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Many guys have prescriptions but I think you can buy it from internet pharmacies without a prescription. Just make sure you are buying a reputable brand, particularly important if you're buying from a third world manufacturer.

Get Proscar and a pill cutter. With a little practice you can easily cut a tablet into fifths so one box will last you 150 days and costs about $60. So basically you are looking at an average of just over $10 per month. You can even skip the minoxidil and spend that money on Proscar, which is...

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I don't think your idea is a good one. First off, you still may lose hair on the back and sides, because they can "drop", i.e. recede downward. So you may still end up with an island, just at the back of the top of your head. More importantly, though, you're 26 so it's basically certain that...

Look - I know first hand how difficult it is to look in the mirror in your 20s and see hair disappearing, because it happened to me. But (a) this guy 'finallyhair' is talking nonsense, and (b) you only THINK you won't care about baldness at 40 or 50. There is an awful lot at stake in your 40s...

If you're transplanting into an entirely new area, then 6 months is about correct. You need time for the donor area to heal properly before taking the next strip. If you're going back to the same area for more density (ideally you had a dense, one-pass session the first time so hopefully...

Your views would be great if this was a perfect world and hairloss was not progressive. Sadly, hair loss IS progressive, and in another cruel twist, the earlier you start to lose hair, the more hair you are likely to lose. Armani does great at restoring guys in their 20s from Norwood 2 or Norwood 2.5...

Congratulations and wish you the best. Now, who was the Doctor??

I think your best bets in the US are Dr. Feller (NY), Dr. Epstein (FLA), or anyone from Dr. Shapiro's group (check out shapiromedical.com). Dr. Cole, Dr. Cooley, and Dr. Wolf also get plenty of praise. Who you go to depends on the extent of your hairloss and whether you want strip or FUE...

Who recommended Cotteril so highly? Go to HTN and find a poster named Corey.

Post-op recovery There are a couple of things to think about with regard to your question. Donor area: Assuming a strip surgery, you will have a linear scar that will closed with staples or sutures. The staples or sutures will be removed at around day 12 post-op. In the meantime you can...

Wrong med - you need to stop minoxidil pre-op, not finasteride.

A lot depends on the extent of your hairloss. If you're a NW4+, a megasession of 3000+ grafts is probably your best bet. For transplantation have two methods to choose from, strip and FUE. I'll leave it to you to do the research, but if you want a 1-day megasession, strip is your only option...

You should probably ask your doctor. I've had a handful of pimples and they disappeared after a couple of days without me doing anything at all. My Doctor did tell me that if I got any pimples and they got too big (although there's no real definition of "too big" I could pop them with a...

You basically have two choices for surgical method, strip and FUE transplantation. I think what you're actually asking is what's the best surgical strategy for a diffuse thinner - but your pics really don't look bad at all. Have you noticed shedding all of a sudden, or has your hair always had...