Al - Moderator

I slept in a recliner for about 3 or 4 days

If you were taking finisteride and it was working well for you then yes if you stop taking it your hair will start falling out after a few months and will eventually get to close to where it would have been if you never took finisteride. Sometimes you may not know or think finisteride was working because you don't see any gains from it, but it could have been holding on to your current hair. You only realize it once you stop taking it.

Honestly I didn't read it that way. I thought the guy was genuinely curious, especially with Champbaby's changing crown over time, since Anotherhairlossufferer just had a procedure with the same Dr. It's comforting to feel like you are not going through this alone. That's part of what this forum is for. At the same time I get that Champbaby didn't want to answer many questions until he has results from his latest procedure and he ended up saying he was staying away from any more answers until then. So from what I see I think everything seems good.

A 9 to a 6 is about right. He went from a Ken doll to Emperor Ming

No it hasn't. He just lost hair in the center. When he is buzzed down you can clearly see he had the corners transplanted along with a small amount along the front hairline back when he still had hair in the center. The transplanted hair is all still there.

think the best way to go is just shave your head, but with a plan of action. Wait until the Summer comes (or whatever is the hot season where you live) and plan a week or two vacation off from work. The week before you go on vacation let some people know that you are thinking of just shaving your head when you go on vacation so you don't even need to worry about combing or styling your hair. A vacation from everything. You could do this jokingly if you like. Then when you go on vacation, shave your head the first day. This gives you the entire vacation time for you to get used to the new look for yourself before needing to let too many people see it. Then you can start going out a few places or if you actually are away somewhere on a real vacation it would be much easier to go out since nobody knows you anyway, so they don't expect you to look a certain way. Then you start text a few friends that "Hey. I actually shaved my head like we were joking about." That way some people you know will be at least somewhat ready for that look when you get back to work and by that time you may be much more used to it yourself. When people ask you say you wee on vacation and it was so hot and you were just tired of getting so sweaty and just decided to shave it for the Summer. I know it's not an easy thing to do. I wore a hair piece when I was 21.

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I was instructed to spray every 2 hours. As someone else said, regular spraying for the first few days really helps the scabs come off a lot easier and sooner once you start washing your head.

You are going to be NW 7 (and you could be classified as already there, except you still have some hair all over). If you are thinking about getting a hair transplant you would need at last 6000 grafts to get decent coverage. Your hair is light colored and matches your skin tone, so you can get away with thinner coverage than if you had darker hair. If you had dark hair you would need 10,000 to 12,000 or more grafts. I don't think you can get more than 3000 grafts from your donor area and possibly not even that many. If you can get at least 3000 grafts from your beard then you might have a shot at getting some decent coverage with a high hairline and recessed temples. Most likely though you would be disappointed with the results you may be able to achieve. You still have a bit of hair all over your head, so if I were you I would seriously look into microneedling and taking finisteride. That combination seems to be having some good results on cases like yours where there is still some thinning hair growing everywhere.

You're probably not going to want to go out at least the first weekend anyway due to some lingering soreness and some swelling and maybe not even the 2nd weekend while waiting for the crusts to come off. So it may not even be an issue.

It doesn't look too bad for 3 months.

I agree. Too many people and Drs continue to insist that the frontal third is the most important and you shouldn't worry about the crown because people see you from the front. I have always said that makes no sense. What you just described is a situation where the patient believed what everyone keeps saying about the front being the most important, yet you can see that it didn't turn out well to do that.

Before the BHT I didn't have enough hair to realistically pull it off. It would have looked fake. But now after enough BHT to get some better coverage all over I can probably look like I have a completely full head of hair. I'm tempted to try it the next time I go away on vacation, but I still wouldn't do it for my daily routine because then I'd be forced to do it every day and constantly worry if it's noticeable in different lighting than in my bathroom. My job includes meeting too many people every day, some of them regulars and some not. I definitely wouldn't want to ever miss a day of using concealer once I start doing it and look like I have a full head of hair one day and then look like I'm thinning all over the next day and then back to looking full again the third day. Too much worry. At least what I have now I know what I look like. What you see today is what you will see tomorrow, but now that I'm getting BHT it's slowly improving over time, so nobody sees any big, sudden difference. This works for me right now.

I agree. I took finisteride for about 11 years and my body hair was slowly thinning. When body hair transplants started being a thing, I knew I would get that done, so I stopped using finisteride. The hair on my head had started falling out again anyway even while still on it, so there was no real reason to stay on it any longer. Since then my body hair has increased (except in areas where grafts have been removed for transplanting, of course).

This looks like it's growing OK for 4 months. It may end up needing a little more density, but at least the grafts are growing and it doesn't look like a botch job. Let's see how much it thickens up over the next few months.

And that is why FUT is still a better option for some people. He probably could have gotten 6000 grafts in 2 FUT sessions and still not have a problem with the donor. People get FUE so they can buzz it short and then some of them end up trying to grow it longer to cover the depleted areas as this guy is doing. FUE works great if you have excellent, thick, high density donor, but not everyone has that.

You can never predict these things because even good results come down to the patients perceptions and expectations. You may not need another hair transplant, but you will probably have some areas that annoy you a bit because you can't quite style it the way you want because certain spots may be a bit thin. Then you end up debating with yourself if it's worth going for a touch up to get more density. Even if it turns out really great and you are totally happy with the density, you may start focusing on a thinning crown that didn't bother you before because the front was in such bad shape, but now that the front is filled in the crown has become the worst area and you start giving it more attention and thinking to yourself that since the front came out so good why not go back to get a bit in the crown. These are just some examples of what most people go through in some way or another.

They should be taking blood one time and testing it for everything needed. As for cost I imagine it's probably cheaper to have it done in Turkey where Dr Pekiner is than it would be in some other places around the world.

Finding a new Dr seems like a simple and easy solution. The female Dr you found doesn't seem to care about mens issues.

Let's say you later get more hair loss and want to have another procedure to fill it. You have to either use (1) body hair or (2) scalp donor hair which is now actually a lot of body hair. So either way if you ever get another procedure you will be using some body hair. Why not just use the body hair as normal donor from the beginning rather than continue moving it all around wasting time and money as well as sacrificing some grafts due to a percentage not growing after each move. If you have a 90% survival rate, 100 grafts will give you 90 growing grafts. If you later extract those 90 grafts from where they are now growing to place them somewhere else you're down to 81 growing grafts. Why do that? And body hair grafts may have less than a 90% survival rate.

I have my next hair transplant scheduled for January, but with the COVID-19 virus cases increasing and more restrictions and lockdowns going into effect I'm getting worried that it may have to be cancelled and I'll have to wait until next Autumn to go again.

For me the beard area is a little more painful than the scalp, but the injections for chest grafts are extremely painful. It's hard to get through it and it takes a while.

Wow. That looks amazing. Much better than mine did after a few days. How many grafts were taken? EDIT: Oh I read it wrong the first time. I thought that was 3 days after the procedure! Still looks great though!

Very minor. The first few weeks it was a bit red, but once I got past that nobody can notice. Even my close relatives don't know I did anything. Sometimes I do still get a bit of redness, but that area has always been very sensitive on me and I've usually gotten a few red marks after I shave for years before I had any beard grafts removed, so it just looks like that. If you know I had work done and you look for it then you can tell, but that's true even with scalp FUE where most people would never know unless you point it out or they knew you had FUE done and know what to look for.

If you lose a lot of hair at a fast rate in your teens and 20s then it has to slow down later because you won't have enough hair to keep losing at the same rate. That doesn't mean that hair loss always slows down as you get older. If you start out slow it can certainly sped up later. I've seen a 40 year old with a full head of hair become a NW 6 by his mid 50s.