Al - Moderator

This is basically what I would look like if I didn't have any hair transplants, although I think my side hair is a little bit lower and much thinner than his looks in the picture. Unfortunately I have multiple FUT scars from transplants years ago when I had higher and thicker donor hair. Now it's costing a fortune to try to use whatever body hair I can to cover everything. Someone who looks like this guy is going to need 10,000+ body hair grafts (if possible) plus 1000 to 2000 scalp grafts to get anything close to decent coverage.

I've seen 3 just in my own family. There are a lot more out there than you think. Most of them just shave their heads these days, so you don't know it.

If you can stop smoking for a full year before the hair transplant you would have it practically paid for with all the money you saved not buying cigarettes 😀

You would be better off doing FUT strip and then filling in the strip with some beard grafts if needed. If you FUE out all of the grafts in a strip like manner you will end up with a wider strip of scalp with no hair than you would if you just did FUT because with FUT the Dr has to close the strip with either sutures or staples which leaves you with a thinner scar than the width of the strip taken.

It will take 0 grafts. There's nothing to restore. Your temple areas look fine. You are not 16.

It's going to be more expensive than using scalp donor because it's a more time consuming procedure. You will not get as many grafts per day as you would with scalp donor. Beard donor is usually preferred over chest donor unless you don't have very much beard growth or you have already used up the beard donor supply.

This is general advice for you based on your age and current hair loss. No matter who you end up going to, do not go for anything near 4500 grafts to greatly lower your hairline. You will need those grafts later when you lose more hair and you won't have them available if you drastically lower the hairline, plus you will be left with a thick band of low hair with nothing behind it which will look silly I'm not telling you not to get a hair transplant at your age, but you do need to be conservative with where you place the hairline and how dense you try to make it. At your age you want to get to something that is an improvement, but not something that will cause you trouble long term. You can always add more hair or lower the hairline a bit in a few years if you don't lose more hair, but right now you don't want to just throw all your donor grafts at the current situation.

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.