Curious

Can you describe how he removed the plugs? Did he divide them up and reimplant them, and what percentage of those grafts do you think regrew?

I bought Propecia yesterday at the Walmart pharmacy and was charged $79.88 for 30 pills. Seems expensive to me. I was wondering what do other people pay that buy brand name Propecia and Proscar?

Are any of the coalition docs using this machine?

Betasis will not help you to keep your hair, there is no natural substitute for Propecia. None. You are only fooling yourself and wasting your money.

You should stop taking Avodart. Having a child is a big decision. You owe it to yourself and your child to do everything reasonable to make sure your child is born healthy and without any physical problems. This is not something to gamble with.

I don't understand your story, Propecia and Proscar have the same active ingredient, Finasteride. Are you taking one tablet of Proscar every day, or splitting the pill up?

I have had successful BHT surgery and use finasteride. So far, no adverse effects.

Two questions, is he a medical doctor, and if so, how is he able to run a medical practice if he has a felony conviction?

Bill,

You kept the staples in for 4 weeks? What was that like? Painful? Any risk of infection?

I'm going through a shed right now, and I am taking 1.25 mg of Proscar every 5 days. It's frustrating and I am hoping the hair that is falling out will grow back.

I was wondering why you didn't have some of the lumpy old plugs taken out?

You're a little too negative in your critique of the doctor. He can never truly evaluate what he would recommend until he sees you in person. And I found the crack about his HT inappropriate. In any event, I sympathize with your plight. You should get a number of doctor opinions about your repair before having any additonal work done, doesn't sound like there is any margin for error.

To reduce the cost of healthcare, we need to tax you first.

I've had FUE surgery multiple times and aside from some swelling, had no pain in the days following surgery. Maybe some soreness , but that was about it. Your photos look good, althought it would be helpful to have a close-up pic of your donor. To have major pain from FUE 2 weeks after surgery is highly unusual. What was the diagnosis at the hospital?

You are not addressing the right of the other party, the doctor. The doctor has legal rights too and I'd make a fair sized bet he will win this case. Since when is a doctor required to place his life at risk by performing cosmetic surgery on someone with a fatal disease.

Just because there is a statute that may require the doctor to perform the surgery doesn't mean it's constitutional and that it would survive a legal challenge. In a country founded upon the principle of freedom, it's tyrannical to require a physician to operate upon someone whose life is not in danger.

It should be up to the doctor to decide on whether he wants to perform surgery on a patient with a life-threatening, communicable disease. Doctors have the right to turn down patients just as patients have the right to decline the services of a physician.

Even if a pregnant woman handled the tablets once, I doubt it would create a problem. With that said, I wouldn't be so sure that you could trust Merck to issue warnings if there was a problem with pregnancies in cases where the male was on Propecia. Merck is the company that suppressed the problems with Vioxx.

I find the article biased against FUE. There's no mention of the grafts lost when a strip is cut from the donor site.

I hope this pans out. How much terminal hair do you hope to produce with this treatment? Is there any risk of a tumor developing, as another poster suggested.

Lost My Swagger,

Why are you obsessed with Dr. Umar?

How secret can he be if he makes a presentation to a meeting of doctors that specialize in hair restoration? I think if you look in the archives that Pat Hennessey visited his clinic some time ago and had positive things to say about it.

hdude,

You're being unreasonable. Dr. Umar attended the ISHRS scientific meeting and made a presentation on BHT to other doctors. He's posted before and after photos of his patients; and some of his patients are willing to meet with people like you before a surgery is scheduled. No doctor is going to take kindly to the hysterical attack that LMS has posted.

Dr. Feller,

You've been very negative about FUE in the past vis a vis what it will do to the donor area. Is your opinion any different now that you have this tool??

There's a story in the paper about Xavier Nady of the Yankees, who is having PRP as a way of repairing the damage to his elbow. It's a fast track method of healing his injury. I think the science is real, it's just a matter of time before it becomes a common treatment.