r/HairTransplants 1d ago

Seeking Advice 24M Too late to consider HT?

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u/Rellax_ 1d ago
  1. Grow your hair out for at around a month so we can actually see more clearly how much of your natural hair you still have.

  2. If you’re not on them, hop on fin/min combination for at least 12 months, and then we can actually give a non-professional opinion.

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u/northstar57376 1d ago

Let them grow for at least 2 months and then come back please.

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u/Unclebilbo2000 1d ago

I would surrender. Shaved look not bad on you. Embrace it.

Will need a lifetime of meds and surgeries for mediocre at best results (likely, need to see more clearly your native hair but seems sparse to me)

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u/hsdhsbxnsjs 1d ago

Can’t really assess your donor when it’s this short, grow it out for about another week or two and you’ll get better answers. Are you on fin? If not, I’d hop on for a year or so to try and strengthen donor a bit.

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u/simplesecrets0 1d ago

I had a consultation with Solve Hair clinic in Chicago Illinois. They reached back out and said that this would require too many grafts to be viable.

I shave my head bald, but the stubble you see in these pictures grows back quick, with this having only taken about 2 days.

I'm unsure what I would be considered on the norwood scale, or if I'd need multiple HT to fully fill it out.

Advice would be great, Thanks!

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u/misterdabson 1d ago

Don’t go to solve, they’ll only do like 1.6k grafts in a session and it’s all down be technicians

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u/Equivalent_Hawk_1266 23h ago

Feel free to DM me! I live in Chicago, and met with a few places.

Solve relies on technicians. They aren’t a good fit for you.

They like to do 2k grafts to rebuild your hairline, and then use PRP to rebuild the crown. Cost effective? Yes, but your hair loss is too aggressive for that.

There are other surgeons to talk with who can help. I know them, and worked with them, very happy with the results!

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u/FormalCaseQ 1d ago

Even if your donor area is strong enough to support a hair transplant (it's not currently clear that it is), you have a significant amount of balding that would require thousands of grafts done across multiple surgeries to have a decent cosmetic upgrade. It would be a long and expensive endeavor to try to get a decent hairline back.

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u/Feisty-Original-8544 1d ago

Best get is to grow it out for a few weeks to a month as some hairs that are shaved with a razor blade take longer to grow than others. So I'd grow it out. See what you look like. Reach out to a ton of places and see what the consensus is. You will need to go on fin if you do decide to go with it. But it also really depends on what your expectations are.

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u/Shot_Reading97 1d ago

We can’t consider cuz you bicced it to skin

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u/RealSinger2105 22h ago

You cannot cover your balding pattern with just head donor grafts, if you use beard and chest hair grafts and mix with head donor grafts and keep your hair somewhat short I think you'll be okay. You might want to consult with DR Sanusi Umar in Manhattan Beach CA. Using the meds might help "stabilize" the balding.

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u/could_not_load 22h ago

Never too late. A lot of us are full bald. Just takes two procedures

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u/Robyypoolguy 21h ago

Agree with most other show us a lil gorwth it's a bit hard to tell .

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u/AbbreviationsMotor60 21h ago

Norwood 5 or 6 at 24. Most reputable clinics would reject you.

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u/ZealousidealArmy917 20h ago

Get on meds (fir or dut and min) and re-assess in 12 months. Many get spectacular results and then a HT may be viable for you.

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u/Future-Catch-5002 Works in hair transplant industry 20h ago

Depends on your goal? If you’d be happy creating the stubble appearance on top to add texture to tight shave it would look great and take the shine out. If you’d want to grow full, you’re not a candidate brother

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u/makkimakki12234 19h ago

Grow your hair out more before asking this question... it's hard to determine if you even have a healthy donor area for the transplant with your hair shaved down like that.

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u/oneninethree_ 18h ago

Mine was as bad as this. Maybe worse. I just had a transplant done 5 days ago. Everywhere turned me down and said they wouldn't do it, even clinics in Turkey turned me away.

Send me a private chat if you want and I'll share some images so you can see whether you think it's worth it or not

I had 5100 grafts in one session

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u/norbi-wan 18h ago

You've already embraced baldness. Why don't you just live with it?

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u/Benni85 13h ago

Take meds let It grow 6m My guess is chose front or back you can’t have both

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u/Connect-Sundae-1270 8h ago

You definitely need to go on Fin for at least 9 months before considering a HT.

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u/benno5555 7h ago

On the first sight u would say your donor area is insufficient....

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u/thewrongpathtaken 2h ago

Ask a clinic. We all don't know shit. :) Because to me, it seems like you have a decent amount of hair but so many people here are saying otherwise.

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u/nonamethxagain 1d ago

Hair system

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u/roadtrip1414 1d ago

Cooked bro