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Nobel Victim

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  1. Any other helthfood junkies out there? What are the best things to eat in the run up and aftermath of a ht? Loads of fruit and veg of course... I figure zinc, vitamin c & e(in moderation)and the organic sulphers, like MSM etc. I am condidering adding collogen to my regime to help the scars heal? Any thourghts? NV
  2. Any other helthfood junkies out there? What are the best things to eat in the run up and aftermath of a ht? Loads of fruit and veg of course... I figure zinc, vitamin c & e(in moderation)and the organic sulphers, like MSM etc. I am condidering adding collogen to my regime to help the scars heal? Any thourghts? NV
  3. Great news, keep us all posted on how you get along. By the way, is the laster comb restoring / improving hair? If so where are you getting the benigits so far? Crown? Hairline? All over? Best NV
  4. Dea All, Can I ask, what are the suspected causes of the 'shock loss' phenomenon where un-transplanted hair in the recipient area falls out en-mass around the 3-6 month mark post sugery. I seem to recall one thread which sugested that the roots of the un-transpalnted hairs were actualy injured by the creation of the recipiant sites. Is that true? IF so is it true just some of the time or most of the time? Also, what can be done to prevent it exept lots of minoxidil and proscar? With thanks NV
  5. Dea All, Can I ask, what are the suspected causes of the 'shock loss' phenomenon where un-transplanted hair in the recipient area falls out en-mass around the 3-6 month mark post sugery. I seem to recall one thread which sugested that the roots of the un-transpalnted hairs were actualy injured by the creation of the recipiant sites. Is that true? IF so is it true just some of the time or most of the time? Also, what can be done to prevent it exept lots of minoxidil and proscar? With thanks NV
  6. Dear All, Are there any patents of Dr. Blaine Lehr? Who charges a mere $3 per graft? A bargain price and endorsed by Dr Norwood too! IS there any catch!!! Thanks NV
  7. Dear All, Are there any patents of Dr. Blaine Lehr? Who charges a mere $3 per graft? A bargain price and endorsed by Dr Norwood too! IS there any catch!!! Thanks NV
  8. Hi there, Proscar is a good first step. Most hair loss people use minoxidil too, it can be cheaper getting this from the USa too, say minoxidil.com I'm really not sure about ht in the UK. I would strongly recomend you dont use the Nobel Clinic of course! DHI & Farjo have some crediblity but you will find quite a lot of people slagging them off too. I would stear clear of anyone with any sort of black mark against their name! So my main advive is be super cautious and make sure you look twise before you leap!!! Good luck Nobel Victim
  9. Hi Scalppealer, Can I ask, who did your ht? They sound particualry poor? I'm a great beliver in naming and shaming, you could be doing someone else a big favour. Also reagrding your probelms, I have heard good reports on emu oil and aole vera gel as part of a minox / proscar combo. I have read how a few people can develop probems from time to time with minox, and the natual suplemnts can help. The emu oil does make you look quite greacy though! Also isn't that nioral shampoo meant to help? Good luck NV
  10. HI Fuzzyhead, Very intersting proscar tip. I have to admit I have wondered about this sort of thing, I nver realised that gapefruit were so useful though. My UK dermatologist told me that Meric recomend the 1 mg pill rather than a split 5mg pill for delivering a good dose of drug as they claim (And my dermatolgist was scketical of this) that the pills casing helps it pass through the stomach without being damaged so it can deliver its full contents to the digestive tract. Fuzzyhead, you sound like a man with the answer to that sort of conccern. Is 1mg of proscar better than 1mg of broken up ex5mg finasteride becuse it comes in a sealed pill???? I tryed breaking my 5mg pills into 4 and then put the 4 fragments into saw palmetto capsules to ease them through the harser stages of digestion. Cans say it made much difference. Best NV
  11. Did you, or any other UK guys get some Farjo junk mail in the last month? I did. It also said how they now offer fue ht rather than micrografts, can either of you bear this out? They also said they offer fit, ie non strip ht. Any patents out there experienced this first hand? It also had a rather cheasy interview with Farjo name dropping all the top US docs whereever possilbe, what is the veiw of Farjo on the world stage rather than the US? I too am a bit sceptical NV
  12. Isnt Jean Devroye well regarded? I may have got muddled up here but isnt he a Belgian Dr who has been trained by some of the well regarded US ht docs? Sympathise totlay with your sitation by the way. I had jsut the same experience by the sound of it. NV
  13. Thank yo Dr Charles, I think it will be the camoflarge route for me. Very best NV
  14. Dear All, (Esp Gratefulhead) Thank all so much for your kind words. You know, since my last sugery, I havent so much given up on life as simply become totlay risk adverse. I guess this might be because I am generaly a quite methodical, and the last time I did something impusive I visited the wrong clinic! It is very easy to fall into a routine where you feel comfortable, I wear my hair long enough ti kid myslef that my weird hairline is mostly combed over and wait for the latest addition to my drug cuboard to fix the damage, its all very obsesive. Hairworthy and UKGezzer are quite right on this! It is best just to get on and get out of the rut. I do know that too, in a way, but as TS808 says once bitten twise shy (Ahmen!). I should say, I think that the monny involved is a baragian in so many ways, I mean all the time I spend re-reading the Bald Truth could be spent doing other things!!! I'm really grateful, and if I procede I will post up some picks and keep you all posted. Very best NV
  15. HI Dr Charles, I'm interested in the use of dermal abrasion in ht reapairs. What circumstances do you think it would be a useful tool? I can see how it may flatten out the coblestoning effect, but how about the deeper slits of deeply placed micrografts. Also what effect might abrasion have on skin tone? My recipient site is whiter than my forehead, which makes my pluggy grafts look worse, would any abrasive help in equlaising this tone difference? With thanks NV
  16. I have to admit, I am in too mindas about a second ht. I have a pluggy mini graft hairline, which has bugged me for years, stoped me doing stuff and made me more recluisive than I was, made me less confident... But on the other hand, a second ht seems such a horrable prospect. I mean transatlantic flight, paying out ??3000-ish to be atristicaly stabed 1200 times in the head. Tight scalp for weeks afterwards... I seem to be loosing the will to sort out my life with regards to hair. Can any other souls offer motivation here? I think I am getting to the stage where I have put my life on pause but am too confused to make the jump to a good hair surgon and a better life... Dazed and confused Nobel Victim
  17. I have to admit, I am in too mindas about a second ht. I have a pluggy mini graft hairline, which has bugged me for years, stoped me doing stuff and made me more recluisive than I was, made me less confident... But on the other hand, a second ht seems such a horrable prospect. I mean transatlantic flight, paying out ??3000-ish to be atristicaly stabed 1200 times in the head. Tight scalp for weeks afterwards... I seem to be loosing the will to sort out my life with regards to hair. Can any other souls offer motivation here? I think I am getting to the stage where I have put my life on pause but am too confused to make the jump to a good hair surgon and a better life... Dazed and confused Nobel Victim
  18. I do think I started proscar too late, or later than I should. I first got on proscar about a year or so after my first ht, and that is toalty the wrong way around. That said, proscar and minox are both meant to be better at holding onto hair on the crown, rather than the hairline, so in that sence you might realy benifit, if you stop your hair retreating back over your head then you can perhaps get away with out lots of ht. Hope this helps NV
  19. Dosnt Dr Rose operate in Florida too? I have read good feedback on him. NV
  20. Hi Geezer, Well thats the proof of the pudding isnt it! I'm afraid proscar did not do the trick for me in as much as it has not grown my hair back. But after about 5 years of steady loss I have stablised my loss latley. I do think proscar is an imprtant part of any hair regime. Obviously I follow the pattern of using minoxidil too, a shed load of vitamins and herbs, and a few other random lotions. As far as I see it though, proscar and minoxidil are the only products out there with any sort of scientific support of their claims. So, in the first place they are where you shoulds start, I really wish I had started with proscar before I got a ht with the Nobel Clinic. There are happy users of proscar too (See the Bald Truth book) Keep in touch NV
  21. No not at all, my last post must have been clear as mud, I'm really sorry about that, I'll try again. Dont think of proscar as holding back your hair loss like a damn can hold back water. So after a certan amount of wtaer is held back then any new flow will spill over the top. Proscar is not like a damn, it is more like say, fetiliser! If you imagine that some soil can just about sustain a certain kind of plant, then in some cases fertilising the soil will alow the plant to grow, not for 1 or 2 or 5 years but untill some other envionmental factor changes. "DHT" is an environmental factor in your body which can inhibit ahir growth. Proscar will typicaly drop dht levels by about 60% (I think) so when you take it, you remove an impediment to hair growth. That is not to say you will or wont stop losing or start regrowing hair. But you have removed or at least reduced one factor which inhibits hair growth. Hope this helps! NV
  22. Sorry, your are quite right, this is not a grammar bee. Just as well in my case NV
  23. I'm not a medic, so tkae this as good hearsay, not gospel! Proscar works by inhibiting the convesion of male hormones into a chemical which damages the follicles (DHT). If it is the case that your hair loss is triggered by a certain threshold of dht then you may well live happily ever after on proscar, as baldness pundit Spenser Kober seems to. I dont think it is the case, as your question implys then that, proscar is like say turing your bilogical clock back 5 years, so that in six years you would be just like your untreated self would be in one year. Sorry, this is getting a bit T2! My point is that it might sort out your problem. So give it a chance.
  24. My dermatologist said so anyway! It is much cheaper to get a private perscription for proscar than to buy the hair loss version too. Seriously phone your nearest bupa hospital if your gp wont refer you NV
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