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Very nice result!

No need to worry. 5 months is still very early. You have another 6 months of growth to see. It's going to be getting better real soon. Stay on Fin. and ride out the next few months.

This would be nice.

In time those should clear up. Nothing to worry about at this point.

It seems like that has been starting to happen in the last few years. There are FUE doctors popping up all over the place. (I'm not implying FUE is "better" here) But we have lots of people giving their own personal experiences here, good, and bad (with photos). So it's not all just marketing. Some doctor results sometime seem a bit tilted but usually a forum member will call it out.

Wow Pma! Amazing result. Lorenzo is incredible. Mike why not go to Spain for a consult?

Good post. Lots of interesting questions. Because there are so many variables. Everything has to do with: Your personal hair loss Your personal hair characteristics The doctor you visit The day the doctor/techs are having Pure luck Yes the FUT vs FUE debate is a funny one, and it exists because there is no definitive answer on the subject. There are good and bad results coming from every single doctor, regardless of whether he is considered a "top Doc". But the more you learn about the different procedures the better you can potentially address your personal situation. If you are a NW 5+ you might want to look at FUT if you are okay with the scar and all its issues. If you are a NW 2/3 and your hair loss is stable you might want to look at FUE. Sorry you got shut down about your past results. You should re-post and give it another shot. There are good people here on the forum who can help access your situation and give you some good feedback that might help. I didnt answer all your questions. Hope some more people will jump in and get to some I missed.

Hi Sam23, I would guess that the more surgery you do on the area, the more chance of it looking like something was done there. If you are planning to shave and not take fin and your recipient area looks smooth now don't risk more chance for scarring.

Hi Mike37, Hmmmm...well the problem is that without Propecia you are going to lose all that hair up front and the top sides eventually and be somewhere around a NW6. That would really make it hard to fill in and look natural. It would be a somewhat sparse coverage at best. 1. Have you tried shaving your head to see how it looks? maybe you can pull it off. 2. They say you need roughly 1000 hairs per NW level so you are looking at around 6000+ (thinking long term) so you might want to look at FUT if you are SURE you want to go down the HT route. 3. Do a search for a bunch of NW5-6's on this site and see if you could deal with a little less than they have. 4. You look like you have med-fine hair (?) so you are really looking at a possible see through result in the long run. That might be okay for you, and it might not. 5. see #1. If you can rock it shaved all your problems are solved. Good luck.

These are bad scars, but the fact that even the best doctor can not predict that this kind of outcome is off the table I would sacrifice the possible 25% yield difference, go to a top FUE doctor, be conservative with the planning and not risk being scarred like this if I could get away with it NW-wise.

You have good thick hair. This should look great in a few months. Keep us updated.

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That, of course is your choice. Please do read up a bunch here on the forum for a while before you consider a HT. No need to rush. If you post some photos the people here will gladly help you determine what stage your hair loss is at and where it might be going in the future.

Nice natural result. Congrats!

Yes, but at this point we are sort of at square one again. One doctor says FUT is better and one says FUE is better, 10 forum members say FUE, and another 10 say FUT. I'm basically just as confused now as I was before I read this crazy thread. This thread makes me want to buy a wig. ha.

Hi Iven, It's good that you are here. If you are noticing your top thinning at 23 there is a good chance you will end up losing a lot of hair down the line (sorry about that). Really the BEST thing you can do right now is start taking propecia. It will slow your loss almost to halt. It will give you years longer with your hair. As for side effects, as you know all drugs have possible side effects. It would be worth your while to give it a try and see if it works for you. The chances are that you will not have any negative reaction to it and you will keep your hair. In my (and most peoples) opinion you are far too young to be getting a hair transplant. There is just no way to know how much you will lose in the future. About propecia and a HT. Yes it is advised to be on the medication for the rest of your life, or basically you will lose all the hair around the transplanted hairs and look very strange. So my advise to you is: 1. Go to your doctor and ask to try propecia. 2. Spend a good amount of time on this forum reading threads so until you really understand what a HT can do and what it can't. 3. Wait a while before considering a HT. Do not rush this. Welcome to the forum and keep asking questions. Good luck, M.

A few years ago I switched to a new generic brand of Fin and got severely depressed out of the blue for about 3-4 days. It was weird. That was the first time I remember wondering if the Fin had something to do with it.

Yes, Naturalness. That's what it's all about. Great work.

Wow. You should really start a thread and detail your story. You have some interesting things happening that might be helpful to this community. Have you tried Rogaine since the propecia doesn't work for you?

You don't see dermatch? look again at his hair line. It is in a perfect line with blue/black undertone. If it isn't dermatch its something similar. This is an amazing result given his situation I agree 100% but I dont think it's inappropriate to mention that a person would have been better off walking away when we come across a really terrible HT. It is important to keep that option in mind, not for this patient, but for the people researching HT's. Again this is an amazing repair job.

I feel bad for this guy. The repair is an amazing attempt at making him look half normal again. I can see the dermatch on all his post-op pics and the kinky hair is better than before but he'll never look normal in natural lighting on the street. Man, He should not have gotten that first HT. He would be 100 times better off if he never got into it in the first place. damn.

Hi, Usually from what Ive read, the transplanted hair will straighten out. I would give it a little more time. What kind of transplant was it FUE/FUT?

Very interesting experiment. Please keep us updated and maybe snap some pictures every few weeks. I've been on Propecia for 10+ years and always wonder what might happen if I stopped. Congrats on the latest procedure.

Nice work Blake! This guy is going to be a happy camper. His scar looks like it will be invisible. A donor scar like this would not bother me. It still has the potential to stretch in the next few months but hopefully that wont happen. Man, If there was just some way to be sure a scar would look like this one I would go FUSS in a heartbeat. Good work Dr. Bloxham.