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That's great, thanks for the reply.  Just curious, do you think you're done or are you considering future work?

Fantastic result!  I'm 47 and have been contemplating hair transplant.  Love Rahal and Konior's work.  If i could get a guarantee of something like your result, i'd be signed up already.  I'm NW 2-3A ish type loss, which at my age is good, but i have thin caliber hair that is light brown in color and is causing me some doubts about going forward with it.  

Do you know the caliber of your hair?   

Again, great result!

I've had so many self debates over the years on whether to get a transplant or not. And i finally reach a spot where i'm comfortable saying no, it's not really for me. Let nature take it's course. Move on, accept and forget it. Then i see a result like this and i'm immediately back to square one with the debate again. Sigh...

What a fantastic result. Honestly, it looks like you're at native density or maybe even better.

If i knew i could get this kind of result, i'd be in the chair in a minute.

Congrats!

Saw Nadal playing in the Madrid Open final this weekend. His hair transplant growth is definitely starting to kick in. I noticed a big improvement in his hair already. Curious to see what he'll look like by the time Wimbledon comes around.

It will be interesting to see what his hair looks like at wimbledon, which will be around the 6-8 month mark for him.

Another big name had a hair transplant. It will be interesting to see how it turns out, as he is getting quite diffuse in what looks like a NW 5-6 pattern.

I've never heard of his Dr Mato Ansorena from Madrid.

Rafael Nadal went through an hair transplant, new look to be completed in 6 months!

HT or not, Brady is taking a beating on his latest haircut...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/internet-lot-jokes-tom-bradys-182420120.html

He had a mop of hair well into his 30's. Nobody is safe at any age!

I agree with you about Sudeikis. To me the hairline looks a little unusual, like he may have had some work done at some point. His temples look like what you would see on a NW4 or higher, but then he's got that big poof of hair sitting on top of his head. Just doesn't seem congruent.

Can anyone explain why PRP is so costly? I've heard this can cost near a thousand dollars. Admittedly, i don't know much about the procedure, but, it seems spinning blood down and administering some injections to the scalp is not exactly high tech, nor too labor intensive. So, where is the cost coming from? Thanks in advance

NW5/6? ummmm no. not even close. in fact, not even in the same universe!

ummmm yes. This patient is very obviously balding in a NW6 pattern; which he will most likely reach in a relatively short time span considering how aggressive his hair loss is for a 25yr old.

What's worse is that he doesn't have a dense donor area to support much more work. The 2500 more grafts he has in reserve will be a drop in the bucket compared to his needs.

What about Daniel Tosh? He was balding quite badly a few years ago. Now his hair looks great.

so when your hair started to fall out, how do you know when your hair "stabilizes?".

You "know" your hair loss has stabilized when you look in the mirror and see a horseshoe shaped ring of hair around an otherwise skin bald dome. All else is simply hope infused conjecture.

Thanks for the additional inputs Jotronic and Raphael!

I'm not decided yet either way. But, i see lots of guys in their 20's on these forums who have minimal hairloss going for transplants that are not so conservative and i think to myself, if they're willing to get a HT at that age, why should i be fearful of doing it at the age of 41? I've got 1 to 2 decades on these guys!

But i always have that nagging fear that i'll transplant and then suffer aggressive MPB and 4 years down the road be hating it and missing the many thousands of dollars i spent.

Thanks for all the input - it's much appreciated!

for 41 you have lots of hair

i doubt most reputable surgeons would advise surgery at this point

they will say "get on meds and see me in 2-5 years"

i suppose you could get a small transplant in the crown

but i see nothing pressing at this time

you probably just have to come to grips with:

you used to have "tons of hair" but are 41 years old & wont have as much as you once did ever again...

but with that said you're still in awesome shape

Meds aren't an option for me, other than minox and nizoral - which i'm already on and have been for years. Fin gave me gyno...so i'm done with it.

And really I'm not concerned about the crown. The hairloss there is very small. What's bothering me is the front, which is receding and getting thin at a rapid rate. It's tough to capture it on camera,

I know in the grand scheme of things i'm not that bad, which is why i'm asking what others would do in this situation. I don't like the looks of my hairline anymore and i would love to transplant and stay on top of the loss, rather than waiting for it to get severe and then do something.

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Looking for some honest opinions.

My situation: I'm 41 yrs old. First noticed my hairline starting to recede around the age of 25. Hairloss was slow but i saw it happening and knowing that my father went NW5 by the time he was in early 30's i was concerned and started propecia/minox at age of 30. Took it for about 1.5 years and finally had to quit due to sides...bad gyno and i just didn't feel right when i was taking it. So, i quit fin but kept minox and added in Nizoral.

Hairloss continued but very slowly. Most of it occurring in the hairline corners. I'm now 41 and have noticed that in the past 2 years my hairloss has accelerated. The past year has been particularly bad. My hairline is receded and i'm experiencing thining in frontal core. Have lost density over entire top of head and can now see some obvious hairloss in the crown around my swirl.

So i'm now considering hair transplant. However, i'm not willing to take Fin. I wanted to get some opinions on my situation and see what others would do under similar circumstances.

I know my hairloss is not bad compared to others on here, but, realize i had a TON of hair to begin with, even a lot into mid/late 30's. So, the degradation is speeding up. I see where it may conclude...my guess based on pics is NW 4-5, (but who knows!) and want to know if getting a transplant is a bad idea or not. I've attached photos for you to look at. In the shot from the front, my i put some product in my hair to get it to stand up to show whats really going on, so it's a little damp. but i think it captures the overall state pretty well.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can chime in!

Dr. Feriduni does really nice hairline work; it's undetectable.