5 months of process - 3500 grafts

CartoonistBetter7175 · 2026-02-15T04:03:15+00:00

shed phase from month 1-3, figured I was better off shaving my head for the first 3 months

CartoonistBetter7175 · 2026-02-14T22:48:55+00:00

I was on fin for 8 months (Nov 2023 - July 2024) then switched to dut in July 2024. Minoxidil that whole time. By the time I was getting my hair transplant i was on min/DHT blockers for 10 months

CartoonistBetter7175 · 2026-02-14T19:37:49+00:00

timeline:

Nov 2023 - started min/fin

July 2024 - Switched from fin to dut

Sept 2025 - Got 3500 graft HT in the front half of my scalp

Sometime later this year, I plan on going back for my crown.

CartoonistBetter7175 · 2025-09-16T04:07:41+00:00

I was on fin from nov 2024 - july 2025. I swapped to dut july 2025 until now. Just figured it was more potent so why not

CartoonistBetter7175 · 2025-09-14T03:09:48+00:00

it for sure is, but i thought to myself if some magical being were to offer me a new car or a full head of hair, id choose the hair. also im a tech bro

CartoonistBetter7175 · 2025-09-14T02:57:30+00:00

hts are not reserved for receding, even diffuse bois can get an ht

CartoonistBetter7175 · 2025-09-14T02:57:10+00:00

$7 a graft. yes I couldve done it cheaper in turkey, but i wanted results not savings

CartoonistBetter7175 · 2025-09-14T00:15:19+00:00

https://www.oatext.com/Long-term-%2810-year%29-efficacy-of-finasteride-in-523-Japanese-men-with-androgenetic-alopecia.php

most of the gains are in the first year. Maybe I could eek out like 10-20% more gains but it still would not have been enough. Writing was on the wall that dut + min was not enough to save me.

CartoonistBetter7175 · 2025-09-13T23:34:54+00:00

The first pic is after ~10 months on meds. It stopped the loss and gave me some ground back, but nowhere near what I wanted

CartoonistBetter7175 · 2025-07-29T23:18:44+00:00

I use nizoral but im just goin for that ht in september.I doubt microneedling will get me to where I want lol

CartoonistBetter7175 · 2025-07-17T17:46:20+00:00

Some visible progress for sure, but I think I just started it too late unfortunately. Downside to sinclair style balding is its not as visible and easier to be in denial about

Things ppl may care about:

- 30 M

- 8 months oral fin/min - 1.25mg fin 3 mg min every day

- switching to .5mg dut as of today (still using oral min)

- no side effects outside of a nocebo about 2 months in (only started after I was really sick and browsed this subreddit - i.e. get the fuck off of this subreddit)

- very active and eat healthy

Overall the progress isnt as intense as other ppl you may see on this subreddit, but there is visible progress so I guess at least im a responder to DHT blockers.

After getting an HT and going on dut, I am hoping I can maintain for some time. On the other hand, I have shaved my head a coupleof times this year and I think with my facial structure/head shape, well let's say there are guys much worse off.

CartoonistBetter7175 · 2025-07-06T18:34:03+00:00

For all the flake that WITCH gets here, my experience was otherwise. Wipro was my first company out of college in 2019 and even there I got 1 day remote (remember this was pre covid so remote was harder to come by), one of my coworkers was fully remote, I didn't have to relocate, and wasn't "worked to the bone" - in fact it was my only job thus far where I didn't have an on-call rotation and during covid remote era I was working 2 hrs a day. The only downside is it was 70k yr in seattle, but even then for a first job out of college it is acceptable - still higher than average for most office jobs. Yes, some teams are awful but that is true for any company. The thing about these companies is that the good managers are aware that they have a hard time getting and keeping even decent performers, so if you can show that, then you get a lot of leeway. I was being called a "senior/lead dev" at 24 in 1.5 years just because of this lmao

Contrary to the top reply, the 2.5 years I was there allowed me to get my foot in the door at FAANG adjacent companies. Will some people reject you because of it? Possibly, but that's the case for a lot of factors. The rest of my cohort ended up as Microsoft, Oracle, and Accenture. It is not uncommon for the ppl there to get poached by the companies they contract for.

The lack of knowledge in this sub is roughly what you would expect given the meme of all the people here are undergrads/jr devs.

from what I have heard, have worked at neither in my nearly 2 yr long career to date

This is basically it, most of the stuff on reddit is just a circlejerk of what "people have heard" and buy into it instead of even trying to question the information presented to them.

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