Was it worthy to have HT?

[Thinking]

I also do think, that many of people with best results just move on and check only once a while here and therefor it seems that we can't get non biased ratio of satisfaction.

The thing is, the more I do research, the more I freak out finding that there are many "artists" but in reality butchers.

And everybody claims he is the best, their method is superior and everybody else suck.

[VictimOfDHT]

Originally Posted by Dude

I'd say 4.
It's been 2 years since I had my HT with Dr. Haber and I'm still I'm very happy with my results.

Also, I was on this forum about everyday before and just after my HT. However, since my HT has fully grown...and I don't seem to have any issues with it...I don't visit this forum quite as frequently. Maybe once a month or so.
Therefore, I can see why more people with poor results are still here and those with good results are not.

OMG ! What have we here? A guy confirming what I had said earlier. Did you hear that Mr. whatever his name was ? It's common sense. When you no longer worry about your hair loss, you have no reason to be here.
Oh wait, the dude just confirmed my second notion that it's likely you won't hear or see people who have had good HT results here (on the site). They'll just move on with their lives and forget this nightmare and everything that has to do with it INCLUDING coming to this site.
Thanks Dude and good for you (the HT).

[VictimOfDHT]

Originally Posted by DAVE52

lol......doll like looking hair is worse than being bald IMO

There's bald , clean shave , buzz cuts all over the world .

But someone with doll like hair would stick out like a sore thumb .

People would stare at you , make comments etc

You would then spend the rest of your life trying to fix the mess .

Come on Dave, I'm sure you know that not all heads look good bald. Some look ok but some look hideously ugly. But here's what's more important, what if I don't want to shave? What if I just don't like that look?
Well, let people stare but I'd probably be wearing a hat all the time. Or, I'd probably say phuck it. People do all kinds of crazy shit to their heads (and faces) including tatooing the white in their eyes, screwing metal spikes onto their heads (after they implant a metal base under the scalp to screw those spikes onto), implant horns under their scalps (to look like the devil)....Yeah it's all true. It was on "Taboo". If it were possible to implant doll hair into my scalp I'd phucking do it in a hearbeat if there's no other way. The only thing I see is that I'm NOT bald. No bare scalp. No ridiuling and no funny jokes. You just don't know how much I hate this disease called hair loss.

People get prosthetic hands or legs or whatever. Why not hair. No. Wigs won't do because once they come off (and you always have to take them off) you're still bald.

Don't forget I've already gotten HTs (FUT) done. More reasons why I cannot and would not do the shaved look.

[JimmyJones]

Well I have had two tranplants, the first (actually 12 years ago) was the strip method with Drs Farjo in Manchester, UK and I must say I was very happy with the result since it gave me a full head of the healthiest long, curly hair I had ever had for 10 subsequent years until the other areas started to thin out rapidly over the past 2 years. So for the first transplant - very happy.

The second was a 500 FUE (couldn't afford anything else and it took a year of stressful, balding hair to finally manage to get money to do it). It was a different Doctor, a Russian in an east european country (in a proper clinic and medical centre - not back street). I had the op 10 months ago and still no hair, despite his promises that by September the hair should all be growing. I had red dots for 4-5 months in the recipient area and well after wearing a hat 24/7 to hide these and then the bald patch I see no results. And I'm pretty sure it hasn't worked at this stage - if nothing is growing now, why would it start growing 1 or 2 months from now? Surely some hair would grow even if some came later, but literally i see nothing - certainly not 500 hairs. So if you ask me about this transplant in hindsight I wish I hadn't bothered or at the least I wish I had gone to Drs farjo who i knew did a good job previously.

But the problem is, how cann you know these things beforehand - you can't. The only real advice I would give is do your research fully, find the one who really can do it and if they can't, whether you can get your money back. Drs Farjo invite you to meet real clients so you can see results in reality, not just through pictures. I don't know if FUE is for everyone, since it seems to have failed for me yet the strip method was great. I don't know the statistics but perhaps more FUEs fail than strip, worth checking out. Perhaps it is so new that they just don't get it right, who knows. Funny thing, the Russian doc critiscised the poor quality of the strip scar on the donor site yet I'm pretty sure the Farjo doctor wouldn't have ballsed up an FUE of 500 hairs..

[Thinking]

Sorry to hear that last ht didn't work for you, though better 500 than more grafts.

[gmonasco]

Originally Posted by VictimOfDHT

OMG ! What have we here? A guy confirming what I had said earlier. Did you hear that Mr. whatever his name was ? It's common sense. When you no longer worry about your hair loss, you have no reason to be here.

But of course, that "confirmation" directly contradicts your claim, because it's coming from someone who is obviously still here.

Yes, people who have already had HTs and are satisfied with the results probably don't participate in forums like these as much as they did prior to their HTs. But they don't all disappear into the woodwork, never to be heard from again, as you claimed. The example you just cited is proof that they don't.

[JimmyJones]

I'm with 'VictimOfDHT' on this one.
Like I said, I had the strip method done over ten years ago when i was thinning out quite noticeably - cost me an arm and a leg but it gave me the best head of hair I had ever had (I have naturally curly hair and the ladies love(d) it); for ten years I had the best period in my life, ever. I was successful, I was a ladies man and full of confidence - it was magic. I was the guy in the room everyone wanted to hang with or chat to or simply 'know'. It's amazing having that full head of hair - it gives you bags of confidence a bald head simply doesn't. Yes I don't deny there are successful people and confident people with bald heads but simply put, these are the kind of people who don't really care how they look and to have a shaved head for them is probably the kind of thing they are used to or comfortable with. For those of us who are not comfortable with it, it's a nightmare. For example if I shaved my head - it's a weird shape at the front which at the moment is concealed by my hair, but believe me I would look bloody odd without hair (perhaps my mum dropped me when I was young or something who knows), but I simply would age in appearance 20 years with no hair.

My recent 500 graft FUE seems to have been a flop, but that hasn't put me off in the slightest. I want hair, it is possible, it does look great if done well and it is worth it. If you have bags of money it isn't an option, you can have it done with whoever and whenever you want and if it fails you can shrug your shoulders and try again but for people like me who don't have much money it's the biggest obstacle.

Anyway it's about time they spent more time figuring out how to completely and chemically block DHT rather than anything else, or how to nullify the gene we inherit from our parents - then we would all be happy.

[Conpecia]

It is rational that you will find more bad experiences than good by asking this question on a forum designed to help hairloss sufferers. Most successful cases will move on. However I think it's good to hear more negative feedback. Transplants are a big decision, and you have to have realistic expectations. I would also only get a transplant from the very best surgeons, don't waste money saving money.

[Ktownmatti]

Originally Posted by Conpecia

It is rational that you will find more bad experiences than good by asking this question on a forum designed to help hairloss sufferers. Most successful cases will move on. However I think it's good to hear more negative feedback. Transplants are a big decision, and you have to have realistic expectations. I would also only get a transplant from the very best surgeons, don't waste money saving money.

I totally agree. These forums are not representive of the general population of HT patients. I had plastic surgery 2 years ago (eye tuck). Spent months doing research on forums. The forums were filled with horror stories. Probably 2 abysmal failures for each success. I was terrified. Even the surgeon I chose who is argueably the best in Canada, had several posters who were very dissatisfifed.

That surgery was the best $4k I have EVER spent in my whole life. Took years off and not one person was ever the wiser.

I told him of the some of the negative feedback I had read on line and promised to post up my positive experience. I feel terrible I didnt fulfill my promise. I never went back on the forums because I had no further reason to lurk on those forums.

I suspect a lot of HT success stories are never told on line either.

[gmonasco]

Originally Posted by Ktownmatti

I had plastic surgery 2 years ago (eye tuck). Spent months doing research on forums. The forums were filled with horror stories. Probably 2 abysmal failures for each success.

Then, clearly, people who had successful surgeries were in fact still hanging around the forums to post about them.

QED.