Alex,
Are you sure it is regrowth? I am at day 24 and there is certainly a lot going on up there. I too have some "buds" but I can't be sure they aren't just the transplants that have broken off at scalp level? I have been brushing the last few days, making contact with the scalp, to get the "fallen" trees going the same direction as the rest of the forest. I was thinking some of my shed hairs may have broken off rather than completely shed. Also had my first "bleeder" today (don't know if I pulled one out or if it was an ingrown hair). Anyway, I hope for the sake of both of us that they are new growth. I can see where the impatience starts to creep in! Good Luck! Rick

It's hard to say exactly whats going on, but it does look like regrowth, a couple more each day. Today, yesterdays are a tiny bit bigger and a few new ones have appeared... I suppose it could be broken off shafts but that seems unlikely as I've never really heard of hair, naturally flexible to break off at scalp level. I also, as you probably do, have examined each and every shed hair I have seen. They all looked fairly normal(visibal root/anchor). What does make more sense to me is that perhaps any regrowth is in follicles that may have shed the very first day, or maybe hidden telogen state matterial as part of a chubby graft, coming back to life - per a post here by I belive Dr Rose or Bheemer. Not sure if NHI uses chubby or exclusivley skinny FUTs...

The most amazing thing about this whole process, to me anyways, is that there is so much hope. Previously I had no hope of regaining anything (tried all the meds). The only hope was keeping what I had. That is the coolest thing I think. Regardless of the final outcome, I am 99% certain, it will be better than it was. I say this because there is no visually evident scarring, so even if only 5% take (unlikely) I'll have that much more.

Of course the shedding situation has yet to completely play itself out, but I think only 5% of my non-HT hair may be at permanent risk...

I also had some hairs that seemed to shed and some that seemed to break off at the surface, as well as a few that didn't even fall out. I haven't noticed any early regrowth, but I guess it's possible. I'm at 9 weeks tomorrow, so I should have some results to report soon.