Jerome

On 7/26/2015 at 11:56 AM, Melvin- Admin said:

Hi everyone,

 

Im making this thread because there might be alot of guys out there in my situation, I was a diffuse norwood 6 thinner with retrograde alopecia, before deciding to do a hair trasnpant I often searched hair loss forums, members would constantly dissuade individuals from receiving hair restoration because of extensive hairloss. At 29 years old I decided to do it, I had my first procedure with Dr. Behnam in Santa Monica I had 1,800 grafts put in my midscalp in a diffuse pattern. I  recently decided to have 2,120 grafts implanted to my hairline by Dr. D**** in Los Gatos, im one week post op, but I just wanted to address some apprehensions.

When deciding to have hair restoration you need to first stabilize hairloss, ive been on minoxidil and ketocanozole shampoo for over 4 years, no hair regrowth but my hairloss hasn't gotten much worse, I tried Finasteride but couldn't handle the sides, but I encourage everyone to at least try it.

Secondly, what is your goal realistically, it should be always be natural, address the hairline, midscalp and lateral humps first and foremost, the crown must be something you're willing to leave thin or completely bald.

Thirdly, you must be willing to step outside the box should worst case scenario come in to play, what I mean by this is that you must be willing to invest your time and money if the hair transplant should not come to fruition, for example I have average to below average donor density due to my retrograde alopecia, my hair characteristics are fairly good though, so I plan to use as much of my donor as possible with the possibility of going over 50% donor density. My back up plan is body hair transplant (BHT) to the donor area to make up for the donor depletion, luckily I have alot of body hair I could probably use over 30,000 follicular units just on body hair alone. I also wear my hair short on the sides so the change in hair characteristics from body hair to scalp wont be too apparent in the donor area.

All things considered, MONEY, what I plan on doing will cost me the price of a brand new Mercedez Benz, are you in a position to afford this? Is it worth it to you? I truly dislike when people automatically write off Norwood 6/7 as hopeless, there is still hope if you have managed your hair loss and have realistic expectations, with body hair transplantion you're not solely reliant on hair from your scalp anymore. So with out further ive attached some pics of my first procedure before and after exactly 14 months post op, picture taken same place same lighting with Crew hair wax (not a concealer just hair product).

The other pictures attached are my recent hair transplant sides and donor area. Its been exactly 8 days since I had the procedure done, both procedure were done via FUE.

On 7/26/2015 at 11:56 AM, Melvin- Admin said:

Hi everyone,

 

Im making this thread because there might be alot of guys out there in my situation, I was a diffuse norwood 6 thinner with retrograde alopecia, before deciding to do a hair trasnpant I often searched hair loss forums, members would constantly dissuade individuals from receiving hair restoration because of extensive hairloss. At 29 years old I decided to do it, I had my first procedure with Dr. Behnam in Santa Monica I had 1,800 grafts put in my midscalp in a diffuse pattern. I  recently decided to have 2,120 grafts implanted to my hairline by Dr. D**** in Los Gatos, im one week post op, but I just wanted to address some apprehensions.

When deciding to have hair restoration you need to first stabilize hairloss, ive been on minoxidil and ketocanozole shampoo for over 4 years, no hair regrowth but my hairloss hasn't gotten much worse, I tried Finasteride but couldn't handle the sides, but I encourage everyone to at least try it.

Secondly, what is your goal realistically, it should be always be natural, address the hairline, midscalp and lateral humps first and foremost, the crown must be something you're willing to leave thin or completely bald.

Thirdly, you must be willing to step outside the box should worst case scenario come in to play, what I mean by this is that you must be willing to invest your time and money if the hair transplant should not come to fruition, for example I have average to below average donor density due to my retrograde alopecia, my hair characteristics are fairly good though, so I plan to use as much of my donor as possible with the possibility of going over 50% donor density. My back up plan is body hair transplant (BHT) to the donor area to make up for the donor depletion, luckily I have alot of body hair I could probably use over 30,000 follicular units just on body hair alone. I also wear my hair short on the sides so the change in hair characteristics from body hair to scalp wont be too apparent in the donor area.

All things considered, MONEY, what I plan on doing will cost me the price of a brand new Mercedez Benz, are you in a position to afford this? Is it worth it to you? I truly dislike when people automatically write off Norwood 6/7 as hopeless, there is still hope if you have managed your hair loss and have realistic expectations, with body hair transplantion you're not solely reliant on hair from your scalp anymore. So with out further ive attached some pics of my first procedure before and after exactly 14 months post op, picture taken same place same lighting with Crew hair wax (not a concealer just hair product).

The other pictures attached are my recent hair transplant sides and donor area. Its been exactly 8 days since I had the procedure done, both procedure were done via FUE.

is the very first pic the result .

If only it was that simple to sleep without your head rubbing against the pillow while u turn while you are asleep.

Have people ever had a hair transplant with diffuse hair loss.

Can people with pre diabetes or type 2 diabetes still have a procedure performed what is the concerns with these type of patients will the grafts still grow in if someone has this .

What if your back hurts and u dont feel comfortable laying on it all night.

u really have to train yourself to sleep like that.especially if something in your body hurts where u have to move to get comfortable.

they say it has the best most consistent growth yields.

yeah its really confusing how to pay in a different country and also the tax and foreign exchange rate .

is this  a real result.

what do you mean.

least u got a card.

ive known peple who got good results in turkey so dont let anyone tell u not to go people are just jeulous cause they do alot of surgeries.

i wanna get a surgery but the sleeping at a incline looks so uncomfortabe.

why not do another strip.

Why do they call hair loss sufferers patients when its 95 percent due to a genetic pre disposition.

why do people get a few surgeries and act like theyre authoritys in the field .

it might grow in .

they kinda told me the same thing but these other doctors said they could do it

idk some of those techs might be getting good at doing this kinda work never know .

ive heard of people getting good results from them.

Yeah they kinda said the same thing .

Can anyone share there experience of traveling to a foreign country to get a procedure was it easy ,difficult, scary.

How was the trip to india were u scared nervous how did u get in the country.

I heard fut gets better growth and u can have more donor for the future but i heard fue gets almost the same growth rate but a little lower cause you twist,rip,pull grafts out and they should only be used in small sessions but the doctors that are anti fue just dont know how to do it.

what do you do when you in advertantly toss and turn at night.