I’m writing this down as I got a hair transplant yesterday.
First I need to talk you into my obsession with hair loss. My hair started falling when I was 16 years old!!! That’s very premature. It pissed me off so much. It annoyed me even more since I never had a much defined frontal hairline. I felt like I was going bald right away. That being said, I was already balding in the diagonal areas of my forehead at 17 at my High School Prom.
I decided to undergo hair transplant because I wanted to erase the negative effects that this balding had had on me and I’m looking forward to keep it up this way until my mid-thirties. I mean who cares about hair when you’re 70? But when you’re 20, it’s another story.
I’m sure a lot of people might feel like I’m a superficial person –which might actually be the case- but in this situation I think my obsession almost made sense. Let’s face it: about two-thirds of men start balding or are balding after 60 years old which showcases well the fact that it is a widely-spread problem. The thing is approximately 25% of men start balding around 20 years old. And I guess God decided I was gonna be included in the 25%! How shitty! Anyways, after researching and reading about the matter, I found some preventing and mending treatments to both stop the loss and reverse the effects to make the hair grow back.
I guess a lot of you have heard of Rogaine, which is the most utilized treatment for male baldness; it is made with minoxidil and can be efficient if you have minor hair loss. The hick is that it’s very expensive (around $70 CAN per month) and is quite gross to apply; you have to vaporize it directly on your hair and let it dry. Results have proved that Men’s Rogaine can prevent loss or help regrowth in 30 to 40% of the cases. This means it’s not that efficient!
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| Men's Rogaine |
When I went to my first appointment with Dr. Chagnon, he told me that Propecia (made with Finasteride) was a lot more effective. Propecia stops hair loss in more than 60% of the cases. There’s just one problem coming along the way: it has REAL BAD side effects. Indeed, 1,1% to 18,5% of the men using it might experience impotence and 1,3% of the patients have erectile dysfunction. I have to say that even if I take it and am satisfied with the results, I’m GODDAMN SCARED of experiencing erectile dysfunctions!!! The doctor also told me that I might notice a diminution of my libido. I have to say that the latter is almost a benediction since I’m way too horny all the time!!!
Anyways, so enough “mise en contexte”, I’mma tell you how my hair transplant went.
First off, It seemed very exhaustive and long so I decided to bring DVDs to watch during the operation. I watched the über-cheesy “Into The Blue” which was very boring but had a lot of “sightseeing” with shirtless Paul Walker in almost all the scenes. I also watched half of “The Bodyguard” with Whitney Houston. Though not that painful, a hair transplant is incredibly long (it can take more than 5 hours) and implies a couple of not-so-cool experiences such as having your head skin pierced with thousands of needles and a 5 cm-long scar behind the head. I talked to the nurses all along the operation which entertained me. What’s so nice is that I got to examine my hair follicles under the microscope so that I could see my skin fat and Sebaceous glands.
Everything went on just fine so I’m currently recovering from it. My dear friends were there to support me yesterday after my surgery with St-Lawrence coming to the clinic and Terrine cooking salmon tartar for us. We also had sushis, can I ask for more? I don’t think so!
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| A case of hair transplant that resembles to mine |
