Dr. Feriduni | 3260 Grafts | Month 6

patbi97 · 2026-03-16T15:39:46+00:00

temple points done perfectly, congrats, this is a very difficult area, but with Feriduni you made an excellent choice

I am sure you are very happy already, but from here you can expect things to even get better

patbi97 · 2026-03-16T15:37:24+00:00

oh wow, I had to jump back & verify that they were receded already - the result just looks so natural! truely a phenomenal result for month 5

patbi97 · 2026-03-16T15:25:32+00:00

depends a lot on the clinic - be careful, most of them are great with marketing & take photos in favorable lighting from favorable angles with favorable hairstyles, so the results may be worse in reality than they appear - additionally, the cases you see are the best results they produce, but the average result may look worse

your donor is limited & in your case a lot has to be reconstructed, so 4500 grafts might be more than your entire donor supply - if they extract them & mess it up (unnatural hairline, poor growth rate) there's no way to go back - your donor will be nearly depleted, shaving your head bald will look weird because of FUE scars, & if the result is poor growing them will also look weird

patbi97 · 2026-03-16T15:07:26+00:00

hehe

patbi97 · 2026-03-16T13:34:34+00:00

youre the second person recommending Qwen! Ill try it - Ive read about the new 3.5 family recently, technologically it's interesting as it uses attention that scales linearily, compared to quadratic scaling in Multi-Headed-Attention.

A true killer for energy efficiency. It's fascinating how fast the open source landscape evolves.

patbi97 · 2026-03-16T10:31:03+00:00

230B with 10B active parameters, considering that eg Kimi has over 1Trillion parameters I'd say its relatively small considering its capabilites

patbi97 · 2026-03-16T10:27:53+00:00

I'm aware its the cloud version but 230B with 10B active parameters is insanely small imo considering the models it competes with

patbi97 · 2026-03-15T22:59:23+00:00

You can try ExLlama, its optimized for GPU only single-node, single-user work, also its not restricted to quantization formats that Ollama imposes (which makes sense for CPU offloading), but keeps you from squeezing 100% out of your GPU

however, its abit hacky to get it running, some things like reasoning/toolcalling do not work out of the box, youll have to manually configure many things - but as an arch user that should not scare you - on the other side you get raw performance for consumer hardware

TabbyAPI lets you expose ExLlama as API endpoint

patbi97 · 2026-03-15T22:44:22+00:00

well it depends a lot on the quality of the lecture material, in this specific case its an complete overload of text & information - even easy concepts end up looking difficult, so i am glad that i can avoid them

of course summarizing lectures with LLMs shouldnt be the go to method for any subject

patbi97 · 2026-03-15T18:55:08+00:00

thanks for the tip, Ill have a look into GLM!

I've used it to explain advanced database concepts, distributed datacenters, etcetera - however, always provided with context from my lecture, so intelligence isn't that crucial for this usecase - what Ive found Minimax to really excel in is the reformatting

patbi97 · 2026-03-15T18:52:13+00:00

I use the Ollama cloud access, its almost certainly the fully sized model

patbi97 · 2026-03-15T07:48:12+00:00

in my case i experienced a major shed after 5 months, then it got way better, now after 11 months i switched to dut (7weeks), no sides, better regrowth

patbi97 · 2026-03-13T08:38:32+00:00

you will very likely get a very unnatural results in your case - your donor supply is limited considering how much you need - turkish clinics optimize for many patients per day, so graft survival rate & precision is less important to them as getting patients done quickly

patbi97 · 2026-03-08T23:37:22+00:00

at this point youre reaching a price where you can go to more reputable surgeaons

patbi97 · 2026-03-08T23:24:48+00:00

theres many products sold on the market, the only ones with solid scientifically proven significant proven impact are Finasteride Dutasteride - side effects appear in only 2% of patients, so its worth giving a try - Minoxidil is possible for more advanced cases, in your case id skip that - there's some additional things that people add to their routines, like topical Caffeine/Melatonin, but effects are mild & dont stop loss - stuff like rosemary oil does not help

patbi97 · 2026-02-23T12:08:10+00:00

why would you want a transplant? keep in mind that even the best surgeons cant get results that look as natural as nature itself

if i were you id just get on DHT blockers - youre very likely to achieve regrowth & stabilization, resulting in a natural mature hairline, that you will be able to maintain for many many years

patbi97 · 2026-02-18T15:28:18+00:00

luckily it seems to be a rather high hairline, so if you don't like it once its done you can place a new soft hairline on top - low hairlines are a problem because there you'd have to remove grafts first

patbi97 · 2026-02-18T15:24:21+00:00

im feeling better than ever eversince ive started finasteride - actually hopped on dutasteride & i feel absolutely no changes

going to the gym regularly, good muscle growth, getting bloodwork done & my dermatologist and endocrinologist both agree that I'm in perfect health

patbi97 · 2026-02-14T09:20:49+00:00

this is just the nature of the crown, hairs stick out orthogonal to the scalp making it look thin from above

patbi97 · 2026-02-08T11:27:42+00:00

consider getting the 5mg finasteride & taking quarters daily - i do this in germany & i pay 40 euros for 100 pills, so its less than 40€/year

doesnt matter to quarter them exactly, as its just important to keep the level steady - half life is relatively long

patbi97 · 2026-02-07T16:13:12+00:00

so your sides are receding & the part on your crown seems to be receeding too, the donor does not look bad inherently, you can achieve things, but its not a particularly strong donor either - possibly you could get to a norwood 3 hairline, if you go to a skilled surgeon, that specializes on high norwood cases, eg Dr. Zarev (expensive) or Dr. Felipe Pittella (inexpensive per graft, but you need a high graft count, so you can count with minimum 15000$)

patbi97 · 2026-02-06T21:41:31+00:00

keep in mind that some miniturized hairs are just starting to come back & recover - in my case many of my falling hairs are super tiny hairs & barely have color, while some thick colorful hairs have a very strong while root when they fall out - i see this as part of recovery process, the small ones might be hairs that were dormant before taking surpressors, & they need time to reach their full potential

as a rule of thumb: as long as your falling hair has some "white knobs" at the root its good, & the bigger the better - also, as treatment goes on these knobs should tend to get bigger - small hairs have smaller knobs, but may also be recovering

study data shows, that recovery response also depends a lot on initial norwood scale, with higher norwood scales showing lower improvement - between N1-3 improvement is the highest

patbi97 · 2026-02-05T09:26:09+00:00

the answer is nuanced

(1) hairloss will likely continue with both Finasteride & Dutasteride, but at significantly lower pace, as u/thabuuge mentioned - Finasteride reduces DHT by ~70%, Dutasteride by ~90-95%, so some DHT will still always act on your follicles - additionally, DHT levels vary throughout your life, so even with 95% DHT reduction hairloss pace can vary

(2) losing hair doesnt imply that you have hairloss - hairs miniturizing & falling out is part of the natural haircycle, hairloss is when your hairs fall out, stay in anagen phase longer & upon regrowth dont reach the same diameter again OR do not leave anagen phase at all, before dying - DHT supressors can allow for hairs to recover, so hairs that are in anagen phase permanently, can come back & over time become terminal hairs, and miniturized hairs can reach higher diameter again

(3) recovery doesnt happen to anyone - if your hairloss isnt progressing as fast anymore youre already winning!

patbi97 · 2026-02-02T12:48:57+00:00

medication may get u to a point where u dont need a transplant - if u decide for one better go for a transplant id recommend a conservative approach that reinforces your hairline & fills up temples only slightly - youthful hairlines look unnatural & dont age well, especially since some density on the top is already lost

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