devnull

You likely can save money and just do a 1:1 mix with minoxidil, so you will get your 0.05 solution. 

Well it depends, pictures are neccessary. 

Honestly, the result looks fantastic and pretty good work has been done. 
I just think that the design is a little too aggressive, so I am praying for this guy to have not future loss. 

@ciaus My suspicion is that you are a troll and I will report you. 
You can just not blame me for helping out someone who is in trouble. Moreover people telling him to stop the medication, in contrast of that I give tips how to overcome Brainfog. 
I am not a medical doctor, anyways, us trans persons, have to deal a lot with hormones in general and hormonal imbalances. 
I am still pretty sure, that this is a problem of missing Allopregnanolone in downstream. 

But instead of offending me, I am very ecxited what tips do you have. 
So why is he suffering from brain fog and what can be done about it ?

On the other hand, if you are not willing to hear other peoples opinions and join a discussion, I am wondering why you enter a forum at all. 

21 minutes ago, ciaus said:

Nice to see "two", "new" members joining the forum the same day, hours apart, starting and maintaining most of the back and forth in this conversation.

How hard it must be for the fringe anti-finasteride crowd to be patient enough to create convincing scenarios for freaking guys out about taking finasteride.

🤨

TBH, I would really wait until the 2year timeline. Hair regrowth is sometimes pretty slow. 

Very soft and natural looking :+1:

16 hours ago, Rahal Hair Transplant said:

SoSoz,

While age is certainly a factor for doctors considering whether or not a patient is a candidate for hair restoration surgery, it’s certainly not the only factor and obviously not the most important one.

Believe me, I was pretty young when I started losing my hair also and was quite stressed and upset when it started happening. As it got worse, I became depressed and I knew I wanted to do something about it.  So I understand exactly how you feel. It’s a good thing that you found this discussion forum, which is a great place for getting genuine and honest information about the best hair restoration treatments and doctors   

For starters, I would definitely strongly consider getting on finasteride.  In fact, finasteride typically works the best at thickening thinning hair in men with diffuse thinning patterns, which you appear to have.  So in my opinion, I would consider getting on it for a good year to see how it works for you. Hopefully, at the very least it will slow down or even stop the progression of male pattern baldness and if you are lucky, it will thicken your thinning hair and it will make the appearance of your overall hair much thicker looking.

Keep in mind of course that finasteride does come with the potential for side effects and though rare, some men do experience them. That said, side effects do typically stop in the majority of men if they stop using the medication.  Of course, any benefit from the medication will also cease if finasteride is stopped.

Hopefully you’ll be a good responder to finasteride and after one year of treatment, you can proceed with hair transplant surgery.

I will tell you straight up, hair restoration is a marathon, not a sprint. I know how emotional it can be to lose your hair and I’m sure you would like a quick fix. But if you’re going to get it done right and are looking to restore a youthful looking appearance for the long term, it’s far better to follow a solid long-term hair restoration plan then to jump in the chair with the first doctor willing to operate on your head.

Best wishes,

Rahal Hair Transplant

So true, loosing hair in this young age can be very very depressing. I think it makes a big difference if you are balding with 20 instead of balding with 30. 
Literally it has destroyed the time of my life which should have been the “best”. 
I still suffer from that. 
I also agree that you need to jump on Fin ASAP, there are chances that your balding spot all over your head will cover up niceley. 

6 minutes ago, Severin said:

That's a depressing dose of reality! I was hoping that 0.05 topical might help, as 0.1 topical totally erased the sexual sides I had with oral fin. 

I'm sorry to hear you experienced it too. As a programmer, that must have been maddening. Hell - anything that requires remembering a sequence of 3 steps or more can become almost insurmountable.

I remember the feeling, it was quite hard to go trough, I felt so lost every day

But solving that problem is easy, just get utrogest and you will be fine. 

(Take it sublingual!)

Having a good doctor might help, if not you can get it via black market (see hrt.cafe). 
To save money you can move from topical Fin to oral. 
 

I don’t use Progesterone anymore, as I am trans, my 5ar will not be occupied by too much Testosterone, so my neurosteroid levels are fine. 

But before my transition, P4 helped me a lot and I got rid of the brain fog. 
 

I am an Hattingen patient too, must say, I literally had huge shock loss and before the 6th month mark, there was no regrowth to see at all. 
Anyways, even if I panicked, I was all over the roof, passing the 13th month mark. 

I recently had another transplant and I understand the frustration on that journey, even if I thought I would be prepared this time. 

You might also want to get your hormones checked, might be also that you have high estrogen and high testosterone, which gives a lot of discomfort.

I am working as a programmer, and FIN triggered this brain fog for me too, like you said: like in cotton UNSTANDABLE. This won't go away bit itself, so you need to do something against it, lowering the dose won't help unfortantly.

Another option - that's what I am doing - but you shouldn't.

Decrease your Testosterone to very low leves, so T is not competing with P4 on the 5ar2 anymore, and your levels of DHP4 will increase -> more Allopregnanolone.

She must be happy, pretty good work 😍

I'll try 😃

You are using Finasteride, which is an 5 alpha reductase inhibior.

5 alpha reductase, converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT).

But 5 alpha reductase, does more than that. You have a hormone in your body which is called Progestrone (typical an important hormone for woman). 

Progesterone will be converted to Dihydroprogesterone and finally to Allopregnanolone, which is a pretty important neurosteroid.

Most people's brain can adjust to the lowered Allopregnanonlone, but some can't.

So your option is to increase that Progesterone by adding some bio-indentical (Utrogest 100). So if you have more of that, you'll get the chanche to bind more of it to the 'still-active' 5 alpha reductase enzymes and increase Allopregnanonlone again. 

Your only option is to add bio-identical progesterone (utrogest) sublingual.

Problem is 5ar Inhibits P4->DHP4 transformation,  this means a decrease of allopregnanolone (important neusteroid) downstream.

Fantastic results, she must be pretty happy. 
I have the feeling, that the estrogen, that us trans girls are taking, really provides early growth. 
I can observe that, too. 
First transplant (without HRT) took much longer to mature than the latest one. 

I would also recommend waiting 12 months before jump on any hair transplant. It will thicken your native hair, which reduces shock loss. 
 

And most important: you really need to figure out m, that you can really imagine taking it until the rest of your life. 

44 minutes ago, Severin said:

Ok wow....that's really not so bad at all.

I can only recommend you to go to Hattingen and do a max strip. 
My baldness is really bad, with 25 I was much more bald than you. 
 

The 5200 Grafts was really doing wonders for me, but as I really want to have a illusion of density all over my scalp, in addition to my very fine hair, I need likely to double that amount. 
 

I had 7800 Grafts and still 2500 in my scalp donor. 
 

Without FUT this wouldn’t be possible, and I would be stuck

1 hour ago, Severin said:

Devnull, if I can ask...what would an FUT megasession like the one you had cost? I've saved several thousand by now and am considering taking out a small loan as well.

5k Grafts was about ~ 15k€ 

I also vote for Hattingen in Switzerland to start with a big FUT, as you might need more than 4000 Grafts in the first place. 

According to your future Hair loss, you can go on with FUE after and got a bigger amount of Lifetime-graft.

Did the same:

5200 FUT, Hattingen

2600 FUE, HLC

Starting with FUT was the best descision I ever made. 

As I live in Bavaria, driving to Hattingen and back was comfortable as well

You should speak with your doctor, he should inform you about this is normal. Actually you don't loose the actual hair papilla, just hair with some tissue.

Total normal. 

Sorry, I don't get the problem, blood clots appear, but shouldnt be an issue.  

Very soft hairline, but I don't like the transition from natural to implanted hair actually. 

Wow, just gorgeous, this case is really solved. 
I had 7800 Grafts with top notch doctors and I am not half way there, where the patient is. 
 

Good hair characteristics + top doc = wonderful result. 

And if so, how much extra Grafts can be approx harvested 

(maybe in percent m?)