Struggle

June 5, 2020

It happens that transplanted hairs fall to some people, I have seen reports on other forum, but this is not the case. He had bad hair transplants and has used since the first day concealers. When he doesn't use them he seems balding.

May 22, 2020

It's after the shampoo? What other hairstyles can show the weaknesses of a hair trasplant? I confess that I'd like to get a similar haircut, but in my case perhaps it would be possible to do it

May 22, 2020

Hello to everyone, I'm looking for a new hairstyle that suits my norwood 3a baldness. Now I comb forward my hair, but the problem is that they don't stay on my frontline even with a strong hairspray, which I apply after I blow dry my hair: they come down on the sides giving a very ugly effect, not to mention in windy situations. What hairstyle could I rock not to appear balding? Thank you!

May 16, 2020

Nice result, if the photos don't deceive me I think you can style your hair up right now, you don't appear balding. With the touch up you will be perfect

May 15, 2020

Looks like a solid work. I'm also planning my first - and I hope the last - HT and I'm considering this surgeon, even if I'd like to see other reports

May 15, 2020

Update in the day light.

I hate so much my hairstyle, however it's the only one I can get besides buzzcut due to the baldness in the front area

What do you think about my mid?

Posted May 11, 2020 · May 11, 2020

9 hours ago, Damifino said:

I started on Finasteride in 1999, at the age of 22 (no side effects to this day, BTW). I was thinning some in the crown area and the hairline was sliding back a bit. It's definitely helped me keep what I've got, though I do think in the last few years both the crown and hairline have lost a *slight* bit of ground. And yes, I'm positive that I would have been at least a Norwood V (or worse) by now without it, as both my dad and older brother (and other relatives on both sides of my family) are firmly in Norwood VI-VII territory.

Thanks, this is exactly what I want to hear! Hope also other people can share their experience

May 10, 2020

I'm experiencing some brain fog together with blurred vision and I think that it's due to incorrect sleep - I wake up a lot of times - and seasonal changes, my cousin who doesn't take finasteride or other medications feels the same.

May 10, 2020

I experienced side effects - liquid semen and testicular pain for two days - in the first month, then they went away. Currently, after two years, perhaps I'm experiencing again testicular pain, but I have to assess if it's due to finasteride or other problems.

Erectile Dysfunction is a common side effect, however yours could be a psychological side, it seems to me that you got it too quickly.

Posted May 10, 2020 · May 10, 2020

Are there some long term finasteride users on this forum?

If so, can you tell me how your hair loss evolved during years? Would you think you would have been bald without?

Thank you!

May 5, 2020

16 hours ago, Melvin-Moderator said:

Have you considered SMP?

Yes, but I look bad shaved... If needed I think I'll go with an hair system

May 4, 2020

Thanks for your experience! Where do you buy your hair system? How much time a single hair system lasts?

May 3, 2020

Hello to everyone, I see hair systems as the ultimate choice for people who are dealing with MPB, if their situation is too compromised for an hair traslpant or medical treatment doesn't work/gives side effects

I'd like to know some informations about them. Excuse me if some questions are stupid:

1)How much they costs in six months?

2)How long can you keep them on your head without reapply them?

3)Can you wash your hair system during a shower?

4)Can you go to the beach/swimming pool with them?

5)If someone runs their hand through your hair, can they notice it's an hair system?

6)Can you DIY by the first application without going to a salon?

7)When hairs on the sides grow, do you go to a barber with you hair system on?

8)How do you deal with the idea that hair systems are not your real hair?

9)If someone pulls your hairs strongly, does it rip off?

10)Do you tell people/girl that you wear an hair system?

11)Would you prefer an hair trasplant if you could get it?

Thanks!

May 2, 2020

Did you feel like you didn't sleep enough?

April 25, 2020

Hi. How long have you been on Dutasteride? I had watery semen in my first month of Finasteride, then it went away. It could be the same.

However, I agree with @longjonsilver: long term side effect of Dutasteride aren't know. Please talk to a dermatologist

April 21, 2020

On 4/18/2020 at 11:55 AM, BeHappy said:

It could be a seasonal shed as others have suggested. Here's something to try. Keep using minoxidil and finisteride, but cut your hair very short again the way it was in your first set of pictures just before you started using them. This will get your mind off of it as you won't have much hair to look at in the mirror or to comb every day and it will also let the minoxidil get onto the scalp better. Then let your hair grow for a few months. Once it grows long again you can compare what you look like at that point to what it is now. This just mostly gets your mind off of worrying about how to style your hair everyday and looking at it all the time. It may be very good for your anxiety and depression.

Thanks for the suggestion, it would be ideal for my situation but I think I couldn't cope now with a buzz cut

On 4/18/2020 at 6:04 PM, hairlossPA said:

it’s hard to tell, but yes most likely miniaturized hairs. considering most of the hairs i regrew were gone at one time

100% same situation so

Update: In May I'll have a consult on Skype with Dr.Lupanzula

April 18, 2020

I think that only us who are "obsessed" with hair can have something to say. If a normal person or a girl thinks that we don't have hair loss, we won.

April 18, 2020

13 hours ago, hairlossPA said:

yes it was basically 8 months. started noticing shedding in December 2018, constant shedding each month up until July 2019 and it stopped. Then I had regrowth

Did you shed miniaturized hairs?

April 17, 2020

On 4/15/2020 at 4:01 PM, hairlossPA said:

I'm fairly confident your hair will rebound like mine did. and believe me I know how hard the waiting game is after you've seen a lot of good regrowth before.

hang in there. I would use the next year to research doctors. If your hair has continued to shed and get worse after a year, you can think about pulling the trigger, but if your hair is anything like mine, it will come and go in waves. but I'm hoping mine is starting to stabilize after 2 years on fin.

Please take a look at this video/thread. I think it applies to our finasteride regrowth as well:

https://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/topic/56559-anagen-synchronisation-did-you-know-about-this-phenomenon-in-hair-transplantation/

Your shed lasted eight months, didn't it?

I'm at four months now

On 4/15/2020 at 4:09 PM, TorontoMan said:

Where do you live? Do you have access to a good surgeon or even a dermatologist to take a look at your situation? I think they would be able to assess the future pattern of your head better. The truth is we will all obviously continue to lose hair as we get older, but your fear is you believe you’re losing too fast now. If you’re judging your hair under harsh light and especially wet.. then you’re not being fair to yourself entirely. I’ve had girlfriends with good hair obviously and at time’s when light was shinning direct on the head I could see through to some scalp.. I remember the first time I realized that I was shocked.

yes I completely agree, the most important game is the yield and donor management. Don’t settle for anyone less than who you think is great.

As for shedding, I experienced shedding from minox when I started, and again from fin when I eventually began that. It took about 3 months for the shedding to stop after fin. I think you should give yourself more time to assess it, but if you’re still worried, considering trying dutasteride 1X a week, I’ve read some guys do that here, as a little insurance policy. However please research and consider jt well before you do that

I live in Italy and there aren't good surgeons, but after lockdown I'll go to a dermatologist to understand if it's a finasteride shedding, telogen effluvium or hair loss. The one I went to said I was a Norwood 3A. I never took photos to the upper part of my scalp before last month because I thought there were no problems, so I can't say that before I couldn't see my head... I hope it's normal, however with clean hair I can see nothing.

Thanks for the tip I think that I'll insert dutasteride only if hair got patently worse, after blood and semen analysis

April 17, 2020

Even if it's only an illusion of density the results are still awesome in my opinion. Do someone who is not in hair loss things notice something?

April 15, 2020

Thanks @TorontoMan. Now i'm in a not so bad situation, but my fear is that my hair loss goes on even if on Finasteride. I saw some pics of me years old ago shaved, before medications, and I looked like I had a diffuse thinning on the top of my scalp. However, my doctor told me I was NW 3A.

Now I see again thinning on the scalp with wet hair, I hope it's due to shedding and not to hair loss

I'm looking for a top surgeon to contain the risk of a bad result, which would be a waste of grafts that I cannot afford

April 14, 2020

Thanks to everyone.

@LordBaldwin I agree with you: if hair loss doesn't allow you to enjoy your youth, hair trasplant is a valid choiche even in the 20s. Nobody will give you back these years.

April 12, 2020

Thanks for the answers, they help me a lot. A doctor told me that effluvium/hair shedding in presence of hair loss worsens incredibly the situation. In the last two months my hairs got worse quickly, as I've seen in the photos I took. Can't wait for the end of this.

For surgery, I'm considering only top doctors, I think everyone has to do it in this sector.

@Fluffhead did you progress on the norwood scale despite finasteride during these years?

I attached three photos of my frontal line: the first was taken in December, when the shed began, the second in February, the last yesterday.

April 11, 2020

Hello to everyone, I'm new to this forum and I want to introduce myself. I hope the section is correct.

I'm a 24 old guy who has suffered from hair loss since he was 17. For years I did nothing to fight against hairloss, because I wasn't aware of treatments, and so I gradually became NW2, then NW3 and NW3A, time where I had to shave my entire head to look fine. In April 2018, mentally exasperated from alopecia, I became aware of medications: so I went to my dermatologist who prescribed me Finasteride 1mg daily and Minoxidil 5% to treat my NW3A alopecia: in less than six months I had great results, regaining a lot of miniaturized hair. I was very happy, but after one year of therapy I began to lose all the benefits, and now - another year later - I think I'm at the starting situation.

I don't know if Finasteride stopped working or if there are other reasons, because I suffer also from severe anxiety and depression which probabily gave me an effluvium in the last three months - I lose hundreds of hairs daily, after a shampoo last week I counted more than five hundred hairs fallen in my washbasin.

I must confess you that my hair situation worries me a lot: I'm obsessed by hair loss and by the thought I might get bald one day. I cannot stand my actual situation, if I get bald I think I will not live anymore.

I'd like to get an hair trasplant because, like I said earlier, I can't stand my situation anymore. I'd like to have a FUE because I want to buzz my hair on the side, but I don't know if this is a wise choice if I'm intended to lose my hair on mid and vertex. I had virtual consults with Lupanzula and De Freitas, who told me I need around 2500-2600 grafts to rebuild my hairline. Pekiner suggested me to wait because I'm young.

My father didn't suffer from hairloss, while his brother and his dad are NW4; it seems that I look like my maternal grandfather, who probably had my hairloss pattern: NW3A when he was young, always NW3A or maximum 4A when he was forty years old. I have to find other pictures of when he was sixty to have an idea of what my alopecia will probably be.

I'll put as soon as photos of my journey with hair loss.

I wish an happy easter to everyone who read my words. Thanks.

BEFORE FINASTERIDE AND MINOXIDIL

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AFTER THREE MONTHS OF TREATMENT

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AFTER EIGHT MONTHS OF TREATMENT

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AFTER ONE YEAR OF TREATMENT

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AFTER ONE YEAR AND FIVE MONTHS

https://ibb.co/xqHyddg
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