Hair Restoration

[LilKittyCatZoey]

Be careful propecia and finpecia are super dangerous if you dont follow your dosage requirement.

[Padma]

Yup - and that goes for any medication, of course . This is why this site doesn't encourage self-dosing without medical advice.

Also, people tend to assume more is better because they want quicker results - but quite apart from the health risks from overdosing on some medications, it's usually the case that hitting the body with a high dose of something just makes the body react by fending it off harder. This is why I hear people recommending starting on low doses of whatever you're going to be taking long-term, and slowly ramping it up. Certainly with finasteride, building up slowly over a month or two seems to prevent people from getting the dreaded balls-ache that others have when taking this if they've dived straight in to the normal dose.

[LilKittyCatZoey]

Haha i had such high T i was put on the max dosages fr all my meds except E and let me just say even my teachers had asked if it was my time of the month all the way to are you having menopause? because i got some hectic hot flashes in the middle of winter lol. Trust me try not have high doses just yet its a nightmare for weeks.

[Padma]

Aye, it's good to be good to your body and introduce things slowly, especially if you're heading for a higher dose. It's the lovin' thing to do (lets' see whether I take my own advice or not, come the day...) .

[A]

Hmm, where I am, if they accept you (meaning, if you have enough dark hairs), the most successful company here (though not publishing a lot of info on TS people) guarantees a 80% minimum permanent reduction of hair in 6-12 months [2-3000 CA$], so I think it's a good option. But yeah, what companies and customers claim is not proof. Though most of the feedback I have read is that results are usually good. (Note that the link I give on E3000 is from when it was called E2000, any years ago, and was only updated a little since. Since then, laser people claim to have improved a whole lot. Claims are worth what they are, but well...

If their method works and it does indeed destroy 80% hairs, then the 20% left, mostly pale, should be less visible and should cost less to remove with electrolysis.

E3000 is a good thing, but, well, it's in Texas. And for your face to be permanently cleared you need to go there a few times and space the visits by a month or so, so you need to add a lot of plane tickets, on top of the costs. It would be nice if some people elsewhere did something similar... I mean, can't they see the success they seem to have?

The bottom line: IF laser is as efficient as they claim, I would tend to think it's most efficient to start with it. If not, E3000 is the way to go.

[glaze]

IF laser is as efficient as they claim, I would tend to think it's most efficient to start with it. If not, E3000 is the way to go.

That's what we are planning to try now rather than aim directly for E3000 from the start, but we can't seem to find any reliable places here.

Hair-Loss

Anyway, I have posted my picture in some places and everyone says we are hopeless and hair transplant is the only option, and not only that, they can't believe we are just 24 years old. But some of you had said above that since I'm still young, I still have a chance to regrow most of my lost hair, maybe your opinion will change after seeing my photos too?

[A]

If you start HRT (most importantly, a DHT blocker in your case), say, now (and not tomorrow), and combine it with a working hair restoration product - if such a thing exists - you can probably achieve something of an acceptable apparence, considering that you are relatively young and there is still thin hair in most areas... But unless you are particularly lucky (which you could, actually) or products have become very effective, it is likely to appear odd forever, though it may be possible to "easily" get away with it with specific hairstyles, accessories or hairgears if you have a decent amount of luck regarding regrowth.

Regardless of that, please note that hair transplants are done hair by hair and the less hair remaining, the greater an area to cover, the more hair it takes, increasing cost. Eventually, it could even become impossible because too much hair has been lost, and then you would have to consider "permanent" wigs (very high quality natural hair wigs that are literally attached to the skin manually to emulate natural hair as much as possible and that can be washed with shampoo without removal just like real hair) or explore other options. Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_of_baldness