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Ringo

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Basic Information

  • Gender
    Male
  • Country
    United States
  • State
    NY

Hair Loss Overview

  • Describe Your Hair Loss Pattern
    Receding Hairline (Genetic Baldness)
    Thinning on Top only (Genetic Baldness)
    Thinning or Bald Spot in the Crown/Vertex
  • How long have you been losing your hair?
    10 years +
  • Norwood Level if Known
    Norwood IV A
  • What Best Describes Your Goals?
    Maintain and Regrow Hair

Hair Loss Treatments

  • Have you ever had a hair transplant?
    Yes
  • Hair Transplant Surgeon
    Dr. Alan Feller
  • Other hair restoration physicians
    MHR
  • Current Non-Surgical Treatment Regime
    Rogaine Extra Strength for Men
    Toppik

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  1. Folks, I have been off the site for a while. I am looking for your opinions and experiences with concealers. Toppik has been my reliable go to for years, but the price of the stuff is getting to be too much since I was laid off. I need to find a good replacement. I ordered a $12 bag of "fibers" and pretty much got just what I paid for! Any thoughts? Thanks!
  2. Friends, I am Looking for a less expensive alternative to Toppik. I was laid off, and need to look good but spend less. Any thoughts? Ringo
  3. Ringo

    Hair Progress

    Pictures of my procedure and results.
  4. Hello everyone! What's going on with Toppik? Is it being priced by OPEC now?? Does anyone have a cheap source? Last time I paid $48, now they want $70!

  5. Abby, I was really nervous about it too. The thought of being shaved and healing; sleeping sitting up, even with drugs. I just thought about how time flies by so quickly, and how six months from now I could still look as I did, or I could have a pretty good start on a new head of hair. Either way, the time will pass. You'll get through it as you did before: one day at a time. Use the forum for support, and lighten up. I am now 1 month post op, and HT #one is growing back quickly. In about another month, I should be able to start covering with Toppik and ditch the hat, then in a few more months, hopefully less and less Toppik. I feel optimistic now, but I just needed to push forward. Let us know how it goes! P.S. I just looked at your weblog. Where are they gonna wedge in any more hair?? Best, Ringo
  6. According to Babel Fish Translator: Head skin warm cold bath! The egesta clear. The paragraph next to the pic of the handful of dirt says: Raising the hair has been similar to the fact that you raise the farm products.???Although the farm products whose quality is high are made make the earth whose important thing is best. In order to attach the many tasty fruits, it is important to remove the impurity in the earth, the root the Hari easy way to plow the earth softly, and to lift the moderate fertilizer and to give nutrition. So, the earth namely is the head skin.???The blood style soft improving also the head skin, if nutrition makes easy to spread, it is something where the good hair naturally grows. And next to the smiling man sitting inside the hot tub hat: The growth hair hot spring cap in the head skin does with the kind elastic material, does not pass either the water. Many merits of growth hair hot spring cap! And the merits of the cap? ?‘ The far infrared rays and 0 ion effectively it emits & generates to the head due to the natural ceramics. ?‘? The hot water or running cost other than the water does not catch altogether. ?‘? In the bathtub temporary, everyday, the growth hair is produced easily. ?‘? When the head skin is warmed, the pore is made to open simultaneously. ?‘¤ Becoming old some time by using, it peels off and in the skin and the pore which fall like the concrete it flatters hard and stubbornly the [ri] it melts the fat soiling which is attached and it removes naturally without the excessiveness. ?‘? The flow of the blood of the head skin which is carrying the nutrition which becomes the material of the hair to the hairy root part is made naturally active without the excessiveness. ?‘¦ The head skin and those residues which remain in the pore are removed cleanly by the shampoo treatment medicine and the like doing and to pass after the washing use. ?‘§ Stimulus is given to the head skin with the warm cold bath effect and with the hot water and pouring the water alternately, the blood circulation is promoted. ?‘? The pore is tightened by pouring the water.???In addition, when hot day of midsummer and the like and the body feels hot, when the water, being cold, it becomes cancellation or relief of the stress which comes from heat cold by pouring the hot water. Again, "it melts the fat soiling which is attached and it removes naturally without the excessiveness." Any Questions? Best, Ringo
  7. I am 4 weeks post op, and I experienced a small amount 1/4" of shock loss along about 3 inches of my donor scar on the right side. How long can I expect for it to start to grow in? Has anyone else experienced this> If only my ears were bigger...
  8. I am 4 weeks post op, and I experienced a small amount 1/4" of shock loss along about 3 inches of my donor scar on the right side. How long can I expect for it to start to grow in? Has anyone else experienced this> If only my ears were bigger...
  9. Great thread, guys! I have had many reactions from the talking behind my back, to people asking my kids what I did, to old friends I see for the first time in ten or fifteen years saying I haven't changed a bit. If they had seen me 3 years ago, they would NOT have said that. Girls are smiling at me again. That feels great. And this with a pretty thin MHR HT and an artful application of half a can of Toppik. I am now almost three weeks post HT 2 with Dr Feller and back in the perma-hat stage, but I am very excited about what's happening under that hat. Best, Ringo
  10. I had a teenager who's known me for a couple of years from the neighborhood ask my 12 year old, "What's up with your Dad's hair?" My kid said "Nothing!" I told him to send all inquiries to me. I will talk openly to anyone with the balls to ask politely. The fact is it's a big change, a fascinating process, and with all our knowledge (thank you Bill & Co) we forget that this is a complete mystery to the follicularly gifted. It's a mystery to most bald guys as well! If I has a Barnes and Noble gift card for every time someone said to me "Does it grow?" I could finally buy the latest season of South Park on DVD. One tactful neighbor said after staring with a sort of baffled look on his face, "I 'm not used to the 'Italian look'." I am not sure what he meant, but he did not explain. I'm willing to assume he meant a young DeNiro, and not Rudy Giuliani. Tell them its a miracle, because in a way, it is. Best, Ringo
  11. Thanks guys! I put up some new pictures. Ringo
  12. Dr Feller's instructions had me gently washing with my fingertips the third night. MHR suggested the 6th night after HT, and I was skeptical about just 3, but confirmed with the office. They said no nails on the scalp, and just use common sense. I have NO scabs at one week, just shedding white skin flakes, and my scalp feels pretty darn good considering what it's just been through . I have posted new pix if you'd like to check it out. Best Growing, Ringo
  13. OK OK, I'll leave MHR alone. For now! . Yesterday I got 2300 by Dr Feller and his excellent staff and man am I happy! My head hurts, but I had a good time, I now have a dense packed head, (with hair) and it took about 2.5 hours less than MHR did to do what they said was 1700, but Dr Feller estimated at closer to 900. I can say I was pissed about that, but I am past complaining right now. I will post more photos within the next few days while I am laying low. Thank you to all for your support and encouragement! <STRIKE>Wade Boggs</STRIKE> (Ringo)
  14. I got excuses and that's all. I did not expect much. I am really looking forward to March 4 with Dr Feller! Get this head fixed for good! I will post new pix with progress.
  15. Gentlemen, I just had a meeting with Dr Feller last week in preparation for my 2nd HT, and I asked the question about the saline spray and graftcyte. he also claimed that it was an unnecessary expense, and added nothing to the healing process, since the grafts are safely under the skin. Best, Ringo
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