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I found this article in a Sports Medicine Journal from the Editor: https://journals.lww.com/cjsportsmed/Citation/2010/05000/Creatine_Supplementation_and_DHT_T_Ratio_in_Male.13.aspx

Frankly, the answer is not clear to me

What question do you get tired of being asked the most on this forum?

I’m guessing it’s about propecia. I think you should have a Q&A page on the drug on this site.

When I first started BladingBlog, I thought the same thing. You’d be surprised how many different ways one can ask a question on Propecia and hair loss in general.
I believe we have at least 800 different questions and answers on the topic of Propecia: see HERE and HERE

You can also search for “Best of Balding Blog” on top and popular Topics on the right side of the screen.

See my picture and see how bad my hair loss is, but for me, surgery is out of the question because I can’t afford it and I don’t like the idea that I will spend the rest of my life chasing more and more hair transplants. Now I look 10-15 years older than I am. I know this when I try to get a date, women look at me differently because of my balding.

There is no other solution to get hair but an alternative to hair transplants is scalp micropigmentation (SMP) as this picture shows. This is a good alternative choice; however, you must accept that you will shave your head on a regular basis at least twice a week. Although this is a cosmetic tattoo, no one will even tell that it is not a full appearing shaved head of hair (when performed in the proper hands). We have performed this in men from 17 – 92 with great results. The man on the right had it and agreed to allow us to use his photo. I think that he looks great with SMP. Also look here for more examples: https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/bold-shaved-look/

To find out how many grafts, you should ask your doctor for a copy of the surgical record which will have the number of grafts and the number of hairs that were in each graft. If you do not trust your surgeon that is another matter. Bonding with your surgeon is critical BEFORE the transplant gets done. Your lack of trust makes this a foregone conclusion.

Crushing finasteride is ok, but dissolving it in a solution will not guarantee that it will work and you may inactive it by doing so, especially if you don’t drink it immediately.

This is a good post from Reddit that is worth reading about. A man assesses his focus on hair loss and puts it in perspective.

Went to a wedding from tressless

This man had a hair transplant and had holes punched into the front, top and crown of his head. Some young men panic thinking that they are losing hair as their father may have lost it so they might not do their research and think that they need a hair transplant to keep their hair. This patient was probably such a man and I say this because there is hair on his head and it appears to be good quality hair. Maybe he tried to find an inexpensive hair transplant doctor and found a doctor or someone who claimed that they were a doctor who was able to persuade this man to have a hair transplant.

Using holes for recipient grafts (a technique that has been abandoned years ago), this man had a hair transplant and the person doing it was so proud of the work that these pictures were taken and given to the patient. But what is worse than the terrible work, is that this man appears to have a reasonable hair density so it is clear to me that he had an unnecessary surgery. Maybe he felt he was losing hair and some doctor or some non-doctor who maybe acted like a doctor must have talked him into have an this hair transplant surgery. Some young men are very impressionable and can be influenced especially if the person doing the ‘selling’ appears to be a doctor. Some day, this man may lose hair and what he will have left is plugs where all of these holes can now be seen. He will look freaky. Bad, Bad, Bad!!

Creator of Cancer-Cure Diet Faked Her Cancer
Nick Mulcahy April 23, 2015

“The creator of a best-selling mobile phone app and cookbook,The Whole Pantry, has confessed that her story of healing terminal brain cancer through diet and other natural therapies is a fabrication.”…

Dr Saunders continued: “This story shows the difficulty scientists have in getting their stories heard over snake oil salespeople.”

“Hopefully this will make people think twice and do some basic checking of facts,” he added. “We need to be skeptical of the mythical lone genius selling magical cures that ignore basic science and hard evidence.”

I get hundreds of emails a week asking me about my opinion on new hair loss treatment or my thoughts on side effects of Propecia. While the Internet is a great source for information, it is not always accurate. My point has always been there is no substitute for seeing a doctor (in person) when it comes to your personal medical issues which include side effect from Propecia or your hair loss issues. Finally the old adage, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

This is an unusually good view of the permanent zone, especially in the back of his head. I can’t tell why his graying isn’t more uniform. The arrows show the donor zone as it wraps around the head.