LonelyGraft

@Melvin-Moderator’s long lost twin? this looks great for 1800 grafts. I think you got good yield too.

Too many better options nearby in Europe (Belgium, Spain, Sweden) to even consider UK for a hair transplant. It will even be cheaper as well

This looks great. How old are you?

Even tho the rep, if it’s the same guy from Italy, is a total jackass, he may have a point. If you’re claiming u had significant growth from minoxidil and u were off of it for 6 weeks it may very well be a shed caused by that. Minoxidil is a growth stimulant and it forces hairs to enter the anagen phase and artificially stay in it longer. If u take it away, especially for extended periods, it can potentially cause a shed as those hairs enter their own programmed cycles. 4 weeks after seems a bit aggressive. However, like said before, all u can do is wait.

And yet you’re the same guy who kept posting for years on forums telling people RU was side effect free. Imagine if those people followed your advice? you always talked crap about minoxidil too, yet now you’re using it 👍🏼

Is this advice even for fue?

If you have an urgent question and need a response I’d reach out to Melvin and he could probably help u.

Didn’t your clinic give you post op instructions mentioning this? Each clinic has their own set of guidelines

The recipient is doing quite well. That’s great that you haven’t lost all your grafts yet. The donor still needs more time to heal and recover. Thanks for documenting this

Still very early days to expect anything. How did u find this doctor?

Lol spex posting undercover. What a huge backfire.

Exactly, you’re purchasing straight up raw powder “research chemicals.” These pills the op is taking have fillers with organic properties that you and I both don’t know much about or how they degrade in various temperatures and settings. Rogaine foam also has lots of components in the vehicle. You Def don’t have a degree in chemistry or pharmacology so I dunno y ur sitting here giving advice on med storage like u know better than the drug companies

Personally I would not go with acar. He runs a Turkish ht mill and I have seen a case of a badly depleted donor here. I think you get what u pay for in this case. Beware

As far as I know he is and has been using his KEEP implanters the whole time?

I can tell you’ve been on the hair loss scene and forums for quite a while (I have too). You make some good points and your post is actually quite refreshing. Even tho this forum is not perfect it’s much more fair than probably any other out there. Of course that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to improve it further.

There was a well known doctor and pharmacologist (dr Peter proctor) that claimed a component of the minoxidil liquid, propylene glycol specifically, is responsible for at least some growth. He referenced some study where minoxidil liquid vs a placebo that just had the vehicle ingredients showed that even the placebo treatment had growth in participants. funny enough the foam doesn’t contain this ingredient

So it made u shed to the point of bare scalp in certain areas?

Maybe knocking some sense into him so he can be cautious and not risk it? what proof do u have that storing fin or min in the fridge is ok? I trust the manufacturer over your anecdotal evidence

Again, it’s not about tools. You have a certain number of follicular units in your safe donor area. Depending on hair characteristics and density you can take 40-60% if those grafts on average without it looking too depleted. There’s absolutely no way he can do this for an average patient. I don’t care what the tool is or if he’s using a punch so small that he’s only taking skeletonized grafts. if his tool was this amazing he would be selling that and making a killing, not doing hair transplants for a living. Umar tried selling his punch systems and i have heard of no surgeon that uses it yet many use the waw, Cole, and Harris systems.

Something is off. Why can pioneers in the industry not get nearly this many grafts yet this random dude from Bulgaria That’s Been doing hts for 10 years or less have the magic bullet? I remember umar gained his reputation around 2007-2008 like this but his 15 minutes r fame r long gone.

Hair transplants are simply a case of supply and demand. He’s showing patients with 12 and 13k Grafts With fue which is unheard of. There are rarely patients that have more than 10k grafts doing both fut+fue. There is no magic punch system that can get patients to those high graft numbers without being SEVERELY depleted. Your hair density and characteristics play a huge role in the available donor supply and results. Something just doesn’t add up. Second, there is no other explanation in either link on why he is able to reach those high graft numbers. secondly, vacuum pressure in no way can be good for fue grafts. The grafts already see lots of stresses from torsion and compression, adding another stress from the traction of vacuum pressure just can’t be good.

I’d follow what the label says (they did develop the drug after all), not what a random forum bro tells you

Eh....holding asmed in the same conversation as hlc is comical to me at this point, especially since they’re the same price. Turkey is full of Syrian refugees and young people looking for work so clinics have unlimited supply of techs they can hire. Yet hlc still chooses for all work to be performed by a doctor using the most labor intensive methods (manual fue and stick & place). This speaks volumes to me. with the amount of bad results and complaints from asmed, it’s straight up playing Russian roulette (imo of course). There’s a reason they were removed from here

Bad results r one thing but dishonest and unethical behavior is entirely something else. pekiners clinic and advisor did shady things on this forum and have patients censored on others. The patient advisor tried to do the same here but was promptly told to go pound sand by the management which was a great move. I understand Melvin’s frustration Bc dealing with piece of shit ppl like the advisor can get quite tiresome