BaldWhisky

MSM doesn't make it grow at an earlier point but makes it grow quicker once it starts. I started using Minoxidil, Biotin, vitammine E, B6, B12 and MSM after my HT. Everyone is different but I saw the first growth after six weeks so at least these suppliments didn't hurt!

It definately looks like you have more of a "shadow" effect from hairs in the scalp compared to your pictures from November. But you seriolusly should stop taking 2.5mg. Remember that it's cancer medicine you are taking! Do some research into it and you will see that there is no upside in using more than 1mg a day, it only increases side effects. There is actually limited increased effect in using 1mg over 0.2mg so your dose is straightout unnecessary high!

Just a question on this. Is it well documented that you get the max out by combining FUT and FUE? For example, most people would perfom two FUT to get the 6-10k grafts. From that point you imply that a natural third HT might be best done by FUE to get more grafts. At the same time we have for example Joe from H&W here who has had four HTs, all of which FUT. Is that more an unusual solution you think? Of course you can get grafts from a bigger area with FUE, but on the other hand FUT would have a bettter covering effect in the donor area as the remaining grafts are stretched over a bigger area. As you already have a scar and a thinning donor area, why not just keep going with smaller FUTs at least until the last <500-1000 grafts?

Prohair have many good results to show but most of them are from before the surgeon quit. So be careful in looking too much into the cases that are more than a year old or so (can't remember exactly when he quit). IF they are good I would expect to see they show as many new cases ove r the next year to show that they can operate well without the surgeon.

Feel free to challenge me but it's widely accepted that dr farjo is the only Uk doctor worth considering. Do yourself a favor and consider at least the excellent doctors in Belgum which are very close by both considering travel time and distance.

That short will be difficult with fibers like toppik or nanogen no matter what. I found nanogen sprayed on with the toppik pump of a thin layer of american crew fibers to stick best to the hairs when it is short. Might be worth a shot if you don't like how dermach looks on its own.

I agree that it's the completely wrong focus but I don't see anything wrong with looking into cheaper areas of the world. I agree that to look for the cheapest one in the US or in Europe is the recipe for disaster and will most likely cost you more to fix that the HT itself. For cheap, you get inexperienced or bad doctors and unfortunately there are thousands of example of how horribly bad that can go. But on the other hand, there are good doctors in Thailand, Turkey, Thailand and India, many of whom are recommended by this very forum. I don’t see anything wrong with looking into these. I could mention names but wouldn’t be doing you any favor in doing so as that undermines how important research is before you decide on an HT!

I'd suggest you start your research in cheap areas such as brazil, tyrkey, thailand and india. There are some good ones there. Some of them perform FUT only but that should stop you is price is your utmost consern.

Well that’s pretty hypothetical at the moment but taking that into account I don’t doubt you are correct; at the same price more mega sessions would have happened and you would have seen more examples of good ones. Both because more of them were performed but also because there would have been more experience in performing them. You would see more good results but it would take years of development before you saw 11.5 good mega FUEs for every 88.5 good large FUT you see.

Sorry I find it difficult to follow you logic so can't respond to all of it, but to follow your suggestion to cut the odds down to one doctor: That doctor needs to fill 150spots (my guess) By your numbers there are performed 32200 FUEs There is no douct that these 32200 people could afford an FUE as they had one performed. So if they can afford an FUE. 247,381 could afford an FUT. They had one. How you get from there, to conclude that there isn't enough people in the world that can afford and want an FUE I don't get. Guess we just have to agree to disagree. I'm far from rich but there were all kinds of other reasons that I deceded for FUT over FUE. Not to sound overly arrogant, but 30-40grand isn't that much money for many mature men.

I'll leave for others to commment on the other parts but this part is focused on the wrong part. Let's say there are 30 doctors we could rate as "top". Each parform say 150 HTs a year. As these are the top doctors people from all over the world will consider them. In total they would perform 4500 HTs a year. There are about 3billion men in the world. Let's say 1% of them consider an HT. If anything I'd think that's on the moderate side. Now lets say only the 1% richest poople in the world could affort the money you mention. That's 3,000,000,000x1%*1%=300,000 men. So for it to be possible 1.5 percent of the 1% ricehst and the 1% that consider an HT (4.5'/300') would have to decide to go with one of the top 30 FUE doctors. It speaks for itself that if it was possible to stand out doing 10,000 graft FUEs on a regularly basis at least one doctor would have taken taht opportunity.

Is there a way you can have a look at a spot where you certainly didn't have hair before the HT? Exactly at 6 week I spotted my new first hairs in an area it hadn't been growing for years so it's not impossible that it's a new one!

Yes I was shaved. So after 10 days I still had the new grafts in place while my natural hair had been shaved off. I lost the transplanted grafts between week two and four but at that stage my natural hair had started to grow back. If you have average hair growth your hair grows about 15cm a year. So after two weeks the natural hair on average should be 15cm/52=0.57cm (or about a clipper #2 I think). So with a little Toppic and Courve it looked like I had lost some more hair on the top but far from bad enough to feel that I couldn't go out in public. I wore a cap outside for the first week but after that I didn't feel the need to as I don't lie wearing them.

How long time off you need really depends on how important it is that the HT is impossible to see. Probably most of your colleagues won't even know what has happend and just think you have had a horrible haircut. I went back after just one week. Even at that stage just one comment appeared. As your name indicates, I am also a trader working in a male dominated company but only one guy asked quite loudly if I got a new haircut. I answered "yeah, and I'm never going back there!" and no one really seemed to care afterwards. However, If I was to do it again (which I will for HT #2) I'd take 10 days off. After 10 days the scabs should pretty much be gone and you can rempove the staples so at that point it just looks like you have lost a lot of hair but you can cover up the readiness by courve and to cover the scar + use some toppik to make look slightly thicker. After 12 days I also had a haircut telling the hairdresser my story and she made the old hair mix really well in with the short hair over the recepient area by cutting it short near the recepient, keeping full length over scar and shorter bellow. Magic. I'm not saying 10 days is right for everyone, but it's a subjective issue and for me a full month sounds like an extreme overkill.

The disadvantage of strip is the scar. No doubt about that. The disadvantage of Fue is less available donor and lower survival rate, even with a top doctor. If you are a NW5 at age 26 there really should be no doubt that Strip is the way to go. In my opinion Bisanga is the best FUE doctor in Europe and one of the absolute best in the world. Also after talking with him he does not seem biased at all on FUE, Strip or a combination for a mega session. I don’t know what Scar5 base his view on but I tend to disagree on that point. If it’s very important to shave down maybe doing a HT isn’t the way to go at all as that in itself isn’t own isn’t good enough argument for a FUE over Strip for a 26 year old NW5!