Rolandas

2 hours ago, gobby said:

@Rolandas Good to see one of your vids has now achieved 1M views! - Hopefully you will grace us with an update to celebrate (..and after teasing us last year that you’ll be back soon!).

I just wanted to say a big thank you to you @Rolandas for your great videos and content. After years of pondering and anxiety around getting my hair fixed it was your videos that go me over the line.

Like you, I had my first surgery with Dr. Bruno Ferreira last year and I’m back again in May this year for a second. I’m very happy with the progress so far.

Also thanks to @Melvin- Admin and all the administrators of these forums for their input, content and videos - these resources are invaluable to anyone suffering hair-loss and in search for a safe outcome.

Thanks man. I'm glad my input has been useful!

What date you have your surgery on? I might/might not be in Porto at the end of May

Hey guys, just wanted to chime in to say - I'm fine!

I do not have any side effects from meds @Mike10. And thank you very much for your remarks. I'm doing my best! 😅

Thankfully everything is absolutely perfect with my transplant and no, Norwood reaper won't win this fight @follically challenged! I've got absolutely no seconds thoughts about my hair anymore for the last year or so, so yeah, I'm kind of "moved on".

Truthfully im sort of "burnout" from YouTube. Creating 1 video takes anywhere from 5 to 20 hours of my free time. And since there is absolutely no incentive doing videos, I've decided to take a break and focus on other aspects of my life.

That being said, I do plan on coming back very soon.

29 minutes ago, PutTheFolliclesInTheBag said:

Absolutely insane, not to jinx it but this might just end up becoming Ferreira's magnum opus 👀😅

How dare you

3 hours ago, alopeciaphobia said:

Even if the donor would partially regenerate, and you would therefore technically create extra hairs, we don't know if that hair will grow back in a more and more miniaturized way after every extraction, and therefore would may not be infinitely repeatable.

 

Though there are many exciting ideas to explore, e.g., perhaps if one extracts from one half of the donor area into another half of the donor area, and vice versa in a next surgery a year later, maybe that would effectively cultivating more donor hairs? Or perhaps, in patients who are already on a 5AR inhibitor, if one fully extracts miniaturized follicles in balded areas, then inject those sites with a certain dose of verteporfin, maybe more healthy hairs grow back from scratch due to being in a low-DHT environment from day 1?

This is the type of questions I've been asking myself since seeing this study.

How else we can use it (it it works) besides typical fue.

Also I wonder whether the newly regrown hair (if it works) will be also dht resistant.

My suggestion - do not change anything.

Funny enough, I just filmed a video on the topic of transplanted hair shedding after a year or so.

If you're worried about shedding of native hair while being on finasteride - don't, at least not now. Shedding is a part of a normal hair growth cycle. You probably didn't have one for some time. Hair won't be growing forever.

Check out this video 

1 hour ago, sukh123 said:

Your YouTube is the best , congrats on 10k it’s  well deserved 

Thanks man! Much appreciated!

Let's go!

10 minutes ago, Gramatik said:

I have watched many videos of you. So thats why i have seen your promotion to your doctor. Your doctor owes you lot for: 1) his popularity, 2) for increasing his prices, 3) for been reccomended by various members without many independed cases published, but just a few (!!!). I know that would never admit that you have a profit by doing that promotion to your doctor. Thats my personal opinion and i do not try to convince anyone about that. Eveyone can think about that if it can be true or not. Best of luck to you too.

You have a very skewed idea of what "promotion" means. Yes, he got popular because of me (more likely than not), but I do not get any kickbacks for this.

This video will be educational for you as I'm going through my research, reasons and my budgets.

27 minutes ago, Gramatik said:

You are doing a lot of promotion to your doctor and your doctor owes you a lot for his popularity. Everyone knows that. When someone is doing so much promotion to a doctor, means that either he didn't pay for his hair transplant (probably the second one), or he got a big discount or he get paid to promote him on his videos. Guess in which of these 3 you belong.

Man, you're putting me into your narrow view and trying to convince me of something I'm not lol... "you're doing a lot of promotion for him" - literally not true. I can bet you haven't watched even a single video on my channel, as it shows you have no idea what you're talking about and trying to put a generalized label on me. According to you, everyone who's online and got good result is being paid for it.

Anyways, nevermind, I'm not here to prove anything to anyone. You do you. Best of luck.

2 minutes ago, Gramatik said:

I would not suggest someone to go to a not safe option. I just said that not all people have the money to go the most expensive doctors, so they try to find decent options with less money. 

I saw you are doing a lot of promotion to Dr Fereira, so someone would think that you did not pay anything for your hair transpants to him (because of your promotion to him). I know you will not admit that, but anyone can think that. So it is easy for you to sugget the most expensive options when you dont pay for them. 

I DO NOT do any promotion for anyone. I just went to Dr. Ferreira after extensive research and documented my journey on my channel. I paid in full with my own hard earned money. And no, I'm not a high earner. At the beginning of my research I had the same budget and options, but after researching more I came to a different conclusion and decided to wait and save up more.

I'm not surprised you thought this way as you don't know what I do or who I am.

It seems you're taking my post in a completely wrong way and getting defensive. My point is - you do you, as long as you're fully informed with all potential outcomes.
If you will get good result - great. If not - you'll probably come online to badmouth the clinic like most others did. What we as a community are trying to do is to educate people in all potential outcomes and give them best chance to avoid joining "bad result" group of people that will ever since just try to catch up with repairs.

19 minutes ago, Gramatik said:

I would no tell someone to go to Cinik, but if he doesn't have enough budget and its impossible for him to find more money, and he wanted to go there then i think it would a bit better to select Dr Cinik doing the incisions. I know its a hair milll, better than other hair mills though. The options you said are not so budget, and many people dont have thousands of money or they cant find more money to get a hair transplant in an expensive clinic. Thats why they select more budget clinics, because they cant afford expensive ones.

Unsless you will give them the money to go in more expensive clinics, so you can suggest them to go to the most expensive ones. In addition there are more budget clinics in turkey with dr involcement like Bicer, HLC, Turan, Gur, Yaman, Demirsoy etc..

this is such a bad way to think about budget and hair transplants.
I understand where you are coming from, BUT, what would an individual do if he got really bad HT (hair growing 90 degrees up, a ton of multi hair grafts in the hairline, the hairline design itself looks unnatural, not to mention unhomogenous extractions)???

If the person have only $2000 and he decides to go to such clinic, he won't be able to repair it in any way, shape or form. People with such results are usually more stressed/depressed than they were before transplant. I personally have spoken to hundreds of people over the years with such stories and trust me, some people can't live their life normally ever since HT.

So the answer is simple. If you can't afford it, don't do it. Gambilng with hair mills isn't a good trade off as if something goes wrong, sometimes its even impossible to fix it despite how many millions $$$ one has.

Oh, and the excuse "I will just shave it" won't cut due to thousands of scars. Imagine if a person heals in a similar way I do with hypertrophic scars. They will be even more visible. Not to mention that extractions in such cases usually aren't done in a best way, making matters even worse.
"I will just do SMP" - another conclusion people make. First, one didn't have money for better quality HT, he won't have money for SMP. Secondly, SMP isn't perfect. It can change colour over time, it can fade, it can expand to the point the whole "treated" area will look like 1 big splash of ink.

TAKE EVERY STEP WITH CAUTION. DO NOT RUSH INTO SURGERY.
 

29 minutes ago, Gramatik said:

I dont know if what you are saying its true. Some of his result differ from others. Some of them have better angles than others. I think the ones, in which the incisions are done by Dr cinik have better ones.

I've seen hundreds of his results, immediate post-op pics etc. It's consistent in my experience. As a matter of fact, it's quite rare to see grafts NOT being implanted in rows. Not to mention them growing upwards.
In my opinion, it's best to avoid.

7 hours ago, Gramatik said:

i think the package where Dr Cinik is doing the incisions in the scalp (in which you would have the dr involvement in the procedure)  is better than DHI.

But he clearly couldn't care less how he does his job. By the looks of it it feels as of he is rushing by doing incisions in rows, so he can get out of the room and get back into his doughnut and coffee.
No surprise people who got incisions from him for the most part have hairs growing vertically up.

1 hour ago, Fue3361 said:

Also, as to the question, this is not the most insanely aggresive transplant I've seen.  Winner of that title is:
 

 

Was just about to post this one too lol

22 minutes ago, Konfue said:

Yes this was a DHI technique, but they still took them under a microscope. Or so they say. 

You can see amount of hair in my grafts clearly just by looking at it. With proper microscopical magnification I'd assume you should be able to see clearly.

It's just sounds like someone didn't care much about it as its clearly not few here and there, but quite a few.

I feel like I've got an idea who was it.

I've read all comments and here's my opinion.

HT itself doesn't look terrible, but it's far from being great.

- Too straight hairline (almost no microirregularities)

- Loads of multi hair units in the very front (I understand few doubles, but triples in there is simply not acceptable. The excuse of "sleeping graft" is BS as the whole reason why everyone is using microscopes is exactly this, to see whether there's another "hidden" hair growing out of what looks like a single. So they simply didn't do their work properly (and it seems whoever was sorting grafts, or even implanting couldn't care less what he does as even after implanting few grafts surely the surgeon would see its a double or triple!)

- the worst part of them all is the grafts seem to be implanted in a steep angles, something I between 45-90 degrees. If you look at your post-op (roughly 2 weeks), you can see the difference in native hair growth directions and transplanted. Very poor work and its something that's almost impossible to fix.

My suggestion - STAY AWAY FROM THAT PLACE. I do understand budget, but what's the logic to go back to someone who clearly has no clue how to perform a good Hair Transplant? How can one who made a bad one repair it? According to him, this looks good! What kind of repair would you get? More grafts at incorrect angles and more "sleeping" grafts at the front?

Try your best to save up as much as you can and start sending pics to other good doctors for their opinion and repair plan. Don't do the same mistake twice.

Oh, and also. NEVER TRUST ANY RECOMENDED LIST. Do your own research. What's "good looking" for one can be awful for another. Find someone who consistently does one after another transplants are are literally indistinguishable from nature. The ones where you can't see where native hair finishes and transplanted hair starts.

If you find yourself trying to find excuses or justifications for any possible bad thing you see in some results - don't. If you see it, others will too.

One last thing - "only us focused on HT will see" - biggest lie. I've done my fair share of experiments with people who have no clue about transplants showing some pics and videos and every single time they find something odd.

And here's a LONG WAITED update!

3 minutes ago, Alex94gasp said:

I asked the price for Dr.Bruno Ferreira and it is 3,5€ the first 4000 grafts.

After 4000, is 3€ the graft.

I wanted to do it, but is too expensive...

Is that normal?

I've heard from people he indeed increased his prices recently to 3.5€/graft

1 hour ago, Spaceguy said:

Rolandas here's some "baldness cure" commercials using your videos.  I hope you got paid for it!

https://fb.watch/dCukvb2VPU/

I'm well aware of these... such videos have been circulating since last year. Sadly can't do much about it except ask fb to take it down, but then I need to prove it's my content and it's  lengthy process.

Here's my reaction to such ads https://youtu.be/VakPq5WNPkQ

Just found this thread.
I'm not usually posting on this forum simply because there are LOADS of knowledgeable people on here to help newcomers. Hence why I always recommend for others who are serious about hair restoration to go here. I'm spending my free time on either my YouTube comments, or Facebook/reddit where are less knowledgeable people are frankly, more shills.

I came across a bunch of them, especially on Facebook. The one category I hate the most, are the people with Survivorship Bias.
They usually had subpar surgery themselves. Whenever someone else goes to the same place they praise it, as if they pretend to care about others, but whenever someone goes to a better surgeon they say "you can get better result for much cheaper".
I've had a fair amount of arguments with such people as their responses are ALWAYS illogical. You present them factual evidence of good/poor work, and instead of addressing it, they simply "bash" you personally while completely ignoring the subject.

If someone ignores the subject and goes on a personal attack, move along. It's a troll & likely shill.

I'll go even further - NEVER TRUST ANYONE. Do your own research and trust your own judgment.

damn, that's some impressive hair growth speed. It's like hair is feeling like having a second chance and can't wait any longer hehe

I would take a pair of scissors and cut these hair shorter. They got so long I can't believe!

18 hours ago, George Clooney said:

Regarding the shedding, you might want to consider switching to dutasteride from fin, adding 2% ketoconazole and getting a biopsy to make sure you don't have lichen.

Don't think I'm there yet to upgrade to dutasteride. I prefer to keep this option when I really see the need. For now I think it's a matter of growth cycles alongside Oral minoxidil shedding (native hair that got boost a year ago). After all their anagen phase was quite short and OM prolonged it. They won't grow forever and will eventually shed. Nothing wrong with that.

I'm also on keto once a week for around 6 months now. Added when started microneedling my donor.

Don't see the need to do biopsy as my scalp looks healthy. But thanks for suggestion though!

On 5/24/2022 at 2:03 PM, Gokuhairline said:

can you explain this de-synchronization concept a bit more in detail and give some examples ? where can it happen ? how long etc

Due to hair transplant, all extracted grafts are pretty much forced to go into tellogen phase at the same time (shedding phase 2-6 weeks after the surgery). So all of them will start to grow in a "synchronised" way after 3-5 months after the surgery.

However, usually in between 10-18 months after the surgery some grafts will shed again and go back to their "original" cycles, the way they were growing in the donor area, hence a lot of people notice slightly less density at that time compared to 8-12 months after the surgery.

Rest assured these hair will grow back after some time and a person will have all of them growing once again since anagen ohade is usually 2-7 years.

I wasn't expecting it to happen to me so early (and maybe that's not the case), but I guess we shall see as there's nothing I can do about it.

Damn. After seeing you in person I got so intrigued! Can't wait to see how this will turn out, but by the looks of it this will be a shocker for most people in here including myself!