SoSoz

Did you retest your serum dht?

23 hours ago, Melvin- Moderator said:

Pm me your name and infor, I can find out what happened for you and make sure you receive a call.

For now I decided to not go with them anymore.

Hi, I want to order topical fin or dut liposomal, because my scalp gets very irritated from the minoxidil, so I have to switch to foam version. I wanted to get xyon health one, but it's not available in europe, I've heard about a company farmaciaparati but I can't find their website with products. 

Crazy, it made you look 10 years younger. Were you on meds prior to surgery or started just after?

15 minutes ago, ITA said:

So it may be that your representative did not have time to talk to the doctor about it.

He confirmed a call on certain time day before. Just bit unprofessional that the call never happened without any information and proceeded with no responding.

2 hours ago, ITA said:

You are right, at this point I agree with Melvin when he suggests to @SoSozthat if he doesn’t trust of the surgeon, it is better not to go with him, also because, at a certain point, Yaman stopped answering him (and this is not synonymous with seriousness), so it's best to leave Yaman alone.

I believe I didn't speak with Dr Yaman at all, but his representative. He was ment to set up call with Dr Yaman so I can speak over camera with him at certain time. When I was on that time I didn't receive any call from Dr Yaman, so I contacted his representative and didn't bother to reply why the call didn't happen. Since then they never reply and just ignore.

18 minutes ago, BRITA-XL said:

Think about if you want to start with FUT, it’s important to consider the types of scar you will have. Starting out with FUT means that linear scar will be noticeable with shorter hair cuts, FUE of course creates scars but it’s usually easier to still have the benefit of shorter styles. 
So many Drs have moved away from FUTs, you will only really see it being done in the US these days, of course it’s still used for certain cases or in higher Norwoods sometimes. 
With guys like Zarev, Pittella etc pushing what can be achieved with FUE then you really have to think about if you want that FUT scar for life. 
What Norwood level would you say you’re classed as?

wound were trichophytic closure has been used is not even visible at 1.5mm haircut and is pencil thin

So I've sent them photos for consultations, I had a call with one of their representatives telling me I will need 5-6k grafts for a procedure because they use manual method that doesn't cause visible scarring and that I will not have to take finasteride and tried to convice me for the surgery. After I was doubtful about that, I said that other surgerons recommend max 3k since I am young patient and I'd prefer to go with lower amount, they stopped replying to me completely to any of my questions. Anyone experienced something like that?

And after FUT the guy can propably get another 4000-5000 FUE with ease, or another strip with 3k.

People said end of march, and now april?

If someone decides to get a HT and before it he has to stop minoxidil for like 10 days, and post surgery for at least 10 days. Will we lose a lot of hair  that we have recovered with topical minoxidil?

7 hours ago, Berik said:

Make sure you can tolerate finasteride/dutasteride/etc. before even thinking about a transplant IMO... transplants for diffuse thinning are always more challenging and you could spend a lifetime of transplants trying to chase your miniaturizing native hairs. 

 

The positive side is most of the time diffuse thinners respond very well to medication, it's possible after a year of minoxidil + fin/dut you decide you are satisfied with your hair recovery and delay a transplant until you begin to lose more ground.

Somehow Melvin can't tolerate finasteride and done multiple transplants.

OP: Before, anyone would tell you that 25 is the good age for transplant, now for some reason it changed to 30, later maybe it will be 40.. 😅

On 3/24/2023 at 4:23 PM, GeneralNorwood said:

In 2 weeks it will be 11 months. 

Slick back doesn't look so good yet. I took this pictures 2  days ago : 

gigachad hairline tbh, was worth it

I felt really dizzy at one point after taking it and stopped. I thought I will collapse. Never felt like that before.

Why did you decide to go with topical dut and not topical fin? Is there less chance of sides with topical dut? Also will they ship this to europe?

Is it okay to use minoxidil just for crown regrowth? I am having terrible skin flaking after minoxidil on entire saclp scalp, are there any ways to avoid this?

On 2/13/2023 at 10:42 PM, Melvin- Moderator said:

First of all, he said he switched from oral finasteride to oral minoxidil and saw no difference. What’s wrong with giving his own personal experience. I have been taking oral minoxidil for 6 months, and it’s a game changer. 

This is getting absurd. Oral minoxidil has been around WAY before finasteride. As a matter of fact, it started off as a blood pressure medication that had a secondary effect of hair growth. How on earth can anyone say there aren’t any long term studies. It’s the EXACT same drug as the topical, except oral. You guys need to stay off reddit. 
 

Here’s a study from 1987, is 30+ years long term enough.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0190962287700929

What do you think about cycling oral minox? Like 1 year on it, then 1 year break and so on?

Is this a bait thread?

So if you are missing most of your hair in front of your scalp and you can choose between getting safer hairline like nw2 (Henry Cavill) but much more thicker or getting a nw1 hairline but much less dense and hope that illusion will do it's thing. What is a better choice here?

Your donor looks depleted like you just had surgery

1 minute ago, Joseph James said:

Did you end up continuing with the finasteride? I tried 1 mg every day and got insomnia. Tried 1 mg every other day and still got insomnia.

Stopped, messed up with my libido too much. Tried 1mg eod for 2 weeks

Are these pictures straight after surgery? The recipent looks very clean and no blood visible

Does this cause less side effects than the finasteride gel? 

Looks great, does patient need crown work in future?

This is good example to not rush into surgery..