Eli_Avdikian

You could have a minor surgery to tweak the hairline (less than 2000 grafts) to make it more natural 

17 hours ago, XavierJB said:

Anyone have quotes from Freitas? He charges a custom rate per case according to his site, but not sure what the ball park would be

I was quoted 3.375 euros/graft for 2400 grafts by De Freitas. I guess if the number of grafts were higher, the price/graft would be lower, and higher if we are talking about a small number of grafts.

However, on a side note, I don't buy that someone can keep their hair on Oral Minox alone without some form of 5AR inhibition

I switched from 2.5 to 5 mg about 3 months ago. Nothing too crazy for the moment. But I also hopped on oral dut twice weekly. I'll have to reevaluate 3 months from now. 

I beg to differ with Gatsby and Shadman. I think starting with 1mg dose is quite unnecessay. Start with 0.5mg 4/5 times a week and work your way up to daily.

Fingers crossed. I hope the waiting time is worth it 

I booked with Dr. Felicidad Espinosa in May 2023 for a second transplant. The surgery is going to take place in November 2024.

2 euros/graft. Nevertheless, ever since he left them, he started charging way more than that.

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Yeah you shouldn't be worried much about the prostate if you take the dose prescribed for hair loss.

Finasteride can indeed have a shedding effect, and it's nothing to worry about. I highly doubt that 0.5 ml of 0.025% topical finasteride will have any effect whatsoever on the prostate.

This is gonna be a great result

Your transplanted hair in the front looks quite good. Maybe growing it out is worth the shot. The thinning around your ear and above the sideburn looks like retrograde alopecia to me. However there are some signs of slight overharvesting in your parietal donor area. 

In my opinion your are a Norwood 6. I agree that you might need 10+k grafts for full coverage but it looks like you have a strong donor.

Maybe it's true that these are variations of the same hair loss drugs we had 20 years ago, but they are important variations, as Dutasteride is more effective than Finasteride, and Oral Minoxidil is more effective than topical Minoxidil

As per Dr. Sergio Vano, the big three today are Oral Dutasteride, Oral Minoxidil, and Dutasteride injections

I agree with Gatsby. 0.5mg is still effective and the LLLT and caffeine are quite redundant. However all depends on the extent and aggressivness of your hair loss 

Roberts et al (1999

1 hour ago, alopie said:

That's great, thanks for your time! Do you have the sources of those papers? It looks like a 0.2% concentration would outperform or be equivalent to 1mg orally. Could that be true?

The first graph I believe comes from the Robert et al study (1999), though I'm not sure. The second one is compiled by Rob English of perfect hair health.com. Just type "finasteride DHT inhibition curve" on google, and you'll see a bunch of studies and graphs.

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5 minutes ago, Melvin- Admin said:

@Eli_Avdikian

You can disagree with him and even say you don’t believe it, but calling him a scammer is unjustified. He’s not selling anything or promoting anything. If he believes it’s working for him, then that’s his opinion. Let’s keep the insults off of here 🙏

I didn't call him a scammer. I was talking about the youtuber he was quoting. 

Hair line looks really good and age appropriate. Donor area is not that bad when your hair is a bit longer

You turn immediately on the defensive if anyone questions the efficacy of natural supplements in the long run, and not specifically your own experience, like you did with @Sunset Dune, and you call me a troll? 

22 minutes ago, Jlee said:

Your point number 1.
What part of my hair is improving and clearly getting more full we’re i had a bald spot is misinformation? 
when that’s clearly the result and I’m just sharing my experience and others have agreed, 

Your point number 2. 
you say my only post or comments is about natural ways to improve the hair,   That’s not true I have many other posts about transplants and my own experience with having a hair transplant, 

And you laughing at the last post of me showing the video we’re the guys hair grows back shows me your not even interested in what’s right or wrong you just want to troll

Claiming that that a youtuber grew his crown on a carnivore diet, and that you regrew yours on supplements is misinformation for other hair loss sufferers. It would lead them to believe that these things actually work for MPB, and therefore would waste time and money before hopping on any real treatment.
And if you really have a thread about your own hair transplant, then I believe you wouldn't mind sharing a link ?

I remember hearing Dr.Bisanga saying that single grafts make up about 15-20% maximum of the total number of hair follicles in the donor area.

20 minutes ago, Jlee said:

I only tried to give this community my honest results and show any other success stories I knew of to give people hope, and I appreciate all of the positive feedback and also the messages about possibly using medication in the future if I have too at some point, I’m not trying to sell or promote any products or services and now I have the broccoli key board warrior trolling and calling me a scammer,       
I don’t think I’ve ever come across someone so jealous and negative,       This forum is made to help others and share experience not spread negativity and troll, 

This forum is not made to spread misinformation either. You have MPB, as most of the people who go on this forum. You're not doing them or yourself any favor by claiming that natural supplements and changing your diet can regrow a blad spot on the crown. These things can be helpful for promoting the general health of hair follicles as well as fighting things like Telogen Effluvium, etc. But they would never reverse hair miniaturization caused by DHT on their own.   
You joined the forum recently, and your only thread/comments are about natural supplements, so I have every right to be suspicious.