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Hair Restoration Blog phil_harmonic

phil_harmonic

My hair loss occurred between the ages of 18 and 22. Amazingly, the loss stopped and nothing changed up to my surgery at age 30. I was not sure what I would be on the Norwood scale, but I chose the closest equivalent, with the exception that I had a patch or forelock up front that remained, the area between this forelock and mid-scalp was lost almost completely, along with the classic receding hairline. I had no hair loss from the mid-scalp to the crown, and was lucky enough to hide my hair loss by simply combing forward and volumizing. I actually got comments on how "cool" my hair was, the only problem is that some mornings, it took up to 15 minutes to style my hair and I had to plaster it down with a lot of hairspray. Over the last 7 years I have been using Nano shampoo (about 5 times per week) with Nizoral 2% and sometimes 1% on the off days, and Folligen spray on all days. Maybe this had put a halt to the loss, I cannot be sure, frankly, I was afraid to quit.

Hair Restoration Blog twoputt

twoputt

Started losing my hair around 24 years old...continued to progress year after year making me (in my opinon) look much older than I actually am...

Hair Restoration Blog yacko03

yacko03

I first noticed at around 19 or 20 that my hairline was starting to recede. I kept a full head of hair as I started traveling through my 20s. At around 23 or 24 I started thinning around my hairline as well. I started using Propecia at 24-25 and noticed that it had pretty much slowed if not, stopped my shedding. I noticed my hair getting thicker as well. It sucked that I didn't start sooner because the damage was already done on my hairline.

I started using Rogain 5% a few months ago in hopes of encouraging some regrowth. Because of the new use, I started shedding a bit but hope that stabalizes later this year.

The only hair loss I appear to have is on the hair line and on the mid scalp. I haven't noticed any type of regression on my crown. It's caused some high peeks on the sides and less density in the mid scalp, especially lately.

I'm now 27 and use Dermatch for my hairline and lately a lot more on the scalp, which I didn't have to do too much before. It does it's job and allows me to remain social without worrying completely but has become a very frustrating cover-up. I am patient and would like to see how Rogaine works on my hair but I can't see myself continuing down this road too much longer. It's definitely been damaging on my self-esteem and has become a frustrating part of my daily regiment.

I've had 1 consultation 1 1/2 years ago when I was still new to Propecia and have been researching ever since. I'm now a lot more serious about my research and progress, and want to start seeing doctors and talking to people to really understand and see what people went through before and after their transplant and how satisfied they were in the long run. I know at a young age my hairloss can still be random even though I'm on Propecia, but I'd like to take the next couple years to ride our Rogaine and really understand how/if I could be a potential candidate.

My ideal fix would be definitely be not to bring down my hair line but to fill in what I have now where my hairline is currently.

I'll be updating this with some more details and additional pictures and hope to get some good feedback and advice from other users here.

I'm looking for any type of feedback or advice, so please feel free to contact me or leave a comment.

Hair Restoration Blog tradermike67

tradermike67

I always had very thick hair. At about mid 20's, saw a picture of myself and could not deny hair loss any longer. It started to thin rapidly in the temples. At the time, I really didn't know what to do. I was aware that transplants existed but.... Within a couple of years, I found my way to a Ferrari hair center in South Jersey to explore some options. Ended up with a toupee that was not conducive to my lifestyle. Glue, clips, movement, cost of maintenance, plus I could not get used to the feeling of it on my head. This lasted a short time (about 6 months)before I finally stopped wearing it altogether. From that point, hair loss just got worse thru the rest of my 20's.

Hair Restoration Blog Handsome

Handsome

I started noticing i am losing hair was the time i am getting a bold already on my crown area. As i had no family background of boldness there i wasnt so worry that i am going to get bold as i thought it was just like a cycle in your life time that you need to lose of bit of hair with the age. I think i was age 23 when i notice a big thinning area on my crown as i was told by my sister because i cant really see my crown area if i didnt take two mirror back to back. Then i realise when i shower there were always unfinished hair lose on my hand when i shampoo the hair just keep falling. When i study on my table i always like to play with my hair and all those hair are just keep falling onto my table and sometimes can up to 100 to 200 hairs count. Then i become very uncofident with myself specially when people are noticing my thinning area but at that time i thought things still wasnt that bad as it started at the crown and i still have plentyful of hair at my front part to cover the front. It was my height also people are hardly noticing unless i was sitting down and they come to greet me from behind. It was started around age 23- 24 i avoid sitting in front of ppl and i afraid ppl will spot on my bolding part of my hair. I will also avoid appear in a big function and partying with frens. It was really a bit sad that i lose my hair at that young age and losing confident in front of the ppl and losing the fun of being a young man. Every now and then i was thinking oh... no my hair my hair..why i lose hair and i looks old. Being age of 24 with the hair of 40's year old man thats wat my hairdresser told me. Then i start to mention about my hair lose to my family doctor and he told me to take propecia. I took propecia for three months and i stop taking it as i found a lot of forum talking about the side effect of it. It does feel like taking drug as you are taking it everyday the side effect i had was sometimes headache and getting pump but not really on the sexual as descript in the hair lose forum. Then i tried Noxin shampoo with three type of treatment i remember i was cleanser and one is to remove the DHT and one is a tonic. Some people say it help for them but i didnt see any effect on me, in fact during those years of hair loss i had been trying every single hair shampoo as i possibly could. I was desprate until i search on the internet buying shampoo and hair vitamin from something like hairloss.com and amazon. You name it i try it. All the product are helpful for the very first few month and afterward the hair loss are back again. Sometimes it wasnt the thinning hair that makes you stressful it was the loss of hair everytime you comb and shower. I could be very happy and confident with myself if i dont lose hair in a week time. That is how stressful looking at every pieces of the hair are washing of from the bath tub and i am helpless. I did get over it recent years and not to think so much about my hair as it already gone bold but i never stop using any hair tonic in the morning before i go to work. Through out the time i have always been search in internet about hair loss and what causing it and any hair loss help as there possibily could. I put myself as a special case as non of my family are bolding or getting really thin on their hair. Therefore, like everyone will think those uncles are always making some funny joke about my hair during family dinner. Someone might think i concern too much about hair but it is how it is when you are losing your hair specially i am that young and it is streeful as i mention seeing your hair are getting less everyday. I realise i am observing others ppl are more frequent special those people having same hair loss as me. i also realise ppl are looking at my forehead as they saying hi to me and guessing how old am i. Well i get over it after few years sometimes yes sometime no. I guess i will be really happy one day if i dont need to worry so much about my hair. Shit happen. I had three gf during my hair loss period. (i wasnt still so bad looking :)) I cannot stay all of them but they does hope i grown my hair back. Haha.. Whats the chance of a man with bolding hair grown back their hair? although we do see those advertisement but in real life i have not meet anyone that grown their hair back with any kind of shampoo or hair tonic. Actually there was a website teaching us how to differentiate some fake advertisement. There are a lot of fake advertisement on the market, you can simply do it with or without the flush of your camera. Despate all hair loss product are useless so i start to research in what they are tranplanting the permanent hair into my bolding part of my hair. Why i wan to do it? I want to do it because 1st i want to looks good, i wan to presentable infront of the crowd, secondly i wan to do it for my future wife and child as i am still single i would like to look good when i am taking my wedding photo. I want to gain my confident in front of ppl althought for the pass years i already learn how to be confident with myself but i think with hair it will helps a lot. I dont know if it also include under their consideration to marry a man without hair but i guess most young woman and my ex gf do care about my look. But if you ask them i am sure they will say no but keep on comment about it. So i went on consult with DR path on 30 of march and had my surgery done on 19 of june. It was a three months waiting list. Like everyone in the forum said Dr path is really a good doctor and the team are really great. Althought i still have to wait up to a yr to see my result but i tell you once i was walking out of his clinic i felt great i had done it. I have to say i was quite nervous even the month before the surgery and i carry a yes no answer to the clinic. There was no reason why not to do it because you certainly can see there is a lof of work work done by dr path. Actually there are also a lot of people who receive HT from him have not yet post their experience here. For me because i think i learn a lot and observe a lot of information regarding HT therefore i think i should post my result to let every see and let them learn from me too. Like many others i receive the same treatment from DR path, body massage during the surgery and pill to relax and local anasecthic and some pills to make you feel relax. I didnt feel it was 8 hrs, i guess i fall in sleep at some stage. The nurse are really frenly and they teach you all the way from before to after the surgery what should do and what shouldnt do. DR path does do hair tranplant everyday andhis clinic are always accomodate with those ppl who done their HT to come back for shampoo and those ppl waiting for consult. Hair tranplant was really a small surgery for me. I could walk to the BTS train and took a train back to my hotel and odering a pad thai from the menu and doing some reading on the internet before i carefully place my head on the bed into sleep. That night Dr path also called me to ask about my condition and i had no pain on my donor area and my other surgery part. It was good but i did take those antibiotic they gave.The next day i went back to shampoo and after that i am off to shopping and sight seeing. It wasnt feeling anything at all with my hat on and the head band on. Head band is to prevent swelling. I had it off the end of second day of surgery althought it was recommend to take of after the third day. People are thinking i am hip pop with the hat and the band. haha.they didnt know i had a surgery. But do remember when you go to surgery take a bigger hat or do some hat shopping in bkk the day before you go to the hair transplant. I bought 4 hat and i am wearing a different hat everyday. And please remember to massage your scalp everyday like three month before you go to do the surgery coz Dr could extract more hair with loosen scalp and i bet you only wan to do this (HT) once, so get as many graft as possible at the 1st place.

Hair Restoration Blog Capello

Capello

I started losing my hair at around 22. Things pretty much stabilized by 32 or so

Hair Restoration Blog ME

April 24th 2009 with Dr. Lindsey. Thanks for a great experience. The staff was excellent and the time went by fast.

Hair Restoration Blog mgem

mgem

Had scurvy when i was about 7 or 8yrs old which was treated with bettnovate, which either burnt my scalp or the scurvy was scratched off resulting in a bald patch

Hair Restoration Blog msin

msin

From my junior high, friends used to make fun of my wide forehead and tell me that I would get bald when I grow up. Well, I guess they were correct. Now I have lost so much hair and I became officially a bald man a long time ago. If I remember correctly, I was able to cover up my baldness until late 20's. After late 20's, things got out of control and I sort of gave up on the hopes of not losing hair. In the mean time, I have learned to ignore other people's comments about my baldness. But it still hurts when some people mention it or just stare at my bald head.

Hair Restoration Blog lovestospoon

lovestospoon

2646 Grafts in the Hairline by Dr. Hasson.

Hair Restoration Blog pianoman99

pianoman99

I live in the UK. Started noticing thining when I was about 21. This had a big effect on me and really knocked my confidence. I saw an advert in the paper for hair transplants, and arranged a meeting with the sales person. This was in about 1993. He showed me some pictures of some amazing hair lines, and told me that for the price of a car I could have hair like this. I was so vunerable and imetuous that I went for it. It makes me cringe now - no research, no looking at other surgeons. I ended up having 4 strip sessions of mini-micro grafts. I was left with 4 big donor scars with not much to show for it. As my hair receeds further the pluggy look is now very noticable. It it only my peak that disguises it.

As I have got older, and happily married with 2 kids, Hair loss would not be that much of an issue for me now - If is wasnt for the needing to disguise the awful short sighted (and expensive) work I have had done.

I now need further HT work - and considering the US - I need to get the best I can this time to disguise the awful early 90s job I have.

Hair Restoration Blog SeaChange

SeaChange

When my late 20's rolled around I started getting comments on my crown. After several years of insults and jokes and extensive research on hair transplantation I decided to take the plunge.

Hair Restoration Blog pjbsc430

pjbsc430

I have had my hair restoration procedure on 6/15/2009 by Dr. Ricardo Mejia @ Jupiter Dermatology & Hair Restoration. The procedure could not have gone any better. Professional, attentive to concerns, quality and service could not have been any better. Verry happy that my research paid off in my choice of Dr. Ricardo Mejia @ Jupiter Dermatology & Hair Restoration.

Hair Restoration Blog generic1

generic1

1. Walked into Bosley.

2. Saw some red flags.

3. Googled them.

4. Found this forum.

Hair Restoration Blog jdubb72

jdubb72

In my early 20's I started losing hair at my hairline and it destroyed my self confidence
Scheduled approx 4000 grafts with Hasson and Wong on 3-27-09 and can't wait to get this done!

I'm that guy in the family photo, wearing a hat...my collection of hats is soon to go unused

Hair Restoration Blog Eyerule

Eyerule

I began to lose my hair at the age of 19. By age 23, things progressed significantly enough that I started on a product called Avacor. Initially, It turned back some of the loss but over the years my hair retreated back to where it was when I started the solution. From there, my hair loss started to accelerate. I began treatment with Propecia in March 09 and decided to schedule a hair restoration procedure with Dr. Victor Hasson.

Hair Restoration Blog comb

comb

Hair Restoration Blog td1022

td1022

I am 20 years old, I started noticing thinning when I was about 17 years old. I believe that i accelerated it using bodybuilding supplements. I began trying many topical solutions for my hair and nothing seemed to work. I began taking propecia about a year and a half ago and have definately slowed down my hair loss progression.

Hair Restoration Blog russellkids6

russellkids6

Hair Restoration Blog ThorHammer

ThorHammer

Depressing, empty feeling that fills your stomach whenever I first realized I was permanently losing my hair. You know what im talking about, otherwise you wouldn't be here looking at your options. A good thing too that we live in this day and age, the surgeons here in the US and Canada are nothing short of remarkable in redefining hairlines and giving confidence back to the men and women who have been affected by hair loss.

In 2004, when i was 22 I was affected by Alopecia. I should have figured on it since my dad is que ball and has always been for all the time i've ever known him. But ignorance is bliss until you get affected, then its all you can think about.

Im currently on Proscar and have maintained that for a year now. Recently started Revita shampoo and do not know if it is effective just yet. Rogain Foam I have been on for 3 months but do not know if it has been all that amazing in the results.

I've decided to have a hair transplant in two years. By then I wil be 29 and my hairline will have more or less be set. After speaking with Dr. Cooley's assistant; Aileen, she explained that I should wait a little while and maintain the three key ingrediants; Propecia, Rogaine Foam, and Revita.