matt3480

Sadly I did not get bloodwork done before I started. I swear a lot of this started when I stopped creatine several years ago (probably 3 years ago once I saw that rugby study regarding test and creatine). Maybe stopping that lowered my T enough that I started feeling it more. It's just so hard to say....this all could be purely coincidental. Of course, my doc wants me to just stop it altogether for 6 months and see how I feel......and doesn't want to do T bloodwork until then. I just feel saying "stop it for 6 months and see how you are" is what any doctor would first say....I just don't know that I need to be that extreme right off the bat. I see the M, W, F schedule mentioned....has there been any good research or threads from people doing this?

Hey guys! Haven't posted here in a couple years...hope everyone has been well. At this point, I feel I need to reduce my fin dose. I started 0.50 mg per day back in January 2015 before I had my first HT with Dr. Konior (I was 35 at the time). Everything was fine the first few years...I did notice some sexual side effects but that's it...and they were mild. However, I've had a real issue with brain fog the last few years and recently just low energy. Quite honestly, the brain fog has been the worst of all. I just don't think I want to deal with that anymore. I want to try to dose down and see if it solves a lot of the issues first. What is more effective? 0.25mg per day or 0.50mg every other day?

Yep, exactly......I can tell Baldrick has had FUE because I know what a recipient looks like after also having it done. However, to any other person, no one would ever know. Very glad I went with FUE and not FUT.

Do you have naturally fine hair? If so, this might be why. I have very fine hair myself. When my HT started to grow in.....it was growing in much coarser than the rest of my native hair. That was great because the more coarse a hair is....the more it covers, the more density it gives. However, as my HT matured after maybe a year.....those coarse hairs turned into my normal fine hairs that are on the rest of my head. Unfortunately, this robs you of a bit of the density and coverage that you originally had after, say, 6-9 months. Nothing you can do....this is just normal fine hair problems that every one has. This is why someone who gets a HT where their normal hair is already coarse would never notice a change like this (because even when the transplanted hair matures after a year.....it still still be coarse since the rest of that person's hair was already coarse before their HT).

Looks fine to me. Very common to have some shock loss in donor for several months after. I had the same and it all grew back by month 4 or so. I feel the trauma of the surgery just screws with the remaining donor sometimes and causes some hairs to stop growing as quickly or even altogether for a few months. They do resume growing eventually. That isn’t pitting in your other pics, either. I got scared about that same pocked appearance after my first HT because I hadn’t noticed it in other peoples’ pics. I soon realized, as you said, that it’s impossible to pick up the surface in such detail unless you get the right lighting and angle....which 99.9 percent of people who take update pics don’t capture. I then went back and looked at peoples’ update pics who took really up close pics and noticed they all had this pocked appearance after all. It looks knarly (especially if you had no hair there before) for several months but my skin is 100 percent healed and completely normal in these areas now (which it doesn’t matter as my transplanted hair covers it now). The pitted and shiny skin was definitely my biggest fear at first because I simply didn’t know that was normal due to everyone else’s pictures not picking this up. Skin takes a long time to heal....like a year.

Looks great as usual, Doc!

You both are....no one cares about shi**y Turkey. Come on now...

That would make sense then.....last thing you want to do is get that initial Fin shed right around when you get your HT (2-3 months after you start Fin).....and then stopping it 2-3 months after your HT and probably getting another shed from shedding. Your net gain from the HT might not be very good with 2 large sheds from the Fin and any weak hair being knocked out. When I first started fin, it was about 3 months before my first HT.....I don't think I had much of a shed, but I've stayed on it in the 4 years since.

Yep looks good.....diminishing returns to get another.

Matt, looking real good, bud!

I've never heard this in my life.....no clue what he is talking about. My only guess is he is talking about people who maybe want to start taking it a few weeks before surgery and then plan on stopping it after. That I would not recommend.

My God, Melvin....ban this guy.

I would have listened to other posters on this forum who actually have done this instead of thinking you were a know-it-all and that you knew some secret that others didn't know. As such, you get what you pay for and, at the same time, no one really wants to deal with your posts.

You are.....possibly the biggest I've ever seen on this site (and that says something). You have issues, dude.

Don’t feed the troll guys.

Gee imagine that...you said you didn’t grow at all and now after looking at pics (pics you refused to post because you were so insistant they showed no growth) you have decided you grew a lot in the front. Been on this site 4 years....haven’t met many like you. You are definitely a special kind.

MY GOD. Why won't mods ban this guy? Was he not already banned under BrahmaBro...I mean Bull.

The physiology of a HT has little to nothing to do with your current hair growing or even your overall health. No different than someone who undergoes general surgery that is perfectly healthy and has no allergies and then has some sort of reaction to the anesthesia out of nowhere. Wong has been regarded as one of the best.....he just isn't a doctor whose transplants don't grow. Reading some of your old posts....it seems you used to wear a turban. I would have to think that have been an issue....meaning, did the traction from the turban cause lots of scar tissue underneath your scalp? Or did you start wearing a turban too quickly after your surgeries?

So you’ve had 2 bad results and one was with Wong? That’s physiology, not doctor error. Not sure why you went ahead with a second transplant after your first with Wong didn’t grow. You should have instead been looking for reasons why the first didn’t grow because it was obviously pointing to physiology.

Didn't think he would reply. I wish mods would block this clown.

Seriously trying to help here because this thread is getting to be a joke and mods should consider blocking you or locking this thread otherwise. Post good pics! This means pre op, right after placement and good pics from now. Your doctor should have these at the very lease. Email him and get them. No one here cares about how you feel you have grown to this point. It’s not relevant. Your pics will tell us how much you have or have not grown to this point. Although it won’t be your final result because it’s only 6 months.....if indeed it shows you haven’t grown at all...this would definitely be concerning and something Keller needs to explain. Do not reply back with excuses or argue. Just post pics so we can assess. Also, are you on Fin? If not, legit chance you are growing from the HT but lost a ton of hair from shock loss and the end result is little overall gain from before surgery. I know some do it....but you won’t see great results from someone who has a HT but isn’t on fin. They may very well see an improvement but it won’t be a home run.

Guy has some COARSE hair....perfect characteristics for a great result.

Huh? What are you talking about? Again, your pics (of you) shows you have hair in the midsection and front and less in the crown. If you grew you hair 3-4 inches and combed it back, you WOULD LOOK THE SAME RIGHT NOW as that guy with the "amazing density". However, as you know, the reality is you are not that dense back there.....but you can make yourself look that dense which is what that pic in the blue did. HENCE, WHY WE CALL IT AN ILLUSION OF DENSITY. It looks thick to others but it's not really that thick! However, who cares! All that matters is the illusion! If you can get the illusion of density, you have won! You don't know how to evaluate pics.

Your pic here? You are going to look thin because you are at your bathroom counter and 99.99% likely have overhead lights which are NOT flattering. Go take a pic tomorrow if it's cloudy out in a room with just plain natural light....I bet you look like you have a full head of hair back there.

This guy? He got a little more density on top, grew it out A LOT and basically has a birds nest on top. I bet he looks silly from the front. No one would ever do their hair like that from day to day because it would legit be a birds nest....but because it's probably 3-5 inches on top he can cover his entire scalp. In reality, he likely looks silly with his hair style.