Reiner123

After booking in April of this year, I finally had my appointment with Dr Pekiner in Ankara, Turkey, at the end of November. I was originally quoted ~1500 grafts but once Dr Pekiner took a look in person, he believed I only needed ~1000 (ended up being 1011 total - he could have easily told me we'd be doing 1500 and I'd have never known, I think this speaks volumes of his morals). The plan was for a high density, but conservative hairline at 50 grafts per cm. I cannot commend him enough, he and his team are absolutely fantastic, they were so friendly and I felt at ease the entire time. I had the bandages removed the following morning after surgery, and I stayed in Ankara an extra day to be safe before flying back to the UK. It's been a couple of weeks now, I removed the scabs fully by day 12, it pretty much now looks like I've just buzzed my head, and I kinda like it! I've been on Finasteride 1mg daily for about 5 years, Biotin daily and Nizoral a couple of times a week. Some questions: Should I still be applying the saline solution/bepanthon at all, now that the scabs are gone? Just wondering if it'd help with the redness in the recipient area. You'll see I circled a certain spot on some of the pics, does this look like a concern to you? It's kind of hard to tell in the pics, but it looks a bit thin behind the recipient area? Maybe I'm just overthinking it. **People on Reddit have advised me this was just a thin spot that was present in my pre-op pics, and that Pekiner's one weakness is diffuse thinning - I guess I'll see where I'm at in 12 months time, but overall I'm so with the results so far** I'd love your thoughts guys! 🙂

Hello! Apologies for the ramble, but I’d really appreciate your thoughts on this predicament I’m in. I started using Fin at age 21 as I noticed my hairline was starting to go, couple years go by and I’m certain it’s halted my hairloss and made everything thicker - I didn’t start Min at the same time because I didn’t want to commit to it. Covid/lockdown then happened and I discovered r/minoxbeards - decided to start applying Min to my beard area and got good results (although I’m aware Fin slows beard growth down due to lower DHT etc). After realising applying wasn’t THAT much of a pain I thought I’d began applying to my hair to regrow what I initially lost, now that Fin has stabilised the hair on my head. It’s now 16 or so months later and I’m fairly certain there’s been some thin/whispy growth on my hairline, still not fully recovered however. Over the course of the 16 months I began applying it less and less, originally 2x a day, to 1x a day and then eventually just 3-4x a week - haven’t really noticed any change in my hair. Over the last month I’ve decided I’m going to get a hair transplant later this year (never thought I would due to the ‘stigma’ but I realise how little people would care, so I’m gonna do it). By chance, where I order it from had supply issues so I ran out of Minoxidil roughly 3 weeks ago so haven’t been using it, my order arrived today but I’m hesitant to start using it again - I really feel my skin's taken a beating from it (wrinkles and dark circles, plus the general hassle of applying foam every night( if I can just get the transplant and then continue on Fin to maintain what I’ve got, I think that’s the best plan for me. Essentially, once I’ve had the transplant, I want to be done with the hassle of applying Min, not only the hassle, but it’s definitely aged my skin in terms of wrinkles and dark circles (I’m aware I was also applying it to my beard, but the point still stands). I know oral min is an option, but aside from the heart-related side effects, wouldn’t I still experience the sides I mentioned above? tl;dr - been using Fin for 4 years with pretty good results, added Min to regime but now wanting to stop after ~16 months as I’m getting a hair transplant later this year.

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Hello! Apologies for the ramble, but I’d really appreciate your thoughts on this predicament I’m in. I started using Fin at age 21 as I noticed my hairline was starting to go, couple years go by and I’m certain it’s halted my hairloss and made everything thicker - I didn’t start Min at the same time because I didn’t want to commit to it. Covid/lockdown then happened and I discovered r/minoxbeards - decided to start applying Min to my beard area and got good results (although I’m aware Fin slows beard growth down due to lower DHT etc). After realising applying wasn’t THAT much of a pain I thought I’d began applying to my hair to regrow what I initially lost, now that Fin has stabilised the hair on my head. It’s now 16 or so months later and I’m fairly certain there’s been some thin/whispy growth on my hairline, still not fully recovered however. Over the course of the 16 months I began applying it less and less, originally 2x a day, to 1x a day and then eventually just 3-4x a week - haven’t really noticed any change in my hair. Over the last month I’ve decided I’m going to get a hair transplant later this year (never thought I would due to the ‘stigma’ but I realise how little people would care, so I’m gonna do it). By chance, where I order it from had supply issues so I ran out of Minoxidil roughly 3 weeks ago so haven’t been using it, my order arrived today but I’m hesitant to start using it again - I just don’t want to be stuck applying this foam for the rest of my life, if I can just get the transplant and then continue on Fin to maintain what I’ve got, I think that’s the best plan for me. Essentially, once I’ve had the transplant, I want to be done with the hassle of applying Min, not only the hassle, but it’s definitely aged my skin in terms of wrinkles and dark circles (I’m aware I was also applying it to my beard, but the point still stands). I know oral min is an option, but aside from the heart-related side effects, wouldn’t I still experience the sides I mentioned above? tl;dr - been using Fin for 4 years with pretty good results, added Min to regime but now wanting to stop after ~16 months as I’m getting a hair transplant later this year.