recedingblonde

No offense taken to this. Already working on it. I gained a lot of weight during covid and developed some extremely poor uber eats habits, but I'm fixing my diet and I've lost 15 pounds so far. I was actually planning to see how I feel after dropping to my goal weight (about 30 more pounds to go) and then committing to the transplant if I still feel I need it. I'm at the point where I can still make my hair look presentable if I style it just the right way (keeping I higher part to cover the temples and using a product that makes it look thicker) but any bit of sweat, grease or bedhead will give it away.

Quick backstory: I first noticed my hairline receding when I was around 21-22 at the end of college. I pulled my hair back and noticed my temples were much deeper than I remember them being. Here's aphoto from when I first noticed. From this angle it looks pretty bad. I was shocked because I have absolutely no history of hairloss in my family whatsoever on either side. My 90 Year old grandpa is a Norwood 1 to this day. So I panicked and immediately started looking for solutions. At the age of 22 I got on finasteride and have been ever since. No side effects. Here's a photo from when I started taking the medication. I didn't recover much with it, mostly just stabilization as far as I can tell, although some days I wonder if my hairline has gotten thinner than it used to be, but it's really hard to tell. When I was 22, I had a consult with Hasson and Wong, and was actually approved for a surgery of 1500 grafts to the hairline, but I ended up backing out of it, one because covid made crossing the border a nightmare, and two because I wanted to wait until the recommended age of 25 to see how my pattern progressed. Well 25 is about to come around now, and I'm considering again whether or not I should go forward with it, because as it stands, I'm near constantly fiddling with my hair, checking mirrors, etc. to make sure everything looks okay. When I style my hair just right I can pass it off as somewhat decent, but it doesn't seem to stay styled that way for long. I'm going to post some comparison shots of when I first had my consultation and now, to get a second opinion. Original consult photos: So this was about 3 years ago now. Here's what we're working with now. It's mainly the thinness that's digging in on the right side that I'd like to address. That side seemed to get hit worse than the left. I know my situation could be way worse, but I still feel like having the thinned out corners is driving me crazy, and if I could just get them patched up I would be happy. I even discussed with Dr. Wong about keeping some recession to have a more mature look that will age well, as well as not doing any lowering from the central forelock whatsoever, because I know that later down the line I might need to do more procedures to fill in any gaps if finasteride doesn't stop my hairloss completely. I also realize my donor area isn't as stellar as some others I've seen, so I'm willing to opt for FUT for more graft yield just to be safe.