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@DrTBarghouthi

I have 1 more suggestion.
Do a test where you threat 1 section of the receiver area with verteporfin and the other without.
My speculation is that the verteporfin threated area will have higher graft survivability because there would be less scar fibrosis smothering the newly inserted fair follicle.
 

3 hours ago, DrTBarghouthi said:

Thanks a lot. Yes I am discussing with some doctors and hopefully we will have different trials going soon. Testing higher doses will also be soon. I just want to make sure the supply is there and improve the protocol further this time. 

Next time you get a volunteer, make a little ink mark/tattoo under every extracted follicle, that way:
A)  the hair will appear more dense which is nice for the subject. B) You will have much more accurate way to pinpoint to regrown hair. C) In a future hair transplant you can avoid the regrown hair which we can assume to be a bit weaker than the original

Because when I look at the current pictures I wonder if it's all new hair or it's just nicely healed scars that are less visible

I guess I'm one of the few people who fall into the category of being unable to take any DHT blocker medications. Fenisteride doesn't do anything for me. I took 5mg for 8 months and I lost some hair, I speculate that's because my testosterone got elevated. I didn't take anything for a year and i tried dutasteride.

Hit me like a truck. Day 2 on 0.5mg i got ED. I stopped for 3 days, I then tried 0.5 every 3rd day. My energy mood and vitality went onto the trash. I tried 0.1mg every day. Same result. I stopped because life became grey. In principal I could have continued but I was feeling like I'm on antidepressants or something, tbh i would prefer to go bald rather than feeling that way for the rest of my life. Keep in mind I took the equivalent of 7 0.5mg pills in the span of a month so my tissues weren't even saturated with it and I still got the sides.
 

I've taken Minoxidil for 12 years now and I'm at norwood 3 atm. I'm going to try RU but i guess i better start saving for some world record hair transplant. Atleast i got plenty of high quality body hair.  For the people in their 20's I'd say that you should try fin and dut to see if they work for you. I waited very long before i started them and it turned out that i cannot take them. Unfortunately the internet gave me the delusion that i will hop on one of them and bam like magic I will restore some of my hair and keep the rest. So read my post as a warning, just because something works for 95% of people it doesn't mean that you are not in the other 5. Be far more proactive than me, buy microneedeling device. See what works and what doesnt while you are still at norwood 0.5-1.