optimist800

Plenty. Did you google it?!

My hair's healthier on raw vegetables, especially leafy greens like kale.

Hi,

does anyone get a sensation of "burning scalp"?

It definitely gets worse for me if my diet isn't very good (sugar, wheat, alcohol).

Not only that, but if I do drink alcohol, my hair is so thin the next day I feel like shaving the lot off.

Thanks for any replies.

Optimist800.

Thanks for the clarification.

Hi Betterlate.

Am enjoying reading about your progress. The hair is coming along really well and still more to come.

Looks great. How about the crown?

Hi Lucky6.

It's progressing well. Did you really not have much redness for very long? After 10 days you'd hardly know that you'd had hair surgery.

It's very encouraging as I'm thinking of getting mine done and Turkey seems to have some of the best HT doctors.

Apparently, some people don't get over the side effects of Propecia. I don't want to be part of that 3%. It's just hair, after all.

Well done, Megasesh. From what I've seen of their work you're going to get a great result.

Did they say you'd one day need another session or should this be the first and last?

I think it's only fair you at least give us a hint of why you had "very strong thoughts" deserves to be elaborated.

After all, there are people about to spend a lot of money on getting a transplant who will now have doubts.

The post-op photo looks very good.

You're already there. Maybe been and gone but here's my advice for anyone else.

* Ear plugs in case it's noisy outside the hotel.

* Or if you have an Android phone, download Relax and Sleep (free). Which is a great sound-blocking app I use all the time.

And please tell us how it went as it's nearly a week ago...

Hi Mino,

I've just bought some. Surely the most expensive bar of soap in the world but I've read a lot of good things about it. Time will tell..

What's your diet like? I really think an anti-inflammatory diet slows down hair loss and makes what you have look a lot better.

The process that makes hair fall out is an inflammatory one. If I have alcohol, sugar or wheat I get a sore scalp.

After a night's drinking some of my hair falls out the next day.

I recently bought a Nutribullet and am having smoothies every day. I recommend juicing and blending.

I haven't gone on any medication and would rather not as my hair loss is mild and diffuse like yours.

How's the back looking?

Hi all.

Thanks to everyone who contributes to this very useful forum.

I'm male, 44. I have moderate diffuse hair loss on top and at the crown. It's got to the stage where I'm considering an FUE HT.

I was thinking of combining the HT with a long holiday so that when I go back nobody will know I had it done!

Would 3 weeks be enough, assuming FUE? A little bit of redness I could put down to sunburn or a phantom skin condition but I really don't want anyone knowing. Would the hair have grown enough?

My other question is about shock loss. Does it always happen and would it be a giveaway that I'd had a HT, even a few weeks afterwards?

Thanks,

Ed.

Hi everyone

I've been lurking here a while. I think it's the best resource by far for people thinking about a HT.

Anyway,

I'm 44 and starting noticing hair loss at 36. I've always had thin hair especially at the crown and at 36 it started showing down the middle.

Now here are what I think are the interesting observations.

My hair seems to subtly change condition according to what I eat; so much so that people comment on it.

* If I drink vegetable juice my hair gets darker and the greys subside. Seriously, my hair gets less grey at the sides. This seems to happen within a day or so.

* If I drink fizzy drinks, caffeine, alcohol or eat anything with too much sugar in it, or the very worst of all, anything with WHEAT (or any thing with GLUTEN) in it, my hair looks thin and grey for several days.

* But... if I have a daily WHEATGRASS powder drink, my hair really thanks me for it and within a day or so looks a lot better.

Also, scalp massage really seems to help. It doesn't seem to work so well using my fingers but with a scalp massage like this youtube.com/watch?v=dJ2ZRGA4mqQ

Sorry if this is the wrong forum but I don't think it applies to the herbal remedies forum and I want a lot of people to read it if it helps or they can at least agree!

Thanks,

optimist800