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Originally Posted by inspects
Win,
Looking at your pictures close it looks to me like you have more small hairs sprouting in too...!
Thanks, inspects. I'm not complaining about the grafts--I'm definitely seeing growth, and they've still growing in. I'm worried about all the loss of native hair. If too much of that goes, I'm going to have a very, very strange-looking hairline when all is said and done.
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Originally Posted by win200
Thanks, inspects. I'm not complaining about the grafts--I'm definitely seeing growth, and they've still growing in. I'm worried about all the loss of native hair. If too much of that goes, I'm going to have a very, very strange-looking hairline when all is said and done.
Take a trip to your surgeons office, hopefully they can put it into perspective for you so your not so depressed-stressed and/or anxious.
Are you on Fin or Minox?
I don't remember now without reading though the posts, if your not, they stopped loss for me anyway....and I mean to a DEAD HALT...!
I'm new to this TP gig...but I would have to say, the Meds helped immensely.
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Originally Posted by inspects
Take a trip to your surgeons office, hopefully they can put it into perspective for you so your not so depressed-stressed and/or anxious.
Are you on Fin or Minox?
I don't remember now without reading though the posts, if your not, they stopped loss for me anyway....and I mean to a DEAD HALT...!
I'm new to this TP gig...but I would have to say, the Meds helped immensely.
I started finasteride exactly three months after my surgery, and minoxidil four months after. I've been on the finasteride for two months and the minoxidil for one, and no slowing in the shedding yet, I'm afraid.
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Originally Posted by win200
I started finasteride exactly three months after my surgery, and minoxidil four months after. I've been on the finasteride for two months and the minoxidil for one, and no slowing in the shedding yet, I'm afraid.
Has to be related to shock loss Win..give it some time, you should get the hair back without any problems, but go see your doctor, I know I can walk into my doctors office anytime of the day, I might have to wait a few minutes but he will see me, free of course, if you have a good surgeon he should only want to help with your concern.
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Originally Posted by win200
I started finasteride exactly three months after my surgery, and minoxidil four months after. I've been on the finasteride for two months and the minoxidil for one, and no slowing in the shedding yet, I'm afraid.
totally related to minox
minox causes shedding of native hair in the first few months of treatment
this will all grow back even thicker
you will see
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I'll push through the minox shed.
Also went to the derm today, and she checked my ferritin levels, which she said were low. She put me on an iron supplement, so hopefully that will help a bit.
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Just another update. The recipient area has really grown in / thickened up in the last month (I'm at 6.5 months now). I really hated what my hair looked like when I last posted pictures; it was wispy and didn't integrate with my native hair. At this point I'm fairly positive that I had a decent amount of shock loss, which is NOT growing back, and at this point I don't expect it to. However, based upon my balding pattern and looking at my brother, whose loss is more extensive, I'm pretty certain that this loss was going to occur anyway. Essentially, I've traded, at least in the hairline / frontal area, a more defined, lower hairline for some density. That trade is fine by me. I can now, for the first time since my surgery, wear my hair "up" with the hairline exposed and feel comfortable doing so. It's a little thin, but not thin enough to be noticed. It falls in that realm of things that no one but me will realize exist.
I've attached three pictures; these were taken with sunlight streaming in onto the hair, so the hairline is relatively "lit up."
Love to hear feedback.
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Damn Win, looks incredible...really natural...you have a winner...!
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Originally Posted by inspects
Damn Win, looks incredible...really natural...you have a winner...!
Thanks! I'm pretty happy with it. After having that soft / ragged type of hairline that you get with recession, it's awesome having a defined hairline... you know, that's an actual LINE. That's the most visually striking part of it for me.
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win200,
At only 6.5 months post-op is awesome. You still have a way to go my friend!
Again, thanks for sharing these updates.
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NOTE: I am not a physician and not employed by any doctor/clinic. My opinions are not medical advice nor are they the opinions of the following endorsing physicians: Dr. Bob True & Dr. Bob Dorin
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