There's no effect on my health, but life is a lot better with the meds. Without them it's difficult to get anything done at work, you don't get round to paying bills and stuff like that, it's harder to get on with people, you lose things... I wouldn't lose my job or my friends or anything but I would go through kind of a bad patch.
I guess another way to come at it is, at what point can you treat transplanted hair like regular hair? I'm not sure whether this is when the scabs have healed, when it has been shed naturally, when it has come back, or what.
I appreciate Bill's concern but can I restate that there is no effect on my health and the prescribing physician is fine with me stopping for a period.