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Absolutely, it's always worth trying, and tbh I was on minoxidil for about 5 years before adding fin, think it helped prevent the crown from receding as much as it otherwise might have, although didn't help the front at all. Yeah fair enough on the hair system, I just saw that case earlier and thought it looked good. Doubt that's a route i'd take either. SMP is getting better by the year though so I guess that's an option as well?

I doubt minoxidil alone will do much to stem the hairloss, but you never know. Would you consider a HT/ hair system mix, like the below?

Hi guys, so I thought I'd make a thread detailing my hair transplant journey so far with the Hair Dr. I had my first transplant there back in July last year, which consisted of 2000 grafts to the front. As shown below in the pics it didn't exactly go to plan and the density wasn't great (on the left side in particular). After chatting through with the Dr and Sommiya (practice manager) they agreed to redo the areas where growth was looking sparse, and at the same time I paid for an extra 1000 grafts to slightly bring my hairline down. Was originally quoted about 300 grafts to redo the area, however on the day the Dr agreed that more was needed so I think just over 800 grafts were used. They haven't sent over the pics directly post op yet, but I will upload them next week once I have them. The Dr wasn't entirely sure why the grafts had not taken as well as expected, although possible reasons were the punch size used at the time, which was I believe mainly 0.6mm and probably led to some trouble cleanly extracting anything more than 2 hair grafts. With this op he used a 0.9- 1mm punch. My donor area wasn't the best (it has strengthened a bit on finasteride), so this probably didn't help things. Dr Arshad was more selective with the hairs that were used from the donor area this time around. I'm not really going to detail the actual day of the surgery as most of you know the drill already, everyone at the clinic was lovely and the procedure went very smoothly. I've never had a problem getting a question answered either. Current Meds: Finasteride for the last 15 months, Nizoral shampoo once a week, minoxidil 1x per day- I alternate between the liquid and the foam (will try the tablet version soon after a bit more research), saw palmetto and biotin. No regrowth but the crown hasn't changed in the last year so this seems to be stabilising things. I was aware when going back that a few patients have had similar complications, although I did think that this was part of the game and that some would always need a second pass to get the results they wanted (Mike's FUE story is a good example of one who went from pretty good to amazing from the 1st to the 2nd procedure). I will say that from spending a lot of time on forums whilst i've been off work this last 2 weeks, it is a bit worrying to see the full volume of patients that are in the same position, but hopefully given that he probably sees over 400 patients a year, these cases are still in the minority. Anyway I'll keep putting out monthly updates and hopefully will achieve a good result! Does anyone have any tips for helping achieve maximum growth from the grafts?