Any youngsters on the site care to update their hairloss battle progress? Have any - dare I say - taken the plunge and had an HT? Just curious to see how the forgotten demographic is doing out there.

Had a HT @ 22; now 24 and contemplating HT #2. Fin is holding my crown and vertex pretty strong, but I've continued to thin along my top while losing a modest but noneteheless impactful amount of native hair in my first HT's recipient zone.

Ultimately, I got -- and still enjoy -- cool hair, and my battle is still on the upswing as a result of my HT and getting on fin.

Medium-term, I'm one large session away from being mint.

Long-term, I probably have 2 more large strip HTs in me, followed by who knows what.

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*A Follicles Dying Wish To Clinics*

1 top-down, 1 portrait, 1 side-shot, 1 hairline....4 photos. No flash.

Follicles have asked for centuries, in ten languages, as many times so as to confuse a mathematician.

Enough is enough! Give me documentation or give me death!

I admire you thana, Im 22 and the means required to achieve the end are currently unattainable for me. I am still a student in college and soon to be a grad and the thought of paying for such a surgery is unthinkable... I would have to prostitute myself, but my confidence would probably negatively affect my ability to attract customers.

At this stage my front is at its thinnest yet. It is very irritating. I have not gone to Finasteride but I will probably ask to this monday, Im confident that it should restore some density to that part. Im considering getting minoxidil as well but I dunno how I can truly pay for it. I might beg my parents to sustain me follicularly as the sustain me in almost every other regard.

Thana,

It looks like you are in great shape, particularly for someone with hairloss so early. Do you know how much graft availability Feller said you have?

Also, anyone else had an HT sooner than later?

Hey there..

23 year old, had two transplants at 21 and 22 and will be getting a 3rd in about 2-4 weeks.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask

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11/04-07 - 800-1600 ish grafts - danish clinic - poor results

12/02-08 - 2764 grafts - Dr. Devroye - good result but needs hairline density

03/12-10 - 1429 grafts - Dr. Mohmand - result pending

Feel free to visit my picture thread

My Hair Transplant Photos - Surgery with Dr. Devroye

Young lads below 25 unite!

I dont have any problems with getting a ht in your 20's but to have two or like some like mikethedane to have 3 is kind of insane in my opinion. donor hair is a limited source, once its gone its gone. who knows how far you will eventually bald. think about 40 yrs from now when you are in your 60's. you dont want to end up looking like a freak and yes you will care about how you look.

This is just my opinion but for guys like thana (just had 3000 graphs packed in the front third) and mikethedane (3 ht's and 4300 grpahs before 23?) it just seems like overkill and i would hold off if i were you guys. it just seems like u will be chasing your hairloss for far too long if u start now.

The only two places I would let touch my head are h&w and shapiro medical. No one else can hold a candle to them in my opinion. Both clinics can long term plan better than anyone, and when u are this long, that is important.

How is it overkill when I have plenty of hair to combat MPB *if* I happen to continue to bald at an aggressive rate? I had -- and have -- two routes and choices:

a) actually be a balded **freak** at 22 and force myself to be content with a lowered quality of life throughout my youth

**not that 'freak' is a perfectly apt description, but it's a helluva lot closer to the right definition than the fearmongering usage of "freak" for a guy who ends up not being able to get total coverage when he is in his older years because his donor couldn't beat his MPB end-game.

b) look like a normal guy throughout my youth; and, when I get older, and bald in a more *acceptable* fashion, return to beat MPB yet again and have super-normal, good hair as a guy going througout my middle age and older years.

What is wrong with "chasing" hairloss when you will be beating it each step of the way, *if* you even have to take future steps? "Chasing" hairloss is the name of the game.

Seriously, what's with this axiomatic fearmongering from yesteryear about people ending up like "freaks" when they are older and how they will "still care". Of course they would care if they look like freaks, yet how *exactly*, in actuality will they be looking like freaks?

In what possible permutation of scenario am I going to end up looking like a freak? Or the many other young guys who get HTs in a very similar fashion to myself.

Simply because a HT isn't a perfect solution doesn't mean it isn't the best solution.

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*A Follicles Dying Wish To Clinics*

1 top-down, 1 portrait, 1 side-shot, 1 hairline....4 photos. No flash.

Follicles have asked for centuries, in ten languages, as many times so as to confuse a mathematician.

Enough is enough! Give me documentation or give me death!

I really wish I remembered to save the thread, and I'll search for it some, but a poster took the time to write out a very simple, very effective breakdown on the logic (and logical fallacies) that are so often bandied about in generalizations on whether a young guy "should" or "shouldn't" get a HT. It's like breaking down a LSAT or SAT question and annoyingly difficult to do, but he did it really well, breaking down all the potential scenarios and their consequences.

If anyone remembers this and might know how to find it plz to be posting.

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*A Follicles Dying Wish To Clinics*

1 top-down, 1 portrait, 1 side-shot, 1 hairline....4 photos. No flash.

Follicles have asked for centuries, in ten languages, as many times so as to confuse a mathematician.

Enough is enough! Give me documentation or give me death!

like i said it is just my opinion....if u have the donor and family history on your side by all means go for it.

but understand not everyone is going to agree with your approach and pat you on the back saying u are doing the right thing. with how low your hairline is, how many graphs you have already used, your age, ect. all i suggested is just be careful. If you adavnce to a nw 6/7 then what? u not only have to worry about the top but also the sides. that is the possible scenario u look like a freak.

but believe what u want, and since u are on meds it likely wont be an issue. however sorry for not telling u what u want to hear but like i said just my opinion.

Like almost every other young guy who gets a HT I'm on meds -- so I do agree with you that the doomsday scenario likely won't be true, but this just reinforces why we (read: young guys) get HTs to begin with.

If I "advance to NW6" I will simply get another HT, and be extra-happy I had one in my early-youth so I'm ahead of the game.

The same could even likely be said if I were to go NW7 -- and let's not forget just how distant a chance this is.

**If my MPB were to go apecrap down the road and I went to some violent NW7+ with vastly lowered sides I'd just have to accept and deal with it at that age, if it were to happen.

But this very situation would be EQUALLY as negative if I squandered a decade of my youth and got a HT when I was 32, and this could likley be said even if I waited years longer down the road to end up stepping up to the plate to get a HT.

Just my opinion, of course, but this isn't even going into the severe destruction MPB wrecks on the very fabric of a young guy's life, and the value you have to place into simply defeating that by the act itself.

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*A Follicles Dying Wish To Clinics*

1 top-down, 1 portrait, 1 side-shot, 1 hairline....4 photos. No flash.

Follicles have asked for centuries, in ten languages, as many times so as to confuse a mathematician.

Enough is enough! Give me documentation or give me death!