veritasvosliberabit
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How did you guys get the money to get hair transplant in a quick way.
to the people who got a hair transplant in their 20's
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I worked 70 hours per week in a factory one summer, saving $6000. Worked 20-30 hours per week while in school, saving that too.
I don't eat out with friends or women. I don't go to bars. I don't buy CDs. I wrote a bicycle everywhere. Accepted old clothes from my friends instead of buying new ones. At rice, and whatever vegetables or frozen fruit juice was on sale. My grocery store often has gallons of milk on sale for $1.88, and I would stock up.
And a big one: I have roommates to split the rent. Even shared a bedroom with a roommate for 3 years. I bought my textbooks off ebay for half or 1/3 the price. I drink tap water, not soda.
While my roommates through parties and invited women over on Friday and Saturday night, I put in ear plugs and went to sleep so I'd be ready for my 6am job on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
If you want the hair, you can get it, even on $7 per hour. And you can do it in a year. Just don't smoke or have kids or have a life, and you can do it.
Here is the trade off: for $1000, you can take a woman out to a pretty nice restaurant, and after tip and tax pay $40, and do that every week for 6 months. Or you can save it and $9000 more dollars and put that towards grafts. Get a second job if you have to. Skip the dinners.
Take the easy road now with your friends, or save and work hard for a year or two and get the hair.
I don't eat out with friends or women. I don't go to bars. I don't buy CDs. I wrote a bicycle everywhere. Accepted old clothes from my friends instead of buying new ones. At rice, and whatever vegetables or frozen fruit juice was on sale. My grocery store often has gallons of milk on sale for $1.88, and I would stock up.
And a big one: I have roommates to split the rent. Even shared a bedroom with a roommate for 3 years. I bought my textbooks off ebay for half or 1/3 the price. I drink tap water, not soda.
While my roommates through parties and invited women over on Friday and Saturday night, I put in ear plugs and went to sleep so I'd be ready for my 6am job on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
If you want the hair, you can get it, even on $7 per hour. And you can do it in a year. Just don't smoke or have kids or have a life, and you can do it.
Here is the trade off: for $1000, you can take a woman out to a pretty nice restaurant, and after tip and tax pay $40, and do that every week for 6 months. Or you can save it and $9000 more dollars and put that towards grafts. Get a second job if you have to. Skip the dinners.
Take the easy road now with your friends, or save and work hard for a year or two and get the hair.
Eureka
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Depends on how far you've progressed, Whether or not your on finasteride and how well you respond to it and the aggressiveness of your particular case of male pattern baldness. If your in your 20's and already an nw5 a Good hair transplant surgeon can probably work with you, but if you only an nw2 then it's entirely different.
Eureka said:
Now that's funny. CAn the hair transplant surgeon create hair because if you are Norwood 5 in your 20's you are headed for a Norwood 7 and there is not enough donor hair to restore a Norwood 7.
hair transplant's before age 40 are very risky. I have had a total of 2K grafts (first hair transplant age 31) and I still worry about running out of donor hair someday ( age 40 now) because hair loss is not predictable and drugs don't work forever.
Good luck to the 25 year olds packing 3-4K grafts in
Eureka
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Most hair transplant surgeons wish to wait and see how far your particular case of hairloss is going to progress. So if you have a fairly advanced case at a young age then there isn't much of a debate on where it is heading.
That doesn't change the fact that you would still need to stop the progression, but most hair transplant surgeons are less wary of working on an nw3-5 if they can stop the progression rather then a 1-3. Most people with hairloss at a level of nw3-5 have more realistic expectations.
As far as risky before 40.. True in some cases. But with FUE.. You really don't have to worry about running out of donor hair. At least not to the degree that you would if you've had strip. Telling someone who is experiencing hairloss in their 20's to wait until 40 is a ridiculous expectation and it's unrealistic. Vanity serves you much better when your young.
Eureka said:
First. let me guess you are young and want a hair transplant
Fue leaves out the strip scar but you could run into problems if you pack hair in the frontal 2/3 and run out of donor as unless you shave your head to a #0 you will look quite foolish with a dense packed front and nothing behind it leading up to a horseshoe pattern
ITNEVERRAINS
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I saved money by working two jobs, lived at home. 5k grafts, NW1.5 now. My "social" friends have no idea and all have complimented my hair as I keep it pretty rock.
I disagree on this wait until 40 crap. nonsense. the word "donor" needs to be redefined for this procedure. too many alternatives these days. I saw Dr. Umar do 5000 Beard and 5000 body grafts on a guy and it looked awesome. Lets say worst case you hit the NW6-7 mark and you need 20K in grafts by 40. even a NW7 could get 3-5k from FUT/FUE. Another 10-15K from BHT and that 7 becomes a 2.5 with quickness. Now that in all reality is 60k, but there is an option. You have to be knowledgeable to the fact this may be what is needed should you hair transplant early. Futhermore I'd roll dice and say in 20 years there will be better alternatives (HM) than today, not that its a huge bet with the options currently present. But too much $$ in this game not to progress procedure.
I disagree on this wait until 40 crap. nonsense. the word "donor" needs to be redefined for this procedure. too many alternatives these days. I saw Dr. Umar do 5000 Beard and 5000 body grafts on a guy and it looked awesome. Lets say worst case you hit the NW6-7 mark and you need 20K in grafts by 40. even a NW7 could get 3-5k from FUT/FUE. Another 10-15K from BHT and that 7 becomes a 2.5 with quickness. Now that in all reality is 60k, but there is an option. You have to be knowledgeable to the fact this may be what is needed should you hair transplant early. Futhermore I'd roll dice and say in 20 years there will be better alternatives (HM) than today, not that its a huge bet with the options currently present. But too much $$ in this game not to progress procedure.
Petchsky
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Also, being 28 when getting mine done, it is a concern but, the way i see it is that the big 3 has maintained my hair for coming on 7 years now without it getting worse, and proscar blocks near 80% of DHT, i just don't see how my hair would get worse all of a sudden and lose loads of hair... i understand i could lose hair, but it would be very slow process.
I don't want to wait till i'm 40! and at the same time i've not exactly rushed into it either at 28. I think as long as you have stabilized your loss with the meds then it's a pretty safe bet your hair is going to still be on your head when you wake up every morning
I don't want to wait till i'm 40! and at the same time i've not exactly rushed into it either at 28. I think as long as you have stabilized your loss with the meds then it's a pretty safe bet your hair is going to still be on your head when you wake up every morning
ITNEVERRAINS said:
Your post is comical. fist no way is a Norwood 7 getting 5-7 K form FUE and FUT when the average person only has 6K to begin with
BHT is still very new and does not give anywhere near the density as a strip procedure for the very few people it works on
Hair multiplication has been "around the corner" for about 20 years
I could go on and on but all I can say is good luck