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Originally Posted by kush
I can vouche for this... Propecia + Hair Transplants do work.
I got a hair transplate at age 21, and have been taking also propecia since then. Now I'm 24 and my hair is thicker and better looking than at 21.
The only problem with hair transplants is that it leaves a scar for each transplant, (hidden underneath the thick part of your hair) from about ear to ear across the back of your head. If you shaved your head you would see the scar though, and you can feel it. One girl I dated thought I had brain surgery when we were fooling around and she felt the scar on the back of my head lol.
Hair loss is expensive though. Propecia pills are about $2 a pop (once per day) and each procedure is about 4K or so... and you can have a max of maybe 3 or 4 of them.
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Propecia can be much cheaper if you buy proscar and cut it into 5ths.
Propecia = Proscar = finasteride
Except proscar is 5mg and proecia is 1mg. So if you tell your doctor your strapped for cash, and tell him you want proscar instead, you can get a prescription for proscar and will just cut it into 5ths, you can stop your hairloss much cheaper.
The better doctors these days use "Tricolosure" or something like that. The scar is much less visible, even when shaved to a number 2 its almost undetectable. Thats why a good doc is key for these procedures. You get what you pay for.
Also, they are working on HM (hair manipulation), whereby they inject cells into yer scalp, or something like that, meaning they have an infinite supply of hair to work with and can give you a full head of hair. That is at best 5 years away, probably more. At the moment they cant control the direction of the hair growth with the HM procedure.
For those who only need about 1000 grafts, theres a procedure where they dont need to slice the back of your head. Its scarless, called FUE. Its more expensive but good for smaller jobs.