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Never heard of getting a skin biopsy, details? From my consultings it's related to the types of techniques Diep uses. I've seen the same ones used on other reviews on here. Out of curiosity, do you know Rassman's practicing status? I saw on the forum that he has a cataract in one eye and he's only doing SMP now. He doesn't seem to have a website anymore either. I know that he was on the list of recommended surgeons but now isn't anymore. Thanks, this is exactly the type of information I was looking for. Do you remember the name of the other person? I was trying to find reviews from you, but I only found this

Very true. I meant for getting a repair. There's a place really close to me which would have been perfect, but I decided against, the rationalization being that someone who just does transplants would have more skill in that area. This was before I found this community.

Sounds like you went to someone who also does plastic/cosmetic in addition to hair transplants. Luckily I always took that as a red flag.

I am looking to repair a procedure I've had done by Dr. Diep. He seems to have some persistent practices in his transplants, so if possible I would like to go with a surgeon who has a lot of experience dealing with his work. From searching the forum, so far I found only found this post This person rates Dr Mwamba the highest, but this person has only just completed and it'll be a while for the final results to come out.

Who did your initial transplant?

Would love to see some pics + 1 month update .

I don't think so. The ones in the big city obviously charge a premium, but there's lots of others in mid sized cities that have great reps and don't charge a lot. Even including travel and hotel you can save a lot by going to them.

I'll be trying this soon, will post results

Looks promising. I bet there's plenty of people willing to put in 2-5k extra for a potentially scar reduction, bonus if it also restores hair.

Thanks for sharing Melvin. What an excellent journey, from analysis to execution. From the pictures it seems like there's no scarring in your beard. If you shaved, would you not be able to see any scarring at all? Would you recommend this procedure for those who prefer to be clean shaven?

I think it's worth looking into just for the scar reduction possibilities alone. I feel a lot of people would be willing to drop a few extra Ks for the drug as long as the risk is low enough.

That has been my experience. I now get the solution with min in it as as well. I think it's the alcohol or pg in rogaine which dissolved it. I've even tried it the day after and it still rushes the sides.

From https://www.xyonhealth.com/ ? I'm not able to see the % on the website.

If you do try it, you could microdose with topical and see how it goes. Something like 0.1% application once a week. Topical gets less systemic than oral.

Is there anyone who got sides with topical fin, but did not with topical dut?

I've been hearing that topical dut may not cause side effects for individuals who do get sides from topical fin, but I don't think I've seen a solid case of this yet.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/04/drug-enables-healing-without-scarring.html Currently available for of label use. Stanford filed patents earlier this year on using Verteporfin for wound healing and hair follicle neogenesis: https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2021021607 This sounds like it can results in infinite donor hair, and scar free repairs

Common ones are loss of libido, loss of sexual sensation, and/or unpleasant sensation in the genital/testicular area.

. California Specialty Pharmacy in Irvine CA uses 0.2% and probably can go lower.

Wow, I didn't realize it's that much. Funny, I have much less side effects 60mg 3x/week than 0.33mg/week oral fin. I am looking at this again https://old.reddit.com/r/tressless/comments/q83pff/new_topical_finasteride_study_oct_2021/ " peak plasma levels on topical finasteride were 100x lower" So that might be it. 60mg/week /100x -> .60 mg /week eq peak plasma levels. Switching to 1x per week would give the eq of .20mg/week, or .10mg/week if using 1%. There are others who use even lower concentration. California Specialty Pharmacy in Irvine CA uses 0.2% and probably can go lower. But I tried a year and got not much results, but on the other hands, I was doing other stuff differently too, like a lower microneedling length.

10mg? wow, I was assuming something like 1mg. So there's like 100mg of fin in a bottle? How did you figure this out? I was looking at my bottle but it doesn't have any info on total mgs

Dr Shapiro sources to farmacia parati which is where I get my topical liposomal fin. I've been minidosing (1mg worth of solution 3x/week) with that, and I have been getting results (DM me for pics), but at the same time I changed my microneedling length from 1.0mm to 1.5mm, so I can't isolate it the cause completely. I'm someone who got sides with oral fin, even at 1mg/week. Microdosing seems promosing. Looking at the chart, even a 1/16th dose decreased DHT by 25%. I might decrease my topical frequency even lower to 1x or 2x a week, even though I'm not getting sides, just because I don't feel anything doesn't mean something else isn't going on; DHT is used in a lot of other different biological functions. There was a study on reddit that showed that much less of topical goes systemic compared to oral https://old.reddit.com/r/tressless/comments/q83pff/new_topical_finasteride_study_oct_2021/ I saw the video by Hassan. He seems to been putting a lot of research into this. He mentioned that topical dut has no sides effects? I wonder how that works, since fin only effects 1 enzyme, but dut effects that and another one as well. I saw on the FUE clinic website that since it has a higher molecular weight, it doesn't get absorbed below the skin as easily. farmacia parati also does topical dut btw.

Is there any evidence that Nizoral works except for those with inflammation? I check every couple months but never find anything solid.

Great results @Grzegorz641 . Out of curiosity, did you try topic fin first, and it didn't work? Or did you go straight to topical dut?

hmm, can we get a picture of how it looks without the lighting to see the extent of how the scarring differs from your normal skin? Might be worth asking the derma if certain supplements would help. collagen, vitE, etc. Were the graph relocated further back, or just removed? If the former, did they grow in ok?