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Neptune

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  1. I hear ya Bill. To make matters worse, it isn't even Foam! My wife comes back from the Wal Mart and says oops, all they had was the liquid. I think I'll just hoof it up Friday and get the real deal so I don't have to worry about it.
  2. Had to leave town and go to a part of my state that has only a small Wal Mart that at this time only carries Women's foam. Unfortunately, forgot to pack my Rogaine Foam. I've been using the Men's foam for the last year. So my question is this: Will using Rogaine 2% foam versus 5% for a week cause a shed or other problems? If so, I better drive an hour to the next town to get some foam.
  3. sabravo: Yes, most of them will jump ship and you'll look pretty much like you did before, if not a bit thinner than before due to some shock loss. When/if this happens, do not despair! Your journey has just begun and in 4-5 months, you'll start to see something that will get your attention. 6-8 months will be exciting and soon enough you'll be standing in front of the mirror saying "holy crap, I have hair!" Trust me on this. I had a number of people on this board say the same thing, but once it happens you'll be amazed. You just have to get through the hard part which is the waiting. Good luck!
  4. Bill: Unless he has changed, Dr. Lehr uses the stick and place method using needles, not blades to create the recipient sites. I'm not saying which is better, if any, for long term results, but I decided to go with Dr. Epstein almost as a direct result of this simply due to post surgical traume. I felt custom cut blades were less abusive than needles. True or not, I just did. Dr. Lehr said my scalp may stay red/pink for weeks or even a month or two. Dr. Epstein on the other hand said if I followed the pre and post op directions I would be back to normal in 10 days (which in fact was true). Just a point that the needles may be causing some of the more significant scabbing you are seeing in this case. He may be using blades now in which case something else may have caused that scabbing.
  5. Thanks guys. This is really useful info. Nervous: I may tell down the road but I work in a politically "harsh" environment when it comes to this sort of thing. We'll see how things go as I still may tell at some point. Bill: I intend to take some top down pics this weekend. I thought of that as I was posting as I want to be as fair as possible about these results. The "before" pic I posted just did the best job at demonstrating how much hair I had lost at that point before the surgery. I'll shoot a few top down and post them with this batch soon. Thanks again guys! Neptune
  6. Don't get me wrong. No complaints about any of the new hair I have. Just a question. In much of my new growth, I have a bunch of curly whiter hairs that don't straighten no matter how much "defrizzer" or straightening gel I put on. I knew to expect this but am curious from those who have experienced something similar: When should these hairs start to straighten out? I'm 7 months out and you can see my photos in the photo album section. Any advice you guys have would be greatly appreciated!
  7. The haircut part is really the best thing! I do catch people just kind of looking at me as if they are wondering what the heck is different. Since I decided long ago to just keep this to myself, I'm ready with the "I've been taking Propecia and using Rogaine for the last year and they work great" response if someone just flat out asks me what has happened. Really fun and exciting!
  8. Dr. Epstein Patient. Surgery performed March 07. Here we are at 7 months. Things are starting to happen! I've included a before pic just to compare against. Getting more and more "nice haircut" comments! Wife is after me about "de-frizzing" the new hair, and believe me I'm trying. Looking forward to the next few months.
  9. Dr. Epstein Patient. Surgery performed March 07. Here we are at 7 months. Things are starting to happen! I've included a before pic just to compare against. Getting more and more "nice haircut" comments! Wife is after me about "de-frizzing" the new hair, and believe me I'm trying. Looking forward to the next few months.
  10. Looks great RJVW! Hopefully whatever you lost by stopping propecia was made worth it in other ways (so to speak)! Keep up the good growth. I'm got some six month pics to show as soon as I can get them on the site.
  11. 5 months out and heck yes I would do it again! I am seeing the results more and more each day and I kind of pinch myself about where this is headed. Had a great doc (Epstein) so that helped.
  12. Yes, thanks for checking into this Bill. Glad you got some answers and hopefully this will indeed help.
  13. Updated with 4.5 month pics. Got behind so that's the best I can do. Starting to see some growth. Also got a new shed when I started using Rogaine Foam (AKA the Devil) 2X per day rather than 1 on my crown and top. Those areas thinned out but I'm sure they'll be back in a few months and should hopefully compliment the new growth at the same time. So far so good but I'm certainly ready to see the growth in the next four months.
  14. Looking great Bill! Really filling in nicely. I look at your history and you've been through so much, I know you have to be happy with this. Enjoy that new head of hair! I'm starting to get growth that is obvious rather than just the few sprigs that had popped up. Not enough that others have noticed yet, but enough that my wife is seeing it. Pretty cool even for just this point. Keep us posted with future pics since you are the poster child for major HTPs!
  15. This will be long but for those of you who appreciate history, enjoy and Happy 4th! IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated: Column 1 Georgia: Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall George Walton Column 2 North Carolina: William Hooper Joseph Hewes John Penn South Carolina: Edward Rutledge Thomas Heyward, Jr. Thomas Lynch, Jr. Arthur Middleton Column 3 Massachusetts: John Hancock Maryland: Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia: George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton Column 4 Pennsylvania: Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George Taylor James Wilson George Ross Delaware: Caesar Rodney George Read Thomas McKean Column 5 New York: William Floyd Philip Livingston Francis Lewis Lewis Morris New Jersey: Richard Stockton John Witherspoon Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark Column 6 New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett William Whipple Massachusetts: Samuel Adams John Adams Robert Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins William Ellery Connecticut: Roger Sherman Samuel Huntington William Williams Oliver Wolcott New Hampshire: Matthew Thornton
  16. Thanks guys. That is too damn funny and hits home! Things like this ought to be put as pinned at the top of our message board as core facts for all those who have no idea what they are in for. Thanks again!
  17. Bill: That wasn't the one, but it is a great description of what to expect. The thread I was looking for was one in which one of the replies said something like: Month 1 - really happy that I finally took the plunge. Month 2 - Hairs jump ship. This sucks Month 3 - No improvement and scar concerns. What he Hell did I do this for? Month 4 - Same. Month 5 - Damn, stuff IS growing! and so on until month 12 or so when you schedule your next transplant. I probably just recreated a big chunk of the one I was looking for, but I remembered the original as being pretty damn funny. Thanks for looking though. I will keep trying to see if I can track it down.
  18. Might? No way! Just my luck that you would have written that. I tried a search by got dizzy looking at all your posts. Couldn't find it after an hour so it will just have to live on in my mind. It was funny though. Thanks anyway!
  19. There was a thread here a few months ago that went month by month through the transplant experience and said what you could expect to see happen. It was kind of funny but seemed realistic too. I've been searching but can't find it. Anyone remember which thread it was in?
  20. There was a thread here a few months ago that went month by month through the transplant experience and said what you could expect to see happen. It was kind of funny but seemed realistic too. I've been searching but can't find it. Anyone remember which thread it was in?
  21. Will do Bill. The surprising thing here is that this area is way behind the recipient area. This is just the crown where I wasn't expecting shock loss. Either way, I'll keep trying it once a day and see what happens. Thanks again.
  22. Had my procedure done March 12. Everything in the recipient are seems to be doing fine and the donor area as well. However, on top and in the crown area I seem to be thinner than usual and it seems to have gotten worse in the last two months. Not massive fallout, just thinner. I'm on Proscar once per day and have used Rogaine once per day for the last couple of years. I switched to the foam a few months ago and did have some shedding initially as expected. My question is could using the foam once per day instead of the recommended twice per day lead to prolonged shedding? I never used the stuff twice per day cause I just felt I would never be that disciplined. Once a day in the morning fine and I never miss that. But, if the foam is too strong to be used once a day (theory being that using it twice per day helps build a tolerance to it) and thus leads to shedding over time, I'll try to stick with two times a day. Anybody have any experience with this?
  23. Thanks rjvw: Yes, the waiting is hard, but watching your progress and others really helps. As for my photo skills, my wife thinks I'm crazy as I pull out the camera and head around the house looking for the best light to actually show what's going on and not create false illusions of progress. For me, the pantry is the ultimate photo studio! More pics on or around July 12th.
  24. SinTPA: There are a number of us on the Photo Albums forum who are patients of Dr. Epstein and who have posted our pics. I had mine done in March, so I'm just now seeing signs of growth. Nothing much yet, though. rjvw is a couple months ahead of me and is seeing growth. There are others you might check out as well.
  25. HH: It's not that you are a NW6 now, but rather you are headed there if you don't stop the loss NOW! Propecia/Proscar and maybe Rogaine will be your best bet to at least stop/slow down the loss. Next you are going to have to decide how much of this you want/can afford to tackle at one time. Depending on that answer, you are going to narrow down your choice of docs. If you want as many grafts as someone can do for you in one sitting, your choice of quality docs just got narrowed down to a few in my opinion. If you want to tackle your restoration in a few treatments, then things open up a bit in terms of the docs you may consider. There are guys on this board that have had large sessions (3000 plus grafts). I myself just had about 2200 so I should not comment on who the larger session docs you might consider could be (other than Hasson and Wong cause their reputation is so solid even I can do that). Also, keep in mind that with the larger sessions, some docs will want you to shave your head, which may also impact who you choose depending on whether or not this is an option for you. Good luck on your search and fact finding.
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