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  • Birthday 03/09/1967

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    United States
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    NJ

Hair Loss Overview

  • Describe Your Hair Loss Pattern
    Thinning Hair Loss All over the Scalp
  • How long have you been losing your hair?
    10 years +
  • Norwood Level if Known
    Norwood VII
  • What Best Describes Your Goals?
    Considering Surgical Hair Restoration

Hair Loss Treatments

  • Have you ever had a hair transplant?
    Yes
  • Hair Transplant Surgeon
    Dr. Robert Dorin
  • Other hair restoration physicians
    Previous "Dr" was not actually licensed
  • Current Non-Surgical Treatment Regime
    None

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  1. I was going to agree with the others and say you got poor growth, but then I saw the immediate post op pictures that you just posted and I see you had some grafts placed into the crown and also some into the temple points. So if the 3200 grafts includes everything then it's not quite as bad as I originally thought. I still think it should be better and you have somewhat low growth, but I wouldn't call it a failure. It's a little hard to tell with these pictures. You will need another transplant to improve the density. I probably wouldn't go back to the same Dr as I do think the growth probably should have been better. Will it improve from here after 10 months? Maybe slightly, but I wouldn't expect any major improvements past this point. By the way, welcome to the forums. I do appreciate you posting your pictures.
  2. Your donor looks pretty good for only 6 weeks post op.
  3. Hello @Hairrevival101 Welcome to the forums. Thank you for taking the time to write and post your pictures. Everything seems good so far. Can I ask you a few questions? You have a small bald spot in the crown. Are you hoping finasteride improves that area? How long have you be on finasteride? Thanks.
  4. It sounds like some people are confused about the 3 strips. I don't have any direct knowledge of the surgery, but here is what it sounds like happened. Dr Bloxham didn't get enough grafts from the original strip he created. Either the density wasn't as high as he thought (density can vary a lot. It's not the same all over) or he may not have been able to cut the strip as wide as he wanted due to low laxity/scalp tightness. It could have been some of both. I any event, what happened was he didn't get as many grafts as he needed, so he went back and extended the strip on both sides. See the picture below to understand. The green line is the first, original strip taken. To get more grafts, he extended both ends further towards the front. The red lines are the 2 additional strips taken which simply made the original strip longer. So there is only 1 FUT strip, but taken out in 3 sections.
  5. I would say mild sexual side effects. It wasn't so bad that I couldn't deal with it, but if it's not going to keep my hair then I may as well get my libido back. If my hair had not started falling out again I would have stayed on it. EDIT: I almost forgot. I should point out the biggest reason I stopped using finasteride. Since it wasn't keeping the hair on my head I knew I was eventually going to use beard and chest grafts as they were just becoming a thing then, but the finasteride was thinning out my body hair, so that was a big incentive to stop. Also, just for reference, I was taking 1.25mg about every other day.
  6. I was on it for roughly 11 years from 1998 to 2009. I think it helped a bit the first few years but after that I was definitely losing hair, so I decided there was no point to continue on it. I felt why should I suffer the side effects and unknown long term issues if it’s not solving the problem. If it was working I would have stayed on it. I think my hair loss is just too aggressive for it.
  7. The buzz cut looks pretty good. If you don't get enough density once you grow it out then at least you know you can go back to a decent buzz cut. So right now you are in a very good spot.
  8. Not too long ago it was common for Drs to offer free consultations. But back then you would go for a consultation, decide on a hairline, find out how many grafts you'd need if you are actually a good candidate, what the cost would be, and usually then setting up a date for the surgery. These days everyone seems to go to 5 or 10 consultations, so the Drs are spending a lot more time on consultations without getting the actual surgeries set up, so they had to start charging for the consultations. They can't spend half of their week doing consultations for free. I think most of them will deduct the cost of the consultation from the surgery, if you decide to choose them, which I think is very fair since you then did get a free consultation with them if you have the surgery with them.
  9. Shedding is going to happen. You just have to know it and let it happen and not get too stressed over it. Mine usually starts in about 8 to 10 days, but there's a large variation in what is a normal time frame for shedding.
  10. OK. Good to know. I was just responding to what the OP wrote.
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