ActionPlan

Hey agenteye, I'm following your posts closely. Looking forward to your growth progress

Hi, My first post in this forum, though I have read it prior to making this account for many years. A little bit about me first: I am 24, based in Washington DC, and started losing my hair at about 15, had to buzz my hair down to an inch starting at 17, and progressively been taking it down shorter and shorter, which I don't really mind this look, it suits me very well, except now I am pretty much completely bald on top, no hairline, no hair on the crown. So being 24 with this degree of hair loss has turned me into the guy with the baseball cap. I have been doing a lot of research (a lot of it from reading this forum, but also contacting HT docs), and have ultimately concluded that I will end up spending tens of thousands of dollars, if not more, on an HT and still not get a result I am satisfied with. My mentality is that if I do an HT and it does not look completely dense and real, then I'm not any better off for it. Most doctors I've consulted with tell me that my expectations of full density are not realistic, and the few that have told me it's possible want to charge me an arm and a leg, which is not a realistic financial possibility for me. So I see that systems look great nowadays. What opened me up to systems in the first place is a video on Youtube of a studio in Toronto, Canada --- New Roots Studios. I saw their videos for the first time almost 2 years ago, but I have not yet gone up there to have myself fitted, although I have contacted them with my interest and I have had it in the back of my mind for a while. Now what's held me back is irrelevant at this point because I am ready to make the jump soon. But the more I read this forum, I am realizing that New Roots in Toronto is not the only place offering such high quality systems. They seem to be available everywhere yet I can't find anything in DC. Going all the way to Toronto to get fitted, and then returning 8 weeks later to get my cut-in, and then redoing this every 2-4 months is not realistic. Does anybody know of a salon/studio in the Washington DC - Northern Virginia - Maryland area that can give me a comparable product/service? Or what I can do is goto Toronto, get my measurements and all that, and have them mail me a system to my home in DC every 3 months, and have a salon down here take care of the cleaning and maintenance of it. But I don't know how to find these salons. And a question: I am reading about these systems and there are guys talking about working out in them. I am very active and I goto the gym 5 times a week regularly, I jog about 20-25 miles a week, and I weight lift. I'm reading on here that the sweat from my scalp can get through the adhesive and through the lace into the hair so that it doesn't ruin the bonding? But also I've been told that after every work out, I will have to remove the system and deep-clean it. This sounds like a huge inconvenience to me. If I could just step into the shower like with normal hair and be done with it, this would be very nice. So what do you guys know? Best regards, ActionPlan