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Fellow oral Minox users, I'm experiencing severe shedding since I switched from topical to oral minoxidil, about a month ago. Did many of you regain those hairs after continuing the minoxidil tablets for the months afterwards? @EvoXOhio @uk005801 @ScottyHairs @ThePerseverantWarrior or someone else on the forum? Like to hear your experience!

Can someone find the ingredients list of Dermmatch anywhere? Weirdly enough they don't mention it on their website. Or I'm not looking properly?

Topical version that is

So what you are implying is to stop taking minoxidil after 96 days? Do you have a source of this study?

I am a big fan of Toppik, and I don't mind using it for the rest of my life. I do rinse/wash it out in the evening. The doc said he had a patient that had not used Toppik for more than half a year, still he had seen some left on the scalp (with microscopic vision). I was surprised too.

This is possibly the 100th topic about Toppik (pun intended), but I wanted to bring up a new question which I haven't seen asked her on the forum: Can Toppik cause, or contribute to inflammation? I was advised by a top doc. not to use Toppik again. He stated that there's a possibility that it could be a cause of inflammation to the pores. I have looked up all Toppik ingredients in several 'Ingredients checks' or however you may call them. They all came out okay, not harmful to the skin. Something I do know is that Toppik cannot easily be a washed out completely. For the naked eye it does wash out. However under a endoscope/microscope it's still visible after weeks, even months of washing and rinsing. Curious how you guys think of this..

With me the sides were more frequent peeing and slight ball ache. It disappeared when I switched from 1mg to 0.5 daily. Try lowering the dose

That makes sense. I figure hairstyle is also a factor in this, as longer hair can give more an illusion of density of the donor than a really short trimmed one. But then still maybe a really short donor can more easily be filled with SMP.

Hello everyone, I bet this also depends on hair thickness, but I was wondering how many hairs would be the bare minimum to be left in the donor per cm2, after your final procedure. Is this something that doctors have a rule for?

Hi, sorry to be late on this thread, but I'm curious.. Would this also mean that parts where lpp isn't present (or noticeable under a microscope from biopsy), there wouldn't be a risk of rejecting existing or new-implanted follicles? Or only increased risk at that particular part of the scalp? I'm wondering if lpp can be confused with 'regular' folliculitis, or if there is a very clear distinction.

Looks good! I'm curious if the gentleman on the pics would like to share which clinic to avoid..

You can use a concealer, after a few weeks

I get what you say. Succes is a subjective concept.

Can a reputable dr. deny or confirm this in this thread? If a dermatological underlying problem can be ruled out, would this still be the case I'm wondering..

Agreed! A few things I find helpful are these also. I saw Melvin mentioning one clinic that tried to sue them for not deleting a bad review, and they did not delete it despite those threats. So that shows a form of ethic sense. After all that's the most important thing if you try to help others. I believe this forum has a healthy community and good moderators. I really hope it stays that way, because we live in a world where we get manipulated into buying things and perceiving things the way that others want you to. Maybe I went to deep there, but that's just my thoughts..

Don’t think it will have effect on the outcome although it’s not good for the skin obviously. Maybe it depends on the degree..

Do you mean sunburn on the scalp or in general/elsewhere on the body?

Front looks good man. How did they manage your donor? Just curious 🙂

Hello all, I've been using finasteride, and it's working well for me while I take 1mg per day. Now I would like to reduce my intake as I wouldn't want to temper with my hormones more than necessary. It's quite expensive too (approx €1,2 per pill), although money isn't a big factor. What would be the best strategy to test this? 1mg. every other day? 0.5mg everyday? Something different? Would like to get some advice. Thanks in advance! 🙂

If your donor is okay but not sufficient for the whole front and crown, maybe you could choose less density and use a bit of hair fibers. Or you could do a conservative hairline, one that's not too low.. Hope it works out for you. Will you keep us updated on your journey?

Hi all, Something I cannot find here on the forum and elsewhere on the web is how multi-grafts (should) behave. Myself I have a lot a few multi-grafts where one hair grows and the other from the same graft remain stubble, or shed. I'm wondering: Are they suppose to grow simultaneously or separate? And is it possible that with extraction one was damaged, and one wasn't? You would say that if the graft is dormant, that neither one of de multi-grafts would grow. And when it's anagen (awake) both grow. I am unable to take a photo of my situation bc of my camera quality, but this screenshot of a YT video shows it.

@Randomdudehow many grafts will Bicer take out for your upcoming procedure?

I also have a lot of stubble hairs that remain in the same state and length as right after the procedure (7,5 months ago). But what’s weird about this situation is that some hairs in the same multiple grafts grew, while the other remained the same or shed.. Could it be that some hairs in a multiple graft survive and others don’t? You would say that the graft itself is alive or not..