Hello everyone
I am very new here, although I have been lurking for quite a while.
I am a 34 year old male dealing with hairloss since I was 28 years old, I was able to catch it fairly early on knowing my uncles history, i was probably norwood 1 at the time. But I knew it would turn out bad if i ignored it.
Medication: I am currently on Minoxidil for around 6-7 years now and it has worked great (using it once a day at night).
First year had some amazing results, but it has slowly stopped being as efficient, although of course I will keep on using it.
In my first year I did also try to combine it with Finasteride (half a pill every other day) and it had some amazing results, my hair would stop falling out completely and I regained my teen hairline. My initial side effects were ball ache for the first week that went away very quick, but after 3 months I developepd some weird chest pain
(similar to costochondrites, very weird but I checked my heart with 4 doctors and once I stopped i went back to normal). Long story short I had to discontinue the treatment, even though I retried a few times after within 2-3 days I would always get symptoms.
I tried Eucapil even though to a minor extent I had the same side effects.
TLDR
I am currently norwood 3 maybe a bit worse I dont know, I am trying to do a hair transplant in Thailand as I am in a neibhoring country due to work.
I reached out to Dr Damkerng Pathomvanich, Dr. Kongkiat Laorwong and Dr. Pukpinya Jangjetriew
All seem to be amazing doctors.
But here are my concerns:
Dr Damkerng Pathomvanich seems to be great he is the most experienced and his results are superb he is expensive but he is also an older gentleman.
Dr. Pukpinya Jangjetriew gives me a timeline December 2026 which is huge of a wait.
Dr. Kongkiat Laorwong has sent an email stating "Most of grafts are inserted with implanters in the pre-made incisions by experienced assistants"
"Doctor does some grafts placement at the end and double check to complete the work"
In this case what would you choose?
Right below you can find some attached pictures of my situation
I am very new here, although I have been lurking for quite a while.
I am a 34 year old male dealing with hairloss since I was 28 years old, I was able to catch it fairly early on knowing my uncles history, i was probably norwood 1 at the time. But I knew it would turn out bad if i ignored it.
Medication: I am currently on Minoxidil for around 6-7 years now and it has worked great (using it once a day at night).
First year had some amazing results, but it has slowly stopped being as efficient, although of course I will keep on using it.
In my first year I did also try to combine it with Finasteride (half a pill every other day) and it had some amazing results, my hair would stop falling out completely and I regained my teen hairline. My initial side effects were ball ache for the first week that went away very quick, but after 3 months I developepd some weird chest pain
(similar to costochondrites, very weird but I checked my heart with 4 doctors and once I stopped i went back to normal). Long story short I had to discontinue the treatment, even though I retried a few times after within 2-3 days I would always get symptoms.
I tried Eucapil even though to a minor extent I had the same side effects.
TLDR
I am currently norwood 3 maybe a bit worse I dont know, I am trying to do a hair transplant in Thailand as I am in a neibhoring country due to work.
I reached out to Dr Damkerng Pathomvanich, Dr. Kongkiat Laorwong and Dr. Pukpinya Jangjetriew
All seem to be amazing doctors.
But here are my concerns:
Dr Damkerng Pathomvanich seems to be great he is the most experienced and his results are superb he is expensive but he is also an older gentleman.
Dr. Pukpinya Jangjetriew gives me a timeline December 2026 which is huge of a wait.
Dr. Kongkiat Laorwong has sent an email stating "Most of grafts are inserted with implanters in the pre-made incisions by experienced assistants"
"Doctor does some grafts placement at the end and double check to complete the work"
In this case what would you choose?
Right below you can find some attached pictures of my situation