To start treatment or not? Confused

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  • tdo
    Member
    • Oct 2012
    • 30

    To start treatment or not? Confused

    Hey Guys,

    If you remember, I started a thread about 7 months ago about my possible hair loss, well needless to say I am still a little confused after meeting with some of the top hair surgeons.

    Here are my two previous threads:

    Hello everyone! I am currently 31 years old and was wondering if I am balding from the crown? I have always had the big cow lick and thin area on the top of my head as seen from the photo and I have been made fun of it since probably high school. I never thought of much of as I was told you that you only start balding


    Hi Guys, I am back :(. About a month ago I started this thread http://www.baldtruthtalk.com/showthread.php?t=10221 and I concluded that I was not balding. Now I am not so sure. I had booked an appointed with an IAHRS surgeon back home, but he could not see me during my Thanksgiving break. As a result, I booked an



    Over the weekend, I got the chance to see Dr. Rassman and his partner Dr. Pak. Dr. Pak initially saw me and performed a miniaturization test throughout my scalp. He saw no sign of miniaturization on my head, specifically my crown. He initially dismissed me but asked that I do a bulk test before I left. The bulk test they performed showed that I had slight thinning in a small part of my crown. Initially Dr. Pak did not think it was significant, but Dr. Rassman thought otherwise.

    Dr. Rassman told me that balding could still occur even when there are no signs of miniaturization and that this means that my balding process is just extremely slow. Dr. Rassman recommended that I start taking propecia/fin.

    Now has anyone even heard of this? No miniaturization but you could still be balding? As you remember, I had a miniaturization test performed 7 months ago by another hair transplant surgeon and he also could not find any signs of miniaturization.

    Also, in February I was able to see Dr. Lindsey, who is highly regarded by our own Spex. Dr. Lindsey at the time said he did not see anything significant, and recommended that I not start on Fin/Rogaine.

    So as you can see, I have now seen 5 different hair transplant surgeons, and all with differing opinions. I am a little hesitant to start on any meds, especially Fin when I have not really seen any change in my hair.....
  • clandestine
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2011
    • 2002

    #2
    Personal decision, up to you. Do research.

    Board member topcat made this extremely valuable post which I thought deserved it's own thread on the BTT. I hope you don't mind me doing this TC.


    /thread.

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