Why Aren't You Getting A hair transplant? Just Do It.

[tracker54]

Real talk here. You can fly to Turkey, get a high-quality FUE, and be red-carpet ready within a year (given that you've not crossed NW4) for 10 grand.

It'll buy you at least 5-10 years, hopefully in time for permanent solutions.
Why pussyfoot around, trying to maintain the shitty hairs that you have?

For the time being, it's literally the solution to all your pains. If you really want to, saving up that amount isn't that hard.

 

[Dirty_Harry]

For me:
1) I'm still too young for that, 27.
2) 7 out of 10 hairlines after transplants don't look very natural
3) Poor density of new hair

 

[N003]

There are people who always have excuses.

The Haatransplanation is the Royal League

https://carolinahairsurgery.com/before-after-photos/

 

[g.i joey]

Id only ever get a transplant if it was a PERMANENT solution for me, but even 3 hair transplants wont keep me a fullhead forever... my dad was nw5 by my age, im lucky to be maintaining a 2.5-3 with meds, id imagine a hair transplant would offer me temporary relief, followed by anxiety for the future when my sh*t gets slick... rather just deal with an unscarred head of hair.

 

[N003]

Some of us are, and it's working. Not in Turkey but in Belgium which is my home country and also has cheap quality FUE's.

I think the main reason most people are not having hair transplants is because they're afraid of surgeries. They think it's too drastic and expensive.

Well, that's usually what you think when you're not above NW3 yet. Once you get past that stage, you'd gladly get run over by a truck to get back in time hair-wise.

And some people just want a reason to b**ch about why their life sucks forever. Hair loss at a young age is great for that, why fix the problem when you have that golden excuse.

I think most people are just afraid of the pain (injectors)

 

[BaldingInGermany]

Expensive and most of the time the result is a bit disappointing. And it doesn't make much sense once you hit the NW4 mark.

 

[FutureSaitama]

Well, the average salary in my country is around 400 euros. To get a decent transplant i would need around 4500 euros. Sucks to live in a third world country..

 

[Marky]

My second hair transplant was quite painful for some reason, much more than the first. And if it was the only problem, my head swelled like a balloon from the anesthetic. It made my girlfriend and my relatives laugh quite a lot, and it's understandable .

Anyway, it's drastic, and after seeing a TV show about botched hair transplants a few weeks ago, I'm infinitely grateful to have found a surgeon like De Reys. Here's what happened to one of the guys:

He's French and of course went to the first Parisian clinic he could find. They were using that ARTAS machine, and mid-way through the procedure, the machine breaks down, after the grafts had been harvested. The guy starts getting angry and panicking a bit, and boy I'd react the same in his position. Then you see the Eastern-European nurses playing on their phones and half-trying to repair the robot, unsuccessfully. But wait it gets better, the nurses finished the implantation themselves, while you could tell that they had zero training in the matter.

Once it was done, the job looked obviously horrendous, future doll hairs for sure. And that sucker had a big smile on his face, pointing at his hair line "look, I didn't have hair there before, it's going to look amazing!"

I was in shock, and I suddenly realized the luck I had (well, not really, I had researched a lot before taking the plunge) with my surgeon. If this is what the general public is shown when it comes to hair transplants, it's no wonder that most people are skeptical of them.



If you hit the NW4 mark and you stay there, you'll be in for a ride to hell.

Never, ever remain bald. But you need to have experienced true baldness to understand.

what about a NW2 who just wants to thicken the temples and forelock? I think it would be an easy straight forward job, but what happens if the hairline and temples recede more? Wouldn't you have a growing gap between the recession and the transplanted hair? Now that would look weird.

Fred do you only do the crown? If so, the front holds better and the crown is more sensitive to loss?

 

[N003]

Well, the average salary in my country is around 400 euros. To get a decent transplant i would need around 4500 euros. Sucks to live in a third world country..

Where you from?

 

[CopeForLife]

what about a NW2 who just wants to thicken the temples and forelock? I think it would be an easy straight forward job, but what happens if the hairline and temples recede more? Wouldn't you have a growing gap between the recession and the transplanted hair? Now that would look weird.

Fred do you only do the crown? If so, the front holds better and the crown is more sensitive to loss?

this x1000

 

[Patrick_Bateman]

Because no ethical doctor would take me, and they'd be right not to. f*** off with your "real talk here" @tracker54

 

[Marky]

You just get another hair transplant, and then another.

Then once you've depleted your donor area, at worst if you're not one of those extremely rare NW7 with thin donor, you get to have a reasonably dense NW2.5 with a bald crown, which makes you look ten times better in 90% of social situations than if you were a slick NW6.

I'm not advocating for anyone to do anything if he's not beyond a NW3. No one besides yourself (sometimes not even yourself) will notice anything up to then. Once you go beyond NW3 or there is diffuse thinning involved, you should get a hair transplant.

I'm not saying this lightly, I went for my first hair transplant as soon as I could possibly go for it, than means I waited until I had a nearly clean bald NW5 area to start rebuilding it. Once your frontal third is decimated, you have nothing to lose if you pick a top surgeon.

would this be considered a good result? I think I would still shave it

 

[hanginginthewire]

I’m so confused on the (seemingly) arbitrary cutoffs for when a transplant can work. Why is NW4 the line of demarcation? Doesn’t it depend upon donor, texture, if the hair is wavy or not, skill of the surgeon, luck, etc.?

I’m a diffuse thinner, currently at 2.5 - 3 hairline, but diffusing in a NW6 pattern. Retrograde as well. I’ve consulted with two respected surgeons who both acted like choosing transplantation was a no brainer. I know they want income but I didn’t get the impression that they were unethical.

YouTuber David Dimuzio was pretty f*****g bald and has been restored to a good result imo (3 surgeries.)

I understand the results aren’t guaranteed but don’t plenty of NW5s and 6s get pretty decent results.

 

[tracker54]

I think the arbitrary NW4 mark comes down to:

- Limited donor area, you'd probably first need a FUT, then FUE, to maximize your donor area

- Prohibitively expensive for many people. Sure, top surgeons in Turkey charge 3 EUR pr. hair, but what about those that take 7-10 dollars pr. hair in the states? And you'd need like 6000-7000 hairs? Completely maxed out. That's 50 - 70 grand. You could buy a mansions in the South for the same amount.

- You won't be a NW1, which is what many aim for.

So, yeah, it's a cost/result trade-off. Kinda like trying to restore a 50 year old car that's been in the woods for 50 years. Is it doable? Maybe, if you have enough money to spend.

 

[hanginginthewire]

I think the arbitrary NW4 mark comes down to:

- Limited donor area, you'd probably first need a FUT, then FUE, to maximize your donor area

- Prohibitively expensive for many people. Sure, top surgeons in Turkey charge 3 EUR pr. hair, but what about those that take 7-10 dollars pr. hair in the states? And you'd need like 6000-7000 hairs? Completely maxed out. That's 50 - 70 grand. You could buy a mansions in the South for the same amount.

- You won't be a NW1, which is what many aim for.

So, yeah, it's a cost/result trade-off. Kinda like trying to restore a 50 year old car that's been in the woods for 50 years. Is it doable? Maybe, if you have enough money to spend.

I see what you’re saying but your making a lot of worse case scenario assumptions. 10K seems a good average for one surgery, and if you are significantly bald you might expect to have 3 surgeries. So let’s estimate 30K - 40K, a lot, yes, but certainly not mansion money. Half the posters on here regularly indicate that they’d pay 100K for Tsuji. So I don’t think it’s really about money.

And unless you want to wear your hair super short, I don’t see the issue with having an FUT first. Prefer not to have linear scar sure but I’ll take it not to be bald.

I think the main problem is the uncertainty and possibility of low yield. Unless I’m being duped by doctored photos I feel like you can see thousands of examples of decent NW4, 5, and even 6 results.

 

[sadila]

Half the posters on here regularly indicate that they’d pay 100K for Tsuji. So I don’t think it’s really about money.

No one would, that's just despartness speaking. unless you make like 15-20k a month then probably

 

[Jack Ito]

What’s the best hair characteristics an individual could have when considering a hair transplant? For example which hair texture, colour etc..

 

[RU serious]

For me:
1) I'm still too young for that, 27.
2) 7 out of 10 hairlines after transplants don't look very natural
3) Poor density of new hair

I got a 4k FUT at 24 years old, admittedly I'll need 1-2 more sessions and further down the line it may all go horribly wrong but sh*t was killing me man. 4 months in and seeing my hairline grow back a bit more every day, already feel my age and not like a 35 year old man.

 

[doubleindemnity]

I was told by a top surgeon that I'm not a good candidate. I'm contacting other surgeons, but should I really go for it if this really top surgeon says that I shouldn't? I have diffuse thinning in the entire NW6 (or NW7?) area and it's almost maintaining with minoxidil. What if all the hairs that are there get shock lossed away and I'm left with fewer hairs than before? What happens to the NW2 hairline that I naturally have (very thin) when they put in transplanted hairs with a higher hairline?

Losing my hair really ruined my life, probably worse than most of you on here. I've tried time and time again to live with it, not just complain like I did at first. But, after getting that information from the top surgeon, I thought that my only choice was to just sit back and suffer until I decide that I've had enough.

 

[shookwun]

its a massive headache.


I had to to pretty much throw my social life away every transplant I had. laid low for a few months.

then there work...


The finance isn't to much of a burden, because most are willing to go into debt for this.


its everything else thats such a headache.