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Ohh ok maybe it'll be back everywhere soon. Still wish it wasn't so expensive!

Hello, I have been using propecia 1mg for 19 years since I was 18. My hair is great with a good hair transplant from Hasson and Wong. Unfortunately Propecia has a manufacturing problem in the UK and when my stock supply runs out I may have to switch to the generic finasteride 1mg. I am looking at Dr Fox and Simple Online Pharmacy as their generic seems much cheaper than Superdrug or Boots. I noticed they give you whichever generic they have in stock so it could be the Accord manufacturer or the Milpharm or Releconchem. I understand they are UK licensed manufacturers but is it advisable to switch between manufacturers? Where does everyone else in the UK buy their finasteride or Propecia?

Hi i have been taking Propecia for 18 years but i am considering changing to finasteride 1mg as it's so much cheaper. Does anyone know any UK verified legitimate websites it's safe to buy it from? I don't want to buy a fake product.

I blowdry'd it in the opposite direction and it seemed to stay which I was pleased about. It doesn't look as good that way though, or maybe it's just the cut. It is difficult finding the perfect hairstyle after a hair transplant I think, I keep changing mine!

I have a little problem with the direction of my transplanted hair. It's thick and looks like regular hair, that's not the problem. I style it short with a small fringe going to the right. This style is OK but my temple point is weaker on the left and I'd like to try styling it to the left to cover this but when I do the hair sticks straight up and it's a battle to get it to lay down going to the left whereas it looks totally natural when it goes to the right. Is this a normal characteristic of hair and will the direction change if I blow dry it to the left everyday? Or has my transplanted hair been designed to only go in one direction and this will never change? It's been about a year and a half since I had my hair transplant.

Hi, I had a hair transplant a year and a half ago. It does look really good now as I went to a good doctor. It's not perfect but it's pretty close and I feel normal now, so no covering it up or hiding it, which feels a lot better. I've been taking propecia since I was 18 though so i'm relatively confident I won't lose too much more hair. As if I did it would probably look odd. So personally I would give it a go first, but it's upto you. There is a third option of not buzzing or using toppik, just having it as it is, maybe you'll get used to it after a while, I don't think most women mind a little baldness, some prefer it.

Thankyou, I am very pleased. Yes the first three pictures are before the operation. The work was done to fix an old transplant I had done over 10 years ago. Here is a picture i've just taken in the bathroom mirror to show you the end result ->>

Hello, following on from my 9 month update - http://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/eve/175790-9-months-post-op-hasson-wong.html I saw Dr Hasson and David when they visited the UK and they took a few photos I'd like to share with you. I have only selected photos that keep my identity somewhat hidden. There are some before pictures also included. I'm very happy with the results at this stage, I would say it looks the best it has done so far. It is a vast difference from the first two hair transplants I had done in London and no-one has been able to tell i've had a hair transplant. What is also good is I no longer have to hide my transplant and can keep my hair short which is what I wanted to achieve. The first three pictures show my hair before the transplant, and the five other pictures show the results after 16 months.

Have you started taking the propecia yet? I would take it for a year or two before you consider a hair transplant to make sure you won't lose any more in the future. What if you have one done then you lose the hair behind it, it may look a bit odd! Having said that your hair loss isn't that bad so a hair transplant done with a good surgeon would give you a really good look, it's just future loss is all i'd worry about. I wouldn't get it done in the UK tbh as there arn't that many good surgeons here, there are much better surgeons abroad and it can be reasonably priced.

I found the waiting period to be the worst part of the procedure. You are a bit in limbo till it all grows out and you can decide what to do. The time will go though so just try to forget about it. Mine took 6-8 months before it looked good

Thanks for the comments, I think it does look very natural now. My family would have preferred me to go back to the UK Doctor again but I couldn't risk it tbh even though he may have got better in the last 12 years. I've got a new scar going round the back and sides. I think Dr Hasson said he could do an operation to blend all the scars together?? But it doesn't bother me really as I don't wish to shave my head and you can't see any of the scars with my hair the length it is anyway. It doesn't feel any tighter than before which is good so I don't want to mess around with it. I'm lucky really that I haven't lost any more hair since my first operation 12 years ago. If I had lost a lot of hair I could have been bald in the middle with thin sparse hair at the front :eek: I would definately recommend propecia to anyone considering hair transplant surgery, I haven't had any side effects that I know of and i've been taking it since I was 18 (i'm 31 now). If your hair loss stabilises then surgery could give you a very nice head of hair provided you chose a good surgeon. Some guys look fine with a little hair loss though but for me it didn't look good and really affected me mentally so i'm glad I took the plunge and sorted it out even if it did take me 12 years!

Before and after photos

Thanks, I do feel my hairline looks much more normal now compared with how it did before, and so i've been able to cut my hair shorter. I'm still experimenting with the style, I may have it even shorter or up a bit. I've included a few hairline pics under bright light I just took.

I thought i'd share my story and post op result with the forum as I found forums such as this helpful in deciding which surgeon I should pick. My hair started receeding at 14 and it was quite severe in the temples and at the front, it was very difficult at the time being a teenager and by the time I reached 18 I decided to see a doctor about it who referred me to a hair clinic in London. The doctor there said I would be completely bald by the time I was 30 and upon hearing that I fainted to the floor. Coming around a nurse said kindly I still looked attractive but I did not feel it. I asked to be referred to a hair transplant surgeon. They were a little surprised but referred me to what they classed as a top surgeon in London. My mother came with me to discuss it and the surgeon seemed a little cautious due to my age and future receeding but I said I wanted it done. He gave me two sessions of 1200 and 800 grafts (9 months later) and put me on propecia. At the time I was happy with the result as I had hair where there was none, but it was still very thin and spaced between each hair and as a result i've always had to have a big fringe down to my eyebrows to cover it up. I lived this way for 10 years and always had to be careful in high winds or if someone touched my hair not for my transplant to be revealed, which is more difficult than you can imagine. Although some people liked my hair style a lot didn't and one day on holiday abroad my friend wanted to see a comedy drag show. As one walked past he touched my hair and I flinched away, and then he said eurgh what's that, is that a wig. I felt really humilated and left after one drink. After that I decided I didn't want to feel that vulnerable again and I needed another operation to correct what was done 10 years ago so I began saving for another 2 years and began looking into which surgeon to pick. I thought as i'd already had strip surgery done previously and from what I gather it generally gives better yield, then I would be going for a strip procedure. Dr Rahal and Hasson and Wong got a lot of positive feedback on the forums and eventually I decided on Hasson and Wong as they had a lot of great quality photos on their website and forum I could look at. I was concerned about travelling abroad for an operation but i didn't want to risk a substandard operation in the UK so I researched the journey. I planned I could do it in 4 days, fly out on the saturday, have the operation on the monday, and fly home on the tuesday evening. I saw on a website that Dr Hasson was coming to the UK for consultations so I decided to meet with him, the UK consultant David and Joe. I saw a couple of other guys, one who was 8 months post op who was happy with his result, and another considering surgery. I expect they were wondering why I was there as my fringe covered my previous work but when I pulled it all back they saw why. As I have fine hair and had already had two operations Dr Hasson said i'd need 2 surgeries of about 3000 grafts. I flew up to Vancouver in September, the flight from the UK is about 9 hours. When I got there I looked around the sights on the sunday (very diverse interesting city) and collected tourist information leaflets and thought of possible excursions I could tell work I went on when I returned. I also found a chemist that sold vitamin E oil I could take home with me. I got a taxi to Hasson and Wong's address and Dr Hasson looked at my hairline and drew on a new one and asked if i'd be happy with that. He said my last transplant the hair had been implanted a little too deep so it was more noticable and grafts would be needed to be placed in front to cover the old work. The surgery begins with taking the grafts from the back of the head. It's not that bad really, it hurts a little when they give you the anesthetic shots, but unfortunately I needed to pee really badly near the end and fortunately Dr Hasson sped up a little (phew!). Then i watched a few films as the grafts were cut up and transplanted. Note Lord of the Rings 2 does have a lot of people screaming in it which is possibly not the best film to watch in a surgery, although it did get a few laughs from outside. The surgery was estimated at 2500 grafts to 3000 but Dr Hasson managed to get 3500 as my density was better than expected. This meant that he could do my hair transplant in one session rather than two which I was very pleased about You get a goodie pack as you leave with post op instructions, antibiotics, a travel pillow, a hat and sleeping tablets in. You also get a tool to remove your staples. I went back the next day to have a hair wash then went with my hat on to get the plane home. I was a little concerned about what would happen at the airport and whether my staples would set off the alarm but they did not. They did want me to remove my hat though but I said i'd just had an operation and she said just lift it a bit, and luckily no-one saw. I was so pleased just to have got the surgery over with so I wasn't so concerned if a stranger saw it by then. I got home and tried to be as careful as i could with my hair. I slept on my back for 6 nights but after that it was getting too uncomfortable so I went back to sleeping on my front as i usually do. I was careful washing my hair and applied vitamin e oil after to help healing. By day 10 I knew i was safe to wash my hair more throughly and washed it more normally and by 14 I was in the shower as normal. Just to warn you paranoia takes over at this stage, you are constantly paranoid you have lost grafts or it's not growing and this is perfectly normal from what i've read. I took a month off work and told everyone I was going to Vancouver for that time so I had to invent stories of my travels (if only I could have done half these things). As I had a big fringe, although my hair was shaved at the front, my hair behind hid all the transplanted work so I just continued as normal. I'm glad I took all the time off, but realistically I could have gone back to work after my staples were removed at 2 weeks. The tenderness is still there after 2 weeks though so all in all I was pleased I took the time off. Note for me taking the staples out hurt a lot. I got my dad to do it and although i'd washed my hair, by the time we started it was dry again. I would recommend soaking the scalp in the tub for 10 minutes and doing it immediately after to reduce pain. Once it's over though it's a huge relief and you feel so much more comfortable. I sort of forgot about things for the next few months until I got to month 4 and noticed after drying my hair it was looking noticably thicker. After that it grew up until month 6, although it is harder to notice when you look at it everyday. At this point I researched new hairstyles as I no longer wanted a long unmanagable fringe and decided upon a short sideswept fringe. Once cut, my hair from the back blended in nicely to my transplanted hair and the work done was pretty much undetectable. My hair looks very full now. I could even spike it up but it may show a little under very harsh light and I don't like it back so decided upon a small fringe. My hair is a lot darker now but I have come to prefer it to highlighted blonde. At first I was very self conscious about displaying my forehead and having a new style but I have had so many comments from people at work and customers who say it looks much better now, that I feel good about the change. Not one person has said I am receeding or made any bald jokes. So all in all i'm very happy with the results. I think it is very important to pick a good surgeron and although I am still critical of myself, I would go through the whole procedure again in a flash. As for my first surgery 12 years ago i'm not sure if it was worth it, but I never would have suited having a shaved head as my foreheads very wide so I didn't have many options. I'm now 31 and instead of being completely bald as was first predicted I now have a full head of hair

I had a hair transplant with Hasson and Wong just over 8 months ago. I'm very pleased with the result and have now cut my hair a lot shorter but as the hair in the back of my head was darker I am now a brunette rather than a blonde. Some people like the colour but as I have pale skin it makes me look a bit moody/gothic. Would hightlighting my hair a lighter shade make my hair look thinner? I read somewhere that lighter hair makes it look thinner, is there any truth in that?

I think you're right, there's something about the 4 month mark that is very unsettling. It has grown but not enough to be happy with the results, so you start to worry it's never going to grow any better. Today it looks a little thicker so i'm in a good mood :cool: I think as it's post christmas and horrible winter weather here in the UK, plus i've been less social since i had my op done, adds to the down in the dumps feeling i'm having. I am feeling optimistic for the future though. I say bring on spring and the growth that comes

I don't know if anyone really talks about this or if anyone else experiences it, but for me i've found I am getting a little depressed waiting for my results to grow. A full result takes up to a year and believe me it can be a very slow year waiting for results! You wake up every morning looking at your hair from different angles and under different lights and wonder if it has grown any further. One day you think it looks great, the next you think it could turn out to be a failure. So far I am at the 4 month mark and I would say from looking at other people at this stage that I am right on track. But this does not stop me worrying. My left side is very thick at the moment and looks amazing. My right side is quite thick and i'm pleased enough. But my middle is still thin in comparison so i'm worried about that. I think in another 2 months I can start to analyse my results further and by 8 months I think i'll be able to judge what my end result will be (i know it's meant to be 12 months but i think 8 i will be able to tell). But those extra 4 months i now have to wait are going to seem the longest ever I reckon! Anyway I just thought i'd write down how I felt as others may experience the same as me and may be able to relate to this.

I flew the day after surgery, I got my hair washed at the clinic before I went as it was an afternoon flight. I didn't have any sedatives during the procedure so felt fine. I wore a hat the clinic provided. I guess ideally I would have waited a week to fly so nothing touched my scalp for the first week but it was too expensive to wait around and i wanted to be in my own bed. Plus my hotel only had a shower not a bath, so it would have been difficult to wash properly after, you need to use a jug of water or a very gentle shower head to wash your grafts with.

From your pre-op pics it didn't look like you needed much (if any) work done, I would have suggested a small procedure to thicken up your existing hair rather than lowering the hairline. Now it has been lowered I would say that 300 grafts will not do anything to help rectify the situation. If you think 1050 gave you that density, then how much will 300 grafts give you? Practically nothing. You'll need about 1500 to thicken it up. Hey i'm not expert but this seems logical to me. I'd request a refund from said doctor and go elsewhere personally.

I'm two months post op and wondered if it's safe to go on a diet, will it affect graft growth? I've put on 11 pounds since my operation and if i keep going on like this i'll be the size of a house by the end of the year :eek: I think having time off work and not going out much has had a bad effect and I want to get into shape but is diet and exercise a good idea at this stage? I've got into the habit of staying in with a tub of Ben & Jerrys rather than socialising or going to the gym as i'm in the ugly duckling phase and don't feel like it atm Any advice?

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