Regular Member Ads Posted March 27, 2021 Regular Member Share Posted March 27, 2021 Big congrats to you and thank you for sharing your HT journey. It helps all of us who are looking to have surgery to see what results are possible and yours is an excellent one for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valued Contributor Gatsby Posted March 28, 2021 Valued Contributor Share Posted March 28, 2021 Bax I am incredibly happy for the two of you! Congratulations on a brilliant outcome for life. That being your fantastic results and your marriage. Wishing you all the best and it was a privilege to follow your journey. Here's to the future! GATSBY 'UNPLUGGED!' 15,671 (3 surgeries) Grafts FUE+BHT Dr. Sethi Eugenix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Craig2412 Posted March 28, 2021 Senior Member Share Posted March 28, 2021 Congratulations Bax on the great looking hair and your big day too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Bax Posted March 28, 2021 Author Senior Member Share Posted March 28, 2021 17 hours ago, Ads said: Big congrats to you and thank you for sharing your HT journey. It helps all of us who are looking to have surgery to see what results are possible and yours is an excellent one for sure. Thank you so much! This forum is what helped me decide on if and when I should do my hair transplant, so it felt right to return the favour! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Bax Posted March 28, 2021 Author Senior Member Share Posted March 28, 2021 9 hours ago, Gatsby said: Bax I am incredibly happy for the two of you! Congratulations on a brilliant outcome for life. That being your fantastic results and your marriage. Wishing you all the best and it was a privilege to follow your journey. Here's to the future! Thank you so much, man! I feel very lucky and blessed right now in my life! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Bax Posted March 28, 2021 Author Senior Member Share Posted March 28, 2021 7 hours ago, Craig2412 said: Congratulations Bax on the great looking hair and your big day too. Thank you so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member TorontoMan Posted March 28, 2021 Senior Member Share Posted March 28, 2021 Congratulations! you came out on top! Enjoy Life 🙌 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Bax Posted March 29, 2021 Author Senior Member Share Posted March 29, 2021 15 hours ago, TorontoMan said: Congratulations! you came out on top! Enjoy Life 🙌 Thank you so much, my friend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Bax Posted October 14, 2022 Author Senior Member Share Posted October 14, 2022 Hello everyone! Long time no see! Hope you are all doing well! I’ve been super happy with my results for the past 2.5 years and have no regrets! I wanted to pop on here to receive some advice or guidance, so to speak. Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed more of my scalp when I am looking in a mirror, so I decided to take some pictures tonight. The first picture is from tonight, the second one is after I combed it out, and the third one is a picture of my head in July 2020. I think everything is probably fine, but I can’t help by notice that my hair looks a bit thinner than it did 2 years ago? Is this a normal time line of hair transplants? Am I using bad hair products (hair gel and a bit of hairspray?). I’m still using oral supplements of biotin, saw palmetto, and a natural hair growth tonic. I’m even using the hair shampoo that I still have from Dr. Cinik’s and only wash my hair every 2 days. I’m probably just being paranoid and this was probably just a bad hair day, but I wanted to get your guys’ thoughts on this! Thanks in advance, as always! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member StillAlive Posted October 14, 2022 Senior Member Share Posted October 14, 2022 I think that what you are observing, is your natural hair's recession in the forelock, creating the see through effect when wet. When getting an HT, our natural hair, will continue to recede and going back in your thread, you had a really strong forelock at the time of the transplant. It's entirely possible that while your transplanted hair is thriving, your forelock is thinning out. Finasteride/Saw Palmetto help maintain midscalp and crown hair, their effectiveness is greatly reduced when it comes to forelock/temples. No reason to go crazy or change anything right now but if in 5 years time you notice some obvious thinning and are unhappy with the appearance, you can always go back for a top-up to cement your frontal third. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Gramatik Posted October 14, 2022 Senior Member Share Posted October 14, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Bax said: Hello everyone! Long time no see! Hope you are all doing well! I’ve been super happy with my results for the past 2.5 years and have no regrets! I wanted to pop on here to receive some advice or guidance, so to speak. Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed more of my scalp when I am looking in a mirror, so I decided to take some pictures tonight. The first picture is from tonight, the second one is after I combed it out, and the third one is a picture of my head in July 2020. I think everything is probably fine, but I can’t help by notice that my hair looks a bit thinner than it did 2 years ago? Is this a normal time line of hair transplants? Am I using bad hair products (hair gel and a bit of hairspray?). I’m still using oral supplements of biotin, saw palmetto, and a natural hair growth tonic. I’m even using the hair shampoo that I still have from Dr. Cinik’s and only wash my hair every 2 days. I’m probably just being paranoid and this was probably just a bad hair day, but I wanted to get your guys’ thoughts on this! Thanks in advance, as always! Firstly you got a great result from Dr Cinik. In general if you have native hair in the transplanted area, then you can notice a bit thinning after some years if you dont take finasteride to stop DHT from attacking the hair follicles. As i saw from your description you only take saw palmeto and some vitamins which dont actually stop further hairloss. So you need to take oral finasteride to stop the hairloss, if you dont take it dont expect to stabilise your hairloss. Edited October 14, 2022 by Gramatik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Bax Posted October 14, 2022 Author Senior Member Share Posted October 14, 2022 2 hours ago, StillAlive said: I think that what you are observing, is your natural hair's recession in the forelock, creating the see through effect when wet. When getting an HT, our natural hair, will continue to recede and going back in your thread, you had a really strong forelock at the time of the transplant. It's entirely possible that while your transplanted hair is thriving, your forelock is thinning out. Finasteride/Saw Palmetto help maintain midscalp and crown hair, their effectiveness is greatly reduced when it comes to forelock/temples. No reason to go crazy or change anything right now but if in 5 years time you notice some obvious thinning and are unhappy with the appearance, you can always go back for a top-up to cement your frontal third. 1 hour ago, Gramatik said: Firstly you got a great result from Dr Cinik. In general if you have native hair in the transplanted area, then you can notice a bit thinning after some years if you dont take finasteride to stop DHT from attacking the hair follicles. As i saw from your description you only take saw palmeto and some vitamins which dont actually stop further hairloss. So you need to take oral finasteride to stop the hairloss, if you dont take it dont expect to stabilise your hairloss. Thank you both for your advice and reassurance! Perhaps I might consider starting to use finasteride again to see if that helps, or just leave it as-is and get another procedure done down the road if need be! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member TorontoMan Posted October 14, 2022 Senior Member Share Posted October 14, 2022 If you're not on finasteride / haven't been, I think thats your answer right there 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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