Is anyone delaying their financial plans due to hair loss?

[Demitri]

I want to buy a house about 2 years ago, but I was reluctant, needed to keep that 50K downpayment in the bank in case my hair loss got bad that needed transplant. Hair was more important than house, I did not want to be in a situation where bald.

Now 2 years later, still around NW2 but house prices skyrocket. If I would have bought when I planned, I would have made over 100K with the market.

The fear of baldness is preventing me from moving forward, I feel like I'm constantly in "holding pattern"

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

I more so delay in hopes of having a full recovery "soon" or in the future....

 

[doubleindemnity]

Who in the world needs to keep 50k for a transplant as a NW2? Even if it is 10USD per graft, you wouldn't be getting more than 2500. That's the most extreme case.

 

[Demitri]

Who in the world needs to keep 50k for a transplant as a NW2? Even if it is 10USD per graft, you wouldn't be getting more than 2500. That's the most extreme case.

I don't expect paying more than 15-20K. But it's not like I can just take 4 months break from my work, I would have to quit my job. So the remaining money is for me to survive until my results start coming in and then re-enter the workforce 4 months later.

hair transplant on high Norwood they recover in a few weeks back to their usual form. For lower Norwood like me, I will look much WORSE than my regular self before the 4/6 month mark.

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

I don't expect paying more than 15-20K. But it's not like I can just take 4 months break from my work, I would have to quit my job. So the remaining money is for me to survive until my results start coming in and then re-enter the workforce 4 months later.

hair transplant on high Norwood they recover in a few weeks back to their usual form. For lower Norwood like me, I will look much WORSE than my regular self before the 4/6 month mark.

I guess it is embarrassing during those months where it looks red and yuck. I just ignored it and only one person said anything and I lied to them since it was none of their business but I still had a lot on top because they used to operate on diffuse thinners who are naive like me and say that it will last forever and eh, if we are ashamed to tell others that we got a particular surgery, then what does that mean about weakness and human vulnerability? My dad has a full head of hair at 83 and I mean he's never lost a hair so I do understand how that feels when people joked, although they don't anymore, that he looked younger than I, ha ha. a**h**.

The thing is though that the slayer mentality does not go well or work well for people who get transplants. You will still be hiding the fact from women and others and you can't be a slayer and vulnerable too. A lot of us might have turned out assholes who didn't turn out that way because of the vulnerability of hair loss. It's just out there and not particularly something that can be hidden. I don't think they use the punch method anymore but that was just brutal in terms of causing horrible scarring. It was hard to even focus on any temporary improvement because the results were so poor and I felt that anyone looking carefully at my fringe would notice how thin, it now was. finasteride and Min saved me from disaster but by the time, I decided to do something that actually worked, even on top, there was a scary mess of plugs that only partially took and it hurt to comb my hair until I started microneedling the entire scalp which heals scars amazingly.

But you can easily end up having to have "refinements" with a second doctor because the first one was so bad. Some people quote $4,000 but that was what people paid in the 80's so maybe technology is bringing costs down but small grafts have their issues too. We are taking healthy tissue and moving it and I never felt right about doing that. But this is me only. I am neutral on transplants and I think for people only having temple recession that they can be startlingly good.

 

[Feelsbadman]

i've blown thousands and thousands due to depression due to har loss

 

[KevinEdEddEddy]

I will be jobless and homeless due to hairloss, almost failed in college because I was not studying but LDARing