A seminal moment in my life, for sure, and I feel total confidence in choosing Dr. Feller and his team. Hair loss has plauged me the past several years, truly impacting my identity, while sapping vigor....sure, some may find it to be "just" aesthetics; but, I think many of us know it is something far more reaching.

After virtually two decades of living, the person I saw when I looked in the mirror, and the person I thought to project to others became increasingly fragmented, shattering into an image that I couldn't understand, want, or beleive to even have; at such a young age, particularly, it has been difficult to find ways to cope when it is such an anomoly.

This has been a first, major step in working w/ Dr. Feller towards my "follicular revitalization".

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1 top-down, 1 portrait, 1 side-shot, 1 hairline....4 photos. No flash.

Follicles have asked for centuries, in ten languages, as many times so as to confuse a mathematician.

Enough is enough! Give me documentation or give me death!

Looks good . Happy growing

Nicely phrased...I think you sum up a lot of others feelings

Great post and i`m sure you are going to have a great result.
well done my friend

"the person I saw when I looked in the mirror, and the person I thought to project to others became increasingly fragmented"...

That is precisely how I feel and Im sure it resinates with all on the forum. It's so strange when you have a certain image of yourself, even a realistic one but it is from 5-10 years ago, then all of the sudden you catch that reflection in the window or in a picture someone took; and you exclaim "who the fu$k is that guy!?!?"...

I think everybody has gone through this when they start to see that old man HEAD glaring back at them in the mirror.

But, you won't have to worry about that anymore. Damn, that is a great hair line and a pretty small area to pack 3K grafts. Your gonna have a woman slaying mop for the summer time...

thanatopsis,

Your results are nice and clean my friend. 3000 grafts in your frontal zone will make a significant different when the final result is in! I'm excited for you!

Please keep us posted on your healing and progress.

Bill

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Thanks guys, hairloss really is a tricky beast -- and unless you are going through it, most people are so unsympathetic and uninformed. I'm def looking foward to growing well and seeing what the end result looks like. Once a month I think I will be making an update.....also, I either never asked Dr. Feller for an opinion, or I did and forgot it during the haze of surgery day, but what NW level would you say I am at pre-op? I've never actually had an "official", unsubjective opinion on this.

Anyways, just a quick update, post-op pain and bleeding has been really minimal so far heading into Day3, so the next hurdle I am looking to is the shedding and waiting...between keeping my hair buzzed tight once the staples come out and using some dermmatch I don't think it will be that bad and my paranoia and obsession over growth will be pretty tolerable!

To women slaying mops!

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*A Follicles Dying Wish To Clinics*

1 top-down, 1 portrait, 1 side-shot, 1 hairline....4 photos. No flash.

Follicles have asked for centuries, in ten languages, as many times so as to confuse a mathematician.

Enough is enough! Give me documentation or give me death!

Thana,

Excellent looking. I think that with 3000 fu in such a relatively small area that you're going to have a fantastic result.
Do u know what density u were given? i would assume its pretty high.
I really don't think those norwood clasifications apply in your case...sort of a general thinning all over in the frontal third.
Anyway, who cares, the rest of your hair looks strong and me thinks that in 7-8 months u will be an official non-baldy !!

thanatopsis,
impressive and excellent work.Hope you will have good results after few months.I am just curious 3000 grafts are not too much for this area? I mean if your normal hair density is not too much high then there would be impression of thinning in your existing hair after few months.

Thana, congrats on your HT, it looks extremely refined.

Your loss patern is quite strange as you crown still looks to be solid enough. Id say you must be a NW4 of sorts. Either way, 3k in the front third will have you looking dapper in 6mths time!!

Did the Doc comment on your hair characteristics. Looks like it is relatively thick with a very slight wave? Im sure that will help too.

best, gazza

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