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Damn it feels great to still have a full-head of hair. The older I’m getting the more my current hair line (post hair transplant) fits my look. It’s like I’m settling in. My confidence in how I look has never been higher. I’m in a great new relationship, I’m more fit than I’ve ever been before in my life, and I have to give a lot of credit to the way my hair now looks.

It’s a sense of relief in that your hair is not the focal point for the person you’re talking to, your friends, your boss…. your girl. I’m planning on going in to lower the hair line a wee bit more and bring the temples in to take it to the level where I feel is a bit less conservative, a bit more bold. I’m looking forward to it and will chronicle it here in detail.

In the meantime, I wanted to update you on what I’ve been taking from a treatment perspective over the past year and a half. I have been taking 1.25mg of finasteride 3 times a week. I consider this to be the minimum required to give my existing hairs a good shot of staying on my head. Other than that, I’ve changed my lifestyle and diet in a way that has had unforeseen effects on my hair. By making certain improvements I have seen thicker more dense hair overall, an improvement in texture, an increase in styling options, and faster growth than before. I’m very pleasantly surprised. I used to have folliculitis and irritation. These have been completely eliminated, as far as I can sense or tell anyway.

It’s 3:24AM. I’m tired as hell. Gonna hit the sack, but check back here tomorrow for a series of fresh articles on how I have successfully fought my hair loss. Also, join my forums to start a discussion, ask a question, and help build a great community for the discussion of hair loss and its treatment.

Here’s the URL to the forum: http://www.morphollica.com/forums

Bye for now.

Over the past month or so, I have been getting a lot of comments from people about my appearance.   Several people have been asking me if I have lost weight.  That’s one I get quite a bit, despite the fact that I weigh exactly as I did before getting the hair transplant.

One coworker recently asked me if I had shaved my goatee from last week.  The thing is — I haven’t had a goatee for over 6 months.  This coworker sees me every day.  He simply did not believe me when I told him I hadn’t had a goatee for 6 months.

A female friend of mine, completely out of the blue, asked me why I “looked younger”.

Nobody equated the change in my appearance to my hair.

I am both encouranged and saddened a bit at the same time over this.  On the one hand, it’s nice to know my appearance has improved since getting the HT.  But on the other hand, I am disheartened by what this implies.  It implies that hair loss definitely has a negative effect on your appearance.  People must think you look older, or chubbier, or just plain less attractive with less hair.

Anyway, personally I am glad I went for the HT as it has improved how I feel about my look.   Primarily I am just happy to look closer to my actual age than I did before the HT.  That’s really all I wanted.

The only difference between last month and this month is that the frontal hair line has really started to take shape in the fourth month after my hair transplant.  And this has enabled me to comb it back for the first time in a long, long time.