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Actually i know a friend who lives in saudi arabia (which is way more strict and closed than dubai) and he orders his rogaine from amazon using the method i told you. He said it's fine as long as you buy for your personal use and not in bulk. Dubai is very international city and it has like everything, so i guess you will be able to find rogaine foam there easly but in case you don't then you can order it online. One more thing you can do is that you can buy a year supply or 6 months and take them with you, when you take the stuff with you (reasonable quantity) they won't take them from you in the airport dont worry. I never tried to do that with rogaine foam but i travel around the middle east alot (including dubai) and i take with me all kind of supplements (protein, multi-vitamins, pre-work powders) and never had any issue.

Propecia is available. im not sure about rogaine foam though, but in Dubai, you can buy a US address from shipping companies like Aramex, DHL, etc.. and then you can use it to buy the foam from amazon directly and they will ship it to you.

Dr. Wesely scarless technique is not yet available, in his site it says it will be available as soon as 2013, i have requested more info about it but never got a reply. Both techniques are claimed to be scarless! But dr. Gho's technique is also claimed to re-generate 80 to 85% of your donor area which will give you more donor supply, while dr. Wesely's scarless technique is not claimed to solve donor limitation issue. Dr. Gho currently only perform a maximum of 2000 grafts (sometimes 2500 if your donor good enough for that) while he claims that you can use the same grafts in your next session 6-9 months later since they will be re-generated. Im not sure how many grafts will dr. Wesley do in one session but i guess the number will be higher. Do your search and go for what you think is right.

Actually, i think the results of the HST cases i saw are similar to traditional HTs considering the number of grafts used. Most strip HTs go for a high number of grafts in one session, so it's unfair to compare but if you take a FUE, FUT, and HST cases with the same number of grafts (less than 2000) you will find the results pretty similar. Actually, i respect Future_HT_DOC's openion, because even if he beleives in FUT and FUE more, at least he is not attacking HST and dr. Gho like many others (who do that with no evidence to back their attacks) actually, my understanding is that future_Ht_doc is kinda beleive in HST and thinks that it's a matter of time before it spread and be adopted by other HT doctors in the industry (he can correct me if im wrong but that's what i understood from his posts).

I think it's ok though, just share it with him, most husbands would love to have their wives always looking their best. See IMHO, many guys such as my self, are hesitant to go the HT route because once they do they will lose the option to shave (which is so common now and most guys with hair loss sport that look) so if the HT goes wrong they have to live with it forever and they can't even shave. But for women since they do not shave anyways, so going for an HT is a win win situation even if god forbid the result is not as they expected, it will not change their look snd inworst cases they will most likely look just as they did before the HT. unlike some other surgeries like a nose job where it will change your whole look either flr the better or worse and if it goes wrong, you are screwed. Just be open with him, and im sure he will understand at the end of the day there is no guy that does not like to have his girl look better

So if somebody has a good donor to provide around 9000 graft, does that mean he can have a full head of hair even if he was nw6 ? Im kinda confused here maybe im wrong but i was under the thought that the average donor supply for most ppl is 7 to 9k , then why ppl always say that (even most doctors) if you are nw6 or nw7 you are not a candidate for HTs and there is nothing you can do but wait ?

im sure spex could help you more with that, but as far as i know, sides can hit you any time it could me right away or after couple of years. There is no timeline for sides though. So if you haven't been taking anything new recently which could be the reason of the hives the most likely it is from propecia.

I kinda disagree here, you know some ppl just don't like getting sympathy from ppl around them. Persona!ly for me i act around friends like hair lose dosen't bother me at all. I even make jokes about it sometimes and they think i just don't care a bit, and if i ever feel anybody feeling sympathy or sorry for my hair lose i try to avoid them. That's just infront of friends and family of course, matter of fact is hair lose is affecting me alot but i keep it to my self and ppl around me thing i really don't give a damn about it. I think it's just diffrent from one person to another.

Hey Future_HT_Doc, Any new findings or info about HST ? I have been reading alot about it lately, and it seems like most doctors don't deny the fact that HST is scarless or at least gives very minimal scars, but they deny the re-growth theory, and they claim that HST is almost scarless because Gho just split hairs by using needles as small as .5 .6 mm, and the hair which was splited will grow back in the donor.. My question is, if it's as simple as this, why don't other HT doctors use .5 .6 mm needles and give their Clients the option of having a scarless HT (even if the density in the recepient area not as good as other traditional HTs). Im not saying they should give up using .75 .9 or 1.0mm needles, they can use both and let thier clients decide which op they wanna go for. You know MANY ppl specially with advanced hair loss don't really care about density since they will be sporting the buzz look and all they look for is a procedure that can give them a hairline and the 5 o'clock shadow look without losing the option of shaving to the skin (since guard 1 or 2 would still be considered long if your hair loss is advanced). And this is why many of those go for the tattoo option. Right now i beleive the only op which can gives this option is HST and there is a famous dutch singer called dean saunders who is nw6 and just went through HST for that look and he is still shaving to the skin. I just beleive that if other HT docs gives this option they would make so many more people go through HTs . Please let me know what's your openion as i always respect your thoughts.

Many thanks Spex, the tips you sent are great Actually, when i got for my HT, im planning to take couple of weeks off from work, so i was thinking maybe staying a week after my HT in the same city might be a good idea first for healing before getting home and second for tourism. But im not sure, would tourism be ok after a FUE ? like can I just wear a hat and go site seeing and just cruising around the city ? or I should just stay home and rest ?

Hello All, I just have a question, if i decide to go for FUE in diffrent country and i have the flexibility to stay there for a while before travelling home, what woud be the ideal time to travel after FUE ? I mean a tme where you won't look so weird without a hat ? also if i decide to stay for 1 or 2 weeks is it ok if i go out site seeing and enjoying the country ? without doing any heavy activity ? or it's better to just stay home and don't put any effort ? Regards,

for me, when i do my HT i plan to stay for the country im doing the HT in for a week or 2, and i think by that time specially if you go for FUE, you shouldn't face any issue goig out without a hat (even through you still would have some red spots but don't think they will be that noticable).

IMHO any drug you take most likely will create some sides, if it's not in the short term then it is in the long term, as you know propecia is still considered new and has not been really tested for the long term. However, if it's guranteed that the sides would go once you quit the drug then it could be worth taking the risk, but looking at the side effects from propecia site: "In clinical studies for PROPECIA, a small number of men experienced certain sexual side effects, such as less desire for sex, difficulty in achieving an erection, or a decrease in the amount of semen. Each of these side effects occurred in less than 2% of men and went away in men who stopped taking PROPECIA because of them." The above part is OK, since it mentions that sides wll go away once you quit the drug, but then the next paragraph: "In general use, the following have been reported: breast tenderness and enlargement (tell your doctor about any changes in your breasts such as lumps, pain, or nipple discharge); depression; decrease in sex drive that continued after stopping the medication; allergic reactions including rash, itching, hives, and swelling of the lips and face; problems with ejaculation that continued after stopping medication; testicular pain; difficulty in achieving an erection that continued after stopping the medication; male infertility and/or poor quality of semen; and, in rare cases, male breast cancer. Tell your doctor if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away." Looking at the possible permanent sides makes it not worth the risk for me, the second paragraph does not even mention the percentage of people who reported or suffered from those sides. I just can't beleive we still don't have an FDA approved drug similar to propecia that can be applied directly on the scalp instead of taking a pill that can effect your whole body.

I read that applying rogaine only once aday will give the same result, is that true ? Or it has to be applied twice ?

Any thoughts !!!

I have seen a pretty bad result on other forum where the guy got infection. He claims that he did it with dr. Rahal, but im not sure if his claims are right. But anyways, in my opinion dr. Rahal is one of the best FUT doctors in the world, along with Hasson&wong and few others.

Dear Morgan, i can see that your hair was pretty much improved in the last 2 images, was this improvement just with rogaine foam ? because in your post you mentioned that currently you only using rogaine and you will be adding propecia and nizoral shampoo. if this is the case then rogaine worked pretty good for you...

Hello Guys, I have a question, what if i do an HT and then after the healing time, i start shaving my hair to grade 1 or 2 (FUE technique) on both recipient and donor area and kept shaving till like month 6 or 7 and then let my hair grow since the transplanted hair should be stronger at that time. is that even possible ? would shaving the hair in the donor and recipient area after the healing but before the hair start growing effect the progress of the growth ? would it affect the recipient area at all ? I always keep my hair short, so i was thinking if i go for an HT i'll keep shaving after that so it shouldn't be much noticeable.

Hi Spex, On norwood scale, what level is morgan ? Thanks,

I agree with spanker, if you go with strip you will never be able to cut your hair short (in case if you dont like the results or the density of your new hair).

Hey man, any update ? Also since you are not planning to take propecia, are you gonna use rogaine (foam or liquid) ?

I think now it's been evaluated by a famous FUE doctor in America and he is going to visit dr. Gho soon to verify the claims and if things workout then i think it will come to the states soon.

If you are going to be nw7 then i would advice you to stay away from FUT, strip could give great density but if you reach to nw7 no donor area will give you enough coverage so you might want to consider buzzing your hair or at least keeping it very short but you won't be able to do that with a strip scar. You can go for FUE for now and then when you run out of donor supply, you can do BHT, BHT could look natural on crown coverage. Or you might wanna give HST a look, they claim that the grafts taken from the donor srea will grow again and they gurantee a regrowth rate of 85% in the donor, and if this is true, you can use the hair again in the future giving you more donor supply and reducing scars. Of course there is no enough results about this technique and no other doctors validate it yet, but at the same time no one could proove it wrong yet, so you might wanna do your search and see what you think. If you gonna stay on rogaine and propecia forever, i say most likely you will not end up being nw7 though unless if the meds dont work for you at all. So i beleive you are in a good situation.

Dude, if you are getting sides like that on as little as 1/4 mg a day then quit this stuff ASAP. Beleive me you will feel way more depressed being impotent (god forbid) than being completly bald. Stay on rogaine and the shampoo if they are not causing sides, and you can do an HT after some years.

Many doctors recommended in this site are really good with FUE. for a FUE only doctor, i would say dr. keser in turkey is one of the best, but he does not do mega session in 1 day though, he does maximum of 700 graft per session, but there is no waiting between sessions, so for example you can do 2800 graft in 4 consecutive days. i think he charges 3.5 euro per graft.