pushing 40

Hey guys. I just loaded my 5 month pics. Looking forward to this kinky frizziness going away! But overall, I'm still very happy. Hopefully more growth and maturation coming.

WTF?

That looks great. Quite the difference between 6 months and a year.

I had weird little lumpy areas for weeks afterwards. I think it was just localized skin swelling from the trauma; all gone now.

That's weird. My hair was exactly opposite; the hairs on the back and sides were VERY much thicker than those on top.

Sounds to me like an excellent experience and it should be a blue print for how this type of consult should always be done! From what I've read, Dr. Rose is cream of the crop as far as skills go and with this, it sounds like his over all practices are right in line with that. No hiding behind reputation; sounds like he and his staff put forth effort to supply you with as many resources as they could. I'm impressed. Also, I've read before where some clinics with more than one surgical office use "traveling tech subcontractors" so it doesn't seem out of the ordinary. As long as their skills are verified and approved by the doctor.

I shaved mine for many many years; it is very easy to "manage" and be on the go. I bet however its not the same feeling for some guys as it was for me. I started shaving mine 20 yrs ago when I still had plenty of hair. I bet for guys who have been trying to strategically cover baldness for years it is a VERY liberating feeling to just say screw it and buzz out.

Freakin' sweet!!!!!!!

I couldn't wear a helmet for about a month because of the strip ouchiness.

Wow, I am surprised at the difference! That is amazing. This shows the effect between 1000 on a blank slate versus 1000 on an already excellent foundation. Thanks for sharing Gorp! Seeing this, I'm already thinking "hair greed" might get me!

Michael, If I get a chance to head up to NY, I'm hanging out with you!!!

Matt, I thought your rantings were a little more scientific. Even if it does produce momentary increases in testosterone, it is not a prolonged, dramatic increase allowed by the body to sustain itself over time. Also, exactly how much of the additional testosterone is converted to DHT by the body and how long does that even last? How much DHT is allowed to bind to a hair follicle, over what period of time, and how is this correlated to the additional DHT? Does it even exist in the body long enough to bind? Your statement is as skewed as "I have a black dog; he is a spaniel; therefor, all black dogs are spaniels". Not. Granted, I'm an engineer, not a scientist, but that was pretty see through. Now excuse me while I go jerk off.

Now do we clearly see the difference in a professional versus a semi-professional? Ailene is representing herself and her clinic properly with dignity, respect, coutesy and best of all, proper grammar.

Calvin, I think this is good math and well reasoned. As with anything though, there are always the variables. Kind of like how the standard bell curve can, and often must, be applied to almost anything. I see older bald men who's donor areas are very very thin. But I've also seen 70yr old men with no balding and very very thick donor areas. This meshes well with your formulas above I think.

I buzzed my head the day the staples came out and every couple of weeks after that with a #2 clipper. I stopped around the 90 day time frame. Like you, I wanted new hair and old hair to be at the same length. Didn't care about the scar and almost never wore a hat. Nobody asked, but then I wasn't working either so no coworkers to worry about.

The itch sucks!! The water will not hurt anything. I never found anything to help with the itch; sorry to say that but its true. Maybe someone else did and they will chime in.

Buttons on your face? I've had buttons on my underwear, but never on my face. Did you try turning them to see if lights went off or the garage door went up and down. Man that would be convenient!

Thanks Bill. As far as the ribs go, I wasn't gonna say because it was actually REALLY stupid but what the heck. If I can share my baldness insecurities with you guys I guess I can share my stupidity too: I had a couple of old military ground burst simulators (think of a huge fire cracker) that I wanted to get rid of. What better way than to set them off and be done with it right? Well, it was pitch black outside so even better to get to see AND hear the kaboom. But, when I went to throw it, I dropped it at my feet. In the almost total darkness. So of course I took off running at full speed as fast and hard as I could. Did not see the knee high wooden landscaping fence only 10 feet away. Ass over apple carts I went, leaving a fair amount of knee skin on the fence. Somehow managed to land in a way that my elbow saw fit to practically meet my spinal column on a route that took it through the scenic bypass of my rib cage. Broke 2 ribs, separated a muscle from the ribs, bruised a lung and put a really nasty bloody bruise on my liver. This is one time it would have paid off to have a little body fat but alas, I have no cushioning. I'm just thankful nobody was taping it because it most assuredly would have been a "top tard" youtube award winner.

Thanks Joe! I am still trying to stop the "mirror inspection stops" every two hours! I am VERY VERY happy so far; especially when I look at my pre-op pics. Dr Hasson is DA MAN!! At 4 months I had good growth and thought "hmmm....is this all I transplanted?". Then I magnified a couple of high quality pics and could see hundreds of little specks where hair had not even popped through the skin yet. Very exciting! Also, sadly I am no longer retired! I got offered a great engineering position with a company in aerodynamics research. Lots of money for very little work! My kind of job! And, I've had to lay off the weight lifting for a while. Broke TWO ribs and bloodied up my liver and one lung. THE MOST painful experience I've ever had. If any of you have ever broken ribs you know exactly what I'm talking about. If you haven't, DON'T! Everything you do all day causes massive pain, from just breathing to trying to lay down or get up, open a car door, get milk out of the fridge. Everything! It has so totally sucked and the docs said it may be months before the pain subsides just because thats how ribs are. Depressing. However, the other night my wife said "look, this is getting old. You either need to put out, or get out!". So, I took a couple extra pain pills and "put out". It was worth it!

Hey guys! I finally added my 4 month pics; they are actually 4 months and 1 week. I stopped buzzing it down after my 90 day update; I had been buzzing it down with a #2 every couple of weeks or so to keep things balanced out. I didn't want long (pre-existing) and short (new growth) hair mix you know. A couple of observations: 1) It is a little frizzy! Very strange since my hair has ALWAYS been fine and STRAIGHT! Will it chill out in the next year? 2) Where old original hairline hair and new transplanted hairline hair come together on the sides (temple area) it looks a little awkward on close inspection; the old is very fine, light colored, and thin wispy type hair (non-balding though). The new hair is very thick and dark. Once it grows longer, you'll never see it but I did want to make the observation.

Partner, I just read thru this entire post. You have some issues. Try to realize you are in the box looking out; we are outside the box looking in. Two very different views. What I am referring to with this reference is your life, your comments on it, your opinions on this entire scenario voiced thru this forum. You sound just a little off center to most normal people; as in "kooky". It sounds like you are having SERIOUS hormonal problems that WILL NOT be solved by perusing this website. Stay off here, get LOTS of tests, and figure out what is wrong. I seriously am not trying to insult you when I say you are coming off like a whack job; I just thought you might want to know what impression you are giving off. Use it to your advantage.

Yeah, this sounds bad. Anybody? Hello?

Guys, resize your photos to a smaller size before posting them. Get them to under 100k and it will help immensely with this lock up problem. They will still be good quality and fairly large when viewing even at that size. Posting a 1 or 2 meg photo is helping to jam this thing up. IRfanview is a free and easy to use program for resizing. Please?

Guys, resize your photos to a smaller size before posting them. Get them to under 100k and it will help immensely with this lock up problem. They will still be good quality and fairly large when viewing even at that size. Posting a 1 or 2 meg photo is helping to jam this thing up. IRfanview is a free and easy to use program for resizing. Please?

JAG!! Congratulations brother!!!!!!!! That looks like SO MUCH better work than the previous you had. Nice! Are you happy?!