Advice For Everyone Coping With Hair Loss

[MynamesName]

This KID is 18 years old and sounds three times as old as you. He's just telling people to have a healthy view on hair loss. Stop being so pathetic..

Haha, thanks for the support. He does have a point though, so I edited my last paragraph on the topic of older people dealing with hairloss. I understand that everyone is different and deal with things differently; all I can do is try to get my point across and hope people understand...

 

[Illusions]

You still need finasteride even with a hair transplant in order to keep the non transplanted hair that you still have.

 

[resu]

The only advice is to accept how things are not the way you hoped them to be. If hair loss had zero social repercussions would anyone care? It wouldn't matter, you would be treated the same way by everyone just like when you still had hair, the only difference is that now you wouldn't get comments about your hair.

The most successful people are the ones that have many options open for them, you should use at least minoxidil and try to hold your follicles for a better time when we have next gen treatments.

 

[MynamesName]

You still need finasteride even with a hair transplant in order to keep the non transplanted hair that you still have.

That's one of the reasons hair transplants aren't realistic choices for most people, because often, you'll have to come back to keep getting more transplants done. I personally, don't want to mess around with finasteride anymore, and I'll be willing to drop money on as many hair transplants as I need in the future.

 

[tellersquill]

Is it not possible to get all of your head transplanted. Like, if you were a NW7 could you get a hair transplant to a NW3 and not take finasteride because you have no hair left to lose?

 

[MynamesName]

The only advice is to accept how things are not the way you hoped them to be. If hair loss had zero social repercussions would anyone care? It wouldn't matter, you would be treated the same way by everyone just like when you still had hair, the only difference is that now you wouldn't get comments about your hair.

The most successful people are the ones that have many options open for them, you should use at least minoxidil and try to hold your follicles for a better time when we have next gen treatments.

Yes, you're right. The hardest thing is to accept or at least deal with the problem. If only our society didn't scrutinize us over our illness, it's like balding is the only disease out there that people can make fun of (well, there's obesity too). The most successful people don't give a f*** about judgmental people and have great confidence; it's something that can take you far in life if you learn how to think that way.

 

[MynamesName]

Is it not possible to get all of your head transplanted. Like, if you were a NW7 could you get a hair transplant to a NW3 and not take finasteride because you have no hair left to lose?

Of course. With the right amount of transplants, you can get a full head of hair back - it's very costly though as I've stated, and due to your hair loss persisting, you will keep losing hair, so you will have to keep getting transplants every couple years or so. It depends on the rate you lose hair and if you're willing to take finasteride to slow it down. I think minoxidil would be a decent alternative for keeping the transplanted hair around for a while until you can get another transplant

 

[Illusions]

Is it not possible to get all of your head transplanted. Like, if you were a NW7 could you get a hair transplant to a NW3 and not take finasteride because you have no hair left to lose?

Yes, but it would be very thin.

 

[tellersquill]

MyNamesName, I meant for people who had completely lost all the male pattern baldness areas that could be lost - essentially only having the sides left - like Larry David.

So some like Larry David could have a hair transplant and be a NW3 again?

If so there is hope for us all.

 

[resu]

Yes, you're right. The hardest thing is to accept or at least deal with the problem. If only our society didn't scrutinize us over our illness, it's like balding is the only disease out there that people can make fun of (well, there's obesity too). The most successful people don't give a f*** about judgmental people and have great confidence; it's something that can take you far in life if you learn how to think that way.

I wished hair didn't matter but it does, a lot to some and less to others. I'm a comb-over artist and I can say that when I do it and the hair looks nice even receptionists treat me with much more attention and care, I've buzzed the hair many times and I was met with such disdain, like I was worth less than dirt.

 

[MynamesName]

MyNamesName, I meant for people who had completely lost all the male pattern baldness areas that could be lost - essentially only having the sides left - like Larry David.

So some like Larry David could have a hair transplant and be a NW3 again?

If so there is hope for us all.

Umm, from what I know, the back of the head's hair follicles are resistant to DHT, and also the sides. So as long as you have hair there, you're set for a hair transplant(s). However, if you're so high up into the Norwood scale, it would definitely look thinner like another user said

 

[Hangin'on Hair]

I think minoxidil would be a decent alternative for keeping the transplanted hair around for a while until you can get another transplant

I thought the transplanted hair doesn't need support from minoxidil or finasteride. It's the native hairs around the transplanted hairs that are still susceptible to dht. So they would be the ones benefiting from the chemicals.

 

[Roberto_72]

With the right amount of transplants, you can get a full head of hair back

It is not so simple. Donor hair can be harvested only from a so called "safe zone" on the back of your head. It is called "safe zone" because hair harvested from said zone has fewer probabilities to be attacked from DHT in the future.

This "safe zone" is - in certain cases - so limited that surgeons won't even operate on you the one time, as the ratio of needed-hair : available-hair is too low to grant an aesthetically significant result.

If it were like you say, why do you think there is so much interest towards Tsuji's potentially crazy-expensive research into hair cloning?

 

[Assemblage23]

Hair transplants without finasteride as a young man are a dumb mistake.

 

[GoldenMane]

Hair transplants without finasteride as a young man are a dumb mistake.

Look at Wayne Rooney for evidence. Callum Best is getting there too. You need to stop it slow down the hair loss first or disaster awaits.
If you can't stop it then SMP and a low density hair transplant are a better option but require a different approach

 

[GoldenMane]

Is it not possible to get all of your head transplanted. Like, if you were a NW7 could you get a hair transplant to a NW3 and not take finasteride because you have no hair left to lose?

If you're NW7 then you'd be lucky if a hair transplant could restore you to an NW5, let alone a NW3!

 

[Roberto_72]

Please do elaborate, I have replied to someone else regarding that point.

In my opinion, you cannot know how people who are twice as old as you are may feel with regards to a disease/disorder/call it as you please, and downplay its importance.
But it is not personal: it is just fine that one at 18 thinks he know everything about the world. If it weren't like that, we wouldn't have had Bob Dylan or Rimbaud.

 

[Roberto_72]

If you're NW7 then you'd be lucky if a hair transplant could restore you to an NW5, let alone a NW3!

Exactly. And it has it be noticed that lots of users here (even much older than our friend OP) keep on affirming that going bald is no big deal because there are "hair transplants". As if their outcome was 100% predictable and they could be repeated ad libitum.