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I am six months into proscar with good result so far. I just went through a shedding phase that lasted about 3 weeks and seems to have stopped in the last week or so.

I have been taking proscar for 5 months and it

has re-grown hair on my hairline, particularly in the frontal tuft.

Proscar can and does work for frontal hair loss - at least for me anyway.

He says more scaring not worse scaring.

He means that in a strip there is one scar and it is more visible. In FUE, there are hundreds or thousands of scars (one for each extraction) but the scars are very small and far less noticable.

Any time the skin is cut, there is a scar, you can't avoid that. From what I understand, even if the head is shaved, the scar created from the FUE punch difficult to see.

Rugby,

Here is a URL to that article on Dr. Epstein's web site. Worth a read anyway.

http://www.foundhair.com/pages/RevisionSurgicalHairRestorationRepairOfUndesirableResults02.pdf

Hey Rugby,

You may want to have a look at Dr. Jeff Epstein's web site. He has some excellent articles on reparation procedures including removing grafts without re-planting them.

Your area of coverage isn't that big so some faint scaring in a small area might not look too bad...might look like an injury from a rugby scrum

I am not a doctor but I don't think a doctor is required here. A transplant would be a disaster for you! Don't do it! Listen to Dr. Parsley.

Everyone on here knows that going bald is tough, but having transplant when you are not a good candidate is a thousand times worse - and it's with you for a lifetime.

By the way, I have a buddy who shaves his head and he is successful, has a beautiful wife and is a guy everyone looks up to. Hair isn't nearly as important as you think it is when you are 24.