Al - Moderator

Well if you REALLY wanted to you can go back the next day if you have a job where you can sit at a desk and basically take it easy and not be seen much all day. Realistically I'd say about 5 to 6 days because you want to wait until any swelling is gone and you had your first good hair wash to get rid of all the dried blood in your hair.

I don't know much about Hattingen, but as for Bisanga and Eugenix, the fact that they can do a lot of beard grafts and use that in the hair transplant plan from the beginning rather than depleting your scalp donor and then using the beard hair as a last resort is part of the reason they are so good with high Norwood cases.

The first question is: Have you ever shaved your head? If you haven't then how do you know you would be OK with just shaving your head and moving on? You have to try that option first. Then you have a better idea if it is worth it for you (because everyone is different) to attempt to have hair transplants depending on whether you can't stand the shaved head look on yourself or if you decide you really like it. For me I knew I was headed to an extreme NW 7 because I had the same hair loss pattern as both my uncle who was 32 years older than I was and another older relative who was also the same extreme NW 7. I hated the way they looked and I absolutely did not want a shaved head. Your father has more hair than I do with better donor hair than I have and yet I had many hair transplants and I don't regret doing them, although I would have done it differently and had the front transplanted and had a hair system for the crown for a few years first which was my original decision, but I was talked out of it by the Dr who told me that was a stupid idea because I had a disease that was going to keep spreading if I just wore a hair system to cover it, but that's a whole other story.

On the recommended list there is nothing in that immediate area. I think Dr Jerry Cooley in Charlotte, North Carolina is probably closest to you.

I've had some of those stubble hairs stay that way for several months and then just start growing without ever falling out.

I would bet that I spent more money on hair transplants than Elon Musk has. If I was a billionaire I still wouldn't have any more hair than I do now. Most people in the general public just don't understand the issue of hair transplants. No matter how much money you have that doesn't change your genetics. You still have to have enough hair to move around.

Looks really good right now, so it doesn't appear that it caused any issues.

I'm reading all this and I'm not sure what all the anxiety is about. This is very simple. If you think fin is giving you sexual side effects that you don't want then stop taking it. That's all. There's nothing to stress about. Just stop using it. You keep mentioning if you will look bad with hair in the front half. Why would you? You have a high hairline and you didn't do just a small band of transplanted hair along a very low hairline. If your dad had all your transplanted hair up front the same way you do, would he look bad? Looking at the pictures I'd say he would look a lot better. How hard is that to figure out? So just stop doing 2 things. Stop using finisteride and stop worrying about it.

I'm pretty much in agreement with the others. I really don't think it's worth it for most people.

If you are anorexic and basically just skin and bones and not eating enough then YES that can and will have an effect on your hair. If you are at a healthy weight then what you eat will still matter, but much less so as you will probably be getting most of the nutrients you need simply because you are eating enough food (assuming you are eating a variety of foods). I would definitely eat at least twice per day. Once isn't enough as that means you are going more than 23 hours between each meal all the time. If you really want to help your hair with just food then don't eat much sugar or salt.

Wow. It looks like you are getting some great results for it only being one month. I'd like to see where you can get to after at least 6 months. Check out @Shifty thread

You mention the lack of density looking unnatural, but there are plenty of men who have diffuse thinning hair and never had a hair transplant who have a lack of density, so it's not an unnatural look, although it's certainly not a good look. Back when I was 19 years old if I was out in sunlight you could clearly see a NW 6 pattern on me.

If it's just some extra bleeding and no infections then I don't think it will be too much of an issue. Do you take any medication to thin your blood or prevent clotting?

Since you are in CA, take a look at Dr Sanusi Umar in Redondo Beach, CA. He was a pioneer in doing BHT and has some cases where he did over 10,000 body hair grafts on guys that couldn't get anyone else to take their case.

Some of us NW7s have literally no useable scalp donor, so if you are a NW 6 or 7 you still have to have great donor hair to be able to get a result like Zoomster. He said his area was 280 to 300 cm2. I measured my bald area and mine is 19cm x 23 cm which is 437 cm2. Even if you cut that back to 425 cm2 it still comes to 17000 grafts at an average of only 40 grafts per cm2.

@Gatsby I don't think you need to worry to much about this. I have been thinking that you are probably a perfect candidate for using beard hair. Most men worry if the beard hair will be too curly or kinky and won't match the rest of their hair, but you have naturally curly hair, so I'm thinking you won't have any issue with it being curly. In fact you should want that, so it matches your sides and back. Also I'm betting that when you had hair on the top and front, it was naturally more curly then the hair on your sides and back because that's usually the case with curly hair guys. So again, if it turns out a bit more curly than your current native hair on the sides and back I'm thinking you will be just fine with it. If it is a but too frizzy (fuzz as your friend said) then that is easily solved with a little bit of hair gel. From the picture I saw of you before it looks like you still have a lot of hair on the sides and back, so I think you are on line to have a home run result if it's done right. Good luck!

I took finisteride for 11 years from 1998 to 2009. I'm not so sure about beard hair as I've always been clean shaven, so it would have had to be a big difference for me to notice a change there, but it absolutely thinned out my chest hair. My body hair was increasing since I was a kid until I started on finisteride when I was 31. At that point my body hair started thinning out and decreasing. Once I stopped finisteride it started growing in again and 12 years later my body hair all over except for my lower legs has been increasing past what it was before I started finisteride. I'm still gaining more body hair in places I didn't have any before and the hair I have continues to grow longer and thicker all the time. My opinion is if you are only using a small amount of body hair then you are probably better off continuing finisteride if it was working for you. However at some point if you continue to add more body hair to your scalp then it becomes a waste to continue fin as you will be saving your original scalp hair while killing the body hair that you transplanted especially when you consider that beard hair and to some degree chest hair will grow for the rest of your life without ever doing anything for them.

When I was taking 1.25mg of finisteride, I would stop for about 3 days every few months. I just felt better doing that.

Yes. At this point I think I can look like I have a completely full head of hair. I have DermMatch and one of these days I'm going to try it just for fun. I awsn't able to get a good look with it in the past because I had too may completely bald areas, but with the BHT filling all of those areas with at least a thin base of grafts, I'm sure it would look great now with the DermMatch I have

The dots on my chest are a bit more noticable, but even those are hard to see unless you are up close and looking for them. I've been with no shirt in the Summer and nobody noticed.

After a few months post op, there are no issues dying your hair after a transplant. It's the same hair you had before. It's just growing in a different spot.

OK. At only 4 months you are just starting to get to the heavy growth stage. Wait a few months and see how it looks then

You sound like someone who is ready to go to a place like Turkey to get the cheapest hair transplant you can find advertised and somehow think you are smarter than everyone on these forums because you were able to get it done cheaper than anyone else. Anyone can be taught the steps to do a hair transplant. There isn't anything particularly hard about the each part of process. What is hard is to do it correctly. A 12 year old can be shown in less than a few minutes how to use a punch tool or motorized punch to extract grafts. You can show him/her in another 2 minutes how to make holes or slits in the recipient area. That's simple. You just punch a lot of holes, right? Next you can show them how to place the grafts into the holes. Now do you really think this kid is going to be able to get a satisfactory result? Do you want him working on you? You have to know about depth of grafts. Did you know that not everyone has the same depth size of their grafts? If you don't get deep enough then you don't get the root of the follicle and you have a graft that won't grow. If you go too deep you risk pulling the graft apart as well. The depth can change slightly with each patient. What about the angle? Hair doesn't grow straight out, so you have to be at the right angle to FUE out the grafts or else you will be cutting the hairs and again not getting the root of the follicle. When you are making holes in the recipient site, do you even know what a natural hairline shape looks like? Most people think that is so simple, but it's not. Not doing a proper shape and temple areas will look very unnatural. Then there is the angles that the holes/slits must be made at. Do you know that hair grows at different angles in different areas of your head and that must be followed and done a certain way? I could go on and on, but this is just the basics. Now I will agree that you can never know who the absolute best is because there are a lot of high quality Drs doing very good hair transplants and there are varying philosophies of where the hairline should be placed, how conservative or aggressive is suitable for each patient, etc. But if you stay on these forums for a little while, you'll keep hearing the same 10 to 15 Dr names over and over. If you want a hair transplant, it's probably a good choice to pick one of those.

How long ago was the hair transplant? It doesn't look so horrible that you can't simply wait it out until you save enough money to afford a proper fix with a much better clinic. I wouldn't do SMP at this point. The last thing you want to do is start trying all sorts of permanent (or semi permanent) things that you never intended to do without thinking them through. You also don't want to be spending money needlessly especially since you said you went to Turkey specifically because you couldn't afford somewhere else. We see this way to often where people go somewhere cheap and end up spending more money than they would have if they just did it right in the first place.

I have a procedure coming up in December. I just had a few days off from work, so I decided to let my beard grow to give me an idea of how much hair I still have that I can use. After having well over 2300 beard grafts taken, I surprisingly still have a lot of beard hair left, so I'm really happy about that. I'm also happy that I can't even see any scars from all the previous work that was done. If you look closely you can see some small spots, but I think it looks more like areas with no hair growing rather than scars unless you really know what to look for and in real life situations, if you weren't staring at my neck up close for a minute, then you would never see anything. These pictures were just taken a day or two ago.