Balding Blog

I have collected a series of photos from the internet of victims from overly aggressive surgeons who don’t understand the limits of performing FUE and have depleted the donor area on this patients (https://newhair.com/resources/#tab-id-4). These men may have addressed their balding on the front, top and crown of their head, but they traded it off for balding in the back of their head. Balding in the back of the head can only come from an overly aggressive surgery so anyone that looks at them knows that they had a hair transplant because balding in the back of the head is not anything found in nature. It is man-made.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/12/08/fda-clears-cold-cap-to-save-hair-during-breast-cancer-chemo.html

A number of times we wrote about the use of the Cold Cap for people who have cancer and did not want to lose their hair during chemotherapy. The stories I followed included a relative of mine who was able to hold on to 80% of her hair under chemotherapy for breast cancer. Another patient held on to his hair with chemotherapy for lung cancer. The value of this technology is absolutely clear and now the FDA has formally cleared the technology for clinical use. It was interesting to hear the stories from some of the patients I followed. Their doctors were somewhat resistant to this technology but because the patients insisted on it, they allow its use in their Chemotherapy Centers. Keeping ones hair during chemotherapy gives dignity to many such patients and helps reduce the stigma associated with these horrible diseases.

I’ve done my due diligence on the side effects of Finasteride, but I’m really worried about the potential side effects of cognitive impairment. As someone who is really susceptible to the side effects of drugs, I’m afraid to take Finasteride as I have just started medical school and I cannot imagine a worse time in my life to be experiencing some kind of cognitive impairment. Have you had patients complain of cognitive impairment? If you were in my situation, would you even take that risk?

Yes, I had a few patients who reported some cognitive impairment, more however stated they just did not feel good on the drug. The decision to take finasteride is a personal decision. I advised my son to take it, and prior to having his first child, he took it for 15 years and the only thing he noticed was an increase in his sex drive. Unusual, but that happens probably way more than cognitive impairment. He started on the drug when he went into Orthopedics.

Last night my father tossed coffee in my face. The coffee was not that hot and did not leave a burn. Could it cause my eyelashes to fall out?

I would doubt it.

This is cobblestonning of the skin from the grafts that were transplanted with too much skin not trimmed away. The pattern is not good as it is not random as hair should be. This will call attention to the cobbling that we see. These grafts may have to be removed with FUE if it bothers you enough after the hair has grown in

If you have cobblestonning it may be related to the amount of skin that you had on the recipient grafts. Also you will find that this skin will be very sensitive to sun. I always trim off the skin when I transplant the beard or scalp so that I avoid cobblestonning and a significant skin disc which easily develops sun burn for the first year or two.

There is nothing to be embarrassed about. Even Donald Trump takes finasteride.