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23 Days After Surgery, The Hair Never Fell Out!

Dear Sir:
i had FUT 23 days ago and my doctor told me that the transplanted hair will fall out in two weeks, then start to grow again. The transplanted hair didn’t fall out up until now and the hair covers the bald area and i feel that it is slightly longer. is this is a good sign and means complete success of surgery? or does it mean nothing? thanks for your time and patience and hoping to answer me back.

If it continues to grow, you will be like 5% of people who never lose the hair after a transplant. You won’t know for another few weeks and it is not unusual that the hair appears to be growing as it is being pushed out of the skin. The hair length below the skin varies with race, but for a Caucasian, the length is between 5-6 mm, for an Asian it is often longer by a mm or so. I hope that you join the ranks of the 5% who keep on growing. Drop me a line and let me know and I will post your comment here on the blog linked to this post.

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In the News – Prescription Drugs Cost More in the US Than in Other Parts of the World

Snippet from the article:

Whether you are young or old, man or woman, very healthy or quite sick, it is almost a certainty that you are going to use a prescription drug in the next year or two. These medicines are crucial for preventing diseases and treating all sorts of ailments and problems.

They are also expensive — really expensive. For example, the best-selling drug of all time, Pfizer’s cholesterol lowering drug Lipitor, went for $3.50 per pill and up before going generic in late 2011. But these days some retail chains are giving away generic Lipitor while the rest are charging barely 50 cents a pill.

Prescription drugs cost Americans far more than they do people living in many other parts of the world. The drug companies say it is because they have to pay back the R&D costs which is largely put on Americans. Many think that this is because drug companies spend a fortune on direct-to-consumer sales and marketing (which they don’t do in other countries) and because other nations negotiate better deals for drugs than private insurers do in the United States.

Read the rest at CNN — How Big Pharma rips you off on drugs

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25 and want to have a second hair transplant

I am 25 years old suffering from hair loss . I had a FUE Hair transplantation of 2000 grafts for the hair line but the results was not full and I believe now that I need more hair in the top and the vertex area. Can I do another hair transplant?

Your surgeon should have made a Master Plan for you knowing your donor density so that your surgeon could then know if your donor density is adequate to support a second hair transplant. Sometimes a strip surgery may be better for the second hair transplant if the donor density appears to be thin from the first surgery?

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In the News – Some Men Would Give Up a Year of Life for a Full Head of Hair

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A third of men suffering hair loss claimed it affected their confidence, a survey revealed. And nearly four in 10 admitted feeling envious when they saw a stranger with a full head of hair. One in seven said hair loss affected a relationship – and just over three per cent claimed they temporarily lost their sanity.

When asked what they would swap for a full head of hair, one in 10 men said they would give up a year of their life and a quarter were willing to waive a pay rise.

Read the rest — We’d give up a year of life to have hair, say 1 in 10 baldies

This comes on the heels of a separate survey of women that showed 16% would trade a year of life for a perfect body.

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28 Year Old Male with Hair Line Recession and Wants a Hair Transplant (Photo)

You should get a HAIRCHECK test to find out if there is any loss that you can’t see in the top and crown area of your head. You need to know there is the possibility that you might develop hair loss elsewhere. I call this a Master Plan which every male having a hair transplant should have. You look, on the surface, to be a great candidate, but if the HAIRCHECK test reveals hair loss behind the hairline, it is something you MUST know (See: https://baldingblog.com/value-haircheck-bulk-measurements-two-patients-seen-today/)

28 yo male frontal HL

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In the News – Unihair (Aderans) Hopes Hair Cloning Will Increase Sales

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Unihair of Japan, the world’s biggest wigmaker, is hoping for a big increase in sales through what might be regarded as the ultimate cutting-edge technology – a method to “grow” luxuriant displays of new hair on a person’s scalp.

The method uses cell-generation processes derived from pharmaceuticals research. “We see a tremendous number of possibilities [from the new process],” said Tadao Otsuki, Unihair’s chief executive. “It adds up to a fundamental shift in how the world can combat problems of baldness.”

With the help of the new techniques, based on ideas developed in the US and which are now undergoing clinical trials, Unihair is hoping to increase its annual sales roughly three-fold, from Y57.3bn ($706m) in the year to February 2010, to about Y150bn in 2017.

Read the full story from the Financial Times — Unihair gets a grip on baldness

There is a big difference between what we hope to achieve with using ACell in hair transplantation to multiply hairs in an ‘auto-cloning’ manner and what Unihair (formerly Aderans prior to September of this year) is trying to do with cloning hair outside of the head in a lab.

It’s in the best interest of patients that these technologies work, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

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Increasing Propecia Dose — Should I Take Half Early and Half Late in the Day?

Great information given by you and your staff. I know sometimes patients have been put on a higher dosage of propecia after years of being on the medication due to loss of effectiveness. If you were to go from a quarter pill to half a pill would it be better to take two quaters at different times throughout the day due to propecia’s short half life.

thanks

First of all, I’m assuming when you say you take a quarter pill, you’re talking about the 5mg Proscar… not a quarter of the 1mg Propecia.

Secondly, you must understand Propecia doesn’t actually lose effectiveness over the years, but rather you’re losing the battle as your genetic predisposition is showing through. It’s the classic game of tug-of-war. You cannot cheat genes. Now there are a few patients who do elect to take an increased dose of finasteride, but I often find that this is hit and miss as for additional benefits.

As for your question on dividing the dose to twice a day, I would think it would make better scientific sense to take it all at once, especially since you would want (in theory) a higher concentration in your body. If you break it down to twice a day, you will lose the advantage of the higher potency (all assuming this is going to work). If you take it in the morning, your testosterone level is highest, so it just might be more effective.


2011-01-20 13:24:22Increasing Propecia Dose — Should I Take Half Early and Half Late in the Day?

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Inflammation and Hair Loss At Vertex Started In My Late 40s

I am 51 years old, i do not have anyone on my parents side that have male pattern baldness. I have always had a lot of hair, about 2 or 3 years ago i started to have this redness, inflame irritation at my vertex on top of my scalp. it has thinned out so much that you can see my scalp and my hair has thinned all over. I have been to several derm doctors but all of them are bald their self and they don’t take the time to help me. one doctor did a patch test on my back but everything was normal. i have oily and hair that has to be washed everyday because it is so fine. I have used head and shoulder shampoo which seems to work, but when i use it i feel a kind of a tingling burning feeling at the vertex, where the inflame, redness is at, but it will go away and feels better. does head and shoulder shampoo suppose to do this? It will return unless i keep using it. Should i continue to use this shampoo? I dont know what to use, Please help.

I have given up on derm doctors because it takes so long for a appointment, and they seem that they don’t care. I even dread to wash my hair everyday, but i have to because it is so fine an sweaty and oily. I have tried rogaine, but it irritated my vertex area so bad that i can’t use it. i am losing a lot of hair in the shower, I don’t know what to use. Right now my vertex is irritated and red. Please help. Thanks

I would like to help, but there is no way to diagnose your problems or even guess at what you may be experiencing without an exam. Daily hair washes with shampoo for oily hair is important for you to use. If your hair is fine, get a gentle shampoo.

I realize a good doctor may be hard to come by, but start with your primary care doctor and ask for a recommendation. I wouldn’t think that any doctor would want to be seen as a non-caring physician so you should try hard to appeal to their caring side. Speak frankly if you feel that they are not paying you the attention you want and need. Being direct is critically important to the doctor/patient relationship.