Couple of questions I have about sleeping after you have a hair transplant:

1. How do you or have you kept from keeping your hands from touching your recipient area while comatose?

2. How did you or do you keep from rolling over and sleeping on your stomach or sides?

I have a couple of ideas to prevent from doing this, but wanted to hear all of your experiences with this.

Thanks everyone!!

Eman

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Couple of questions I have about sleeping after you have a hair transplant:

1. How do you or have you kept from keeping your hands from touching your recipient area while comatose?

2. How did you or do you keep from rolling over and sleeping on your stomach or sides?

I have a couple of ideas to prevent from doing this, but wanted to hear all of your experiences with this.

Thanks everyone!!

Eman

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Eman, here's what I did and I didn't have any issues....

1. I wrapped a piece of saran wrap around my head and covered it with a surgeons hat for the first few nights (5 or 6).

2. I took one of the pain pills and a valium provided by my doctor before I went to sleep for the first 4 or 5 nights. Although it didn't "hurt", the one night I didn't take it I spent half the night awake b/c I was anxious.

And, I actually did sleep on my side some. You'll know it if you start irritating the donor area by rolling over.

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Current regimen:
1.66 mg Proscar M-W-F
Rogaine 5% Foam - every now and then
AndroGel - once daily
Lipitor - 5 mg every other day
Weightlifting - 2x per week
Jogging - 3x per week

i dont recall sleeping at all..lol..i put 2 pillows on top of each other and put my neck in one of those travel pillows to prvent my neck from shifting.Also, i had my head wrapped in a bandana...In short, try sleeping with a travel a pillow..it helps keep your neck in place. =)

Best of luck!

Is there any problem with sleeping on your side for the first few nights? Whats the worst thing that can happen because you're not sleeping on the receipient area.

My first night I felt discomfort trying to find a comfortable resting position. Wish I had invested in a travel pillow. My discomfort subsided after a couple of anxious nights. All I had to do after that was be carefull how and where I placed my head as it was still pretty sensitive to pressure and light knocks. Generally speaking 3 days later it wasnt too bad.

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I think side or back is ok. The worry with sleeping on your stomach is perhaps stretching the donor area.

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100? 'mini' grapfts by Latham's Hair Clinic - 1991 (Removed 50 plugs by Cooley 3/08.)
2750 FU 3/20/08 by Dr. Cooley

My Hair Loss Website - Hair Transplant with Dr. Cooley

Current regimen:
1.66 mg Proscar M-W-F
Rogaine 5% Foam - every now and then
AndroGel - once daily
Lipitor - 5 mg every other day
Weightlifting - 2x per week
Jogging - 3x per week

I think that my concern is the first ten days or so, when you have to be extremely careful.

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Hello,

I had asked Dr. Feller the same question, after my first HT. He said that he has never heard of this being a problem with any of his patients, because in a sense, the subconscious takes care of this for us -- basically, we're so aware that we do NOT want to mess with the recipient area that we keep this level of awareness while asleep. It's the same process that creates dreams, more or less. He will likely explain it better, but it sounds plausible...

With that, what worked for me was also sleeping propped up on several pillows. I had no problems with either rolling over, or with recipient area issues.

Benjamin

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faceless, I can definitely believe that. But I know that when I am stressed, thinking about something, or simply having trouble sleeping, I know that my body is basically doing calisthenics (or I am tossing and turning). This would be my biggest concern.

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