Hi everyone! Although I hardly ever post, I've been a follower of this forum for a while and appreciate reading all of your stories and feedback! I have a few questions myself.
So I'm 35 years and have a slightly thinned crown. In all honesty, when I looked at pics, looks like it's been like that since I was in my late teens, but it has not changed and I have no other hair loss or miniaturization (knock on wood). I started finasteride a couple of months ago after I read about it.
I'm vain about my hair, so I was thinking of getting a transplant. I probably would only need 1,000 grafts or less.
So my first two questions are 1) before jumping into a hair transplant should I continue to use finasteride for a few more months and see what the results are?
2) if I do end up going with the transplant I am unfortunate to be a non-responder to finasteride, for such a small number of grafts, would it still make sense to go overseas to a clinic/surgeon like Eugenix, Dr. Zarev, Dr. Lorenzo, etc for their excellent donor management since they typically focus on repairs for advanced North levels? Or since my case is stomach smaller would it make more sense to find a more local place that's reputable.
The third question if you don't mind me asking is how did most of you fund the cost for your hair transplants, especially those of you that are advanced Norwood levels and required many many grafts? Did you save up and pay cash for it? Did you take out a loan or home equity and finance it? Etc.
Any feedback is appreciated!