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Jacareca

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About Jacareca

  • Birthday 03/25/1985

Basic Information

  • Gender
    Male
  • Country
    Portugal
  • State
    AL

Hair Loss Overview

  • Describe Your Hair Loss Pattern
    Receding Hairline (Genetic Baldness)
    Thinning on Top only (Genetic Baldness)
    Thinning or Bald Spot in the Crown/Vertex
  • How long have you been losing your hair?
    In the last 10 years
  • Norwood Level if Known
    Norwood IV
  • What Best Describes Your Goals?
    Maintain Existing Hair
    Maintain and Regrow Hair
    Considering Surgical Hair Restoration
    Considering Non-Surgical Treatments
    I'm here for support

Hair Loss Treatments

  • Have you ever had a hair transplant?
    No
  • Current Non-Surgical Treatment Regime
    Propecia (Finasteride)
    Nizoral Shampoo

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  1. Thank you, California! Will definitely check out the website and maybe give Dr bhatti the honor of shortlisting him :cool:
  2. I have more or less the same degree of loss as you. What prices did Erdogan and Bhatti quote you...?
  3. I know, right? Smells fishy. What they state seems revolutionary, yet I can't find anything on these guys, which is suspect to say the least. But the swiss are very strict as far as these matters are concerned, I can't believe they would let them fly with spouting off lies...
  4. Fellas, Has anyone ever heard of the SLC Fendi technique, applied by a private clinic in Switzerland? They make some pretty bold claims - namely, that the procedure only takes a couple of hours, that they can transplant 2 or3 times as much as FUE, and at a survival rate of 95%, as opposed to 75 or so of baseline fue. Also it seems you're good to go after 5 days. Seems too good to be true, so much so in fact Iwanted to run the idea by you guys. They don't put prices on their website - I assume it's so expensive it can make your hair fall off anyway the doctors there are called Adigoni Mahera and Dimitrios Karoutis.
  5. Hi All, Do you know of any reliable (and the keyword here is reliable) website where it is possible to acquire propecia/proscar without prescription? I have been getting my dose from a seller in amazon but some problems arose with customs, since he is from outside the EU. From a seller based on the EU, however no such problem would arise. Thank you!
  6. Thank you Mick50, Indi9, Wantsephirothhair, thisguy1 I am very happy I found this forum and can, at the very least, have someone who will be sympathetic towards my moping as regards this issue apparently I?m stuck with Fina till I die, which is a bummer since I?ve been taking it for the last two years and successfully "held the line" but seem to have developed a somewhat mild depression while at it. Also, in the last 4 months I?ve been having supply problems and my Hair loss came back full force, even though I also use Minoxidil /Spectral DNC. They strongly advised me against Fina in a clinic here in Portugal but they seemed too eager to sell me a HT, which made me wait and get more info. Good decision in hindsight. I will definitely do mine abroad, since I?ll be moving out to another country in a year?s time, and somehow psychologically it?s more comfortable to do it in a place where noone knows you and you can have a fresh start... Also, thisguy1, I wonder why do those clinics you mention in Turkey actually have a doctor, if he?s there just to sketch the hairline, something I could do myself. Maybe they just do it to have the power of authority...?
  7. Thank you very much for your replies. I got a bit disheartened especially with the having to use meds for the rest of your life but I prefer having the cards on the table than clinic talk, where they seem to sugarcoat everything...
  8. Greetings my follicular fight friends, forum followers. Long rant and some questions follow, so please be patient I have been around here for some time now, reading, learning...lurking If you are reading this, chances are you hate your predicament as much as I do, and I don't have to tell you how much it sucks to be bald, especially at age 30, when you're still on top of your game. So I'll just skip that part and introduce myself. 30 year old male from Portugal, been balding for around 8 years now, during which I made the painful trip from a NW0 to a full blown NW 4.(like a thinner Varoufakis) You'll recognize the pattern, I'm sure: first, wish the problem away, then the undue placing of hope on the min/fin/niz combo, then the part when you realize you don't know what you hate more:the fact you're balding or the fact you have to do something about it. We are complex beings and sometimes just have to do things or we'll be stuck forever in indecision. Hence I've decided to take the plunge in a not too distant future. Of course, given the magnitude of this decision, there are some things I'd like to know, which is the reason I turn to your collective wisdom for some first-hand enlightenment. Some of the answers to these questions may be in the forum in dispersed form, others I'm not sure about... 1) Why does it seem as though HT clinics are a dime a dozen in Turkey, yet places from Germany, France etc are hardly represented on this website? Even here in Portugal there are about 4 places, one of which operates on our pseudo-famous and their prices are competitive wrt the turkish clinics. BTWI haveno problem with Turkey, but some of their clinics have suspiciously low prices, plus the latest goings-on, coupled with the fact that you have a lot of security checks and have to walk around with a swollen, red head like a tomato is not appealing at all. 2) The threads seem to be focussed by more than 95% on FUT (now outdated) and FUE. What about other procedures? E.g I know of a clinic in Switzerland that uses something called FENDI. It seems quite revolutionary if it lives up to their propaganda (but then I guess it's always like this when you blow your own horn...) anyone heard about that? And more generally why do other approaches receive so little attention? 3) time off after a fue if you are a gym goer. Say you do weightlifting and your objective is to minimize the loss of gainz. How long away from the gym ? And what is the risk? 4) Blood tests. Apparently it's standard procedure to submit one before your surgery. According to your experience, do most places do those in-clinic? It doesn't seem very practical to do a test in your home country and then takeit with you due to differences in requirements, language, and so on. 5) wearing a cap. How long do you have to wear a cap in public until you look normal again? And conversely, does not wearing a hat damage your recovery? 6) if you still have some hair (say you held the line with fina) do they work around it? If so, then of course the rest of your hair will miniaturize and you'll be kept with only the transplanted hair...what then? Do you need to bite the bullet and accept you need another procedure? Of course money and donor area limits are issues... 7) how painful is the anaesthesia?
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