted.
I am 73 and healthy. My Great Grandmother lived to 114 and one Grandfather to 102. I hope that I will never be confronted with Alice’s problem whatever my age. If the terminal cancer patient who lived a good life and rationally wants to move on, he should be given the choice between suffering and a rational death. Death is something that we all will face and we should have the ability to face it with the dignity we want, particularly if we are rational and at the end of our lives. Governments should not only, not tell us how to live, but not interfere with our choices at the end of our lives.
I am 21 years old and I think that I’m thinning. I have a prominent widow’s peak. My father (his white haired front view is shown here) and my grandfather both have balding (like the picture you showed of Dave Letterman on February 2nd, but the ‘pancake’ size area in the middle remains strong on both of them). I expect that I will keep my ‘pancake’ just like my father and my grandfather, but if I lost it, could it all be transplanted (including mywidow’s peak)? Can you tell me from my picture if I am losing my hair? I took a picture of it for you to see.
A widow’s peak can be created with a hair transplant. Many people (including me) think that it is a sexy look for people with narrow faces, and it works in a transplant when the surgeon is artistic. Some people have a widow’s peak with the hair direction pointing to the side instead of pointing front. This ‘cow lick’ in a widow’s peak is a bit more difficult to reproduce, but it can be done if the widow’s peak is eroding even with a ‘lick’. For an example of what I mean, see the photo below — click to enlarge.
The unusually good picture sent by this man (below) shows thinning behind the forelock and I took the liberty to create a zoomed version of the photo to show the difference in densities under magnification (click to enlarge).
His father’s hairline shows that the forelock is strong and I suspect the widow’s peak is a family trait (see photo below — click to enlarge).
Referring back to the son’s photo, I think that you can see this young man has reduced density and miniaturization when comparing the central part of the scalp (just behind his forelock) to the forelock. It looks like this young man will bald behind his forelock, possibly more balding than I think that his father shows now, but the strong forelock and widow’s peak may hold even if the hair around it falls out.
Do you have advice for someone who gets water retention in the face even from 1.25 mg oral? I had no other side effects but stopped due to the puffy face. Is there a safe/simple way to mitigate that?
Maybe this medication is not for you. Theoretically, swelling can occur in hidden areas of your body, like around the heart. Speak with your doctor.
Question for you. I am 41 years old. Been on Finasteride for four months. From the tip of my hairline to about 3 inches back has miniaturized slightly. I have noticed that it no longer grows in length. Is this common? I have to buzz cut the rest of my head to match that front part every few weeks. What could be the reason for this? Why don’t those follicles grow anymore…it is like they have paused the growth cycle at the front?!
Great question. When hairs are going to die, sometimes they just stop growing or the growing slows down almost to a crawl. These hairs will eventually fall out and contribute to patterned balding. Drugs like minoxidil (topically) or finasteride can reverse this process.
I did my FUE in Turkey. After opertion I noticed some part of my recipient area seems more dark than rest of the part.After 1st week after wash the head is getting clean but those area,where still seems to be wet and little red.Today is 12th day,I am getting worried about the progress.As I am quite far from Turkey to consult my surgeon so please give me a guideline about the possibilities or likelyhoods.
You really need to contact your surgeons back in Turkey for a follow up (even by phone). What I see is not normal.
We actually wrote about hair transplant in Turkey as a medical tourism destination last week FUE in Turkey.
Hi,
I am having a hair transplant surgery by the FUE method and I am aware that I should not take aspirin 7 days prior to my transplant, but I completely forgot the 7 day rule and by the time my surgery comes up it will be only 5 days since stopping my baby (low dose) aspirin use. Is this going to affect the outcome of my surgery or during surgery due to bleeding? Is 5 days time for stopping my aspirin use enough time to have my surgery without worrying about it? I am a little concerned and blame myself for not stopping it a little sooner.Please let me know if OK. Thank you kindly.
Excessive bleeding is always a risk in surgery when the patient is on a medication that can cause major bleeding (such as aspirin). Your surgeon should be made aware and you should discuss your risks with him/her.
FUE review at New Hair Institute
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This patient is not going bald. He may be classified as a Norwood 2 or as having a mature hair line. He had the surgery because he did not like his raised corner hair line. He wanted a lower, relatively straight juvenile hair line (he once had). He was old enough (over 30 years old) where chances of him losing more hair or shock hair loss was minimal. He understood this is a cosmetic procedure and was made aware he may need more than one surgery to achieve the density he was looking for.
He chose the FUE method of graft harvesting since he wanted the flexibility to keep his hair buzzed or kept short.
The total number of grafts he received was 1600 grafts. He had two separate FUE procedures of 800 grafts with each surgery spaced out about 1 year apart. The final result you see is after 2 years. If you click on the photos for a close up ZOOM you can see that the density achieved was close to normal (non-balding) hair density. The reason he needed TWO (2) separate surgeries was because you cannot fit 1600 grafts in such a tight space. Each graft can be about the size of a rice grain. After the hairs have grown out, you can fit another graft in between the spaces.
He occasionally attends our monthly Open House events if anyone would like to meet him in person.
Oral Minoxidil does not always work. It has been reported to cause shedding, but genetics can also be the cause of your hair loss. You should speak with your doctor to discuss a short and long-term Master Plan for your hair loss.
2018-08-07 06:30:092018-08-15 08:54:50Taking Oral Minoxidil 0.25-mg for 6 Months and Only See Shedding. No Benefit.
