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  1. Hey I feel your pain. Today is the three month mark for me. Some transplanted hair still there but tons of my native hair on top also fell out. No way to hide this mess without people saying what the hell happened. Look way worse now than before I went in for the HT. This stage is brutal I hear you!!! Hint don't look at peoples before and after pics that makes it worse especially those starting to grow hair at three months they are just lucky.
  2. Thanks LT I read your reply and your right I should get to the gym and get some of my confidence back and start to feel good about myself. Your lucky that you can wear a hat and people that know you don't know your losing hair. I might try Dermatch as I have tried other products such as one similar to topix but I felt uncomfortable with it most likely because I felt exposed without the safety net of a hat. Thanks for the advice and I still suggest you go to Dr. Feller and take the chance he can get your scar almost covered. Take care LT!
  3. Hi Raphael84. I tried Finsateride and had poor results but I still hope for the best. I got a prescription for Avodart and have had it for awhile. I finally tried it for a couple of weeks and broke out in acne on my face. I was taking one pill daily. I just wanted to warn you of a possible side effect. I have just tried it again and I have reduced the dosage amount to every second day. No acne yet. Too early to tell if it will help hairloss but can confrm Finasteride did not help.
  4. LT spend the $1600. I think a Doctor as well regarded on this site as Dr Feller is going to do the best he can. Take a chance and see. In time you can take another chance when you have saved and your financial burdens are less. I know your pain of looking in the mirror everyday and wearing hats. Life is a bitch. People are going to think your bald from wearing a hat all the time regardless so forget about people and do what makes you feel better about the situation your in. Just know everyday you put on a hat your not the only one that does it. When I read posts like yours it helps me. I have probably 30 hats. I have no friends. I avoid all functions and social events because of my hairloss. I am 60 to 80lbs over weight because I have no self esteem and don't care anymore. I started thinning in highschool and provided hours if not years of entertainment to the beautiful crowd at my highschool. I am a social introvert. I live my life with a hat. I got a HT recently and a huge portion of my native hair fell out which I had no idea was going to occur so my fragile ego has been destroyed. I hate looking in the mirror. I am hoping that I can get to the other side of this and some of the transplanted hair will grow. I hope I picked the right Doctor but through it all I know I have my hats to cover my head. I have a career that allows the wearing of a hat which is great. I think if you can pull off the bald or balding look then get procedure done to at least to hide hopefully all of the scar. Many men blend in so well in society with their hairloss and they just deal with it. I think it will be harder to blend in with a big scar on the back of my head. Try to hide the scar and spend the money with a top Doctor and then either wear your hat or shave your head and hang in there until you can budget another shot at a HT. Take the chance to try and cover the scar and spend the money. Wear your hat or grow your hair just long enough to cover your scar and be happy in the life you have with your beautiful child and wife.
  5. Hi Wantego, Thanks for the response. I looked at the pics you have on your link and WOW!! you look great and are really lucky. You have to be thrilled. I did take some pictures immediately after the procedure then about a week later and also at one month. When I looked a the one month pictures I got really depressed as I could see the additional hair that I had lost compared to the existing hair I had right before I went in. I know this hair will grow back eventually if it is resting stage and I know from Doctors repsonding on this forum that most likely transected hair will grow back. Still the ugly duckling stage as it is referred is just brutal. I look at my pictures and I know the mind plays tricks but you could not separate me from my hat for anything right now. The hat stays on all the time now. I don't like my wife to see me without it since the procedure. I will take two month pictures so I have a record and in a few months if I have positive results I will post them to encourage other people that are thinking about a HT. Right now I am not one of those people that would recommend a procedure. Anyway you asked about specifics and to be honest I don't know the kinds of details the senior members of this site know about their stats. I went for a 3000 graft procedure. I do not know how many were actually retrived nor how they were separated. I recall the Doctor telling the technicians that no singles were needed. I went for the HT just before I found this website. The Doctor I used is not on this sites list. I noted some members thrash Doctors so I prefer not to state his name and regardless I do not have his permission to mention his name. I am sure he did an outstanding job and I am an just anxious and stressed patient but these first couple of months have been brutal. I would have liked a heads up at the consultation and have been advised that inserting hair amongest native thinning hair could accelerate hairloss in some patients etc. Thanks wantego!
  6. May not be the candidate you are looking for a response from. I wore a hat my entire life since I had thin hair starting at age 18. High school people would say I would be bald by 25. If you look at my hair then I had a big part and as years progressed you could see through the hair but no one area had a bald patch. Since then I have been rarely seen without a hat but when needed I could pull off a "thinning" look with spray on hair to cover my crown area which was most noteable. People rarely commented on balding or hair loss and I work with the type of jerks that love to make fun of balding people. I recently got a HT in the hopes I could put my hat collection away forever. Again I had hair before the HT it was just thin and most noticeable in the crown area. I would never try to "fool" anyone with the spray on hair as my wife pointed out she could detect the spray on hair when I was in the sun and made me self concious about it. So the plan was wear a hat then go without it once in a while only. Two months after a hair transplant my hairloss has progressed ten times more to the point I feel I will never go without a hat for the rest of my life. I know this is the ugly duckling stage and I am praying it is tempoary as if I could go back in time to two months ago I would have keep the $8000 and my hats. It could be the worse thing I ever did in my life and I am praying that I can just get back to where I was before the hair transplant. I noted a couple of other repsondents said it was the worst thing they ever did so I am a little freaked out that it may be permanent. I had transplants inserted around good folicles and I fear I may have destroyed good folicles as the they were damaged during the inscision for transplants. I am an "AFTER Hair Transplant" wishing I was still a "BEFORE"
  7. Dr. Lindsey, Thank you very much for taking the time to reply. Would seeing a Physician specializing in transplants be better than my family doctor or a referral to a dermatologist? My HT surgeon suggested going to my family Doctor but my thought processs is that a HT Physician would be able to minimize the amount of loss of newly transplanted follicles that could be damaged during the incision and removal procedure. Thank you again Dr. Lindsey
  8. I had a HT one month ago. I had some exsiting thinnig hair on the top of my head. Enough that my HT Doctor thought I already had a HT surgery. My HT consisted of relocating folicles to fill in the thinning areas in the top and crown of my head. My question for the Doctors in this forum is regarding what my HT surgeon referred to as cyst on the top of my head. I have had this lump for several years prior to the HT. Due to the shock loss the top of my head is very visible now and the cyst bump is very pronounced. All the hair that covered it fell out so it is very visible. I can live with the vanity aspect and wear a hat until my new hair grows in but my concern is a constant discomfort of what feels like someone pressing their finger very hard into my skull near the cyst. I cannot say it is the cyst as I lost a lot of feeling in top region of my head so it could be the general area or immediately behind the cyst. I am constantly aware of this discomfort and take headache pills like Advil when I need a break from it. Could the HT have agravated the cyst? The surgeon added hairs into it as it is in the balding area. Probably the answer is I should go to see my family Doctor but I am curious and would like to know if feeling this type of discomfort is normal one month after a HT. Thank you
  9. I had a HT one month ago. I had some exsiting thinnig hair on the top of my head. Enough that my HT Doctor thought I already had a HT surgery. My HT consisted of relocating folicles to fill in the thinning areas in the top and crown of my head. My question for the Doctors in this forum is regarding what my HT surgeon referred to as cyst on the top of my head. I have had this lump for several years prior to the HT. Due to the shock loss the top of my head is very visible now and the cyst bump is very pronounced. All the hair that covered it fell out so it is very visible. I can live with the vanity aspect and wear a hat until my new hair grows in but my concern is a constant discomfort of what feels like someone pressing their finger very hard into my skull near the cyst. I cannot say it is the cyst as I lost a lot of feeling in top region of my head so it could be the general area or immediately behind the cyst. I am constantly aware of this discomfort and take headache pills like Advil when I need a break from it. Could the HT have agravated the cyst? The surgeon added hairs into it as it is in the balding area. Probably the answer is I should go to see my family Doctor but I am curious and would like to know if feeling this type of discomfort is normal one month after a HT. Thank you
  10. Thank you Bill for a detailed response. It does help me in my decision and I see that I have to consider the potential side effects which I was not aware of. I think I may consider staying with Propecia after your thought to consider that Type I 5-alpha-reductase enzymes are found in the brain. I see dhoose75 may be in a similar situation to myself where he felt he may have been losing ground while on Propecia and he noted no side effects when he switched to Avodart. I know now the potential side effects and I will get another medical consultation before making the decision to switch. Thanks for your input!
  11. Hi I am considering switching to Avodart from Propecia. The reason being my genetic dispostion to baldness cannot be held back by Propecia. I have been taking Propecia daily for several years. My crown which Propecia claims to be most effective with is still gradually balding. While perhaps at a slower than without the drug which I should be grateful for if I compared my current hairloss to my fathers hairloss at the same age. Propercia does not claim to be effective for hair on top and in front which in my case has been gradually thinning for several years. I am at the stage of hairloss that I really want to keep the hair I have left on top and in front if at all medically possible. I heard Avodart can maintain or reduce hairloss in the front top and crown hairline and is more effective than Propecia. I was wondering what other members have heard or experienced using this Avodart. Also does anyone know if there are any side effects other than the risks associated with Propecia and are there any risks for birth defects from sperm from an Avodart user. I know pregant women should not come in contact with the drug but should safe sex be practised while on the drug also? Thank you for your time.
  12. Hi I am considering switching to Avodart from Propecia. The reason being my genetic dispostion to baldness cannot be held back by Propecia. I have been taking Propecia daily for several years. My crown which Propecia claims to be most effective with is still gradually balding. While perhaps at a slower than without the drug which I should be grateful for if I compared my current hairloss to my fathers hairloss at the same age. Propercia does not claim to be effective for hair on top and in front which in my case has been gradually thinning for several years. I am at the stage of hairloss that I really want to keep the hair I have left on top and in front if at all medically possible. I heard Avodart can maintain or reduce hairloss in the front top and crown hairline and is more effective than Propecia. I was wondering what other members have heard or experienced using this Avodart. Also does anyone know if there are any side effects other than the risks associated with Propecia and are there any risks for birth defects from sperm from an Avodart user. I know pregant women should not come in contact with the drug but should safe sex be practised while on the drug also? Thank you for your time.
  13. Hi My question is in regards to what I think is properly termed as transected hair. During a HT on a patient that has thinning hair but is not bald and the Doctor creates the holes for the transplanted hair is there a risk of cutting the folicle of the thinning hair and permanently damaging them creating more future hair loss. If thinning hairs were transected can they recover and regrow hair in the future? Is it best to wait until the balding process is complete before getting a HT so as not to risk damage to exsiting hair? Thank you
  14. Hi My question is in regards to what I think is properly termed as transected hair. During a HT on a patient that has thinning hair but is not bald and the Doctor creates the holes for the transplanted hair is there a risk of cutting the folicle of the thinning hair and permanently damaging them creating more future hair loss. If thinning hairs were transected can they recover and regrow hair in the future? Is it best to wait until the balding process is complete before getting a HT so as not to risk damage to exsiting hair? Thank you
  15. Thank you thanatopsis_awry and doc33029. I appreciate that you took the time to answer and I appreciate very much the detail thanatopsis_awry put into answering all my questions. This is a great site and I am thrilled there are others out there that understand and can relate and have so much experience and knowledge to share with others. Thank you both!! P.S. thanatopsis_awry I went to your link to look at your pics and have to say wow the results are fantastic. You must be thrilled. I had an excellent Doctor but I have not asked his permission to use his name so I don't think I should mention his name or clinic. I have 100% confidence I picked an excellent Doctor and I know his work will speak for itself and that I just have to be patient and deal with the shock loss as you suggest. He gave me a prescription for Avodart so I am going to switch. I did not know the speculated issue with Propecia over time that could be my problem. So the timing of meeting my HT surgeon and a new prescription for Avodart could be just what I need. I will take pictures and setup a link to view them over time. It may help me to calm down if I can track progress over time also. doc33029 you mentioned you have had several transplants. My head felt very tight the first week but is better now in week two. I am wondering after more than one procedure does your skin still stretch enough to releave the tightness? Thank you
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