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it's only after we've lost everything00:00:04
that we're free to do anything this is00:00:06
the story of how I got my hair back00:00:08
let's start with a timeline of events in00:00:11
medical school back in 2008 I was00:00:14
diagnosed with alopecia ariata mainly on00:00:17
my legs and this is an autoimmune hair00:00:19
loss condition where the body attacks00:00:21
its own hair follicles I remember going00:00:23
to a dermatologist and having them offer00:00:25
me steroid shots but I really wasn't00:00:28
that excited about getting shots into my00:00:30
legs just for some more hair to grow in00:00:33
so I said you know what let's just watch00:00:35
it and I ended up not getting any00:00:37
treatment at that time for the next 1000:00:39
years different spots would come and go00:00:41
on my legs and also on my arms so I'd00:00:44
get an area of hair loss like a circular00:00:46
spot and then maybe over the course of a00:00:49
few months it would start to fill in00:00:51
with hair and then a new spot would open00:00:53
up somewhere else on my legs or arms00:00:55
then at the end of my facial plastic00:00:57
surgery Fellowship in 201800:00:59
I was at a plastic surgery conference in00:01:02
Miami when I noticed in the mirror that00:01:05
I had this spot that was opening up on00:01:08
the left side of my head and that really00:01:10
freaked me out I was again offered00:01:12
steroid injections and this time I took00:01:14
them because I was obviously worried you00:01:16
know going into a profession that had to00:01:19
do with Aesthetics that I was going to00:01:21
have this big hole on the side of my00:01:23
head with no hair and how people would00:01:25
perceive me over the course of about00:01:27
nine months that bald spot filled in00:01:30
with hair and it looked pretty normal00:01:32
then on December 7th of 2019 something00:01:36
unexpected happened I woke up one00:01:38
morning and I went to brush my teeth but00:01:40
I noticed that as I was swishing the00:01:42
water in my mouth and trying to spit it00:01:45
out some of the water was just00:01:46
inadvertently like squirting out of my00:01:49
mouth and I was like wait a second like00:01:51
why can't I control this water like I00:01:53
never you know we don't think about00:01:54
those things normally right we just kind00:01:56
of do them it becomes routine and and00:01:59
sort of route from me I was like in that00:02:01
moment having to force myself to00:02:03
continue to close my mouth or else the00:02:05
water was just coming up but over the00:02:06
course of the morning I started to00:02:08
realize that the right side of my face00:02:10
just felt weaker and so that was00:02:12
something I had never experienced before00:02:14
also my taste felt off you know I ate I00:02:17
remember some like cheese in the morning00:02:19
and it just didn't taste like cheese and00:02:21
I remember that later that morning I had00:02:23
a scheduled haircut and I was like do I00:02:27
go to my haircut or do I go to the00:02:29
emergency room and get evaluated for00:02:31
like a possible stroke and that was I00:02:34
was honestly debating between those two00:02:35
things because I really hate changing00:02:38
plans like so I knew I had this haircut00:02:40
and like well I have to get my haircut00:02:41
because it's scheduled for you know for00:02:43
11 A.M but uh luckily my wife convinced00:02:46
me to go to the emergency room instead I00:02:48
got some Imaging done where they scan my00:02:51
brain to make sure that there wasn't00:02:52
anything really bad going on and it00:02:54
turns out that the Imaging was all00:02:56
normal and the blood work was as well so00:02:59
essentially I was diagnosed with Bell's00:03:02
Palsy at that time and they gave me some00:03:04
steroids and antivirals to take to try00:03:06
to improve the speed of recovery and the00:03:08
other funny thing is that I actually had00:03:10
a photo shoot scheduled for a few days00:03:12
after this happened to me and I just00:03:15
kept that because again I don't like00:03:16
changing plans so I kept that photo00:03:18
shoot and I couldn't actually smile00:03:20
because then you could really see the00:03:21
asymmetry in my face so I did my best so00:03:24
with the help of the steroids the00:03:26
antivirals and this electrical00:03:27
stimulation that I was getting over the00:03:30
course of about four weeks the facial00:03:32
nerve improved and I started to look and00:03:35
feel much better and I was still able to00:03:37
get my work done during that time now00:03:39
keep in mind that up to the age of 34 I00:03:42
was like a Norwood zero I had this00:03:43
really low hairline really thick full00:03:46
hair and that was just like a staple of00:03:49
my look right I never once had thinning00:03:51
never really thought about my hair00:03:54
starting to you know worsen and recede00:03:57
or anything like that it was lucky00:03:58
genetically but after this Belle's00:04:00
episode my hair started to thin now the00:04:03
following month on January 21st of 202000:04:06
I was sick with covid and at that time00:04:09
we didn't know what it actually was00:04:11
right but I had these terrible symptoms00:04:13
I was in bed for a week I literally just00:04:16
had these high fevers for a week00:04:18
couldn't get out of bed it was the only00:04:19
time that I actually had to reschedule00:04:21
my surgical patients because I couldn't00:04:23
get out of bed and soon after that I00:04:25
started to experience rapid hair loss00:04:28
throughout my entire body I tried PRP00:04:31
injections I tried oral minoxidil I00:04:34
tried squaric acid and none of that was00:04:37
really helping and we made a video in00:04:39
the past that we posted on this channel00:04:41
that goes through some of those trials00:04:43
and tribulations so check that one out00:04:45
too and while all of this was happening00:04:48
January of 2020 was when I had split off00:04:50
from my hair transplant mentor and I was00:04:53
worried that you know maybe patients00:04:56
wouldn't come to me because I was this00:04:57
young hair transplant surgeon with you00:04:59
know not too many before and after00:05:01
photos at that time and now I was losing00:05:04
my hair how would I explain that to my00:05:06
patients all those things were swirling00:05:08
around in my head and were making me00:05:10
really nervous and Afraid for the future00:05:12
and then of course uh the pandemic hit00:05:14
and then I was just like I don't know00:05:17
what's gonna happen I mean this is just00:05:19
a complete disaster now six months later00:05:21
in June of 2020 I decided to just shave00:05:25
the remaining strands on my head the00:05:28
hair was looking so thin and it just00:05:31
wasn't worth just putting up with those00:05:34
hairs anymore so I went ahead and just00:05:36
shaved it off and my condition at that00:05:38
time was officially alopecia areata00:05:42
universalis the other big problem was00:05:44
that my fingernails were starting to get00:05:46
super brittle they started to get these00:05:49
pits and they just weren't strong so if00:05:52
I were like on the keyboard I'd noticed00:05:54
that you know the fingernail was00:05:56
starting to bend and I was really00:05:58
worried that it was going to affect my00:05:59
surgical performance as the nails got00:06:02
more and more brittle so around that00:06:04
time as some of you know through our you00:06:07
know past videos I went on immunotherapy00:06:09
so this is essentially like allergy00:06:12
shots so they found out I was allergic00:06:13
to many things and similar to what00:06:16
squaric acid does which is an00:06:18
immunotherapy that's more applied to the00:06:20
surface where you redirect your immune00:06:22
system to Target something other than00:06:25
the hair follicles so this was something00:06:27
that didn't have that much data behind00:06:30
it as far as systemic immunotherapy but00:06:32
my immunologist and I felt that there00:06:34
was a chance that things could get00:06:36
better if we started to Target some of00:06:38
the things that I was allergic to so00:06:40
that the immune system would essentially00:06:42
have something else to do other than00:06:44
destroy my own hair follicles and mess00:06:46
up my nails so this went on for about a00:06:48
year and a half that I would go every00:06:50
week and I'd get you know stuck with00:06:52
needles to get these allergy shots I00:06:55
also briefly tried a gluten-free diet00:06:58
around that time and then like an00:07:00
anti-inflammatory diet these diets were00:07:03
very hard for me to stick to uh and I00:07:06
wasn't sure if they were actually doing00:07:08
anything so you know I tried them00:07:10
intermittently for about the course of a00:07:13
year but then ended up going back to00:07:15
like my usual diet which is a fairly00:07:17
balanced diet luckily my fingernails00:07:20
improved over the course of about three00:07:22
to six months and I was super thankful00:07:24
and pleased with just that if you guys00:07:27
remember I got glasses around that time00:07:29
not because my vision was uh getting00:07:32
poorer but because I wanted to cover up00:07:35
the appearance of the lack of eyebrows00:07:37
so nine months into this immunotherapy00:07:40
in February of 2021 there were some00:07:43
signs of scalp hair regrowth but this00:07:46
was really short-lived and that hair00:07:48
disappeared again six months later so by00:07:51
August of 2021 I again had no hair on00:07:55
the body so now a year after that in00:07:58
July of 2020 2 the eyebrows started to00:08:02
spontaneously return and at this point I00:08:05
wasn't on immunotherapy anymore I wasn't00:08:07
getting those allergy shots I pretty00:08:09
much just had stopped doing that and as00:08:11
most of you know I decided not to pursue00:08:13
Jack inhibitor therapy and I have a00:08:16
video about why I made that decision and00:08:19
over the last six months the hair has00:08:21
just continued to thicken the eyebrows00:08:24
the eyelashes and you can see you know00:08:26
some scalp regrowth and just like facial00:08:28
hair and like underarm hair and not00:08:31
really much on my arms but on my legs00:08:33
I'm seeing some signs of hair growth and00:08:35
I'm nowhere near where I used to be but00:08:38
it's promising that at least some of the00:08:39
hair is returning but remember that00:08:41
alopecia universalis is the more severe00:08:44
form of alopecia areata and the chance00:08:47
of complete regrowth of my hair is under00:08:50
10 so what actually brought the hair00:08:53
back there is no one right answer here00:08:55
but these are some of my thoughts00:08:57
overall I've had reduced stress at work00:09:00
about a year ago in September of 2022 I00:09:04
made the conscious decision to scale00:09:06
back on some of the surgeries that I was00:09:08
doing and I decided that I was only00:09:10
going to focus on hair surgery and lip00:09:13
surgery and that was a huge decision for00:09:15
me because you know I'm fully trained in00:09:18
really high level rhinoplasty surgery00:09:21
facelift surgery eyelid surgery as many00:09:24
of you know and I was getting nice00:09:25
results doing those surgeries for many00:09:28
patients both for cosmetic purposes and00:09:31
for functional purposes so to cold00:09:33
turkey just stop offering many of those00:09:36
surgeries was a huge decision also over00:09:39
the course of the last year I've been00:09:41
able to grow my practice grow my staff00:09:45
and I really feel like well supported00:09:47
both on the front end when it comes to00:09:49
you know receptionist my patient00:09:51
coordinator and then on the back end you00:09:53
know I have an amazing team of like00:09:55
really experienced people you know my00:09:58
hair tacks my hair nurse my physician00:10:01
assistant I mean everyone's really00:10:02
top-notch and doing an incredible job so00:10:05
over the last year the practice has been00:10:07
stable uh you know we're still00:10:09
scheduling several months out and that00:10:12
of course uh gives me just some sense of00:10:14
of calm and again reduce stress also00:10:18
over the course of the last year I've00:10:20
had reduced stress at home my daughter00:10:22
is now four and she's sleeping a little00:10:25
bit better so you know those sleepless00:10:28
nights uh are gone luckily in addition00:10:31
to that uh something that I haven't00:10:33
really spoken publicly about just out of00:10:35
respect for my wife and you know her00:10:38
specific requests but she's now allowed00:10:40
me to to mention this uh in this video00:10:42
is that around the time that I was00:10:45
diagnosed with alopecia areata and I00:10:47
thought I was going through something00:10:48
you know horrific and terrible I felt so00:10:50
bad for myself well that quickly went00:10:52
away because my beautiful wife Liz was00:10:55
diagnosed with a form of leukemia called00:10:58
CML out of the blue and that was of00:11:00
course uh you know insanely difficult00:11:03
and uh really heartbreaking at the time00:11:06
but she's a super strong person and she00:11:09
was able to uh you know overcome the00:11:12
disease and was placed on uh the proper00:11:15
chemotherapy pills early on and did00:11:17
really well with them uh luckily and so00:11:20
you know she has been off the medication00:11:22
now for a few months and uh and in full00:11:27
remission of her disease and so that00:11:30
first of all back when it started I no00:11:32
longer felt bad for myself because she00:11:34
was going through something much worse00:11:36
and the the crazy irony of some of the00:11:39
comments that I was receiving on these00:11:40
videos was like you know oh do you have00:11:42
cancer like oh are you going through00:11:44
treatment because I didn't have eyebrows00:11:46
and all this stuff meanwhile you know00:11:47
it's my wife who's going through all00:11:49
these crazy things but she's done really00:11:51
really great and you know that's been uh00:11:54
the biggest uh to Joy in my life is00:11:56
seeing her recover and do awesome that00:11:58
has of course taken stress off of me and00:12:01
it's given me a new Fresh perspective on00:12:04
life and really what matters most to or00:12:07
what should matter most to all of us00:12:09
I've also been exercising more I go for00:12:12
these little jogs maybe two to three00:12:14
miles three to four times a week and00:12:17
that's really helped just kind of clear00:12:20
the mind and make me feel that00:12:22
physically stronger and with a little00:12:24
bit of weightlifting you know mixed in00:12:26
as well some of you guys might not know00:12:29
but I used to actually like lift weights00:12:30
towards the end of high school early00:12:32
college I was like probably in my best00:12:34
shape and then it sort of went downhill00:12:36
my diet has also been overall quite good00:12:39
I've been eating less overall I still00:12:42
eat way too many sweets but other than00:12:44
that it's a balanced diet and I've just00:12:47
been doing some intermittent fasting and00:12:49
I think maybe that has something to do00:12:50
with the hair regrowth as well and at00:12:53
the end of the day I'm really doing what00:12:55
I love you know I really love caring for00:12:57
patients and seeing them have fantastic00:12:59
results00:13:00
um with their surgeries and just the you00:13:03
know delivering good quality care I also00:13:06
love educating on YouTube you know I've00:13:08
always been into teaching and I tutored00:13:11
early on in my life like even in early00:13:13
High School I was tutoring people who00:13:15
were a year you know behind and that has00:13:17
been something that you know has always00:13:19
kind of come naturally and that gives me00:13:21
a ton of happiness and joy in my life00:13:23
also I really enjoy the process of00:13:26
growing the practice as well as growing00:13:29
the brand feel confident and being able00:13:31
to add value to people's lives beyond00:13:34
what just surgery can afford really00:13:37
helping people learn how to navigate the00:13:40
Aesthetics Marketplace and to not be00:13:43
fooled by different gimmicks or00:13:45
marketing tactics that people might have00:13:46
but to again make these informed00:13:49
decisions with the best possible00:13:51
information available that's truly my00:13:53
goal with all the activities that I do00:13:55
online and that I do in my practice and00:13:58
I think being able to do these things00:14:00
things that I love doing has given me an00:14:02
overall just peace of mind and the00:14:04
ability to produce without you know00:14:06
being worried about what people will say00:14:09
for example because I just know that as00:14:11
long as I put sort of patience first or00:14:13
people who are just looking to learn and00:14:15
Elevate the overall nature of my field00:14:19
then I'm doing the right thing and we're00:14:22
just going to keep making videos and and00:14:24
doing good work ironically I had to lose00:14:27
my hair to find the drive to be able to00:14:30
educate the world about hair loss and to00:14:33
give many people the joy of hair00:14:35
restoration and I truly believe that00:14:37
your support and kindness in part helped00:14:40
bring back my own hair so I wanted to00:14:43
thank my family my friends my patients00:14:46
my staff and the entire YouTube00:14:48
Community regardless of what the future00:14:51
holds for my battle with alopecia areata00:14:54
I'll be forever gratefulDescription:
Our Skincare & Haircare: https://feelconfident.com/ use code FC10 for 10% off! For Surgical Consultations: (347) 434-8397 In this video, I discuss my hair loss journey with alopecia areata universalis and go over what I think may have caused some of my hair to grow back. Learn more about my alopecia areata journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKSu31vAqCY Dr. Gary Linkov on Social Media: Newsletter: https://feelconfident.com/pages/newsletter Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser Twitter: https://twitter.com/drgarynyc City Facial Plastics: Dr. Gary Linkov 150 E 56th St, 1AB New York, NY 10022 (212) 439-5177 https://cityfacialplastics.com/ https://www.linkovhair.com/ The content of this channel is for entertainment and educational purposes only. This content is not meant to provide any medical advice or treat any medical conditions. Patients must be evaluated by an appropriate healthcare provider on an individual basis and treatment must be tailored to meet that patient’s needs. Results and particular outcomes are not guaranteed.
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