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I had a hair transplant done only 2 days after a nose job. The nosejob was to fix a crooked nose after it got broken in an accident. I scheduled it in the same week as the hair transplant to save on down time from work. Both surgeries were done by different doctors of course. When I went back to the transplant clinic for check ups, the doctor and nurses were all curious to see my nose lol!

Whoa yeah! Huge improvement between May 2006 and now. Congrats dude!

I took my last finasteride pill and then my first dutasteride pill the day after. I experienced no shedding and no side effects that I know off. With finasteride I had no side effects either. I take one pill (0,5 milligram of dutasteride) daily, but I forget to take it once or twice a week (usually in the weekends). After about six months of taking dutasteride, I noticed that my crown area had started thickening. But as long as finasteride is working for you, you should stay with it.

I agree. Plus it's cheaper than shampoos like Revita or Regenepure that are stuffed with ingredients that aren't proven to have any effect whatsoever.

I wash my hair 2 or 3 times a week with Nizoral. The rest of the week I rinse my hair with water only. I don't think using shampoo every day is healthy for your scalp and hair.

Use a night cream containing retinol/retin-a. Use sunscreen during the day.

I started with finasteride 2 years prior to my FUT procedure, because I wanted to be sure my hairloss had stabilised before i underwent a hair transplant. Later I noticed my crown was getting thinner, so I switched to dutasteride. Since then my crown has thickened again and I notice no further hairloss. I'm staying on dutasteride, because all my hair falling out except my transplants would be my worst nightmare!

I love American Crew Fiber too! But only when my hair is short enough, so I can use the fiber to create a messy look. When my hair is longer, I prefer the American Crew Defining Paste or l'Or?al Studio Line Special FX Remix.

Grow your hair longer (so that it covers the scar). Or if the scar is unusually wide, get a scar revision surgery or get FUE in the scar. I think those are your options.

I would never shave off all my hair for a FUT. If you do that, the wound/scar will be visible for at least a month, possible longer (untill your hair has grown long enough to cover it). I wouldn't want the whole world (neighbours, coworkers, ...) to see it.

I'm a gym freak. My doctor told me to wait at least a month untill after the strip surgery to lift heavy things, as to not strain the scar. With a lot of patience (it sucked, cause I could feel my body losing strength!) I waited a whole 3 months before resuming my gym schedule. I even adjusted my schedule to make it lighter, but my scar still stretched... Maybe I should have waited at least 6 months, or maybe the scar would have stretched anyway (like it depends on other things), I don't know...

(1) Most of your natural hair will grow back. It's called shockloss. Your hair has been traumatised by all the incissions made for the implanted hairs. (2) Shaving your head will have no impact on your natural hair or your implanted hair. I think you have to wait at least 2 weeks after the surgery before you can safely shave the implanted zone. Also be careful that you don't damage the fresh fut scar while you shave.

I had trouble sleeping after all my transplant surgeries. After the strip surgery, I had to sleep on the back of my head, because my hairline and temple points had received the grafts, but the back of my head was totally sore from the strip wound... Not pleasant. After FUE into strip scar, I could not sleep on my back or sides, because the strip scar went from above my ear to ear to above my other ear, so I somehow had to sleep flat on my face! Very uncomfortable. But somehow I managed to get through those first weeks without damaging any grafts in my sleep. It's just a period you have to get through and you have to be very careful. I did it by taking little naps throughout the day and night, never a really long deep sleep.

Getting FUE into the scar or scalp micropigmentation costs money too... I had to pay nearly 2.000 euro to fill my strip scar with FUE. Scalp micropigmentation is not cheap either... So I really don't think that saving money by going for strip and afterwards getting rid of the scar with FUE or micropigmentation is a good idea. I mean, if your goal is to spend less money, but without a scar.