Laserhelmet one-year pics

[Jimmy1]

Hi All, I have posted on Regrowth before but never here. Since it seems most of us are over here I thought I would post my one-year pics. I have been using an OMG Helmet I built with 160 diodes. I flip it front to back for full coverage. My sessions are 20mins/3 times a week. I always wash my hair before and have recently started with Mag Oil transdermally ( I put it on the sides of my torso). The girl who cuts my hair sees quite a change, I think my hair is thicker and my crown has filled in a little.
Let me know what you think.

[jksl]

Hey, thanks for posting those. To me, your hair looks better now than it did in August.

Just out of curiosity, are you doing anything else for your hair? drugs? topicals? supplements? etc.?

Also, do you get any kind of sensations (soreness, sunburn feeling) from your treatments?

[bear101]

It definetely looks more filled in especially when compared to baseline. Hair looks healthier, but maybe its the lighting. Congrats.

[3rdin2horserace]

Jimmy1

Marked improvement in the texture of your hair!!! Congrtas and thanks for sharing your pics

[ebutterg]

I really don't mean to be a troll or a killjoy here, but I don't see any improvement. 12 months, 160 diodes = 0 results. I bet if you took the dates off the photos and made people guess which was the before and after, the responses would be all over the place. Sorry pal. But I do appreciate you posting the photos for all to make their own assessments. Cheers.

[ebutterg]

Edited for retraction

[hermann]

Jimmy1,

thanks for posting your pictures! Regards!

In Dec08 your hair looks best. Good coverage of the temples. Hair is dark brown.
In Aug09 your temples receded. Hair color is lighter.
In Dec09 temples look fuller to me. Stable vertex area.

Do you have the "feeling" of having less hairs in your comb?

Good luck to you.

[Anxious1]

well, lasers probably r going to take a while for that level of hairloss, i mean it probably took him 10-20 yrs to get that bad.

like anything, the earlier u cach it the better results will be.myabe it takes the same time to reverse it that it took to develop.

[Jimmy1]

I do use propecia, but not every day, other than that no other treatment. I do a quarter tab probaby 3 days a week, just so I am doing less drugs. I read somewhere that Propecia does stay in your system for 3 days or so. I did do Zix for a while two years ago, I think I will try it again. Thanks for the input guys, I definately have maintained, and my hair is thicker. But taking photos of your hair is a bitch, I have to say that the two later photos are in a different room in my house, a room with more direct light. Perhaps the next photo will have to be in the same room as my Dec 08 pic.

[N0rwgnKid]

About the "sunburn" feeling. I do get it if I laser 20 mins 3 times a week. I reduced to 12 mins 3 times a week in august/september. I then had some small vellus typical curly minox hairs growing on my vertex that still are there, unchanged. I was hoping I was going to make these babys grow, but no. Maybe the slight sunburn feeling is actually beneficial for the minituarized hairs, and we should bump up treatment time.

After all, Dr.Maricle said himself over at regrowth when the whole "blond less treatment time debate" was going that they normally increased treatment time in blond pasient lacking of results. We dont really know if the hair follicles themselves are damaged even though we experience the sunburn do we?

[Jimmy1]

I have never had the soreness that some users talk about, and no sunburn feeling either. As for the question about feeling less hair on my brush, I would say the opposite is true. My hair feels and looks thicker, with lots of small vellus hairs on the crown. I am keeping with it, I have nothing to lose but more hair. I am thinking about adding something else. Maybe apple stem cell, or Cresina.
Suggestions?

[tonyj]

ACell’s MatriStem MicroMatrix and dermaroller. After reading the Acell's wound recovery product multiplying hair, I think I might give it a go.

http://www.bignews.biz/?id=832566&keys= ... ation-hair

[Jimmy1]

I changed my most recent pic, to one that I just took in the same room as the December 2008 picture. Still, the picture seems alot lighter, so does my hair.

[Joey Ramone]

ACell’s MatriStem MicroMatrix and dermaroller. After reading the Acell's wound recovery product multiplying hair, I think I might give it a go.

http://www.bignews.biz/?id=832566&keys= ... ation-hair

Thanks for the link. Where would you get the MicroMatrix stuff from?

Hitzig's transplants look bloody dreadful by the way.

[tonyj]

I'm still doing research on this. I think the powder would be best for the dermaroller. I think my hair would interfere with the wound care sheet applied to the scalp. I believe the MatriStem Wound Care Matrix sheets are available from Acell, but for the powder, you may have to go through a doctor.

http://www.acell.com

http://www.acell.com/pandr_surgery.php

[Dr. Watt]

Thanks for posting! I wish more folks had the guts to do this (including myself!).

Unfortunately looking at your pictures you see a step down between Dec 09 and Aug 09. I think you last picture looks better than Aug but not back to where you were in Dec 08. I hope that you are on an uptick and things return to 08 and continue improvement!

[Fizzball]

I just thought I would create a side by side image for jimmy... it was a slow night and I felt this was easier to view and make basic comparisons.

Jimmy Side by Side.jpg (195.58 KiB) Viewed 19663 times

[NegativeNorwood]

Maybe it's the lighting and the combing, hate to say it but I think it's got thinner and lighter. Doesn't look like you've lost much if any.

[jambap]

Hi Jimmy1, thanks for posting the pics. I also have to say that the difference is very hard to notice. I wouldn't say though that means you haven't had success. I know photos can be very subjective and not give an accurate representation of how hair looks in real life. So the bottom line is, if you tell me you've had improvement I believe you. If you know your hair is moving in the right direction then that's great, because all it means is that in time it will get even better. I have been on lasers for 1 year and 2 months and I can say that without any shadow of a doubt my hair is much much better. Lasers work and it seems the longer you use them for, the better your hair will get.