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  1. 7 hours ago, StayThick36 said:

    Based on your current state, big growth days are still ahead. The next 2 months will be huge for you and thinking about your hair constantly will be something you can put behind you. 
     

    Consider yourself blessed. My hairloss is more advanced than yours, so I already have a 2nd procedure lined up with Freitas for crown work and any additional areas that require more density or touch up. Freitas can’t determine that until around 9 months post op from my 1st procedure with him, but I have enough grafts still available for full coverage which is great news.
     

    I wish I was one and done because of the process we are both experiencing at the moment. It can be mentally taxing, but I’m personally focused on the end result.

    Looking forward to watching your progress and the mop of hair that’s to come your way. It’s coming. Happy growing my friend.   

    Same boat.

  2. Looks good work for me, plus you got very thick hair behind from the middle and i'm sure you will get a great result.

    Hair Transplants usually are ilusions of density so your current hair is unlikely to match the original one but if you wear it long as I have all signs of surgery shall immediately disappear and no one will be able to tell you had work done. I wouldn't fret too much about rows as someone who isn't a fan of short buzzes.

  3. 6 minutes ago, Benben said:

    @TheGreatPretender my  hair not looking that worse because I take a lot of precautions by exemple I dont wet my hair a lot when im in the shower and its been over a year because my hairline was going way back when my hair are wet

    I'm sorry to give you the bad news but when it comes to MPB it doesn't really matter if you wet your hair in the shower or not. If the 5AR enzyme ever finds your way to the AR receptors In your folicles, that means your hair will go off at some point regardless of the daily care you give it. 

    I once thought that using a specific shampoo caused me hair loss then I switched and it only got worse. Switched it again until I realized that the issue was way deeper than I thought. Don't make the same mistake, stay on course and protect yourself from the need of getting a surgery if possible. Give 1 or 2 years to meds before commiting to surgery and listen to what @Gatsby said. 

  4. 2 minutes ago, Benben said:

    I took rogaine and finasteride but im not seeing any improvement at all

    You need to keep taking so you can protect your native hairs from falling out. Transplants will merely improve on what you have but they won't stop you from losing any further, that is medication's job. 

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  5. Honestly your hair looks great. I wouldn't even think for a hair transplant in your case.

    2 questions first:

    Have you been diagnosed with MPB?

    If yes are you on medications?

    Please remember surgery is always the last resort and if both answers to the above questions are yes you should be looking for doctors capable of doing your hair type. 

    You will need medication to prevent further surgeries down the road and ensure you don't receeed any further or lose more hair. A good doctor will likely give you a detailed look for what to expect when starting medical therapy. 

    But it's always important to go back to the first question and ask if you have mpb at all which once again comes back in getting a good 1 to 1 with a professional specialising in MPB cases. 

  6. 6 hours ago, duchaine said:

    If I was you, I would add some microneedling. I can see a difference when I use it

    A bit unsure about microneedling in general. I think there's very little evidence that suggest it works and I am also not into making my head bleed from it. 

    For now I will keep these two medications and revaluate during summer. 

  7. Just now, duchaine said:

    Mmmm… hard to say. 
    after the ht, my crown was really bad (I think I had something like a shock loss even if I didn’t treat that area).

    according to my pics, after 5-6 the crown was closed but I got this ultra covering effect after 10-13 months.

     Interesting. Seems like you are a hyper responder though to recover it so quickly. 

    I am almost 7 months in and I am just starting to see it populate and get some more texture alongside my transplanted hairs. I haven't implanted any hairs in there so I am fully dependent in oral minoxidil + 0.5 MG of oral dutasteride.

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  8. I stopped Finasteride after the second day of surgery and completed the swap to Dut a week later.

    Needless to say it didn't affect my hair one bit since its not enough time for the "trash hormone" to bind into your folicles.

    Howeaver this was done by my clinics request since they didn't want to overload my body alongside the medication I was already taking for the transplant and I was fine with it. 

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  9. Just now, Maorizio said:

    Minoxidil will never defeat AGA long term oral or topical, maybe it will win the ridiculous weak ones that lose hair slowly and reaching Norwood 2-3 by the age of 40+
     

    If the AGA is pretty much aggressive then you must use 5ARIs and even then who knows.

    I'd say even if its not its always better to use them then risk the scenario of getting it worse because some guys can go from norwood 2 to 5 in a matter of 1 or 2 years either their're 30 or 40 its just unpredictable. 

    You really need to stop the desease before it gets through, best way of doing it is starting medical therapy and saddly there haven't been any advances for alternatives when it comes to keeping your hair indefinitely.

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  10. I think using Minoxidil alone is more delaying the inevitable. Saddly the long term data of Oral Minoxidil is a bit scarce at this point howeaver I have few doubts that in time DHT will take over the hair folicle and the hair will die. The problem is even how long this will take is also an unknown veriable since you can't really predict when will baldness get more or less agressive moreso knowing you aren't inhibiting the evil hormone causing this to happen.

    I am taking 0.5 Dutasteride and 5MG of Oral Minoxidil and so far it seems to be getting better.

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