August 10 2005, 8:25 am PT | Posted in: Hair Transplantation
I want to get a hair transplant during the summer while I am off from school but if I am going to lose hair, I won’t do it. Is there a guarantee that I will not lose hair?
I will assume that you are a student of college age (under 30) in answering this quesstion. If you are older, then shock hair loss is less of a risk. If you take Propecia, I have found that the likelihood of having reactive hair loss is significantly less likely. In the days before Propecia I used to see it all of the time in young men. For those who are on the drug before surgery, there appears to be a protective effect that stops the hair transplant shock loss that plagued the men prior to the introduction of the drug. There are few guarantees in medicine, but I do not remember any person in recent times that was on Propecia that had significant reactive hair loss.
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I am a female and had a cheap hair transplant a couple of years ago. I was honestly not a candidtate for the transplant. I had beautiful thick hair then with the exception of one very small slightly widening of a part that for the first time, I could actually see my scalp.
Long story short, Not only did none of the transplants take and all of my good hair fell out. Now I have about of a third of the hair I had when I got the transplant. If u can even call it hair. It has minitaurized so much that it is basically just a bunch of long fuzz. I did research after the fact and I found out then tht for the most part women are not good candidtates for hairtransplants since when women start to have hair loss it is diffuse or thinning from all over rather than just on top like most men have, so all I can say to you women out there considering hairtransplants, please please be careful and at the very least go to a good and not a cheap doctor, because you do get what you pay for. I wish someone had written something like this, and I had read it before I got the hair transplant and utimately lost all my beautiful hair.