I don't want to wait 1 year to see my HT results!

[Baldnessfalls]

...GOSH! It seems like even the ultimate solutions to this disease still have their draw backs. I'm very impatient when it comes to this. I think I might be getting a HT next month (ugghh, I wish it was tomorrow!). I'm 22, I don't want to wait until I'm 23 or 24 to see my final results. Just why even f***ing bother if I'm already going to be to damn old to even worry about it by the time this shit decides its going to help me out!?

IS THERE ANY METHOD OF MAKING THE HAIR GROW FASTER ONCE IT GETS OIT OF THE "HIBERNATION" (aka BULLSHIT) PHASE!? I don't want to wait 1 whole year for this shit! I've got stuff I want to accomplish before then (that require having my full head of hair!). I'll be too old to do what I want to do by then. I don't want to abstain from it while I'm waiting this process out! I need these results NOW (or at least ASAP)! Someone please help!

[Still-Researching]

Nope, short of tattooing your scalp nothing shows results before the 4-5 month mark.

But you do not have to wait full 12 months - I had a nice hairline already 6 months after a FUE HT. If you are that impatient - suggest you do extra amounts of research, as otherwise you are deemed to fall prey for someone filling you with bullshit.

Research and be ready to travel for the best doc and then research some more. I know very few who did not spend a year on here before they pulled the trigger to go to a top doc.

Cheers

[Baldnessfalls]

Nope, short of tattooing your scalp nothing shows results before the 4-5 month mark.

But you do not have to wait full 12 months - I had a nice hairline already 6 months after a FUE HT. If you are that impatient - suggest you do extra amounts of research, as otherwise you are deemed to fall prey for someone filling you with bullshit.

Research and be ready to travel for the best doc and then research some more. I know very few who did not spend a year on here before they pulled the trigger to go to a top doc.

Cheers

The doctor doing my procedure is a IAHRS member. I've already done a good consultation. I'm talking about are there any products (such as supplements/pills) I can use that are affective at helping hair grow faster? I just don't want to wait 10-12 months for my final result, then another 8-10 months for my hair to grow out long. Like I said, I've got shit I want to accomplish by then with which having my final results are absolutely neccessary.

Is the Help Hair Shake a viable option? Has anyone one here used it with good results? Or is it poo poo?

[Tracy C]

The doctor doing my procedure is a IAHRS member.

You are only 22 years old and you found an IAHRS doctor who is willing to perform hair transplant surgery on you? I would like to know the name of that doctor. I would also like to know what your Norwood is - because it is very foolish for a 22 year old to have hair transplant surgery. Unless you have rather unusual circumstances, you are probably making a really big mistake.

You need to learn patience. There is no way to speed up the process. Do what the doctor tells you and take extraordinarily good care of yourself after surgery.

[Baldnessfalls]

You are only 22 years old and you found an IAHRS doctor who is willing to perform hair transplant surgery on you? I would like to know the name of that doctor. I would also like to know what your Norwood is - because it is very foolish for a 22 year old to have hair transplant surgery. Unless you have rather unusual circumstances, you are probably making a really big mistake.

You need to learn patience. There is no way to speed up the process. Do what the doctor tells you and take extraordinarily good care of yourself after surgery.

Don't worry Tracy, I knew all that before I even went for a consultation. I was 21 when I went for my consult BTW. I'm roughly a NW3 I think. My hariline and temples are pretty much gone. The doctor told me he would have said NO to most 21 year olds, but he said that I happen to be a perfect candidate for a 1500 graft procedure.

Let me ask you something Tracy. You say its "foolish" to get a HT at my age, but why? Why wait until you are old, when everyone already knows you as a bald person (or at least baldING), when you are too old for it to even matter wether you have hair or not, then suddenly go from bald to full? It makes no sense to me. It might make perfectly good MEDICAL sense to wait until you are older, but medical sense can kiss my ass! I want my hair NOW, when it matters! Not when I'm 40 and it doesn't matter whether I'm bald or full. I know that sounds immature or misguided, but that's just how I feel. I'm tired of my 18-25 year old male friends walking around with their densely-packed, full heads of hair and being the only young guy with this horse shit disease called Male Pattern Baldness (aka Male Pattern Bullshit). So if the IAHRS doctor says I'm a good candidate, and he's willing and able to fix it, that's good enough for me. I actually DO know quite a bit more about this subject than I show in my posts. I just don't like to go around acting like a know-it-all so I usually keep it simple.

[Tracy C]

Let me ask you something Tracy. You say its "foolish" to get a HT at my age, but why?

Because you do not yet have a reasonably good idea of how far your hair loss is going to progress. If a young man in his 20's gets a hair transplant, he could be left with a very odd looking island of hair that is surrounded by hairless scalp by the time he is 40 - if not before he is 40. This is not a good situation to be in - and that is exactly why most ethical doctors will not do hair transplant surgery on younger men. That is also why most ethical hair transplant doctors will not perform hair transplant surgery to transform a natural and normal adult mature male hair line into an adolescent hair line - unless the patient is transgendered.

You need to learn patience. You are going to drive yourself into a multitude of really big mistakes if you don't - and I am not just talking about hair transplant surgery.

There is no age that hair loss no longer matters. Guys in their 40's and 50's who are bothered by their hair loss are just as bothered as guys in their 20's are bothered by their hair loss. The age discrimination thing does not fly.

[DAVE52]

I'm very impatient when it comes to this. I think I might be getting a HT next month (ugghh, I wish it was tomorrow!). I'm 22,!

too young. The Dr should refuse to perform the surgery