Abid

I really love this forum. I have learned a lot from here in the past 2 years. I think I'm a NW4 right now and I think it's finally time for me to do a HT. Do you guys know any good doctors in North Carolina besides Cooley and Koher. I know Cooley is excelent and Koher is pretty good too. They both quoted me 10k for 2500 grafts. But me being a college student, are their any doctors around here that are cheaper and still good. Price is a major factor for me but I know a good doctor is also very important. I also talked to some other company's as well. I was quoted $5,200 from NuHart in Atlanta for 2500 grafts. But maybe I should stay away from them sence people on here are not saying good things about them. I also found Marquu in Fort Lauferdale, Fl who apparently charges only $2 a graft. Does anyone know anything about this company, wethere their good or not? I called the lady of Marquu and she said that the $2 thing is not something their doing anymore but will do it for me. $2 a graft is extremely cheap and is hard for me to resist. Honestly though me being from Pakistan, I might just get a HT from Humayun sense he's the cheapest and one of the best. But then again I don't feel like waiting 2 years to go back. I want a HT soon.

I really love this forum. I have learned a lot from here in the past 2 years. I think I'm a NW4 right now and I think it's finally time for me to do a HT. Do you guys know any good doctors in North Carolina besides Cooley and Koher. I know Cooley is excelent and Koher is pretty good too. They both quoted me 10k for 2500 grafts. But me being a college student, are their any doctors around here that are cheaper and still good. Price is a major factor for me but I know a good doctor is also very important. I also talked to some other company's as well. I was quoted $5,200 from NuHart in Atlanta for 2500 grafts. But maybe I should stay away from them sence people on here are not saying good things about them. I also found Marquu in Fort Lauferdale, Fl who apparently charges only $2 a graft. Does anyone know anything about this company, wethere their good or not? I called the lady of Marquu and she said that the $2 thing is not something their doing anymore but will do it for me. $2 a graft is extremely cheap and is hard for me to resist. Honestly though me being from Pakistan, I might just get a HT from Humayun sense he's the cheapest and one of the best. But then again I don't feel like waiting 2 years to go back. I want a HT soon.

Ok I'm only 23 right now and suffering from hairloss pretty bad. Right now I'm a NW4. I just can't stand it any more. I talk to girls and none of them find me interesting. I mean I can barely find a date. It really sucks. I know me being bald is a huge factor to this. The problem is I just feel so worthless with out my hair. It's like I have lost almost everything. I have no confidense either when it come's to talking to girls and maybe even other things. Am I making a really big deal out of this thing or do a lot of people feel this way who suffer from hairloss. I feel like If I get a HT then It's like I will be a totally new person. I aways look in the mirror checking my hair. Sometime's I even wonder if people are looking at my bald spot in the back of my head. It sucks knowing that I'm one of those few people who has to suffer from hairloss.

Hey you know what, I think I'm gonna shave my head again. Some of my friends say I look beter that way anyways. Plus I can just use a buzzer and save 12 bucks

The 2% at Walgreens is $36.99 for 120 ml and they also have a generic version for $28.99. I personally would rather get the brand name anyways. At CVS, it's $41. I guess you might as well get it from Wallgreens. I wonder if it's better though to go with the 1% (inspecially for 1st time users) since it's only $15 for a 7 oz? There's a pretty big difference between the two as far as price goes. And yeah you do need a prescription for the 2%.

I don't know about you guys but all I think you really need is some protein and creatine. I think this whole N2O thing is unneccessary. With protein and creatine alone, I went up on bench from 95-185 from January to June. I tried N2O one time recently and I dint like the taste of it and neither did it do anythuing for me. For now Im just taking protein, but since I've been stuck on 185 now for a while, Im planning on taking some Size On creatine.

So your saying that I should get both proscar and Minoxidil 5% at the same time along with the Nizoral 2%? I just think it's gona be a pain in the butt having to do all that for such a long period of time and if I stop either proscar or minoxidil then my hair's gonna start to fall out again. I guess I'll just have to do what I gotta do and thats to keep up the gameplan for however long it will take.

Im gonna get the regular brand name proscar. I figure since it's already so much cheaper than propecia, I might as well go with the brand name to be on the safe side. 30 tablets for $81. Cut them suckers into quarters and really you get 120 pills or a whole 4 month supply worth. That's just me though. Where else can you get a pill cutter besides Wallgreens? How about Walmart or any other store?

I am kinda confused about certain things. So here's a few questions I had. 1.Is it a good idea to take Minoxidil 5% if you only have a receding hairline? My crown area is actually fine. When I was reading the warning label at my work (Harris Teeter), I remember it said something like don't take it if your trying to use it to help your receding hair line. It said that it's only intended to help the crown area. Im sure though that people on this forum and elsewhere have probably used both finasteride and minoxidil together. 2.If Im on propecia and Nizoral 1%, will using Minoxidil 5% help increase my chances of halting my hailoss. I was thinking that using both in conjunction will help me even regrow hair, hopefully somewhat like somewhat's did. If it worked for him, maybe it could work for me, it's worth a shot I guess. 3.Which is better, Nizoral 1% or 2%? I got the 1% instead. 4.What do you guys think of my gameplan for my hairloss treatment? Using propecia, (probably proscar in the future since it's cheaper ), minoxidil 5% along with also Nizoral 1%. Should I change it at all? Any suggestions would be helpfull. Im only 23 and I feel like I desperatly need to do something about my hairloss. After learning so much on this forum, I feel like I really can do something about my MPB before directly thinking about getting a HT.

Thanx Jake and Kamen. I got back on Propecia and I bought some Nizorall 1%. I figured I better do something about my hairloss before it gets much worse. I think after skipping out on propecia over the summer, I can tell I've lost a lot of hair. Are you allowed to take multiple hair loss drugs though at the same time like propecia and rogain? I figure wouldn't this double my chances of halting my hairloss and help me regrow my hair quicker? I was thinking about doing that. ALso Im thinking about doing what you said Jake and get proscar and cut the pills up since it's cheaper and was also advised by Dr.Hussain. He has also given me some helpfull information as well. He's one of the top HT surgeons in Pakistan. Since that's where Im originally from, I was thinking maybe I should do a HT one day from him instead since it's cheaper. I wanted to share with you guys as to what he had to say and what you guys think. This is my e-mail to him and his response at the very bottom. $1=60 Rupees and 1 Euro= 1.28 dollars. On 8/19/06, Abid Afridi <abid0729@yahoo.com > wrote: Hi, my name is Abid. I currently live in America in North Carolina. Im originally from Pakistan however and visit back home to Peshawar every once in a while. I have seen some good reviews about you and was thinkin about maybe one day getting a Hair Transplant from your office location in Islamabad. I was curious as to how much you charge for a HT. I believe I might need 500 to a 1000 grafts. Im probably a Norwood-2. I know that the average price for a graft here in the states is around 4 dollars. Im sure it's much cheaper over seas in Pakistan which is also why I wanted to do it there besides your experteece. I was wondering how much you charge a graft in rupees or how much it normally costs in Pakistan for a HT. Also, Im 23 years old and wanted to ask you if whether or not maybe you think I might be too young for this procedure or if it's o.k for me to do a hair transplant. Currently Im just using Propecia and Nizoral shampoo to fight hairloss. Dear Abid Afridi You should postpone a HT for 5-8 years or as long as acceptable for you and use propecia and minoxidil in the meantime. Both are available from PK at a very reasonable price. If you can have your doctor prescrip Proscar 5 mg you could use 1/4 at a much more reasonable price. The US graftprice of 4 USD is for strip-surgery. I do not do stripsurgery. I ONLY do FUE as I believe that stripsurgery (also called FUT) is obsolete. I would strongly advice against strip. Strip is available in PK from 30000 - 150000 PKR - but really pay to destroy your donorarea. Take my advice and stay away from it. FUE in the States is usually charged at around 8-10 USD/graft. As far as I'm informed I'm the only FUE surgeon in Pakistan and I charge 3.5 euro/graft (around 2 hairs per graft) which comes 260 PKR/graft. I charge 5.5 euro (420 rupees) per graft in Norway. It's expected to increase to some 6-6.5 euro in a years time. Best regards, Dr. Mazhar Hussain

Hi everyone. First of all, I want to say that this is my first post and Im not exactly sure where to post it. This forum is awsome and I'm really glad I joined. I've learned quite a bit from reading threads. I first encoutered my hairloss probably 5 years ago and I just turned 23. Being so young, hairloss is one thing that has affected my life negatively in many ways including lack of confidence to talk to girls. I think Im probly an NW-2 but not exactly sure. Hairloss is something that has ran totally on my dad's side. All my uncles are bald along with 1 on my mom's side. I didn't begin to do anything about it until half a year ago by taking propecia. My dad reffered it to me and wrote me a prescription and so I tried it. I was hoping that it would help me reqrow my hair but turns out that it didn't although not 100% sure. What I do know for sure though is that it halted m hairloss. I admit that I skipped out on a few dosses but mainly in between bottles when they ran out. Being a college student though I found it kinda expensive and I have stopped taking it for the last 2 months. I think I've lost hair though now that I stopped takin it so I do regret not continue taking the propecia. So basically I was askin to see maybe what I can do to help prevent my hairloss. I might go back on propecia but Im not sure. I was thinking about trying something else like rogain and trying some shampoos like nizoral or nioxin. Propecia is the only thing I ever took to help prevent hairloss. I never tried anything else like Avodart. Can anyone out there give me some advice as to what I should do. I also live in the Cary Raleigh area if anyone is familiar with a good place around here to go to in N.C. Sorry for the long post.