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correct me if I'm wrong, but how can someone be viewed as gay for having a shaved head? I don't know of many cultures that stereotyped shaved heads with gay men? In most Asian cultures, if you have a shaved head, people would associate you with a monk.

yea, and mobley is not even ashamed of it, just shave it down to a buzz fade, and the scar is very noticeble. If he grew it out a bit, and wears a head band, it'll be a lot better.

I haven't followed Nash's career as much until the last 4 years when he started playing really well. I do remember seeing him with a buzzed look, but he grew it back out to how he wears it today. Even when you look at the way his hair is now, it still shows that he has a higher hairline, but not necessarily receeding or thinning. Mobley's work looks pretty good, other than the huge scar on the back of his head. He's not ashamed of the HT either, it's shaved really short in the back. Probably didn't get the tri-closure method.

I watched Cuttino Mobley play today and noticed that he did have a pretty bad scarred smiley face on the back of his head. I knew it!! He did have some work done. He went from a N4 to someone that has a full head of hair.

Abbie, you might be right. I've noticed that when the grafts first shed few days after the HT, the hair come out straight with a slight bent of angle on the ends grafted into the scalp. Maybe that's what you meant by "over manipulating" the grafts while they're placed at the angle to match the native hair?

Baldeagle After being an active member on this forum for a few years, posts like this pop up all the time. More often than that, those posts are from members that did not know about this forum until after the HT had gone through. Most of those members ended up getting their HT done w/o the research and done by bad quality docs. At least your HT was performed by one of the best Coalition Docs, and I have no doubts that your results will be great. Like Billero mentioned, the best thing for you to do now, is to follow the post op instructions religiously. Other than that, look forward to your 5 weeks break to relax. Drink lots of water, eat healthy and you'll be back to normal in no time. Have a set of loose clothing for at least the first week, so you won't accidentally knock off any of the fragile grafts when you're changing like I did. Get some Dermatch to help conceal the donor area, when the time comes that you have to go back to work. Let us know how you're doing after about 2 weeks, I think you'll be surprised at how "normal" you feel and look then. Best of luck.

what's Neosh? Is a topical treatment for MPB?

not sure if it's because the picture is really zoomed in, but it looks like the grafts are spaced too wide apart.

I was lucky enough that I was in between jobs and was able to take off work for about 2 months. When I started working again, it was in a really casual environment, where I could wear a hat, shorts and flip flops if I wanted to. I wore a hat for about a month straight to the 3 months post op mark, and slowly started showing up w/o the hat. I've had a few people stared at my head when I went hatless, but the thing is most average joe just don't know enough about the HT process to notice anything. I've had a male co-worker stared at my head at a really close distance, and I'm 100% sure that he can't tell the difference between newly transplanted hair vs. native thinning hair. Even I can't tell the difference between them sometimes. I had pretty much the same mindset as most members here, if I had to I'd tell them, but if not, no one has to know. To this day, only my immediate family(mother and sisters) and my regular barbar knows I've had a HT. After the 3 months post op mark, you're pretty much done worrying and just waiting for the final results.

If that's the case, then like previous poster mentioned, you really shouldn't be eating at all then. Protein can be found is just about anything that you eat, which you really cannot live without. Lifting weights may have a direct relationship in the increase of DHT, but you're not going to be able to find protein as the cause of balding. If protein has anything to do with MPB, then I'm sure just about every man on Earth would be suffering from it.

no you don't need a prescription for MSM. All you have to do is google it to find out what it does. It helps strengthen your joints and cartilages and "promote" healthy hair and nails. You can find it at most grocery or nutrition stores.

Furless, Correct me if I'm wrong, but are you the Asian guy that asked me for my pics because you've wanted to see how another Asian member's pics turned out? If so, I'm glad that you went with Dr. Keene as well. The receipient area turned out clean as usual with Dr. Keene's work. Be sure to keep up with updates of your growth with pictures.

the scar is still visible back there, if I lift the hair up. With my head buzzed with a #6 all around, it hides underneath quite nicely. I think it'll be completly faded away at around 6 months mark. Shockloss, what shockloss? I know Dr. Keene pretty much grafted hair all over my existing hair, but I'm glad that there's no shockloss that I can see at all. Even in the spot behind the hairline where there's thinning hair all over the place, I didn't notice any shockloss at all. Now that the hair is sprouting, I can say that the mid 1/3 area is looking even thicker and more even than before.

Just added some new pics for my progress at slightly under 4 months post op. Geeze, this 4 months flew by, now that I've thought about it. My camera is still crap that I can't show the finer hair along the hair line, but they're very visible in person. I'm starting to get a good idea of how it'd turn out. Very glad that I went along with the HT so far.

I just love these kind of complaints and random rants that we get here. Some new member just come up and rants for a couple of days, and decides to never come back on and do anything to help other members from falling into the same chair that he sat on. Instead of calling his doctor, he'd rather come here and rant... Won't be surprised if we never get another response from him again.