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This is a common finding in some women, although it is more common as women get older. I have treated many of these women with a hair transplant to put back the rounded hairlines typical of the female hairline. You should be look at my an expert to make sure that you don’t have an autoimmune disease like Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia. a diagnosis that is easy to make when your doctor is skilled in the examination of a female hairline

The hair loss behind what is still a strong hairline. In some Indian men, these strong hairlines can persist for many years even if the hair behind it goes. His pattern from other photos not shown here, is almost certainly going to develop into a Class 6 pattern so I told him to postpone surgery at this time. He should try the drug Finpecia (available in India) as this drug might reverse the hair loss especially when used in conjunction with minoxidil.

Too many young men want to rush hair transplants and too many doctors are happy to take their money and do it; however, hair transplants done too early, may leave the man with a balding pattern that the doctor and the patient never planned for (and that would be bad for the patient but the doctor has already pocked the money and I am sure it cleared his bank account)

I am 24 years old and I’ve been experiencing some hair loss for the last three or four years. I’ve noticed it when I shower I’ll end with about 30-40 hairs on my hands, and there will be about 10-20 others on the pillow when I wake up. I’m kinda worried about this since it didn’t happen before and I am not through a period major stress, I didn’t make any changes in my diet either. I will see a dermatologist as soon as possible but I don’t know if I should make a big deal about it or not, since I can run my hand through my dry hair or pull it and there won’t be any hairs on it afterwards.

Some extra info: my dad isn’t bald but has a receding hairline and started experiencing hair loss when he was about 40 or so. It is summer where I live, I add this because I understand hair loss can vary depending on the season.

You should see a good doctor and find out exactly how much hair you are losing with the HAIRCHECK test ( https://baldingblog.com/haircheck-test-how-it-is-done-video/ ). The point is to find out if you are really losing hair, how much you are losing and lost and what to do to stop it. This test establishes a metric on the loss so that in a year after you may have started treating it, you will know if you are gaining of losing ground.

This is a failure of the transplant unless your surgeon placed far less than the 2200 grafts you reported. I would go back to have a frank discussion with your surgeon as you paid good money to have this done. The most frequent reasons for hair transplant failure, is some technical glitch or lack of experience by the surgeon and/or his team!

This is his answer to me: “Thanks for your reply. You bring up a very good point that if I continue to bald behind the transplant it will look strange, however, if that does occur, I do plan on chasing it with further HT’s in the future. I positioned myself in a career where I can financially do this and am very aware that this is not a “quick fix”. I see this initial transplant as the first step in a long process. Please continue to voice your thoughts and concerns.”

If you go forward with this plan, be sure to put together a good Master Plan for your future, and include an assessment of your depleting donor supply, which will occur as you do more and more hair transplants. You must make sure that you never get into a situation where you will run out of hair.

He appears to be thinning in two areas and his forelock appears strong and he wants a hair transplant. Forelocks tend to last a lifetime if it remains strong until a man is over 35 and these tend to run in families. This man is not a candidate for a hair transplant yet at 23, but possibly when he get to be 25 or 26, he will see these areas bald more. If he takes the drug finasteride, it might not happen.

If you have thinning and possibly PCOS, treatments like Scalp Micropigmentation works very well to make your hair look fuller: https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/gallery/smp-for-women/

Should I get a HT ? Im 23 i used minoxidil for 2 years and did nothing just stopped the shedding so what you advice me to do ?

I’m a 23 year old male experiencing male pattern hairloss around the crown. I’ve noticed it for 8 months and it’s been getting substantially worse recently- more hair loss in the shower, more strands on my pillow every morning, hair follicles on my hand as I run it through my hair. I’ve also been experiencing Dry Scalp recently which I think is related to the balding. I’m meeting my Primary Care Physican soon, I plan to ask him for a 5mg Proscar prescription and get a pill splitter with that. I do not want to use Rogaine, as I’m a medical student and expected to look professional all the time. I’m afraid it might mess with the oils on my skin. As for the shampoo, I’m thinking of ordering shampoo either nizoral or DR regenpure. Which one do you recommend using? Are there any additional tips you can provide? Could the hairloss be associated with medical school stress to any degress? Thank you for your time!

I believe that there is a 99% chance you have genetic hair loss in process and the best treatment is finasteride 1mg/day or as you said split a Proscar into 1/4 or 1/5th. You don’t have to be 100% accurate as long as you end up totallying 5mgs every 5 days. If you can find someone with a HAIRCHECK instrument (https://baldingblog.com/2017/01/10/value-haircheck-bulk-measurements-two-patients-seen-today/), get your hair bulk measured and then you can get a metric on the value of the drug over time. I don’t believe that the shampoo makes any difference, but for a douoble wammy, if you are having crown loss as well, I would consider adding minoxidil once daily to the crown.