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On 5/8/2023 at 10:03 PM, jakos said:

Kudos for having your kid start medication early in his life, surely he will stay as a NW0!

Looking good man  i will repeat what others said - don´t think another HT makes sense at this point. Save the grafts for the future just in case.

I took a break for like 6 months to ensure nothing effects the child. Rather be safe than sorry. Children’s health is much more important

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On 5/8/2023 at 2:19 PM, Gatsby said:

Why use up precious grafts and add more scars to your scalp? Your hair looks great with full, dense looking coverage. If you’re on a 5ari then oral minoxidil will most likely make your hair thicker and keep it in the anagen phase longer. But with hair as good as yours starting minoxidil means another drug that requires staying on for life? Solid work btw. 👌💯

Thanks Gatsby. I been on fin 10 years and I am sure it has helped. I have friends who have gone bald and I still look good for my age.

Regarding oral min…just afraid of the shed to begin with, also hypertrichosis as body hair is already dark and thick. 

18 minutes ago, BaldV said:

Looks really good, can you comb the hair backwards so that we can see the hairline?

1 minute ago, Melvin- Moderator said:

Hair looks perfect bro, don’t do anything. Congratulations on the baby boy, mine is 6 months old 🙌🏼

Thank Melvin brother! Congrats on your little one. Min either oral or topical can't hurt I daresay

Hi everyone. I hope all is well and I have been away from the forum for years.

It has been 10 years since my first transplant (2013, 2402 grafts) 7 from my second (2016 2400 grafts) and 3 from my third (2020 1126 grafts,).

I have also been on finasteride since 2013 which I started just after my first transplant. 
 

Life has been good, I have a beautiful little boy who is just under 2 and a half years old. He is healthy and well despite taking fin. 
 

Hair wise; nothing much has changed apart my hair is turning grey from the sides. Am thinking of one final transplant to the hair line possibly with another doctor . Crown area from the right side is thin but I wouldn't do surgery in this area. I have been debating to start minoxidil either the foam or oral. Oral be better but I do not want hypertrichosis. If I do start it be the lowest dose of 1.25mg.

On 5/27/2020 at 7:41 AM, PlzRespond said:

What kind of hairline issues did you have? Your hair looks amazing when long

 

did you ever experience any shock loss after your second and third transplant since the same areas were worked on?

Had some micro-issues regarding the hair line and the 3rd surgery was mainly to increase density. Or I say hair greed. 

No I did not have any shock loss. The third surgery I had a small amount of shock loss on the side of the head but it has grown back. Had no shock loss in previous transplanted areas. It shows the high training standards of Asmed which they strive on. 

35 minutes ago, LonelyGraft said:

Awesome. This is after your second procedure right? How many months post op? You have amazing donor and temple points 

These were taken last year (May). At that time I was 3 years post op from 2nd op

Here you go LonelyGraft:

2 hours ago, Der3k7 said:

Couto has many more impressive videos than any other surgeon ive seen. If you'd video collection doesn't wow you then no one's should haha. The wow factor from before and after results of hair transplant are from the transplant not from finasteride. Finasteride helps prevent further loss but won't make you go from looking bald to having a nice hairline like a transplant would. So the impressive results from transplant before afters are primarily all because of the surgery, not from the medication. Medication primarily preserves what you've got. And I know finasteride works but I've had shitty and scary as hell  experiences on it and have read about the whole community of post finasteride syndrome and all. I'm not going on it again. I just need to get a good high yield surgery of about 1250 or so in my hairline I bet and save the rest for my crown and vertex 

You are wrong about medication. Meds help thicken hair and can even grow miniaturised hairs back to terminal hairs. Including in THE DONOR. I am proof of this concept. Obviously thick, terminal hairs from the donor help in increasing the illusion of density. 

I have seen “normal” results of Couto and they all posted by real-patients in forums. Couto is also human....his marketing is good. Soft light for before surgery and harsh light to showcase the results. Lighting plays a huge factor. 

1 hour ago, HTHope said:

Thanks are you still on treatments?

Yes I am. Been on fin since 2013

I can buzz cut quite short. To spike my hair need about 3-4 inches. But when its going back out from a buzz cut, its very similar to Farsan’s. Please note buzz cut is from 2nd hair transplant post op 3 years. And the longer hair ones are from today, 3.2 months out from 3rd op

6 minutes ago, Melvin-Moderator said:

Ben chod aka farsan whom I banned three timed now. 

What is the reason for banning? Is he banned permanently?

40 minutes ago, BenChod said:

Below is 2 months ago before i shaved it. Thats what i mean by growing it so long that it covers all the crap erdogan pissed on me with.

Oh my days...I don't what to say Jean

1 minute ago, BenChod said:

I was suppose to go hattingen and h&w for a in person consultation only. But then covid happened. Both of them via skype anyway said strip is better now for me and they should be able to get 3500 to 4 via that because i only have 3k fue left. I was surprised you could a good enough strip after fue but they sound really confident about it.

It is true that grafts via fue can be more fragile compared to fut. Yes, strip is possible even after a fue procedure. You have plenty of good doctors for fut ; HnW, Konior, Hattingen, feriduni etc

21 minutes ago, BenChod said:

Yes it is so first u blame me for coming of finesteride then u realise i didnt come of finesteride so then u said i had weak donar and thats why when it was transplanted it got weaker even tho erdogan himself and numerous othet docs said i have really good thick donar. And u completly didnt make sense because in that case my donar now should be thinning at the same time as the ones that were transplanted when in fact my donar has stayed exactly the same since after ht. Make ur mind up. U clearly are trying to be an expert and ur moving the goal posts everytime u get told..u had a good result.. great so stick to that and dont act like u know what youre talking about.

Farsan, I have already apologised. Man, why you keeping blowing stream at me. You clearly had a lot of diffused hair at the front and it is very highly possible these hairs you have lost now. How old are you? Look at HnW and look how much they are packing tightly into such small areas as Jean already mentioned. Even my hair is not perfect; I have some areas which are diffusing and some areas have more density than others

Hair loss is progressive; I always believed that. Good luck

That looks excellent Jean! Thanks for the photo. I had 300 grafts this time round in the crown and was curious about how how your turned out. I had 700 grafts into the vertex at second surgery. But my crown is a bit diffused than yours. Its not a big area though.

Any changes since you been off fin? 

9 minutes ago, BenChod said:

More courteous? You straight away pointed the finger at me saying i came off finesteride thats why.. when u were completely wrong and then said oh you thought u read somewhere i did. What was native is native and grown out will look normal. When grown out to a certain length it covers the lack of result thats why these photos look like that. Also, yes bad results happan. But when the lack of growth is this bad then you need to stop blaming me for coming of finesteride(which i havnt) and blame the clinic. Youre as deluded as the clinic you simply cant accept theyre messing up. 

Like I said, I was mistaken you had came off it. I apologise. 

You did not have that much native hair. I have been in the same situation and native hair cannot be easily styled. 

I believe your hair loss is not stable and the donor has been affected by DHT. Sensitive DHT hairs have been transplanted which have been lost. 

Asmed is not the only clinic which has unsatisfied patients. All clinics do, even the top doctors. 

Jay how did the crown grafts turn out? When did you start noticing the growth? And did you feel any significant changes in the crown after the 18 months?

22 minutes ago, BenChod said:

Firstly i feel very insulted that you assumed i came of finasteride. Im ocd theres no way id come of it. I remember an asmed case where sone guy came of finesteride you might be mistaking me for that. Secondly what ever the result was at 6 months that was it..my result basically came through very early but didnt improve because most the grafts didnt make it. And yeh those pics look awsome why? Because i had so much native hair i can even now grow it out so much that it can covet the bad work. Why cant you just say ok cool i had a great result (meanng you) but you know what they messsed up on this one. Even if i had a great result and saw the clinic mess other people up id i wouldnt be defending them or trying to find other reasons why its bad. People who get good results from asmed turn into asmed staff... they just cannot accept they messing people up. What the hell is wrong with everyone?

Farsan, all the photos I have seen the growth looked good and you was heading to a great result. Even the 12 months result looked good (photo attached). Your donor does not look quite thick....thin donor will retain the thin characteristic it has, even transplanted. 

I find it insulting that now I am a “asmed staff”.  I am only saying what I have seen and thats from your own posted images on the internet. 

You were planning surgery with Dr Lupanzula. You should view KO’s thread (south asian hair like us) who had a failed surgery with Lupanzula, went back for a repair with him and hasn't updated the forum.

In every cosmetic surgery there is a small chance it will not be 100% satisfying. That is for all elective surgery. 

Finally there is no harm being a bit more courteous even though this is the internet. 

I know its you bro. Hmmm, then I find it strange why you lost the hair? Your immediate post op photos, your healing etc everything was spot on. I may be mistaken; not sure I read somewhere that you came off fin

2 hours ago, BenChod said:

Yeh thanks i didnt know that dude 👍

You had a good result at 6 months post op. You did not have a lot of pre-existing hair. You was on fin then came off it. Your 6 months photos show you were coming on for an great result. Sadly, another patient not under medication and blaming the clinic. 
 

I have been silently following Dereck’s progress. The sad reality is that he is not using medication. My two cents are that his hair loss has progressed and he is a diffused thinner. Diffused thinners benefit greatly from fin and minoxidil. And it is an shame he does not realise the power of medication. He also needs to understand as men age, hair loss does increase. It is a reality. Dereck I know you talk a lot about Dr Couto ( Couto does not wow me at all and with only 64 videos on youtube, that is pure marketing) and HnW (who do prescribe their patients with meds but do not mention when posting results that the patient is under medication) but these doctors do encourage their patients to use medication. Finally, when hair loss progresses, donor hair also thins out. You do not know what NW pattern you will end up with. I suspect this is what has happened to you. Even DHT exists in the donor. 

54 minutes ago, HTHope said:

Do you know what size punch was used on you?

Sorry, I do not have that information but I am sure something in the region of 0.6mm to 0.85mm