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Thanks for the input Dr. Charles! I'm curious as I've seen it from a few of the comments on this thread: in your experience when it comes to temple points would you be able to offer any insight into what makes it such a difficult area to get good outcomes in? And a follow up to that, when the temple points are an issue (gone or nearly gone for example) do you see having them restored as a necessary part of a good surgical plan or is it more of a decision to be made on a case by case basis? Just trying to understand more around this as before posting here I hadn't considered it as an area to pay attention to for some reason (possibly because mine have been gone for so long lol). Thanks!

Thanks everyone for the input, comments and feedback so far! I've got a few more consultations booked in and your contributions have helped me come up with some more specific questions I need to ask and things to understand/consider. I'm going to be doing more research into the different medications available as I've admittedly kind of put my head in the sand just being on Fin and not bothering to see how these treatments have progressed. The Fin has slowed the loss but it sounds like there are other options which could be good compliments or alternatives which I need to investigate so thank you. If anyone has good resources they like and want to suggest please let me know - I know there's a space on here around the topic so I'll start there and see what I uncover. Will keep an eye on yours as well as it's always nice to see journeys of those with similar hair! One thing I failed to mention in my original post is that my hair in the photos was damp, not sure how big of a difference it makes but when dry and seen in person it's noticeable I'm ginger lol. My donor is relatively thick I'd like to think (though I might be biased ). Unfortunately no pics with it cut closer as that's the shortest I generally keep it (these pics were ~1 week post haircut I think).

Thanks mate that's really helpful feedback - I hadn't thought of going for a middle ground of adding a few hundred to the crown but will definitely consider it and bring it up during consultations! The temples are for sure an area I need to put more thought and research into to understand what my goals should be around them and what that means in terms of choosing a clinic. Thanks again

Thanks for the reply and the feedback!! I've been thinking of getting back on Minoxidil but need to refresh myself and see if anything has changed since I tried it 4-5 years ago but then stopped (no real reason I stopped just mid 20s laziness I imagine). Agree the temple points are pretty much non-existent at this stage. I'd definitely be interested in bringing them back, especially if it provides an overall better aesthetic - I think I've seen posts before on the forum that suggest HTs without the temples tend to not look at great in the end. Any thoughts on this one way or the other? Also if you don't mind me asking, which Drs. in your opinion tend to do the best with that type of thing? I wasn't aware of the specialist nature of the temple area work and as @JoeMan below mentioned something similar I'd like to learn more there. Re Finasteride I'm on 1mg everyday (apart from the occasional day I forget 😅)

Hi all! Similar to some who've posted here before me I'm a longtime creeper on the forum but only recently created a profile and built up the courage to post. I'll try to keep my post short but I wanted to get the input of everyone here on my current situation and any thoughts or suggestions in terms of next steps. A bit about me: I noticed I was losing hair around 24. I'm currently 31 and have been on 1mg fin/daily for ~4 years which seems to have at least slowed the loss. I have a history of hairloss on both sides of my family so while this was expected, it obviously still sucks lol. I've been consulting with a few HT surgeons which I discovered through the recommended list here and your all's experiences (huge thank you to everyone who has shared their journeys!!). The general consensus seems to be ~2000 grafts for frontal third and hairline restoration. Their opinions on donor is that it looks strong but I don't have any specific metrics on it apart from that. In terms of my current plan (and please I'd love feedback here as there are likely things I'm missing) I'm thinking of going with the ~2000 grafts for the frontal third and hairline for the first surgery. From what I've read, once you've had one HT you should generally expect to have another in your life so I'm going on the assumption this will be the case for me as well. With that in mind, after the first one I plan to wait the 12+ month's until it's healed up and see if I need to do more to either top that up or start thinking about going in and improving density in the crown and midscalp at some point in the future. In the meantime, from the clinic's I've spoken to it seems I may be able to maintain my crown with a regimen of oral and topical meds. I think it's reasonable to expect I'll continue to lose hair to some degree in my crown and midscalp so my thought is that waiting awhile to see how that develops may be the best way to approach it, rather than going for the full monty from the start and having to do upwards of 3000 or more grafts at once. Again, would really appreciate thoughts on this! Anyway I think that's enough rambling from me. Thanks for making it this far and sharing your thoughts if you have any

@GB1 how's it been going since the last update? Hope you've seen some good progression