bombscience
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What do you make of it when the hairs you loose are mostly heathy but your hair continues to thin?? Not thrilled by this.
Losing Only Healthy Hairs.... Hair still getting thinner
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bombscience
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Stabber said:
Ahh the scary T word. That's what i'm trying to avoid as long as possible! Especially as a diffuse thinner, a hair transplant could be heading down the path of a very evil road.
I am at that crucial point (2 months in) where there is no going back really. I dont notice any white hairs anywhere and I know that my male pattern baldness is so agressive that this could just be an uphill battle I'm not going to win. But for now, I haven't lost, and I'm not the losing type. So i'm going to take it step by step and see if I can figure out a combo of products that will work for me before all my hair is gone.
Stabber
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IMHO I think you went to aggressive from the start. I would of started with .5mg propecia and left it at that for 6 months. Maybe some nizoral.
When you say you fear a hair transplant because of diffuse thinning, do you mean because of the chance of greater thinning? Or the chance of shock loss?
Personally I think you will be fine if you have enough money. Well, they offer financing too. NW6's usually need 3000-4000 grafts for decent coverage. You could always follow with more for density.
Do what I'm doing and start a little savings fund. $1600 in so far :rockon:
By the time it gets bad, I will have enough!
Hang in there brother!
When you say you fear a hair transplant because of diffuse thinning, do you mean because of the chance of greater thinning? Or the chance of shock loss?
Personally I think you will be fine if you have enough money. Well, they offer financing too. NW6's usually need 3000-4000 grafts for decent coverage. You could always follow with more for density.
Do what I'm doing and start a little savings fund. $1600 in so far :rockon:
By the time it gets bad, I will have enough!
Hang in there brother!
Stabber
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thought you'd appreciate this info bomb. I posted this on hairlosshelp forums and Dr. Bridges responded. My question was "Why are hair transplants dangerous for diffuse thinners?" His response:
There are other reasons why hair transplant may not be the best option for diffuse thinners. Many of these patients will thin in the donor area as well (diffuse unpatterned alopecia, for example). This is a recipe for disaster. If we harvest from the donor area extensively and it then thins, one appears bald even in the back and on the sides.
If the thinning is in the area defined as normally "at risk", then hair transplant can cause shock loss. However, hairs lost to shock effect, which were already extensively miniaturized were essentially "on their way out" anyway. Stong, terminal hairs which succumb to shock loss will very often grow back in a few months.
A lot of this really depends upon the exact diagnosis. A consultation, and possibly other work-up, sometimes including scalp biopsy, is in order, so that the true nature of the hair loss pattern and its causative factors may be obtained.
There are other reasons why hair transplant may not be the best option for diffuse thinners. Many of these patients will thin in the donor area as well (diffuse unpatterned alopecia, for example). This is a recipe for disaster. If we harvest from the donor area extensively and it then thins, one appears bald even in the back and on the sides.
If the thinning is in the area defined as normally "at risk", then hair transplant can cause shock loss. However, hairs lost to shock effect, which were already extensively miniaturized were essentially "on their way out" anyway. Stong, terminal hairs which succumb to shock loss will very often grow back in a few months.
A lot of this really depends upon the exact diagnosis. A consultation, and possibly other work-up, sometimes including scalp biopsy, is in order, so that the true nature of the hair loss pattern and its causative factors may be obtained.
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bombscience, you need to give it more time, dude. I'm at about 3.5 months. I was loosing hair really fast before treatment this time around and MUCH faster after I started treatment. But shedding stopped completely around 3 months. Already I can see it turning around.
What's the worse that happens? Treatment causes all your hair to fall out? In that extrememly unlikely event, either you will stop treatment and it will all come back (clueing you in to what happened) or otherwise your worries are over baldy!
Balding is worse than being bald.
What's the worse that happens? Treatment causes all your hair to fall out? In that extrememly unlikely event, either you will stop treatment and it will all come back (clueing you in to what happened) or otherwise your worries are over baldy!
Balding is worse than being bald.
thinstinks
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bomb, dont go the hair transplant way
for diffuse thinners its much more costly since we thin everywhere
keep it up and I was inspired by you to contact Dr lee
and im getting xandrox and maybe some spironolactone
do like a xandrox in the am and the spironolactone in the pm or something like that, still not sure
for diffuse thinners its much more costly since we thin everywhere
keep it up and I was inspired by you to contact Dr lee
and im getting xandrox and maybe some spironolactone
do like a xandrox in the am and the spironolactone in the pm or something like that, still not sure
bombscience
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Yeah the shock loss of a hair transplant for diffuse thinners could really suck.
I'm trying to stick with everything, and I think i've slowed my loss down at this point. Noticing a lot less hair falling out, but I'm definetly still thinning very very quickly, there is a huge difference from mid May when I started this battle.
I'm trying to stick with everything, and I think i've slowed my loss down at this point. Noticing a lot less hair falling out, but I'm definetly still thinning very very quickly, there is a huge difference from mid May when I started this battle.