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As a woman, she might be more sensitive to not wanting her photos shared for whatever reason. Maybe religious or cultural or personal reasons if the photos aren’t flattering etc etc Men usually don’t care about this stuff as much.

You gave the impression you quit finasteride after HT, which you say you didn’t then yes this is a bad result. Seems like asmed has become just a hairmill with bad results and should be avoided.

They are as permanent as the donor area they're taken from.

and they say Bicer doesn't have exceptional results. This is just fantastic

This is true of any country, though.

Looks really good! I will add Demirsoy to my list of doctors to consider when I go for my HT

Are you taking any medication?

I am not defending Erdogan. But you want objective opinions and here is mine. This looks to be a successful transplant. You stopped finasteride which was keeping the heavily minitiarized few hours at the top of your head, those native hairs are gone and now the transplanted hairs are there alone covering your head, of course the density isn’t there. 5000 grafts are covering your whole head which without the HT would be completely bald and appears to be. In your case, I think all the follicles grew because you would’ve a bald spot somewhere which you don’t. You don’t have density because you don’t have native hairs anymore. You haven’t shown your donor which probably means it isn’t butchered and completely fine. And you say you have more hair in the bank after 5k grafts!!. What more could you want from a HT? A little toppik and you wouldn’t even need another HT especially since you’re not even on meds. I am sorry but yes, you will get blamed if you don’t take finasteride or minoxidil especially when the miniaturisation is so obvious and barely any native hairs left to cover bald spot. I am a nw6ish and still take fin holding on to few hairs that have not made my hair completely shiny and allow toppik use. If I stop I will probably get worse where a HT will not just look as good but with the few native hairs, I can even appear to have density. Yes, even a few hairs can make a huge difference. All that said, seems like asmed isn’t getting good reviews lately but this? this is a good job and to say otherwise just won’t be honest. Indeed some of the posters are just weird who are recommending not even going to Turkey which is absurd. Check out Melvin stickied thread. There are people who get 9k/10k grafts and still see through. Are they failed transplants? Absolutely not. If you were on fin or minox and still had this result then yes it would be bad. Just look at your preop, fin and min are struggling to keep them alive 😂 I guess this is why some top HT docs are so selective with patients they take and dismiss high norwoods because the expectations are unrealistic.

I am curious what’s your train of thought here. The follicles get sad and will stop growing? 💁🏻‍♀️

In 40s/50s you don’t seem out of place and everyone expects you to show signs of some balding. People also generally have accepted their fate by this age and are much more comfortable in their skin better able to cope and deal with it. It is a completely different experience in 20s or in the teens. You misunderstood my post. I don’t mean you stop caring past a certain age, just the impact of hairloss is different at different ages. And the advice OP is getting is he shouldn’t have a transplant because he’s young. He absolutely should have a transplant and in my opinion if someone is using medication then they can have it young because like I said the most devastating and impactful years are the 20s and 30s so why not take care of this problem at a time its the most troublesome.

Bicer, Demirsoy, HLC, Pekiner, Keser A bit hit and miss is Erdogan. If you’re a low Norwood and don’t have money you can go there.

Bro, you went to a hair mill. This problem isn’t exclusive to Turkey, the butchering I have seen from some clinics in US lol. There are good clinics in every country, just have to find them. Saw news about one person even dying in India from hair transplant on the table, I mean by that criteria you will say whole India is bad? No of course not.

I would go with Bicer without worry. Have yet to see a bad result from her. If the hairloss wasn’t as significant then even HLC is a good option who produce good results, most times exceptional and the few bad cases here aren’t really that bad, just exceptional expectations not met. I have heard great things about Demirsoy, Pekiner and Keser. Can’t recommend them simply because I just don’t know enough about them. And they don’t get posted here a lot for some reason, think one of them is even banned? Someone posted a review fee days ago then was deleted (it was a good review). But I haven’t seen a botched job from either of them. If money isn’t a concern, go for Bisinga, Zarev, Freitas, konoir, h&w…they’re so expensive though that you will go bankrupt lol. Eugenix is also not cheap even though theyre in India and the cheaper packages you don’t get operated on by the popular doctors which makes me uneasy so I can’t recommend them unless you go for the most expensive.

Thing is the locals probably get treated differently than the foreigners. It’s actually a common thing with the culture there where foreigners are held in high regard. So some of the locals might have had bad surgery or experience since it’s a tech driven business judging from the reviews here and they necessarily won’t have received the best care or best techs on cheaper packages. There’s your explanation for why there are bad reviews. Keep in mind this is just conjecture and I could be wrong but based on what I’ve experienced with similar places, it’s most likely the case.

Thing is there are plenty of doctors doing great hair transplant work but they’re unheard of in this forum simply because the patients or doctors are unaware of this forum. This blue magic group clinic could be the same. If money is an issue, you can instead just do a small grafts transplant say 200-500 etc and see the results. If they make it out alive, it would mean the clinic is good and handle the grafts well, that’s the difference between good and bad clinics, the bad ones murder the grafts because of bad practices or extraction etc. Keep in mind the doctors highly regarded here are super expensive. If money isn’t an issue then definitely go for the couto,H&w, zarev etc

If you’re taking fin, there’s no reason why you can’t have a transplant at 24. Heck, you could probably even get off it for a year or two then continue. Your hairloss also follows a pattern instead of the diffuse thinning all over and doesn’t seem that aggressive. Plenty of people just stop at nw3 or nw4 without drugs. The issue with transplant at young age is no medication. Plenty of young people think they get a HT and solved the problem for life, don’t use medication and it ends up getting worse. Look around and you will see so many destined to be norwood 7s still be nw2/3 on fin/minoxidil. There was a guy recently with a very aggressive hairloss obvious nw7 but he’s been maintaining at nw2ish The best years of your life are in 20s anyway, then 30s. Nobody cares about hair that much in 40s or 50s , I mean it’s expected. But if you’re bald at 20 you look like a freak among your friends so personally I think HT in 20s is fine especially if your hairloss doesn’t seem that aggressive and you’re on meds

Sorry, my reply seemed very harsh. Didn’t mean it like that. I don’t know the answer to your questions, I have never even heard of clogged follicles causing hairloss, the closest thing is folliculitis which is a bacterial or fungal infection leading to death of hair follicles if left untreated. I do know that if your hair stopped growing due to being clogged/infected, that would mean they died or severely damaged in which case there’s no chance they will grow back again. Once the follicle is gone, it’s gone forever. I still believe it’s genetic hairloss. Posting your pictures will easily show it. Hairloss from follicultis, you would be really unlucky if that has happened.

This has to be the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard, sorry. The body doesn’t forget what to do, if there are healthy follicles there, they will grow hair. Simple as that. When they take a follicle from the back of your head and it’s outside for quite sometime, replanted, do you think it forgets to grow hairs ? Did you have folliculitis or are you just assuming that you have hairloss from follicules being blocked?. It just sounds genetic hairloss to me

The good thing is you’ve gotten on medication quickly before it got really bad. Instead of using oral minoxidil, use the topical version. There’s no real benefit to using the oral version but you are killing your heart and exposing yourself to serious side effects.

I think I read somewhere few years ago that the transplanted hair actually inherit/adapt the features of the recipient area ie become sensitive to DHT. How much of that happens and how much the recepient area changes to the DHT resistant hairs from back, that’s something for further research. Perhaps this is where individual differences we see here. I know people who don’t take any meds and still retain their transplanted hair for life but then there’s cases like yours. It could also simply be you’re a Norwood 7 with very thin safe zone and the hairs they took were not the safe zone. When those unsafe hairs were transplanted into DHT sensitive recepient, they become more sensitive.

Wow, they butchered you 😳 You got a good doctor now who should repair it easy 👌

It’s obvious why the hair transplant doctors don’t want to try this. Theyre simply not qualified enough to handle any serious side effects that could arise. The drug works in a pretty unique fashion for 👁 with photodynamic therapy and not just on its own. I can’t imagine what effects it would have being injected into the scalp and the lightening conditions affecting the blood vessels or other organs. Clearly, this is something for people with proper knowledge of the drug mechanism and the ability to handle serious side effects should they arise. A hair transplant surgeon reputation is ruined when some patients hairs don’t grow to full density (like see HLC which is getting bad rep lately on this forum), can you imagine it would be end of life for the surgeon/clinic if some patient dies or suffers life threatening or some serious side effect. I wouldn’t keep my hopes up about this There’s also the simple fact that doctors earn ridiculous amount of money for transplanting hairs. They’re happy, who’s not happy? Patients with high norwoods. Why would the doctor hurt their own business when they can charge 5-6$ per graft doing something as simple as moving grafts around

Which doctor?

Oh, no doubt. It’s suppressing hormones after all . Perhaps they have low levels to begin with or just genetics. I can’t take a particular medicine, get serious heart palpitations and ended up in hospital once, my family member accidentally overdosed on it and was still fine. Just genetics 💁🏻‍♀️

As someone who has used it for more than 6 months consistently, happy I found a nice easy way to save my hair, I have this to say Youre better off putting a baseball cap on your head and believing you will grow hair or stop hairloss, with the power of placebo you might actually do that. Seriously. Total waste of money and time. I still have a brand new lasercomb if someone wants to buy it from me cheaper. I bought two, had issues with one being delivered and in the end both got delivered from different sellers online.