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edwardharvey

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  1. Only compliments mate, truth be told 99% of people would not even associate you with a "balding" individual, and i think that's more important than anything else. Perception is amazing, you will always look at others and study their hair, but people who have never lost surely wont be studying yours.
  2. i wish i was a troll, im a solid nw3. if i wasnt on meds i wouldnt have the hair i have atm thats for sure
  3. Hey guys, so its been a year i went to thailand, had a nice holiday, but still no transplant. Im going to be be holding off for a little while as much as i would love to get one done tomorrow. I feel it is not such a necessity at this point in time. So i havent cut my hair since i last posted photos nearly a year ago! Not to much has changed i dont think, my hair is really long now, i dont even know if people know im balding as they are always comparing me to people with full heads of hair. And im always getting compliments about my hair, so meh... ill roll with it. Have just ordered some dutusteride and im thinking of taking that either EOD or every third day, either with or without fin on the same day. See how it feels i guess, anyway heres some pictures of a years growth. Ive now been balding for a decade :eek: my grandfather was slick bald by my age now, who can say the meds dont work.
  4. sure, well the thing was. The hairline was to sharp even though he was of oriental appearance. He still had a "shine" to the top of his head, something i thought would diminish with SMP but it didnt. And it was much darker than his original hair, so tbh it stood out like a saw thumb, if he was just naturally bald with a shaved head, i mightn't of looked twice. Just my opinion.
  5. i saw a guy with smp the other day on a bus, i bet he felt embarrassed he looked like a joke.
  6. Considering you haven't to much crown or vertex loss, (from the pictures anyway) have you considered another hair transplant maybe a fue for your frontal part mainly a mature hairline. But i would only recommend this if you are going to stick with the meds long term. You really only have 3 options deal with it, shave ur head, or get a transplant.
  7. hahahahaha, i was crying in laughter lol. No presidents in Australia
  8. wow i just read through all of that
  9. i would choose crown for sure (even though i have lost from both anyways lol) having my hairline destroyed at 17 means i havent been able to style my hair for 9 long years. And even worse is if your hairline is like mine and not receded evenly (right side is more than the left) it is a dead give away. A receding hairline definitely makes you look years older, and you cant cover it up with toppik
  10. What i mean by this question is when say a "dr" takes say a fue graft from the side/back of ur head and transplants that elsewhere does it grow with the same density as it did in its original position on ur head? It doesnt lose any thickness or change.
  11. this is hard to take seriously with that photo you have given, perhaps if you are worried about thinning hair trying out some of the available proven treatments first before considering surgery. You hair looks fine :confused:
  12. finasteride also brand named by merck as "propecia"
  13. if you not on fin i doubt you will halt ur hair loss at all, it is progressive and the lasers and minox work by helping hair grow not stopping male pattern baldness. Dont think i would ever get a hair transplant if i didnt intend on using fin long term.
  14. probably not a good thing but maybe wait till the end result and go from there. it might or might not be noticeable.
  15. Hey guys was checking out some docters you mentioned and Dr Erdogan from Turkey has some pretty amazing results. Im definately now only planning on getting FUE, i had no idea some surgeons were getting such a good yield from FUE. I would be more than willing to throw a few more thousand and go with him knowing that he is recommended (even know its fairly recent) by this forum, my plan would be for a mature hair line nothing ridiculous. And talk with the doc about getting another one in say 5 years if my hair has worsened or maybe not depending on my hair loss at that time. If it was to stay the same in 5 years i think id be happy with just one good procedure. That being said my hair has definitely been stabilized for some time, even with my hair now a bit longer i wouldnt get more than 2-3 hairs on my hands when washing my hair. Nor do i notice any shedding, hair fall. My brother exactly 2 years older than me, has been on meds (fin,minox and saw palmetto) since 20 and has managed to keep his entire hairline (would be a norwood 2 max with even recession) and only very light thinning on the crown (a normal person would not pick this up only us follicle challenged would spot it lol). He started loosing his about 19 and has pretty much kept it all, mind you he actually got some back from the meds his hair was worse off at 19.
  16. thanks for the reply guys i am definitely not looking for a low hairline like an 18 year old lol. But just something that is somewhat symmetrical and maybe style able well that would be good anyway. Yeh im really starting to think FUE aswell, its just really annoying as what happens if my hair stays the same for another 10 years and i can never do anything because of how bad the hairline is, does anyone know what sort of graft count i would be looking at to maybe fix up the front
  17. Hey guys so a bit of a background 26 year old aussie guy who has been balding/receding since the ripe age of 17. First started noticing my hairline was receding in year 11 ' at just 17, i was devastated i remember doing exams and i was noticing so much hair landing from my head onto the papers it was really frustrating and embarrassing. At the age of 19 both my mum and girlfriend had commented on my crown area creating a bald spot, this was really depressing at the time lol. And i thought i would hopefully just be a receeder but got lucky and had crown loss aswell. From the age of 18 i went into one of the ashley and martin centers knowing very little about my condition and was prepared to fork over any amount to have my hair back. After about 6 months i gave up i didnt notice any change (growth) and felt i was doomed, over the course of the next few years up until i was about 22-23 i tried everything from every snake oil to all the different minixodils, to procerin and revivogen etc.. etc... but nothing worked, then i found hairlosstalk and started researching everything possible. Since about 22-23 ive been on fincar cut into quarters bought from inhousepharmacy and also ive been on minoxidil was originally on kirkland but recently (last 12 months) have been using lipogaine which i personally love, dries in 10 minutes and actually gives me the illusion of thicker hair once dried unlike typical minoxidil which had the opposite effect. Ive been using these religiously and well i must say im pretty pleased, without these drugs i would probably be a norwood IV and havent really noticed much hair loss in general for a few years now which is great. Now i havent been able to style my hair properly since i was 17 especially cause i didnt recede evenly and my hairline is quite shocking to say the least, and over the course of 9 years it might of moved only an inch or so, and the crown has pretty much slowly thinned but i think has come to a halt aswell. If i use a touch of toppik you wouldnt pick any crown loss, so im now contemplating a hair transplant, ive actually been wanting one for nearly 4 years but i knew i was to young and it was to early for such a drastic thing. I mainly just want to get the frontal zone/hairline done and then maybe in a few more years get the crown done, i know i wont have the hair i used to have when i was really young but it would be nice to be able to style my hair without feeling like an idiot, i feel losing my hair at a young age has definitely robbed me of my youth. I used to feel very depressed about my hair loss but have come to terms without in the recent years and it doesnt bother me like it used to at the end of the day it really is just hair, and it has never stopped me from getting girls or held me back at all, except for the times you have to apply minixidil in a rush lol. Now after reading so many of the great peoples post and seeing some amazing results i now feel i would like to do something for myself, im in 2 minds whether i go for a FUE or FUT and also where to get it done, ultimately i would love to get a cheap FUE in india off say someone like Dr Bhatti but i dont want to waste precious grafts seeing as so many people say FUE doesnt yield the same results being a blind harvest with the punch, i will be travelling to thailand in november for a month and i also looked into Dr Path (coalition recommended doctor) and his work looks really good but am also scared that the FUT scar might stretch or be noticeable and i can never have my hair short again , but i really like the idea of say taking 3000 grafts and not having thin hair in the donor as it is stapled up. Also Dr Pongs clinic in thailand is ridiculously affordable, and his website patient gallery looks great also. So my questions are how many grafts do people think i will need to fix up my front region, so far it just seems like hairline recession my vertex seems stable.? Do people think FUE or FUT is better from someone like me? Doctors, Doctors, Doctors anyone had recent surgery and had success? Here are some pictures of me today with longish hair in the crown photos i have spiked my hair to reveal the bald spot, if my hair is combed it is undetectable. And some photos of me about 2 years ago, And this last picutre is me on my 20th birthday looking at it now makes me realize how good my hair is now compared to nearly 7 years ago. As i said my hairline started receding at 17!! Wasnt on any meds at the time. Both my mothers father is bald nw7 but he is 90 so hard to tell anything from that, and my father is between a norwood 5 and 6, has a little bit of fluff on top (so its not slick shiny bald) with really high sides and good donor area he is 75 in 3 days. Ill be 27 in september. Thanks for your help guys.
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