I haven’t posted on this board for 17 years. In fact I only revisited the website in February so it’s been a long old while. I joined HairLossTalk.com in 2004 when I was 27 years old and I am now 49. For those interested you can read my backstory from old posts but to sum up I was on finasteride for about 8 years then I stopped , after 3-4 years of getting busy with life/kids etc I was not doing anything. I then started topical finasteride plus minoxidil and then only 6 ago I returned to finasteride at 0.5mg and thankfully having no sides.
Despite hanging on through those years I have never felt good about my hair - it was kind of acceptable at a NW2.5-3 but never felt like me at my best the hairline particularly especially when I quit meds it was becoming a slow decline.
The best thing I did this year was to get a hair transplant- a 6300 hair procedure which quite frankly only 5 months in has transformed not only how I look but more importantly how I feel in terms of confidence and passion for life. My hairline hasn’t looked this good since I was 22 which never happened on finasteride and min and I didn’t even go too aggressive on it. I have the thickness I wanted and of course have my finasteride and minoxidil regimen back on point so I don’t reverse out of this. I have been told it gets even better post 6 months but I will take this if it is as good as it gets .
My hairloss story has had a happy ending - I only wished I had realised this option 10 years ago- so what I can say to anyone reading this is? if you feel down about your hair and you are fortunate enough to have the means to get it - a transplant can be the game changer for your life, it can bring you the confidence to go after things properly again and not live on the shadow of who you want to be or wish you still were. Of course you still need to look after it with meds and that needs to be calibrated to your tolerance. Nothing else in my experience can bring the level of transformation no matter how effective the meds are particularly at the hairline.
I hope someone out there finds this useful and I wish all those HairLossTalk.com’ers past and present the very best
Despite hanging on through those years I have never felt good about my hair - it was kind of acceptable at a NW2.5-3 but never felt like me at my best the hairline particularly especially when I quit meds it was becoming a slow decline.
The best thing I did this year was to get a hair transplant- a 6300 hair procedure which quite frankly only 5 months in has transformed not only how I look but more importantly how I feel in terms of confidence and passion for life. My hairline hasn’t looked this good since I was 22 which never happened on finasteride and min and I didn’t even go too aggressive on it. I have the thickness I wanted and of course have my finasteride and minoxidil regimen back on point so I don’t reverse out of this. I have been told it gets even better post 6 months but I will take this if it is as good as it gets .
My hairloss story has had a happy ending - I only wished I had realised this option 10 years ago- so what I can say to anyone reading this is? if you feel down about your hair and you are fortunate enough to have the means to get it - a transplant can be the game changer for your life, it can bring you the confidence to go after things properly again and not live on the shadow of who you want to be or wish you still were. Of course you still need to look after it with meds and that needs to be calibrated to your tolerance. Nothing else in my experience can bring the level of transformation no matter how effective the meds are particularly at the hairline.
I hope someone out there finds this useful and I wish all those HairLossTalk.com’ers past and present the very best