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What do you mean, exactly? Like going more into my mid scalp or crown? If so the answer is no; I just don’t really have any thinning there thankfully for whatever reason. It’s all in my temples and close to my hairline.

I think you are right. It’s funny, I’m actually on a train from Ottawa to Montréal as we speak, coming back from a visit with Dr. Rahal. He more or less drew a similar hairline to my H&W consultation with a similar graft count, approximately ~3000. This seems to be the highest that either doctor recommends so that I keep some grafts for the future. The visit actually helped align my expectations, and I don’t think I would do anything more aggressive than this at this stage of my life. Funny, it’s almost like the doctors that have been doing this for decades know what they’re talking about compared to my ideas, lol.

Lmaoo yeah talk about two bad options. I think with the gyno though there’s a chance it was psychosomatic, because I can tend to worry a lot and I was paying so much attention I may have “manifested” the symptoms, I don’t really know but I wouldn’t put it past my brain lol. That being said, I wasn’t going to wait to see, so I switched to topical which I’d rather do anyway just to have less in my system no matter what. Not sure how the concentrations break down, I can take a picture of the label when I’m back home in a few days.

Spot on with the retrograde, it’s noticeable in the back of my head at my nape of my neck as well. Luckily my crown is not thinning at all, and my mid is just very slight. It’s really mostly only the temple recession, just extending a bit deeper.

It’s definitely not too good to be true. In fact, if it gives it more legitimacy, Dr. Hasson himself mentioned he’s used topical for a long time and he recommends it to patients. I was experiencing gynecomastia. This is probably too much information but I tend to carry a bit more fat in my chest anyway so I think I was maybe somewhat genetically predisposed to having issues with chest/breast tissue enlargement hormonally. Haven’t seen the same issue with topical. If it helps though, I never experienced anything sexual even on the oral.

Luckily no, but I’m using it topically. I started with oral though and I did experience some, hence the switch to topical.

Yes I know you are right, but I’m just dreaming I guess haha. Luckily with finasteride I have seen my loss pretty much stop (been on it for a year). So assuming I take it for life I’m hoping this is where I’ll stay.

I'm definitely going for the lower. I'm just wondering if I'll be happy with that, if it's even low enough. My main goal is as much hairline lowering as possible. I wonder if it could ever be a better idea to somehow have a little less density so it could be lower. Or I wonder if a denser, higher hairline would still make me most satisfied. Decisions, decisions.

Appreciate the perspective. I think it can be deceiving because the thinning does actually go kind of far back into my head. I actually was trying to decide if I felt like the lower of the two options was even "enough" for me to justify the cost and ordeal of a HT, as I was hoping for more lowering and temple closure. But I think it's a case of me needing to align my expectations. I suppose a dense, higher hairline post-transplant would be better than a thinner, lower one.

I genuinely appreciate that perspective. I plan on being on finasteride for life so hopefully I won’t need them at any point, but it definitely can be uncertain. It’s just hard to balance because even though it could be much worse, it’s one of those things where I look at it every day and hate it; it’s all relative I guess. I’m actually seeing Dr. Rahal next week, will be interesting to see if his assessment is similar.

I have to admit, I thought the same at first. If I would have guessed what 3000 would accomplish on my head with my level of hair loss, I would have guessed it would be a significantly lower hairline. But the thinning does extend deceptively far into my head and I have thin hair. Maybe I need to just re-align my expectations. I was disappointed to be underwhelmed though, not gonna lie.

Hey Everyone, I had a consultation with Dr. Hasson recently, and have a surgery date later this month, November 26th. Take a look at the hairline drawn in, and notice the second dotted line which is lower and only on one side of my head, and imagine that extended all the way across my head. Dr. Hasson originally estimated ~2500 grafts for the higher line, and ~3000 for the lower. I think think many of us always wish we could accomplish more than what is usually possible, but what do you think about the new hairline placement and what the result would be? Having the normal pre-surgery doubts and jitters, but I'm sure I'll be very glad I did once it's all said and done.