Jeff1325

I haven't looked at that site in a while but I found the bald truth forum with less information than this one. There didn't seem to be as much posting traffic on it. This site gave me 99% of the info i needed to make an informed choice. good luck!

"No developmental abnormalities have been observed in first filial generation (F1) male or female offspring resulting from mating finasteride-treated male rats (80 mg/kg/day; 488 times the human exposure) with untreated females." This was taken from the Merck site in the prescribing information. Pretty much it means that when male rats on ultra high doses of Propecia had babies, those rats had no adverse effects from the drug. Therefore, you really shouldn't worry about taking the pill yourself while attempting to have a baby. The only thing I, as a pharmacist, would say is DON'T let your wife TOUCH, or, of course, take, the tablets. They will absorb through the skin readily. Other than that you should be fine.

I'm 12 days post op and had my stitches out Friday. My donor scar seems to be kinda red and bumpy. I've read here that the redness will go away but the slight inflamation (puffiness) and the way the top and bottom of the scar area meet seem to be a bit uneven (the top seems to be higher than the bottom) is concerning me. Will this improve / is it normal? Thanks for any replies in advance!!

You make me feel better. I am currently down to having these little yellow dried up "boogers" falling off of my scalp when I gently rub. Kinda gross but, oh well the trials we suffer for hair!!

I had my hair transplant last week (monday)and now 6 days out the recipient area is covered with little bumps where the hair was placed. When I rubbed one of them off, the hair with a small yellowish sphereical bulb came off. Am I losing the FU or just sheding. Please help. Thanks a lot.

I had my hair transplant last week (monday)and now 6 days out the recipient area is covered with little bumps where the hair was placed. When I rubbed one of them off, the hair with a small yellowish sphereical bulb came off. Am I losing the FU or just sheding. Please help. Thanks a lot.

I went to see Dr. Cohen abt 4 months ago and was told that he does "mostly" FU's although at an incredible $7 a graph. He recommended 700 x 2 sessions vs both Berstien and Rose saying I need3ed 2000 x1 session. He also recommended transplanting a hairling and crown vs bernstien and rose covering the hairline, frontal region, and vertex (not extending into the crown). Cohen was no willing to add to my thinning frontal area. I really was not impressed with Dr. Cohen and will subsequently be going to Dr. Rose's in Tampa on monday for "my first" good luck!!

Yes any pictures would be greatly appeciated. I have an appt with him in 2 weeks for a procedure and am having some nervous gitters. thanks

I live in Connecticut and am schedualed for a procedure in Tampa FL in 2 weeks at Dr. Paul Rose's office. You really should be willing to travel to get a GREAT result (especially around here.) One long trip that may eat up a week of vacation time and money for an airline ticket but its is worth it if you get great results you can be proud of for the next decades. I think that beats determining a doc based soley on whether you can drive to the place or not. Good luck!

I went for an inital meeting with Dr. Rose last month and was very impressed. I am meeting with him again Saturday with a few more questions. I would avoid Bosley -- too risky, I've seen a lot of bad result from them. Rose is highly regarded here and in my opinion a truely good physician and charges a resonable fee vs. Bosley who will set you back a mint and possibly leave you with horrific results. Good Luck!

I went for an inital meeting with Dr. Rose last month and was very impressed. I am meeting with him again Saturday with a few more questions. I would avoid Bosley -- too risky, I've seen a lot of bad result from them. Rose is highly regarded here and in my opinion a truely good physician and charges a resonable fee vs. Bosley who will set you back a mint and possibly leave you with horrific results. Good Luck!

Can anyone tell me about the condition of diffuse patterned alopecia? I was diagnosed with a quite progressed case of this with a treatment suggestion of 2000 FU throughout the vertex, top and front of my scalp. Any info is appreciated!!

Can anyone tell me about the condition of diffuse patterned alopecia? I was diagnosed with a quite progressed case of this with a treatment suggestion of 2000 FU throughout the vertex, top and front of my scalp. Any info is appreciated!!

I went to see Dr. Cohen of Fairfield yesterday and I was somewhat less impressed with him over Berstein. Pretty much, I have defuse hair loss a softball sized baldspot in the back and a receiding hair line abt 1 inch from origin. I had previously been to NYC to the New Hair Institute where Dr. Bernstein had recommended 2000 FU's in one session for $6 a graft. I was able to talk to patients in the NHI waiting room who stated that the procedure was really not bad at all (one was like - the sitting up in the chair sucks but thats only the first few days) the other said even that was no big deal. Numbness was also no big deal to either of them. They both said he was the best. Dr. Bernstien was able to answer all my questions and seemed very knowledgable. In 20 years of practice he has never been sued and was really layed back abt the whole thing. At Dr. Cohen's office there was no one on hand to talk to. Dr. Cohen, who would use "mostly" microscopic FU's with a few mini's, stated 2 sessions of 700 grafts ( for $7/ graph) would be needed. I was impressed with Cohen with respect to the time he spent with me and the care he took inspecting my scalp. He performs more HT's in CT that any other MD here and has been in practice for more that 25 years. He stated that he presented a coupla speeches at the conference in Chicago this past week. All this said, I really think would really rather be done with it with with one session with Bernstien who I have read much more feed back abt and feel more confortable with. The only thing I really liked abt Cohen's procedure more was the use of durable suchers vs. Bernstien's dissolvable stiches. I have read that the durable are better. Cohen said the dissolvable stiches will be still coming out of my head months later I was wondering what is best to use, in all your opinions, - staples, dissolvable or non-disolvable stiches?? Thanks in advance for any advice. PS. one thing I didn't realize with this whole thing was the backlog of appointments these guys have. Cohen is booking into the end of november and Bernstein - mid Feburary!! So plan ahead to do this!! Thanks

Actually, Its interesting that DHT, which is responsible for men losing the hair on their head, is also responsible for hair that starts to grow on the body at the time of puberty. Since Propecia blocks DHT formation, if anything it should in theory slow body hair growth. Anyway, in the clinical studies no extra body hair growth was noted (I don't know about any body hair loss, though.)