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Ok cool...so you've cut out fin altogether?...perhaps I should see a dermatologist about this first then?...

Should I go for a second op? Should I add dutasteride to my daily use of finasteride and minoxidil? Or should I shave it off and give up on solutions? I had a 2,040 FUE 2 years and 5 months ago. Looked great after a year. Its defo been thinning out a lot lately though. I've been losing lots of hair every day. What should I do? The right side is now going back to square 1 as well. Yet the temporal peaks seem to be staying in.

Hi guys, I am thinking of starting dutasteride - if it will help my hair loss. Can anyone tell me how much I should use, how often I should use it, what should I expect from it including results and side effects? I've been using finasteride 1.25mg most days for 2 years and 10 months now, and I've been using Regaine once most days for 2 years and 4 months. I found fin to be effective when I started it. I noticed I shed a bit more for a few weeks when I started fin, my skin and scalp also got a bit more oily than usual (not sure if that was a coincidence or a side from starting fin) and then my hair loss slowed down a lot, and I think some of my hair thickened up and went a bit darker. I got my first transplant - FUE 2,040 grafts 2 years and 5 months ago. I was very pleased with the results of my transplant combined with my fin. However, last year, I started to feel like my transplant had weakened a bit. In the past 5 months or so, I've also noticed a huge amount of hair shedding - like, I can brush off 50 hairs into the sink most nights. The hair in my mid scalp and crown still seems super dense, but around the hairline - particularly left side where I had a transplant - its thin. I am going to get a 2nd transplant to top my hair up within the next year or so if I can. I am 32 years old, 33 this October. I can get dutasteride 0.5mg tablets via UK pharmacies.

Hi guys, I'm on fin (and Regaine) 2 years and 9 months now. I think in the last few months it has lost a bit of efficacy as I've been shedding a lot. I don't yet see worrying thinning - except for in my transplanted temples which I plan on topping up soon - but I am worried that I am at the starting point of dramatic hair loss. I take 1.25mg fin daily. Should I increase my dose? Or should I start taking dutasteride?

Hi guys, Last year I started feeling as if my hair transplant was falling apart, or that perhaps my hair just wasn't looking as good as it did 1 year after surgery. Then I think I might have went into denial about the quality of my hair - I even posted here suggesting things are not so bad. Now however I have accepted that I am deeply unsatisfied with my hair. I had a 2,040 FUE transplant with Saifi 2.5 years ago. Looked good when it first developed. Doesn't look great any more. I have been losing a lot of hair. Loads of hair coming out almost every day. I'm not sure exactly where the hairs are coming from. This is despite using 1.25mg fin daily + Regaine. I'm convinced that my hair transplant area has thinned, and that a lot of the transplanted hairs have fallen out. Dr Saifi of course says that my native hair has fallen out, I personally believe a lot of my transplanted hair has fallen apart. The right side is not too bad, but it would benefit from a top up. The left side is terrible. Its just really thin and weak. I've become very self conscious of it. It doesn't look right. It doesn't seem to be growing right, and I'm now limited in how I can style it. I need a transplant ASAP. Anyone any idea how many grafts I would need? Also should I increase my dose of finasteride? Has finasteride and Regaine lost efficacy? Should I start taking dutasteride? Any Dr reccomendations? I am pretty much ready to book a transplant immediately. Thanks.

The answer to both questions is YES I did post a thread a while ago saying I was worried about the transplant thinning. I had been relentlessly pulling it to one side and scrutinising it under harsh lights. I went through a period of immense worry, the way the sun was hitting it through my bedroom window in the summer time made it look sparser. I went to HRBR in Dublin for a check up and under their detailed camera I was able to see that the transplant was still strong, so I stopped worrying about it. Don't get me wrong, my transplant is not perfect, no transplant is, but for the time being I am going to leave it as it is.

Have worn fades with 0's and 1's no sign of surgery at the sides and back 👍

Hi guys, Just a random update. Had 2,040 grafts transplanted to the hairline and mid-scalp with Dr Saifi (FUE) in December 2020. I'm now aged 32. Been on fin for 2.5 years now (1.25mg 5 - 7 days a week). Regaine just over 2 years, once daily or thereabouts. Hair seems to be holding up well although every now and again I'll notice a good few hairs coming out when I'm massaging Regaine in at night. The left side of the transplant has always been a bit thinner than the right, but generally it looks natural almost any way I style it. If I pull it this way or that way, or scrutinise it under harsh lights, I can see the discrepancy in the transplanted hairs, but I believe that's natural. I change my styles every now and again, have worn it short and long, up and down. I don't feel the need to add more density as I'm generally happy enough with it as it is. I'm hoping I get a good few years out of it and that I'll be able to avoid more transplants for at least a few good years.

Yeah, I'm thinking maybe its not as bad as I had first thought. When its combed and styled appropriately it still looks fairly full so I think ill leave it as it is for the time being.

I will do that, thanks for the advice.

I researched DUPA thinning there. I don't appear to have thinning on the sides and back of my scalp. In fact sides and back seem rock solid, even after the 2,040 FUE extractions you wouldn't notice there was any hairs extracted, even if the hair is buzzed to a #0.5 or a #1 at the sides and back. I've been going to HRBR in Dublin to monitor my hair loss for 12 years now, and they told me on my last visit 2 and a half years ago that I'd be a good candidate for surgery because of my dense donor supply. Coincidentally I'm actually going there for an appointment tomorrow. They wrote to me a few weeks ago inviting me to pop in for free to check my hair loss progress, they don't even know I've had a transplant. Also I had temporal peaks transplanted with Saifi, those peaks at the sides are not thinning out, its just the hair on top, seemingly around my hairline and near the transplanted zones, they're the only bits that seem to be going downhill.

I get sebhorric dermatitis psoriasis on my face and scalp from time to time. It can come and go. Sometimes it's very mild, often its not there at all, every once in a while it flares up. I think Dr Saifi knew about this when we did the transplant. On the day of surgery my scalp was fairly clean. 8-12 months after surgery it seemed to be fully developed and very satisfying. Now 19 months out from surgery it is not so satisfying.

What is DUPA caused thinning bro? I've been on fin for 2 years now, and Regaine for 18 months.

Yeah Killian is a sales rep for him, marketing and sales is a big part of the HT industry as you know yourself. Yeah, he seemed good to me, and to be fair when I had my transplant it seemed like he did a careful meticulous job along with his technicians. The whole procedure took about 10 hours. I had 2,040 FUE grafts transplanted to the hairline, temporal points, temporal peaks and mid-scalp. I'm on fin and Regaine. The transplant actually looked amazing after 6-12 months. However in the last 2-3 months it looks and feels as if it has thinned and also as if a lot of hairs have fallen out. Maybe I have lost some native hair, but I personally feel like I've lost a lot of transplanted hair tbh. I documented my HT journey here, you'll find it if you look. As it stands I've not lost all my transplanted hair (yet). When my hair is styled a certain way it still looks like I have a fairly full head of hair. But I'm now extremely limited with styles and if you whip my hair this way or that way you can see very obvious signs of balding and a weak transplant. Saifi said I have just lost some native hair, but I feel like the transplant has fallen apart. He said he could bring it up to good density with 800 grafts, but I'm worried that if the first transplant has lost strength, then the next one will also fall apart.

Dr Saifi in Poland, December 2020.

Guys can anyone tell me how much does Dr Ferrera charge for a transplant? Unfortunately I do not think I will be able to avoid the need for a 2nd transplant within the next 12 months. This is really disappointing and upsetting but I guess things could be worse. I hear Ferriera and Pinto are good so I might explore them for my next transplant.

Whats cycle shed bro?...makes zero sense but seems to be happening and it seems like something that's happened to a lot of people here.

That's interesting. Over the past few months I underwent some stress with a job and a bit of loneliness, and then I lost my job and have had to go through the stress of finding a new job. There has been more stress than normal there, but I'm coming out of the stressful period now, and I was never at risk of being homeless or anything like that because my parents are supportive. I personally am sceptical of the whole telogen effluvium thing myself to be honest.

It hasn't really flared up lately though. The weakening and thinning of the transplant is so upsetting.

I had sebhorric dermatitis before the surgery, it comes and goes in my life, why would that affect my transplanted hairs? I was never told it would affect my transplant.

I see, its worrying, because it makes me wonder is there any point in getting a top up, if its just going to fall out again?

That's very worrying because I seem to be experiencing the same thing. A lot of my transplanted hair from 19 months ago seems to have thinned and fallen out. Itz very upsetting. I'd go for a top up but my worry is that it will just fall out again.

Are you suggesting that my faulty transplant will return to a high standard within 4 months?

Did you ever find out why it fell out? And why can't you get the same quality with a second transplant? Have you been able to get a second transplant?

What does this mean bro?