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How is it going PD. Any updates?

How is it going Aman india. any updates?

thanks for the reply....so you are saying it only needs to be glued on the front,,what bout the sides and back...how will that stay in place? You would also need to shave some area of the head to put the glue right?

Hi Secretely thinning How can you put a system on without bonding it to your scalp. I was under the impression that you either need to tape it or apply glue to it. Can you please clarify?

Balding 1985..nice post and i can completely understand where you are coming from as i have been through a similiar expereince..After having tried Fin off and on for about 2 years, i decided to quit and not deal with the side effects (I suffered similiar side effects as you have mentioned). But i would like to say something about your comment that it is better to have two options than one option...the reason i say that is if we did not have the second option of Fin, it would be much easier to accept our baldness and move on!! since there is really no other option..Wat fin has done is created more problems in our heads (atleast in my case)..after going through this ordeal for 2 years, i am happy that i have decided to quit and would recommend the same to you as well..I am sure you are a smart guy and looks like you have a great career ahead of you...You will not have any shortage of girls and if you feel, fin is messing up with your sharpness, dump it....it certainly did for me and i work in financial services that requires me to be sharp all the time...Good luck mate

Hi Beemark I am looking into hair systems and wanted to ask if you could recommend any good stylist/system company in the New York/DC area. I work out of both places. I would appreciate it. Also, what kind of hair sytem do you use.

Hi Guys I am looking into hair systems currently and would appreciate inputs from someone who wears them. From little research that i have conducted, i have been told that skills of the hair stylist is of paramount importance even more than the system itself. As a result, i am hesistant in going to online places like toplace or coolpeice as i feel i will have to do everything myself..i have looked in to Farrell hair systems and they look pretty impressive..any feedback on that? Ideally, i think the best option would be to go to a local salon in the DC area who will take measurements, order the system for me and give me a nice haircut that looks natural..Please let me know if this is rational thinking? Can any one recommend local salons in the DC area with which you have had experience..Any other inputs would also be highly appreciated...(i am looking for points like detectability and how natural the system looks to naked eye..etc)

Hi wb 280 I am also considering wearing a hair system until i decide to go the HT route. Can you please give me some guidance where to start..i see that some of the systems really look natural these days and i think if it gives some confidence to get a start in the dating world, then why not use it and see how it goes..what hairsystem were you using and was it a do your own kit or you had a stylist looking out for you.. I would appreciate your response

Hi Mari Dealing with hairloss is worse enough for guys..i cant even imagine how women would deal with going bald..you are rite when you say that men have the option of shaving it and still look cool if they can carry a good physique and dress well...but it is tough on women..i guess one option would be to wear hair systems but that would carry the fear of what happens if the other half comes to know about it..but atleast that could give you a jump start in the dating scenario!.i totally hear you and understand where you are coming from...may god give courage to all of us in dealing with this issue

Thanks for your response joe. i have consulted with numerous surgeons recommended on this network in the US and asked them why they dont perform larger sessions as consistently as H&W. They answered saying that the scar becomes difficult to manage and they dont want to give larger scars...so, if i am understanding this correctly, you are saying that a 6000 graft session will have a same scar as a 300 graft session!! that would be incredible if your clinic could do that as other clinics have not told me the same..honestly, i am also not totally convinced with this theory but i am not saying this is not possible..just performing my due diligence

hi illuminated I am sorry to hear what you are going through and can emphatise with you as i have gone through the same. i would recommend before going to other doctors and doing all these tests, please try and speak to the doctor who prescribed you propecia in the first place. hopefully your HT clinic (H&W i think) should be able to help you out..they have prob heard this before.. Secondly, i know you are pretty stressed out as you have already had the surgery and really would want your propecia to work...but it is what it is..i would forget about it for now and hit the gym big time...more than half your problems will be solved by exercising. i am telling you this by experience..also, if you come across an intimate moment and are not able to get it up, pop in half a cialis. you will be absolutely amazed as to what it can do to your confidence..All the best

i am not sure if i have lost more hair but the density seems greatly reduced as i think fin definitely thickened my hair to an extent that i could get away with nanogen..i cant anymore and it sucks....trust me i felt really bad to leave fin but it is what it is!!! i think you could stop it for a month and see if the docs dont diagnose hernia, varicose veins etc that could be causing it..also,if you are planning to see a urologist,...i would recommend you to see a guy instead of a girl as i think they would be able to understand better. all the best

Hi Sparky Sorry to hear that but hope things get better for you as i have expereinced something similiar before and i think it would be fair to say that any kind of discomfort there is a source of deep concern for men. Let me share my side of the story. a couple years back, i had started fin and was taking it for about a year. I did experience some ED isuues but kept on taking the fin with the hope that the sides would go away...after about a year, i started getting this dull draggy feeling in my left testicle that would come 3-4 times a week,,,i was also doing heavy weight training those days and was thinking the pain is because of that. i stopped exercising for about 3 mos. but the discomfort refused to go away..i went to all kinds of doctors (GP, urologists, general surgeon) and nobody was able to point on the reason...i also did ultrasounds, MRI etc but nothing..to be fair, i have had surgery for varicose veins on my left testicle and thought that there might be a recuurence!! but all the docs said that they could not do anything for me... they also said that propecia is unlikely to cause this...disheartened, i stopped taking fin and slowely but gradually the discomfort reduced and then went away...i cannot say for sure that fin caused this..so take my story for what it is worth..but to me this is the problem of taking these drugs..if anything happens to us in life we would start blaming fin..I again started taking fin for about 3 months and something else did not feel right also hence, i decided after thinking hard that this is just not worth it for me...good luck with your issue and please keep us posted!!

Thanks for the response AmanIndia. Do you know what is your denisty in the donor area. Are if you had good laxity, does than mean the doc was able to take a bigger strip..Does that mean that your scar will be big as well..

Hi Aman india and J Could you guys please elaborate as to the reasons Aman india got such a big megasession and J could not. does that mean aman indias scar is much bigger than J's scar. Also, what are the factors that determine the size of the session and how were the factors different in your cases?