John1991

That's a pretty good improvement. Do you have a post-op/graft placement picture?

If this isn't a troll, then you dodged a bullet. It's not as if you were Ronald Reagan earlier in the relationship, so for her to decide your hair loss was a deal breaker after getting engaged (and her demand to leach off of you financially) shows she's unhinged. And she also apparently was heavy to boot. I still feel for your situation and I'm sure this has been very hard on you. A solid part of me is with @HappyMan2021, this seems too train-wrecky to be real.

If someone did this to me, the thoughts I'd have afterwards wouldn't be fit to be written on a message board. I'll just end it there.

My guess is you'll be roughly back to normal-ish in a month or so and then actually normal in 2. Nothing to stress.

I'm at the 6 month mark right now and I can say that I recommend Bloxham highly. And I also had a pretty good head of hair to begin with. There are many good choices for you, but many on your list are definitely NOT good choices.

Looks quite good. And nice leather jacket in that before pic.

Looks like a very good result. It definitely feels good to get to that 6 month mark.

A couple of good outdoor lighting pictures from today and one more post shower one. I’ll update in a few months.

lol. I was in this exact situation and completely ghosted. Oh well. She was cute, but I knew pretty early on it was going to be more like a 5-6 month excuse, so no point in even bothering. Continued chatting with some chicks on "Hinge" right after surgery as if things were normal, but then deleted it. 6 months in and I still haven't started an account back. Honestly, the break from dating was way less hard than the general break from normal life. Also, things are looking good man. I bet things will thicken up a bit more in the coming months too.

I'm not a doctor man. You should have a doctor advise you what the best starting dose is. I'm on .625 mg and haven't noticed any sides. I may increase to 1.25 mg in a few months depending on how things go.

In most instances (if we're talking about first time transplant patients who had hairline recipient areas) the heavy majority of grafts will have popped by 6 months. What percentage is virtually unknowable.

Yes, cutting pills is a thing people do. That said, 10mg cut in half is still 5mg, which is too high - especially to start. You should cut it into quarters.

Thanks man. I agree. And the hairs on the left side (right as viewed in pictures) of the hairline aren't yet long enough to really flow since they're being combed the opposite direction of the way they grow. As a result, they just sort of stick up. I think when they're longer and thicker it'll look better for sure. As of now, it's no longer an issue in person in my daily life so I honestly don't spend that much time thinking about it. I would say that it looks better in person.

This. Dude, just because it's slowly happening doesn't mean it's a huge problem or something that would make a transplant unwise. I do think just "filling in the temples" isn't enough, though. You need to have the doc shave the entire frontal hairline area and reinforce behind your new hairline. It should be more like 2500-3000 grafts I'd imagine. Not 1000. Honestly, those pictures look like the hairline of a normal guy who has the level of recession you have. Many on this message board are insanely paranoid and fanatically obsessive about the slightest imperfections. Don't do that to yourself.

The first several are post shower yesterday and all but the last two after that are from today in various lighting situations. The last two pictures in bright sunlight are 3 weeks old. I’m happy and look forward to the thickening, texture improvement, and lengthening (which will help it blend better) that is to come.

Nizoral.

His pre-op hairline was fine. Nothing bad or unusual about it. A good transplant could've given him marginal improvement, but instead he made himself look silly. That said, yes, I guarantee you at 18 his hairline was lower. Again, no shame in that and it's not even bad looking, but to pretend it isn't minor MPB is goofy.

Except that the example in this thread clearly had hairline recession aka MPB. He can say he was born with a "slightly uneven hairline" all he wants, but I'd be willing to bet his hairline receded some from where it was when he was 18. Even minor recession is MPB. It may not progress much or it may take a long time to progress, but to pretend it's not MPB seems awfully wishful. It's almost as if any acknowledgement that one has any amount of hair loss should be met with shame. Silly.

Fair enough, but I pretty regularly see 6 month progress pics not look much different than the final result. I believe that thickening and texture improvement occur, but it seems they often aren't very well picked up on camera.

Henry Cavill "maybe could do well"?? Cavill is a total stud and has a great head of hair. If you're saying he could do well bald, then yes I agree. lol. If a guy can't get chicks with minor hairline recession, getting a hair transplant isn't going to suddenly make him do well. And all that's besides the point. This particular example was way too aggressive and looks horrible. There is no reasonable metric by which you could say this case wasn't very aggressive. Whether you think it looks good is a matter of subject opinion, but I think it's way overdone and he looks worse after than he did before (which is the opposite of the goal). @Fue3361yes, you both lowered, but other than that you two weren't at all similar given that yours looks excellent and his looks horrible. lol

I'm not a clinic representative, so buckle up for my non-diplomatic response. Yes, that hairline is way too aggressive. Quite frankly, it looks moronic. Especially on a white guy. And the brief video I've seen of this guy describing himself as being born with a "slightly uneven hairline" that he just wanted to make "natural and straight" is cringeworthy. He acts as if his hairline was some weird irregularity from birth, but in truth he just had mild hairline recession that's pretty common in men especially starting in their mid 20s. And his new hairline doesn't look natural at all. Here's the full video. I have no clue what that clown of a doctor is talking about when he says he'd only perform that kind of procedure on someone without hair loss. The guy clearly had mild hairline recession. He looks worse post-op than he did prior. He could've had a less aggressive procedure and benefited marginally from it, but instead he now will have to keep up a ridiculously low, flat, and unnatural hairline that's as low as most 15 year olds hairlines. That screenshot is laughable. I'll go a step further and say this is the tasteless, trashy version of @Fue3361's procedure. His looked natural and appropriate whereas this guy honestly looks like a clown.

I see this written often, but rarely see it in photos. 6 months and onwards seems to be far more about thickening and getting long enough to match the rest of the hair than about new grafts sprouting.

I’m truth, shaving is the best option for some people.

Some honest observations - come to your own conclusions. 1. You have very aggressive loss for your age especially considering that you've been on fin for a year. 2. There is no way you will have a full, dense head of hair after one procedure. Even if you do get surgery by January you won't be free from your desire to wear a hat by your wedding date. And even the final results of your first procedure (if you have it in January) won't be entirely present by August. 3. You're engaged to be married, so it's not as if you're in a situation where you "need" this to go out and have an active dating life. You have someone who (presumably) cares for you quite a bit regardless of your hair. 4. You have to be judicious with the finite donor you do have and the results of hair transplantation are something you will have and have to maintain for years to come, far beyond just your wedding in August. You should go to someone who's top notch (not McGrath). 5. To piggy back off point 2, if this is an arranged marriage and the two of you haven't yet met, you will still have visible loss next August regardless of whether you have a procedure in January. I very much empathize with your situation, but the worst thing you can do now is rush the process. If you're going to go down this road it's going to take 2 procedures and much patience. I wish you the best, but I just don't want to see you throw yourself into something rashly and then end up feeling worse.

With the right intervention, PFS isn't an issue. Have you considered a topical like RU58841?