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On 5/26/2024 at 12:54 PM, tacale said:

I thought the big deal with FUT is that in older years when all the hair goes, the scar will be visible and look bad.

I guess also it can be harder to find the right doctor for it, and it needs to be one with experience performing FUT which not many do too much these days

If an FUT is done right there wont be any scar visible, and there are plenty of doctors who are good at doing FUT's.

Just stick with doctors recommended through this forum

On 5/24/2024 at 5:33 PM, tacale said:

Thanks for responding and raising my hope. I thought this would be considered thin. 
FUT first, because of the logic that FUT + FUE yields more total grafts?

FUT is also cheaper and takes less time to perform than FUE,

Recovery time is a bit longer though, but its not really a big deal

You got tons of donor hair.

I would go with a FUT first

Thats not even close to 4,000 grafts. I'd say closer to 1,500-2,000 grafts.

They also dont look like they implanted properly.

My advice is try to get your money back and go to a reputable for a 2nd HT

I would wait 15 months. 

New hair can still sprout up around the 12 month and can take a few more months to mature

Here are the spots where I grew the most hairs

4 hours ago, Gatsby said:

I think two and a half months is too early. Give it six months and compare your baseline pic to a six month pic. Better yet you could consider oral minoxidil. It goes systemic by passing through the liver and is a lot less messy and easier to comply with. All the best. 

I tried oral MX but side-effects were too much.  I had to abandon the project

4 hours ago, Shadman said:

Very difficult to tell, because Different lighting conditions. But for any medications you need to give at least 8-10 months to see how it responds

I will post updates every 3 months.  I still have another 9 months of growing left to do.

The new MX hairs seem to come through thicker and stronger.

So far I'm very pleased with the results

So I'm in my 3rd month of using minoxidil plus tretinoin (which is a form of retinol).

Its supposed to grow more hair than MX alone.

In the last 2.5 months I've grown a few hundred hairs, mostly around the crown.

My question is can you guys tell, or is there not much difference??

Those are the same symptoms I got.  Dizziness (especially right before going to sleep).

And also weight gain and puffiness.

I too had to stop.

I was only on it for about 3 weeks though

1 hour ago, GoliGoliGoli said:

My personal experience with topical: It works pretty darn well to grow hair. However I did notice that it made my face more bloated and also seemed to have increased the dark circles under my eyes. I've always had dark circles but minoxidil did seem to make them worse. The face bloat seems to go away pretty quickly, and the dark circles do improve after being off for about a week but only slightly. 

Most concerning: I'm 95% sure it started making my eye/eye area twitch pretty excessively. This only started about 1.5 years into using it. And yes I'm fairly certain it was the minoxidil and not lack of sleep or magnesium deficiency or something

I read somewhere its the propylene glycol that can cause dark circles under some peoples eyes, not so much the MX.

Not sure if thats true though

10 hours ago, aykay7 said:

Okay great, thank you for the info. Have you noticed a better result from oral vs topical?

I wasnt on oral MX long enough to see any results, so I cannot compare.

Topical MX works great for me, I actually grew some hair and I want to keep it

On 3/9/2024 at 1:08 PM, aykay7 said:

I'm now considering stopping the pills and taking topical Romaine 5% instead. Does anyone have experience with this? Is it okay to just make a switch like that? Any experiences to share? Thanks in advance

You can get 5% Kirkland MX for dirt cheap on Ebay

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2499334.m570.l1311&_nkw=kirkland+minoxidil&_sacat=0

Should be fine swtching.  I did it and had no issues.

Topical has very little side-effects for most people.

You can buy cheap Kirkland generic on Ebay, works just as good as Rogaine.

No risk when you stop

On 3/4/2024 at 4:33 PM, Eli_Avdikian said:

I don't think oral minoxidil causes weight gain. I personnally have been on it for a year and I didn't notice any weight gain. 

Everyone reacts to this drug differently.

Some people gain weight, others dont

14 hours ago, aykay7 said:

😢😢

when you were on it, did you feel it was easier to gain and harder to lose weight?

since going off, you're back to normal? have you felt a big difference?

Within just a few days after stopping oral MX my weight went back to normal.

I noticed it especially in my face. Thats where my bloating was the worst

Yup, it causes bloating.

Thats why I had to stop it

Thats not DUPA

18 hours ago, Melvin- Admin said:

I don’t understand how a man almost 80 years old wants to have a teenage hairline. It looks ridiculous

Because whats the alternative??  Have no hair at all??

If I were a Norwood 7 or 8, and the only option was a hairpiece I would pick that.

There are no other alternatives that I can think of

Looking at this video I definitely have to agree with others that its a hair piece

1 hour ago, Sunset Dune said:

Azizim don’t go to Bosley unless you want to be scarred for life 

And not just physically, but mentally as well

9 hours ago, gillenator said:

IMHO, Sly currently wears high end top quality hair systems…I have to state “it’s my opinion” otherwise I could potentially be sued…in my opinion I know the doctor who did his initial procedures better than 2 decades ago (micro and mini grafts) and again, “in my opinion”, the results were not any good.

But if its a piece then why did the clinic not cover the back?? Seems strange to me.

Also his donor hair in the back looks depleted

Gillenator for mod??

I heard Dr. Bernstein is (or was) one of the best, but I dont know if thats still true since it looks like he's moved on to Artas:

https://www.bernsteinmedical.com/

He looks to be about a Norwood 7, so I think he got a good result