I will spend up to 50k this year on my hair, what can i do?

[ozadam]

I just had a major breakthrough in my business and can hopefully buy a full head of hair again.....

Startingpoint

I am thinking of 1 DR Wong strip of as many grafts as he can get, as I want the best chance of getting as much of my donor hair as possible to survive. then a good FUE of 3-4000 grafts, i guess that comes to using my money up... but I wont stop there.
Dr Gho, is it real? well if it is real, would I damage my chances of using him by getting a strip done first?

I have not used minoxidil or finasteride in 2 years and I did lose a ton of hair.. I went from nw3.5 to nw5 or more.. the hair is still there kind of, its just fuz but there is no area of my scalp that really feels slick bald, all my scalp has some hair roughness to it. I want to throw whatever I can at it so I was thinking
CB, RUM, finasteride, retin-a and minoxidil. what could be my chances of getting back to my nw3.5ish?

I see a lot of talk and never a real answer, where can I get RUM and CB from? well a private forum??

Cheers

 

[Shma]

Okay first of all, forget about Dr. "gho".

I'd go with Dr. Hasson for a strip megasession. If you're donor's good you could possibly achieve quite a good result. You should check other, similar cases on hairtransplantnetwork.com

 

[ozadam]

I would like to believe that this dr "gho" stuff is legit.
Have you seen the forum posts on another hairloss site? google "Dean Saunders hair"

Hasson and wong seem like the people to go to for big jobs.

 

[Shma]

I would like to believe that this dr "gho" stuff is legit.
Have you seen the forum posts on another hairloss site? google "Dean Saunders hair"

Hasson and wong seem like the people to go to for big jobs.

Believe me: Stay away from him.
Hasson and Wong is the way to go.

 

[s.a.f]

Yeah I'd advise H&W for a NW6. They seem to be the worldwide specialists in megasessions.

 

[Nene]

From what I've read, HW are the way to go for hair transplant to remedy severe baldness with strip. Good luck, keep us posted.

 

[sad_spiderman]

but do you think guys that it's worth trying to fix it? because the guy is really bald...norwood 6 I would say. btw...I think you have tried hairpieces...are you still wearing? why don't you make a dense front 2-3 cms and use a piece behind that? I am sure cosmetically it would be much better...

 

[Nene]

Judging from the pics I've seen, HW can do some pretty amazing work. However even the best hair transplant won't restore a norwood 6 to a full head of hair, only the illusion of a balding head of hair. However, if he understands the limitations of the hair transplant and simply doesn't want a sly bald look, it can still be a reasonable option. Doing a half wig and half hair transplant seems inefficient and I certainly wouldn't recommend it. Might as well do one or the other.

 

[sad_spiderman]

why not? it is easier to have your own hairline and use a hairpiece at the crown...

 

[s.a.f]

but do you think guys that it's worth trying to fix it? because the guy is really bald...norwood 6 I would say. btw...I think you have tried hairpieces...are you still wearing? why don't you make a dense front 2-3 cms and use a piece behind that? I am sure cosmetically it would be much better...

I dont see how having both a wig and hair transplant (2 potential problems) is better than having just 1.

I'm sure that someone in his position and age will be very happy with even a less than average H&W result.

 

[Wylie]

Why are you not investigating Dr. Umar? Do you know the difference between FUE and FUT? I agree that Dr. Wong is exceptional at large sessions, but so is Dr. Umar, who can also utilize beard hair as "filler" in your surgery.

 

[sad_spiderman]

this case reminds me of this:
http://www.hairestorationetwork.com/e ... rafts.html

doctor wong and umar work...if I would be 60 or 70 I would be happy with this result for sure.

 

[Shma]

I'd prefer Hasson over Wong... But maybe that's just me..

 

[sad_spiderman]

Both of them are reliable but that's not the point ...the point is if you are norwood 6 or 7 you better do nothing and spend those money on something else...hair transplant is not the right procedure for lot of baldies even if 90% of them, no matter how bald they are , they are thinking contrary.even the guy that started the topic told us that he wants a new "full head of hair". this is never gonna happen to him for sure no matter how much he will spend.

 

[s.a.f]

I remember when I was a NW6 and even when I just had a few 100 hairs growing from my crappy UK hair transplants I was much happier.
I definatley think this guy will be happier with whatever H&W can do for him. They've achieved great results 100's of times with guys in the exact same position.
Of course he'll never be a full NW1 again but from where he's coming from he can make it so that people dont see him as a bald guy, even I did that after getting screwed by terrible UK clinics.
He does'nt look like he's too young so he should be able to get an age appropriate result.
Some people dont realise how it feels to be fully bald. Most NW6's would be exstatic just to get back to NW3/4.

 

[ozadam]

yeah it sucks...

But we will see what happens. I have decided to spend a year on every med first to try and see what I can get back and also I dont want shock loss killing any of those follicles that are still there just tiny... I have never been this bald before but I have been to about 70% of this then got large gains back
6th nov 2009, I had got back to "fairly" ok, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS_uzhy2seY

and this pic here is march 14 or so 2010.

hope I can use the newer drugs like CB and RUM to get back to this level over the next year and then get some major hair transplant work done.

I think you could expect to regain hair lost within the last two years?

A partial hp at the back with a filled in front and some of my own hair grown back would make me happier.

 

[Shma]

yeah it sucks...

But we will see what happens. I have decided to spend a year on every med first to try and see what I can get back and also I dont want shock loss killing any of those follicles that are still there just tiny... I have never been this bald before but I have been to about 70% of this then got large gains back
6th nov 2009, I had got back to "fairly" ok, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS_uzhy2seY

and this pic here is march 14 or so 2010.

hope I can use the newer drugs like CB and RUM to get back to this level over the next year and then get some major hair transplant work done.

I think you could expect to regain hair lost within the last two years?

A partial hp at the back with a filled in front and some of my own hair grown back would make me happier.

Sorry, but without a hair transplant you will not go back from a Norwood 6 to a Norwood 3... I'd save money for 1-2 hair transplant's with H&W.

Could you post some more pics from sides, back, donor and front etc?

 

[ozadam]

Hi yeah I was thinking that a hair transplant would cause shock loss and make me lose follicles that may be savable.

Dont a lot of hair transplant docs want you to be on propecia for 12 months prior to a hair transplant for this reason?

But yeah I would like to get it done as soon as possible.

 

[Agahi]

I think you mostly have to be on meds if you have anything left to lose. You are pretty much as far as its possible to go atm, so I dunno if meds are necessary. I think maybe you should consider a high quality hair piece.