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after many years on fina (20+ with some breaks) I switched to Duta.
It was a game changer.

first of all, are you on medications?
If yes, what are taking and for how long?

7 hours ago, Gatsby said:

If you’re on Finasteride then I would not worry about hitting the gym. Resistance training will increase your testosterone levels which will increase DHT levels. However, I don’t believe that it should be a cause to not work out. I’m not anle to tolerate a 5ari at all and I’m going to the gym. I’m taking 5mg of oral minoxidil a day but this has no role in blocking DHT levels. 

We can’t say that is true.

No.

Would love to read comments from the hlc detractors.

Your result is amazing!

4 hours ago, simbal said:

I had a hair transplant 4 months ago and now I am watching new hair grow. It's a slow process, but it's noticeable and I know I have to wait. My doctor advised me to use minoxidil. I have a friend who has been using minoxidil for a long time and he told me that minoxidil is addictive and if you start using it, you will have to use it for the rest of your life. He said that minoxidil gives good results during use, but if you stop using it after 3 months, your hair will fall out even more than before. He also said that if he had known about addiction, he would not have used minoxidil. Is this true or is it his imagination?

 

I don't want to unnecessarily speed up the process and can wait as long as necessary.

 

True.

if you workout, you gain muscle. When you stop, your catabolism increases and you lose muscle.

If you take steroids, you gain muscle. When you stop, your catabolism increases and you lose muscle.

if you use pain killers, your pain are reduced. When you stop, your pg increase and you suffer again.

if you use minoxidil, you get hair. When you stop, telogen increases and Anagen is reduced.

1 hour ago, mr_peanutbutter said:

name the surgeon

I think it is quite unfair that people come here for help but do not share infos that could be helpful to others.

After seven years!

never surrender….

I am following the same protocol (higher duta btw and duta injections randomly, prp randomly and dermoroller randomly)  and this is the result is seven years.

i had 2 minor ht just to lower the hl. Never had anything on my crown and middle scalp.

15 years younger!

2 minutes ago, augustya said:

Exactly even I thought so. But Dr.Sergio says and thinks otherwise.

Aestethic medicine is science + marketing.
Sometimes the docs need to say something new because they need to sell themself.
Maybe I'm wrong, but his timing sound non-sense.
If you spend 1 dollar/day, on the long run it doesn't matter if you get 5 dollars on day one and 5 dollars on day two or if get 5 dollars every 3 days.

Just now, Fox243 said:

I would not say it takes 2-3 days. We see doctors like pittella putting out 12-13k grafts in 2 days.

Typically, a good doctor doesn't transplant more than 2000/2500 FU daily (some very good doctor, even less).

12 minutes ago, Alex Grey said:

I do not understand why would you say that—that you hoped they cheated on me 

 

Seems like it’s not better to post results here as people aren’t friendly and supportive here 

 

To most it seems it like fun to enjoy to watch other demise 

 

so I do not feel posting my results here anymore 

I supposed you were smart enough to understand that if they really used 5500 FU, your donor is almost depleted and there is nothing you can do.
If they used less (as I hope), you have still FU in your donor that you can use for a future HT.
 

1 minute ago, augustya said:

I used to take Dutasteride twice a week but those were gaps between two pills. I guess he is making a point taking it consecutively two times has more lasting effect.

Duta has a long lasting effect. I don't think it makes a difference if you take 2 pills in 2 consecutive days or 1 pill every 3/4 days.

a 5500 HT requires something like 2-3 days/8 hours daily.
Hope they cheated on you and used less grafts.

I had some of the best hair of my life using sergio's protocol.
2 Duta weekly (non consecutive), Duta intejxtions and oral minoxidil.
In august 2022 my hair were amazing.
In any case, in sept I had a very strong telone effluvium, got scared and raised the dose to 1 pill/day.

where did you get your HT?
how many grafts?

25 minutes ago, Eli_Avdikian said:

How long was your brother on medication ?

from Jen 15th. less than 4 months.

As you can see, with such a small doses he recovered about 1/2 cm in the temples (we used a nevo as landmark).
 

His temporal peaks were just vellus and now they appear thicker.

a lot of small hair are coming out, even if they are still not visible in picture.

On 4/28/2024 at 10:23 AM, Gennox said:

Looks Good. Any side effects from duta?

from what he says, zero!
Some days, he has peri orbital edema from oral minoxidil.

9 hours ago, Gatsby said:

These are great results and a great example why medication should always be the first port of call before surgery. 👌

I had a minor ht in Ankara 11.1.2024, with dr Bekir (I will open my report at 4 month)

my brother was with me and wanted to book his op.

the doctor was very ethical and said to take medications for 6-7 before planning an ht.

from the pic, I can say that my brother saved 2000 fu for the crown.

My brother, 42.

duta 0,5 every other day

oral minoxidil is 2,5 every day

nizoral 2/week

because he is lazy (lol) he is not using anything else (prp, micro needling, topical duta etc).

Just made my home made biopsy! It was like a “plastic hair “, coming out the scalp, that kept together a bunch of hair.

I got a minor HT 3,5 months ago (1350 FU).
I have very dark, black hair.
Among my transplanted hair, I just saw a SINGLE white hair (half black and half white...the root is white).
Can HT shock the HF and cause temporary whitening of single hairs? Or I am Turing white?