UnbaldEagle

How about trying a topical antiandrogen then? 

Frankly, it's not as bad as it looks to you, I know it must hurt looking back how great it was years ago.   But I honestly think you lost your natives only.

Right now the most important thing is to stabilize things, not let those lateral humps disappear in my humble opinion. 

3 minutes ago, JohnAC71 said:

Over 10 years and yes no issues with losing any of my transplanted hairs, not on fin either. 

Imagine if you were on fin too. Imagine if you were speaking to your grafts kindly like I do.

39 minutes ago, ciaus said:

Darn it, why does it seem all the fun things in life are bad for you.
 

Ikr. I was hoping to get high on some extra fin brain fog, while also growing additional hair. 

Oh, well.

17 minutes ago, Rossybop said:

Unbald Eagle I am trying but I'm not sure if I'd be everyone's favourite seen as I did bump my head twice post-op 😭

Don't worry about that, but Saifi mustn't know, I won't grass you up, relax, bro.

Out of sheer curiosity, why 7 months?

@dobler and @jolly, while I'm empathetic to your situation, I'm really sorry you guys lost ground after your HTs, I don't think it could be applied as a general rule. The vast majority of HT patients will not lose their transplanted hair.

1 hour ago, dobler said:

All of this strengthens my assumption even more --> the area is the problem, not the hairs.

A hair in the back of the head will survive forever. If you move it to the front, it will die very soon.

  I guess the only way to be 100% certain of this is to transplant thinning hair from the front to your back, but there will never be such a study.

However there's no such thing as a universal safe zone unfortunately, Melvin posted a great video on this, everyone's donor area will thin out to some degree as we age.

Then there's the problem of losing native hairs (your case imho). Or something like DUPA. 

Some of the transplanted hair will thin out over a very long period of time due to what I mentioned earlier, but most will be retained. 

43 minutes ago, Rossybop said:

Cool. I can go back on fish now. I'm still off drink and no I have not had any cheeky cigarettes. I'll probably stay on best behaviour for a couple of months

Good, I think you're an exemplary post-op instruction follower.

You'd be every surgeon's favorite patient. 😍😂

It's a really old drug and luckily it's hardly used anymore, there's new generation anticonvulsants instead. 

Okay, let's check the list then, @Rossybop. No bromide, that's for sure.

How about fish, coffee? You said you're a social drinker but pubs are closed so no alcohol either I'm assuming.

Any cheeky cigarettes?

The good thing about focusing on the front and midscalp and leaving the crown empty if you have limited donor is that you can always use topik or slick your hair back and cover that area. Also, what @Gatsbysaid is true. I have an uncle who is slick bald in the crown and mid regions, but has a nearly intact hairline. As far as I know, he never had a hair transplant.  

1 hour ago, jolly said:

...also i do not believe that hair transplants survive more than 5 years...

I'm sorry, what are you basing this assumption on?

25 minutes ago, deitel130 said:

I'm on 1 mg Finasteride daily and feel it may be losing some efficacy. I'm really considering trying 0.5 mg Dutasteride twice A week in combination with Finasteride. Looking for experience from others.

Has anyone tried something similar?

What is the long term safety of Dutasteride? Just recently read an increase in Prostate cancer risk with both Finasteride and Dutasteride. How accurate is this?

I'm taking 1 mg fin every day and 0.5 mg dut every week. There's a study that combined they seemed to be working better. 

Long term safety, well, I guess it's riskier than taking finasteride alone. My understanding is that these drugs don't increase the probability of developing prostate cancer, however since they shrink the prostate you won't really know if you have it. Which is not a good thing as you'll miss the chance of early treatment. 

Hello @cnkp21, I was wondering if you got any favorable responses from any clinics?

1 minute ago, Hamit38 said:

my hair 4-5years ago hopefully it will be like that again after the op

Holy shit. 😮 You had a James Dean on steroids kinda hair there. 

Really hope you get it back, hopefully treatment will help too. And Pekiner is a really good choice. 

On 12/18/2020 at 2:00 PM, UK 42 said:

Do you have any photos of your Donor after a month ? 
 

I'm stressing going back to work with my FUT scar on show so was wondering how long my donor might be after a month. 
 

I took a month off work 🤣

I must say that FUT scar is hardly visible, good work whoever your surgeon was.

2 minutes ago, Hamit38 said:

I assume that there are no differences in finasteride or ??

No difference. Unless it's manufactured by some really shady company. I heard people having the same success with Indian generics.

You should be fine.  

Oh, bummer. Thanks, Doc.  

16 minutes ago, Hamit38 said:

This one

Ah, yes, that's a reputable British pharmaceutical company. 😍

From 18 to 41? 😮 Damn, I've got 7 more years. 😭 Never heard of this before..

At 24 and with still a lot of hair left, I think you'll respond well to finasteride.  Not quite sure how effective 0.5 mg is, but here's a graph with various doses, as you can see there's no a whole lot of difference. 

Out of curiosity, how do you take 0.5? Do you split a 1 mg Propecia in 2 or a 5 mg Proscar in 10? 😂

Damn, that hairline looks fabulous at only 4 months! 😮

I was wondering about this one. If snorting a certain drug amplifies its effects as it is fully absorbed into the bloodstream, would it be a better way to take finasteride?

You know, just one or two lines a day, to keep the hair transplant doctor away. 

On 12/14/2020 at 4:39 PM, jami said:

I was impressed with Dr Rahul Reddy's (London-based) especially the one I linked..however he didnt respond when I wrote him..

Just saying, it's Raggu Reddy, the one you linked was done by Dr. Rahal In Ottawa.  

@PizzaWolf, don't you think it's too early to mention hair systems and gym memberships and shaving it all off? OP is 32 and his hair loss is not terrible. 

I agree with the rest, a topical antiandrogen would be a great solution. There's a thread on topical dutasteride where we discussed why side effects are not experienced.

16 minutes ago, Mario_s90 said:

Sorry, but this is not correct. Erdogan does the analysis, defines the strategy, controls both the extraction and placement and does the incisions himself. Regarding my previous post, in other clinics the procedure is almost the same (apart from the fact that they probably run not multiple surgeries the same day).

I wonder how he can perform all these steps when having up to 8 surgeries a day. If he did all above mentioned on your surgery, that's great, happy for you, maybe you're the exception and not the rule. 

This is turning into Asmed apologetism here, so I'll stop, don't think it's fair to hijack OP's thread. 

1 hour ago, JayLDD said:

To suggest Doganay as an option but recommend against ASMED is mind numbingly absurd. It’s fine to think another clinic is better but when you say “techs doing all the operation” no you’re being totally disingenuous and jumping on a negativity bandwagon without knowing what you’re talking about.

But the techs are doing the surgery, Erdogan is supervising them, I will reiterate that until it numbs your mind some more. 

Yes, it's not a good idea, in fact it could be detrimental too as minox usually causes an initial shed, therefore the surgeon could hurt these temporarily shed native hairs by transplanting on them. 

And just like John said, most doctors advise you to stop using minox at least a week before.