What are the biggest hair loss myths?

[MANOJ3652]

what are the biggest hair loss myths?

[Speegs]

That you inherit hair loss from your mother's side of the family, it can, in fact, come from either side of the family and is not particularly predictable.

 

Though if there is advanced hair loss on one or both sides of the family, you can bet that is the pattern that awaits your own hair if you begin to experience hair loss yourself since the gene is genetic.

 

Another big myth is the prevalence of impotence caused by finasteride, I see lots of young people on this forum needlessly fearful of their sexual performance from finasteride usage.

 

Most people that experience sexual performance issues before middle age are due to anxiety and psychological issues and they may try to assign that to their finasteride when it is not the culprit.

 

And secondly, most men of a certain age who complain of sexual dysfunction while on finasteride are of an age group prone to experience sexual dysfunction without finasteride and once again are assigning the likely culprit to be finasteride without any proof of such.

 

Bottom line is finasteride helps men keep their hair longer, and none of its observed side effects have been shown to be widespread or permanent after discontinuing usage.

[jjsrader]

That maintaining after age 45 is a given w/even high % minox (5% or 15% or 30%) and fin/dut.

 

It ain't - baldness is progressive and can sometimes accelerate randomly at older ages.

 

Your hair strands always stays the same looking even if thinning. Hair caliber can decrease as you get older - it doesn't stay the same in all people (male and female).

 

You won't care about your hair when you are 55 or 60. Tell that to older women and men that are thinning - it matters.

 

Going grey won't happen to me. Um - sure. Haha!

[Al - Moderator]

The absolute biggest myth in my opinion is that everyone has a safe zone where hair is not going to fall out. This is the biggest one because it is actually a lie that all hair transplant Drs and clinics tell patients and the entire idea and process behind hair transplants is built around this myth/lie that they can take hair from the safe area and move it to another area and it will grow for the rest of your life. If they didn't push this myth/lie then many hair transplants would not be performed.

 

Another myth is the success rate of hair transplants. Most Drs will tell you that nearly all of their patients have satisfactory results. Let's not even talk about bad Drs. Let's just concentrate on those who are routinely considered top Drs. The problem with them claiming, let's say, over 95% of patients have great results is that it only tells you how many patients that they actually worked on. What about the ones they turned away? Some Drs claim up to 15% of patients are turned away due to not being a suitable candidate. Now I'm sure some of those are because they only have very minor loss, but how many are because they have aggressive hair loss? How many are due to them not having a good enough donor area. After claiming in ads and everywhere that everyone has that safe donor area, they then turn patients away because they don't have a safe donor area which they just insisted everyone has! If you count these people isn't the success rate much, much lower? This allows Drs to cherry pick who they want to work on, so they can claim great results. It can also make some Drs who do take on some tougher cases look like they don't do as good work when actually they may be doing better than other Drs. due to the tough cases they are willing to do.

[ArochaHair]

Actually, no, you can't count the patients that are turned away because the question of how many "happy" patients a doctor has is assuming patients that have had surgery are included in the question. Your analogy is like asking how many customers are happy with their car purchases and including those that were turned away due to bad credit. They don't factor into the relative pertinent information.

 

Regarding the permanency of donor hair, the majority of people do in fact have donor hair that is permanent but with all things in life, and biology, few things are certain and those that identify early on as having a weak donor supply will be informed and advised of this potential limitation. Do all clinics exercise this level of caution and education? No but there is a growing amount of information online that warns against this blanket assumption of all donor hair being permanent.

[quidproquo82]

Many people are turned away because their cases are too far gone and no amount of transplants would make an aesthetic impact. I see this as the responsible thing to do. Further, more people are turned away because they exhibit the personality traits of someone with BDD. Those kinds of people should never have surgery because of psychological issues.

 

As for myths, the one about masturbation causing or exacerbating hair loss NEEDS to die.

[JohnArbuckle]

Another big myth is the prevalence of impotence caused by finasteride, I see lots of young people on this forum needlessly fearful of their sexual performance from finasteride usage.

 

Most people that experience sexual performance issues before middle age are due to anxiety and psychological issues and they may try to assign that to their finasteride when it is not the culprit.

 

^This. Also applies to dutasteride.

 

Try not fapping before blaming the meds.