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Marley76

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Country
    United Kingdom
  • State
    AL

Hair Loss Overview

  • Describe Your Hair Loss Pattern
    Thinning Hair Loss All over the Scalp
    Receding Hairline (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 III Vertex
  • 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?
    Yes
  • Current Non-Surgical Treatment Regime
    None

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  1. Just like to say thanks to everyone that contributed and answered this thread. I came here looking for some advice and I've got it. One question - may seem daft - how do you get propecia in the UK, do you need a prescription? I've no doubt there'll be lots of ways to get it online, but I want the real deal. I see places like Belgravia offer it, but surely this will be double the price of sourcing it yourself?
  2. Hi Justwantanswers, I'm considering propecia but also am very cautious about side effects. I reacted very badly to minoxidil. The difference is I've already had a transplant to my temples. Looking back on it, I wished I had waited. The problem I now have is as I recede it's exposing the transplant. So I too am worried about what I should too - and whether I should take propecia. It would be better if I didn't have the transplant being exposed to worry about. I can give you one piece of advice - and it's similar to what pkipling has already said - try to find some way to calm yourself. Anxiety and stress take a terrible toll on the body, including the scalp. Ask yourself some deep questions about yourself, you're afraid. Why? Why does hair loss scare you? When you have the answer to that - ask yourself why you have that answer? Keep going until you boil it down to the basic reason, identify that reason then work on ways to expel the fear. Fear doesn't do anyone any good. I suffer from anxiety, so the hair thing has been driving me nuts, however I managed to calm myself down about it - and you know what? I think it even slowed my hair loss - as stress are known to be factors in hair loss. Once you are calm, and have accepted reality you will be able to make a quality, sensible and realistic decision and you will feel SSSOOOO much better about yourself and life. I suggest taking some time out - see a doctor and get your options sorted. You might consider a lower dose, you might consider a transplant (although at a young age be careful), you might consider both, there are other treatments available - next year there will be stem cell technologies coming on the market, there is PRP - so don't panic. Things to be thankful for: 1) You still have a good amount of hair 2) You have identified a problem and are tackling it 3) You are reaching out here to others who have had the experience, who have great advice 4) There are treatments, so there are options 5) Because you are identifying the problem, you are not just diving straight into getting a transplant, which you may regret down the line So relax, you would be surprised about how little impact your hair loss has or is considered by those around you. Things always seem worse when we view them from a subjective viewpoint. I ordered 500gms of Keemun Chinese black tea and it arrived this morning - reports are it lowers DHT by 72%, so I am going to try that first, it might not work, but it also may work. You see there are always options. So please, don't beat yourself up, treat yourself well, don't stress. With no stress you'll make a quality decision, and once you've made that decision you'll feel better. In years to come you will look back on this period of your life and laugh.
  3. Hi Brooklyn7, how did finasteride work out for you? I've never tried it but am considering it - had you receded before you went on the medication? Any side effects?
  4. Hi Nafta, when I got my small HT done back in 2007, it was just the temples. I had slightly longer hair than you, and I just hid the temples under my hair - it's pretty much still the hair style I have now - after the swelling went down and the scabs had fallen off, which was about 1 week, you couldn't notice it. I remember I got my HT done on a saturday, at Monday I was back in work - I hadn't told anybody about my procedure, so I simply made an excuse that I had had an accident over the weekend and ended up in hospital and they had to stitch my head, so I just wore a ski hat to work - the swelling caused excessive bruising to my face - I looked like a boxer. Nobody ever guessed I had had a hair transplant, most people thought I had been in a fight lol
  5. Thanks for your reply rev333, I tried minoxidil but it heavily increased the anxiety i had and seemed to make my heart beat really fast, I had palpitations so I discontinued use, it was horrible. Are you on propecia? Did you shed a lot and have you seen an improvement?
  6. Yeah there doesn't seem to be many UK clinics, there is another in Manchester asides Farjo, who did footballer Wayne Rooney and some other celebrities here - but you're right he will be expensive. I'm going to do my research thoroughly this time - I might nip over to mainland Europe if I decide to get it done. My only issue with another transplant is if my hair suddenly starts receding quickly again. I would love to go and get some professional advice from an all rounder who's an expert in hair restoration, but I'd like impartial advice and don't want to speak to a salesman - where would be the best place to look for this? Do organizations like this even exist?
  7. Thanks for the advice, yeah I'm researching propecia, are you on it too? Did it cause shedding like minoxidil? Your transplant looks amazing, just had a look at your pics - you must be really happy with it
  8. Ok maybe a bit long winded but nobody's got any suggestions as to what to do next?
  9. Hey Jay 2017, you're like me when I hit 30, in fact your hair looks like mine did pre-op, have a look at the post I put up - make sure and plan ANY work you get done with a view to what it could look like 10 or even 20 years later. Make sure you go to a good surgeon. You might want to hang off on the transplant just now until you can see if there any ways which could keep your hair as is, until you get a handle on how fast your hair is going to recede in future. Have you thought about what happens if and when you start to recede at the crown? I got 600 grafts first time around and they served me great for 10 years, but now they're becoming noticeable to the trained aye, and it's really stressing me out to think I'll recede way more and have to get them extracted or more work done - and I have to keep it all secret. In hindsight I probably would've just shaved my head. If you're cool with all that and have a plan for further loss then go for it - just be sure to thoroughly research first :-)
  10. Hey Sam, in that last pic from 2016 if you passed me in the street I would not be able to tell you've had a hair transplant, I agree with Vermaj, your 4.5 pics look better. What did you decide to do, do you have any updates?
  11. hi everybody, WARNING - LONG POST! hope everybody is doing ok, and managing not to stress about their hair too much. This is my first post - apologies to admin if it's in the wrong place - it contains a bit of everything, so I thought this would be the best section to put it. Apologies also, as it's pretty long, so get a coffee if you're reading it! I'm posting this up, firstly as info and help to those who are wondering about transplants, who wonder what they'll look like in 10 years - I believe this answers an important question which others must think of when making the final decision - especially when work in the temples is concerned - what will it look like a decade down the track? well, I'm your proof - not that bad, not that good, could be better. I am also posting this up to get some advice from other members about what my next step should be. I've attached photos, which i hope others will find interesting. Quick story RE my experience - I am about to hit 41 years old - I noticed I was receding back in 2006 when I was approaching my 30th birthday - I kept tabs on it as it was quite slow, by age 31 and 2007 I noticed it was getting a little worse - so in an already unstable mental state (at the time I didn't realise I suffer from anxiety) I jumped in head first and got a small hair transplant. Probably a stupid move - didn't research properly and was young and gung ho. I think I got around 600 grafts, 300 to each temple - with FUE, and a less than reputable clinic here in the UK. All was fine though, I had long curly hair anyway, the grafts grew in a matter of months, and added with my existing hair to help cover the receding part - the problem disappeared, I relaxed and completely forgot about my hair for a good few years, such a great feeling! Now, I guess it didn't really occur to me that the grafts maybe weren't so dense - this become noticeable around the 2011 mark, as my hair began to recede. At that point I almost took the plunge again and almost got a 2nd hair transplant - but something stopped me - and I decided to wait. Now it's 2017, and you'll see from the photos that my hair, since 2011, has receded again, but not that much, it appears to be going on but appears to have slowed somewhat at the temples (I hope). I do believe it's thinner though. Also concerning is visible thinning and a bald spot beginning at the crown. Last year around June I experimented with minoxidil, however I hated it, it sky rocketed my anxiety and gave me heart palpitations so I discontinued use. So where to go from here? I am thankful I still have a lot of hair up there, probably a lot more than many on this site, I know that. so am aware it's not panic stations just yet - however, this year and at the latest next year I will need to once again address my hair, it's definitely thinning/receding. Budding HT patients take note of this - do you really want to enter into a life long battle? Perhaps it's better to shave it off? Or wait? Who knows. There are only 2 people on this entire planet who know about my hair transplant, it's the only big secret I have. My family doesn't even know, and if anybody within my circle found out, it would be game over for me. My options ten years later in 2017 I've researched, are as follows: 1) Do nothing. Perhaps it might not get any worse, this is my least preferred option, as it will thin out. 2) Look into taking finestaride or something to stem the hair loss - although I'm petrified of the sexual disfunction and shedding aspect 3) Look into future technologies which should be coming onto markets this year and next. Histogen, replicel, PRP (Not new), hair cloning etc - some of you I know will dismiss these straight away, but I am open to them, and like to remain positive 4) Get another hair transplant, this time taking into account future loss, and with a more mature outlook on it. I'm unsure about this - largely based on experience, of what it could look like 10, 20 years down the line, will it leave me with an island of unnatural looking hair? My hair type is very fine, what would the density be like? My hair transplant is small - it could be removed at the moment - but a second transplant I probably couldn't remove - and people would notice it if I tried. 5) Get the grafts out. Buzz cut to a 2 or 3 all over and move on with life and give up. I would do this, but i'm a fighter. I am in two minds about this, plus I like having hair. However I refer people to the following thread: Hair loss, hair transplant and hair restoration advice there's the FUE extraction method, however I reckon electrolysis may be better - I'm aware that with both, multiple sessions may be required. Scarring may be an issue here though - however I don't think I have cobble stoning, the dots you can see are I think because there is more than one hair growing out. any scarring could be addressed with lasers, or another form of cosmetic application. I will have some FUE scarring which I may be able to address with SMP? 6) Use a combination of current methods to preserve and address any loss that require minimal intrusion, and simply wait it out over the next years to see where the industry goes, and what new things become available? So there goes, hope some of you found the time to read this, I hope it was informative to newcomers too. I've attached pics I found of my head 5 months post op (although these are just FB pics) and comparisons between 6 years ago, and what it looks like when I took pics yesterday. I've also attached other ones I took yesterday. Please bear in mind in the comparison pics my hair is cut shorter and it's wetter! thanks everyone, have a nice day!
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