Dutchie

Its not dumb at all, Trans. For me my hairgrowth seems to come in sections as well.

It's like each follicle has a little mind of its own

My doctor wanted to put me on Lorazepam, that's how bad my anxiety was getting :eek:

For me it gives me a lot of anxiety and depression. The anxiety was bad enough during a recent shed that I was losing sleep and just feeling super wiped out after a few weeks, and ended up getting sick with an infection. I am convinced the infection happened because the anxiety wore down my immune system. I've had spells in the past from other big stressors where I went through long bouts of very high anxiety (weeks, sometimes months) and at the end of those spells I always get sick, usually some kind of bacterial infection or similar.

 

In general, the hair loss just makes me feel ugly. I hate the way it looks. I'm a musician and have had long black hair my whole life, and now my part is widening visibly and the front is sparse, and I can feel in general it's just less dense. I notice people checking it out whenever they're talking to me up close, I know how it glares when I'm in the sun or bright light. It just makes me feel insecure and ugly. I really don't like wearing hats, and based on my features and head shape/size, I don't think I would look good shaved, and really don't want to try it out.

 

If I were able to stop my loss now with meds, then I'd still have a decent head of hair left, and 1 medium sized HT would help fix the problem areas. But the only thing that really seems to work is propecia, and I can't seem to get off the fence on it. I'm 'this close' to trying it, but when I read some side effect stories, I just feel the risk is too big. Also, I feel like there may be long term effects we don't know yet if you mess with your hormones daily for years on end. But, I also know a lot of guys take it for years and are generally ok.

 

I don't know. I keep trying to get myself to just accept my hair loss and not make such a thing of it, but I can't help it, it makes me feel like shit when talking to a girl and I see her eyes constantly ricocheting up to my thinning hairline. And just the thought of being a bald guy just depresses the crap out of me. I really wish I didn't care, and could just be zen about it. But as of yet, it bothers me to the point of depression and obsession, and I'm not sure how to handle it

Baron, you are GOING EXACTLY THROUGH what every balding guy is going through!!!!

Going bald sucks 6 ways till sunday, and there's probably something left for monday.

Going bald has taught me some very deep lessons, not only aboot women, but also very much aboot myself.

It has taught me we live in a very shallow society.

And whats worse, I'm probably more shallow then the next person.

That was the most depressing thing I learned aboot myself, when I had to face the fact I was just as shallow as the next person.

Kinda makes you wonder if "love" is really just an illusion based on appearance

not yet ,my hair hasn't started turning grey/white yet, so black toppik works perfectly. I was just curious how it would look like when I start getting older,

I sometimes will also mix colors. Start off with a little brown Toppik, and then add grey xfusion..

And then I remind myself how pathetic this hair concealment all is....LOL

Did you use white Toppik?

I use Xfusion grey fibers. Suits my hair color perfectly

https://www.amazon.com/X-Fusion-Hair-Fibers-Grey-gram/dp/B002Q803VK

I got my first smile from a girl who pulled up beside my car at a red light yesterday. That hasnt happened to me in at least 5 years or so. I'm positively thrilled about that!!!

I had a bit of toppik on my head though, so I cheated a little. But I'll take it

Alunda,

 

It starts growing around 3 months. When the hairs first grow in, they are very fine, thin, "wispy," and somewhat colorless

I would also add you can barely see these hairs. You have to look very carefully at your scalp to spot them

Transhair, you can (and probably) will still grow a lot more hair. I wouldnt freak out.

Check out this guy. At 0:25 he's at 6 months and his result looks terrible.

Then look at 0:30 which is after 1 full year and its a huge transformation:

I think this is a heck of a yield and a successful HT thus far -- that's a large area you covered with under 4000 grafts.

 

Reminds me of the area Dutchie was trying to cover

HUH???? I only had 120 cm2 to cover. You think thats a lot?? :confused:

Excellent result for only 2,500 grafts. Looks like he has the same large forelock as I do, which probable made creation of his hairline so much easier

I would like to take 2000 grafts out of my donor area, and place them into my hairline to archieve 100% undetecable look.

 

As you can see, my donor is not thick, what I want to do is actually taking 2000-2500 grafts via FUE (I don't care about the scars or anything, I just want to transfer from the back to my hairline, my question is, Does it's possible to do this kind of surgery? again - i do not care about scars, I'm norwood 7 for over 25 years and the entire time I wore full cap which means I'm not planning to stop in the future

I would say its definitely possible, and I have heard of rare cases of people doing this. The only problem is will you be able to match your natural transplanted hair with the hair from the wig perfectly??

If you have straight black hair it might be easy, but if you have dirty blond hair or partial grey hair, and on top of that you have wavy or curly hair, it will be very difficult to get a natural looking match.

Just my 2 cents worth

That is indeed very nice of dr. Mohebi.

One thing I learned in life is every negative event has a positive event attached to it, you just have to look for it.

They call this the Principle of Polarity: https://www.google.ca/webhp?as_q=&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=#as_qdr=all&q=principle+of+polarity

I dont know what Sanjar paid the Colorado clinic, but I'm guessing its a lot less than what he wouldve paid dr. Mohebi.

So in the end Sanjar comes out ahead financially, and dr. Mohebi just received a phenomenal reputation

Okay, so this might be a stupid question so please bear with me.

If someone has an FUT transplant from one of the reputable surgeons that this forum recommends, what percentage grafts on average will survive the transplant, take hold and grow a healthy terminal hair??

Lets assume a patient had a 5,000 FUT transplant, and that patient took care of his scalp afterwards and didnt pull out any grafts. Would the amount of grafts that take and grow a hair be 100%?? Or would it be 90% or even less than that??

And I know FUE transplants are different, so this question pertains to FUT only

Looking good for 4.5 months. Your hair is just starting to grow now.

Your doctor did an excellent job of not making the hairline too low at your age.

How many grafts do you think you have left in the bank??

And will you be getting a 2nd HT to fill things out??

I wont mince words Don, I dont think its a very good result and I also think you probably couldve gotten a better result had you gone to one of the referred doctors on this forum.

The good news however is you still have 3 months of growing left, and its possible you're just a late bloomer.

A lot can happen in 3 months

Dr. Behnam instructs his patients that they must take vit. K before every HT.

I have also noticed natural vitamin K works better than synthetic K:

pre-operative-instructions-hair transplant | Dr. Behnam

ONE WEEK BEFORE THE PROCEDURE

 

Vitamin K (either 100mcg or 125mcg from wholefoods), 3 tablets, three time a day, starting 4 days before the procedure. This is a total of 3,600 mcg of vitamin K , which is not really a lot. This makes the blood thicker so there is less bleeding. In hospital setting 10,000 mcg is given at once to minimize bleeding, so 3,600 over a 4 day period is not a lot. This prevents bruising. Vitamin K can be purchased from wholefoods or other food stores

Best I can do

Lmao!!!!

Honestly, the thought never once crossed my mind that someone would actually take that picture literally.

 

My bad, I'll go back to my corner now.

 

Keep doing your thing, Doug and H&W

Sarcastic humor doesnt really work well over the internet

Sorry I misunderstood! Thanks for the clarification I have taken the comments down.

 

Dutchie from what I have seen depending on the patient donor and other aspects the number can be as high as 2500 a day. Extractions can take as long as 6-8 hours so yes its a long day but the patient is comfortable throughout the procedure. The last two Italian patients I helped, one received 1800 the first day and the second one received 2500 in one day. I am basing my opinion on what I have seen and Doug may have a different, more accurate number

Is there no way they can knock you out for the whole day with some type of strong sleeping pill??

Who cares about missing lunch, I need to lose a bit of weight anyways....LOL

Try loading with Vitamin K two weeks before surgery, that will GREATLY reduce bleeding because its a blood clotting vitamin.

Dr. Hasson was very impressed by how little I bled during surgery

Amazingly enough not much if any. Based on a recent conversation I had, you could make a case that our FUE may even be higher under certain conditions. With both in the very high 90%, it's nice for a patient with typical donor area characteristics to know that yield should not be a consideration when deciding between FUT and FUE at our clinic

So Doug, you guys right now are doing approximately 1,500 FUE's per day.

Roughly how many hours does it take you do those 1,500 grafts

Well the video seems to suggest that Donald Trumps hair is real, despite how strange it might look.

 

Best wishes,

 

Bill

Yes, definitely real. Its not a wig.

Funny thing is I think Trump might still be a good candidate for FUE or FUT surgery.

A good surgeon could probably fix that whole mess.

As far as I can tell his donor area looks okay

I think Trump also possibly had a scalp reduction done

Here is my 6-month update. New hairgrowth seems to have slowed down a bit, but thats normal as regrowth comes in stages:

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Also here's a frontal view:

I would avoid like the plague.

You get what you pay for