If I'm being honest with myself, I believe I began to notice hair loss during my senior year of college. I had quite long hair then and halfway during senior year, we had to unclog the drain of our bathroom due to a HUGE stuffing of long dark hair. At the time, I think I blamed my roommate's girlfriend but, truth is, it was probably mine. I didn't pay much attention to it for the next few years until, about halfway through my twenties, I began to notice temple recession. Then at my job a few years later, I got my first little jab about my temple recession from a co-worker. It bothered me enough to begin doing some research. I consulted with Bosley (we all know how that goes) and then found my way to one of this site's pre-eminent NY transplant doctors who, at that time, told me I hadn't lost enough hair and it was too soon to consider a transplant. He introduced me to toppik which was a tremendous friend to me for the next few years. In addition, I was taking Propecia and using Rogaine twice daily which seemed to help maintain the hair I had. Fast forward about 5 years and I had thinned out quite a bit more in the temples and even back a bit further, as well as having basically lost my once prized widow's peak. Also had very slight thinning in crown which takes about 1-2 shakes of toppik to disappear from sight and which wasn't anywhere near thin enough to consider a procedure. I began doing more research and met and/or online consulted with numerous coalition and HTN-approved Dr.'s. My Achilles heel was my hairline and that's the thing that needed the attention so I decided on Dr. Rahal. Long trip to Ottawa from NY, however, I thought his work with hairlines was the best, bar none, and he was my guy. It's now about 20 hours post my first tranplant and, despite my looking a bit like a Star Trek character gone wrong, I know I made the right decision.
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