From a Bad Hair Transplant To a Good Hair Piece - Getting On With Life: Nick’s Story

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My story begins about 15 years ago when I was only 19 years old. I first noticed I was losing some hair when my girlfriend at the time delicately told me that I should buy some Rogaine before I go completely bald like my father. I asked her what she meant by completely bald and she took me into the bathroom and give me a hand mirror and said to look at the bald spot growing on the top of my head. Talk about a kick in the nuts!  She then went on to inform me that she didn’t sign up for this and that I should do something about it.

I wanted to kick her ass to the curb right there and then, but since I was now a newly balding guy I thought I would never be able to get a another girlfriend if I lost this one. As my hair loss got worse I could tell that my girlfriend was becoming less into me. She left me within a year and ended up screwing my cousin who had the mane of a god at this time.

This threw me over the ege so I decided to do something about it and had a hair transplant. This was the worst mistake of my life. The doctor suggested that I have 100 PLUGS placed in my hair line and that this will give me my hair back. I paid $2500 for the hair transplant and ended up looking like Joe Biden in the early days. I would say that this doctor almost put me into a metal institution, and had no remorse when I went back to show him what he had done to me. He said that it looked as expected and that I would need some more grafts to finish the job.

Now I was never told this when I paid him the first time. He told me that I would look great and that I would never have to worry about my hair loss again and that he has helped many young men in my position.

I lived my twenties looking like a freak of nature. Everywhere that I went without a hat people would stare at my head. I once got up the nerve to ask a girl from work out on a date and as I was asking her she was looking directly at my hairline, needless to say she politely turned me down.

I felt forced to undergo corrective surgeries that were all failures. My head looks like a road mark of scars and bumps with little plugs of hair sprouting out of it. The more money I spent the worse it got. It seemed like a never ending nightmare.

If it were not for the support of my family and a couple of close friends I do not know if I would be here today.  There were times that I wanted to just end it all. I would get drunk alone in my room and think about ways to do it.  I want the hair transplant doctors who may be reading this to know that if you ever did this type of disfiguring surgery on anyone in your past, that you might have destroyed a life. I want you to think about this and understand what you have done to another human being.

Thank God for my mother, she suggested that I try a hair piece and that her hair dresser also did hair replacement for men.  At first the idea of wearing a wig depressed me even more but what choice did have?
The women was very caring and had me try on a stock unit that she was going to return because the color was not right for one of her customers. The color matched mine so I let her put it on. She did her thing and taped it on my head. She began cutting and styling it and for the first time in 5 years I felt like myself again. It looked like real hair and it looked like my hair. I mean I knew it was a wig but for the first time in such a long time I felt I was looking like a normal looking guy in the mirror. It was surreal at first.

That experience has changed my life. From that day I’ve been wearing hair pieces. If had my choice I would probably just shave my head since there are times that dealing with hair pieces is a pain, but I have no choice since I was so badly disfigured, but this story has a happy ending.

Wearing a hair piece allowed me to get on with my life. About 2 months after I started to wear one I met my wife. She had no idea that I was wearing a hairpiece until I told her. That was not an easy conversation, but I had to tell her if I ever wanted to be intimate with her. She told me that she didn’t like me for my hair and that she would never have known anyways. I still believe that if it were not for the hair piece that I would never have met the love of my life, advanced in my career or have 2 beautiful daughters.

I think about the doctor who disfigured me back then and wonder how many other young men he did this too.

I’ve had a very difficult road up until this point, but I do enjoy my life. I would much prefer not to have hair glued to my head, but I guess there are worse things.

Nick

Celebrity Hair Loss Treatments Exposed

Apparently hair loss sufferers of the world are not created equal. Whether it’s online, in print or on TV, rumor has it that certain unnamed celebrities have found the fountain of youth and are unwilling to share its hair raising properties with the rest of us.

Yes, a large segment of the hair loss world believes that celebrities have access to secret hair loss treatments that the rest of us mere mortals will never be able to afford, or get our grubby little hands on.

It must be true, just read the online message forums or the UK gossip rags. It’s all there in black and white.

Take a look at some of the ads promoting hair loss products and services. Many companies boast having a celebrity clientele. Some claim that their products were once reserved for the rich and famous, and are now for the first time being sold to the the general public. Even the hair piece industry has created names for their wigs like, Hollywood Lace or Celebrity Skin (this one might work well in another industry). [Read more]

Jude Law’s Hair Loss Inspires Shoddy Online Journalism

By now, we all know that gossip magazines and websites are more than happy to dish on the latest goings-on with all the stars and celebrities. Hopefully, readers are aware that a lot of what they print and publish is pure fiction. More importantly, readers should realize that sometimes these rags are too quick to publish their writers’ vicious opinions.

Take dailygoss.com for example. In an article about Jude Law’s alleged hair loss treatment, titled “Jude Law Gets Help for His Hair Loss, Hurrah!” the site stated, “The actor’s looks have gone down the pan since he’s been sporting a seriously bad receding hairline.”

Interestingly enough, whoever wrote the brazen comments about Jude’s hair is anonymous, since there is no byline and the site’s “About Us” page tells little about who’s running the show, although headquarters are stated as being in London.

Even though dailygoss.com is clearly a gossip site, its ethics are questionable and its practices cruel, even by gossip standards. Why would a writer be relieved if Jude Law is seeking hair loss treatment? Instead of promoting positive body image or discussing the difficulties that hair loss presents in the lives of sufferers, they join the ranks of mean bullies who’d rather point and laugh than reach out a helping hand or actually publish content that raises awareness.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with a little Hollywood gossip, but this is just plain bashing. Maybe dailygoss.com should change their name to dailybash.com.

The site provides no credentials about its sources or medical knowledge, yet it encourages Jude Law’s reported use of Mesotherapy, an unproven treatment involving vitamins injected into the scalp as a means to provoke hair growth.

Because Mesotherapy is not widely accepted and there are no conclusive studies that support or prove its effectiveness, only time will tell if the treatments help Jude Law, assuming he’s really receiving these treatments. Since the journalism in this case is clearly less than professional, the whole article may be one big ruse.

In any case, Law might be better off going to his own doctor and getting a prescription for Propecia. Apparently the state of Jude Law’s scalp is on the tip of more than one tongue since another site, makemeheal.com, also published an article that discusses the actor’s scalp. Makemeheal.com publishes articles about “celebrity plastic surgery, news, gossip.”

The piece, titled “Did Jude Law Get a Hair Transplant?” makes claims that Jude Law has undergone hair transplant surgery. Clearly, this is in direct conflict with the reporting over at dailygoss.com.

There’s no way of knowing whether Jude Law is using Mesotherapy or has received a transplant unless he or his reps confirm or dispute the reports. In fact, it’s entirely possible that Law has grown his hair out a bit, colored and combed it forward. He could be using makeup or even a small frontal piece.

The writing on these sites is poor, the claims are questionable, and the facts are somewhat twisted. And there’s no reason for anyone to be picking on Jude Law. He’s still a cool looking guy who looks great with or without his deep widow’s peak. After all, he’s one of us. And he wears it well!