Hi all
First of all a little introduction to my story on hair loss etc. My name is Greg and I'm 31 years old.
I have always had a high hairline/forehead and looking back over photos from 2004-2005 I could tell I was receding quite a lot at the temples. However, this never bothered me and my hair was something I just never really cared a great deal about.
I recently found a photo from holiday in the Caribbean though with my girlfriend from 2009 and was shocked at my hair loss! I literally had a huge forehead and a tuft of hair in the middle. My crown/vertex area was fully intact though.
Fast forward to 2011 and a customer facing role which I thoroughly enjoy and all of a sudden the "comments" and "jibes" start to flow on a regular basis. My colleagues taking the p*ss saying "Baldy" and "Bald Headed Freak" and of course even my brother and his mates.... "1,2,3, Forehead !". It just goes to show that whilst I was never particularly vain and didn't care a great deal about hair loss, after the torment and spiteful comments started it became a very real problem for me.
So, in February 2012 I went to see George the Patient Coordinator at HDC for a consultation. He was very good and suggested a FUE transplant of 3,000 grafts. FUE was always going to be my first and only choice.
Anyway, I decided to try REGAINE Extra Strength Foam first as I had not been using and meds and just assumed hairloss was something you could not do much about over the last decade! How na?ve I was back then and like I said not vain at all.
The REGAINE Foam had helped and I think even regrew some hair, but in June 2012 I decided to bite the bullet and schedule a procedure as planned with HDC in August 2012 for the 3,000 grafts via FUE suggested. This ended up being a total of 2,798 grafts with 2,490 at the front and the rest in the Crown/Vertex area.
I have since been back again (October 2013) for a further procedure as I was unhappy with the frontal density (HDC agreed to rectify kindly) and also wanted the Crown/Vertex area treated with a greater number than 300 grafts as per last time. 300 Single and 300 Double Grafts were implanted into the vertex area and approximately 350 Triples to the Front third of my hairline to add density.
This thread will detail my FIRST transplant results as obviously I am in the early stages for the recent one.
So, here is what I looked like in February 2012.
Greg
Oh and my current Regimen is REGAINE Extra Strength Foam twice a day, REGAINE Liquid at night, Revivogen Scalp Solution at night, I wash 2-3 times a week with a Nizarol alternative (RegenePure DR) and Revita and Alpecin the other days. I refuse to take Propecia due to the side effects and a past horrendous experience with a similar drug called Roaccutane that I took nearly 9 years ago.