I've only told 2 people, my girlfriend of 10+ years and another balding friend who I sort of regret telling now cause we are not talking lately. I'm with Phil on this, keep it as secret as possible because it's personal.

I actually plan on having some devilish fun with this when it all starts growing in. People in my home town are generally rather ignorant, and so they'll have absolutely no idea what's going on with me. There are a few particular familiar faces who are clearly losing their hair now, but who used to ridicule and tease me about my hairloss 10 years ago when they had full mops. One in particular (who was the loudest) is obviously distraught over his hairloss these days.

I plan on having some real fun with these guys because they will most certainly notice that I suddenly have more hair than they do (they are VERY vain musicians!), and that roles have been reversed. When they ask me what's up I'll first probably just say Rogaine did it so that they'll waste many months on that crap. Then I might next say Saw Palmetto so they can waste another year. Then if they persist further I'll just come clean and say that it's all through meditation and that I have transcended the physical domain and entered the world of gurus, hence I just commanded my follicles to regenerate and they did.

I even thought I might say Bosley, but I'm not quite that wicked!

EpilepticSceptic,

It's not often that a post makes me laugh out loud! Thanks for that! I hope you'll give us a play by play when you start torturing those guys.

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for now all I've told is my wife and my barber. I don't think it would change the relationship I have with my friends / co-workers etc...but, at the same time it doesn't add any value and could possibly looked upon in an unfavorable light.

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I'd say keep it on the DL. I don't want people closely inspecting my HT when I'm having a conversation with them. I'd rather have them assume I have a decent head of hair and not think much of it. Being self-conscious and insecure is already a curse. I'd hate having everyone KNOW I'm self-conscious and insecure enough to spend thousands of dollars to appease it.

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Again, thanks for the comments. I think I may have been a bit unclear. I AGREE that it would be best for most people to tell as few as possible as no real good can come from telling others. I would certainly tell almost nobody if I thought that it was possible. However, I just think with the visible nature of the procedure during the down time and "Ugly duckling" phase, I don’t see how in the world you could keep it a secret. Or, when it grows in, how can you keep it a secret? I would love to be able to do this and if you guys have some comebacks or techniques you have used to keep a 3000 + graft procedure using a doc who shaves you down a secret (not where you have not told anyone and assume its a secret but everyone knows anyway), I certainly would love to hear it.

Thanks guys

My English buddy who sings in a rock band told me he keeps his hair using some rogain hair mousse for men stuff, he sent me some and I'm using it but at first it makes ya hair fall out, but hey, if it works for my pal Robert Plant who am I t argue