Jump to content

teach77

Regular Member
  • Posts

    33
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Basic Information

  • Gender
    Male
  • Country
    United States
  • State
    NY

Hair Loss Overview

  • Describe Your Hair Loss Pattern
    Thinning Hair Loss All over the Scalp
    Receding Hairline (Genetic Baldness)
    Thinning or Bald Spot in the Crown/Vertex
  • How long have you been losing your hair?
    In the last 10 years
  • Norwood Level if Known
    Norwood III Vertex
  • What Best Describes Your Goals?
    Maintain Existing Hair
    Maintain and Regrow Hair

Hair Loss Treatments

  • Have you ever had a hair transplant?
    Yes
  • Hair Transplant Surgeon
    Dr. Robert Dorin
  • Current Non-Surgical Treatment Regime
    Propecia (Finasteride)

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

teach77's Achievements

Real Hair Club Member

Real Hair Club Member (2/8)

10

Reputation

  1. Looking good Corv! I can barely even tell what's going on with my hair. Last time I had such bald areas it was easy to see the new growth. Now, I can't tell what is and what isn't other than I can feel different textures in my hair. But I'm still not sure what's up. I did however, just look in the mirror and notice some pimples, especially at the hairline, which is a good sign of course! Glad to hear your scar is healing well...mine is still rather pink, but I think it was last time too. Happy growing!!! teach77
  2. Yeah, it's kinda cool that we're so close in time frame with the same doc. It will certainly be interesting to see where we're both at :-) And I'm totally lame for not doing pictures, but I don't even know what they'd show other than that my hair is longer and probably a little thicker still from HT 1. At the three month update I'll be showing some pics. Looking forward to both of our superior growth!! And thanks for the yoga info. I definitely feel better about starting it now! Grow well... teach77
  3. Hey Corv, I really don't think it'll make too much of a difference, especially if you're cutting out the protein shakes and protein bars. After my first HT, I went back and forth between quite a bit of supplemental intake and none at all. I had been taking supplements while I was lifting but I took a three month break after the first HT. First I just stopped lifting and kept taking the supplements, because I was doing cardio. But then I got bored of running and gained weight from the supplements so I stopped the shakes and bars. Then, I decided to do P90x and picked up all the supplements again, then it was too time consuming so I stopped that. Then, I started running again and dropped my weight down. So, I'd say over the first ten months after the first HT, my weight fluctuated between 155 and 170, depending on what I was doing. I'm also 5'11" and I'm about 155 now because I've been running like a beast since HT 2. I don't think I'm physically capable of getting much lower than that, but you're starting from my low point, so I think you should be fine with the 10-15 lb fluctuation if the supplements are keeping you up. Of course, that's just my experience and since I was all over the place, I don't think it will affect yield, since it definitely didn't affect mine. As long as you keep everything else healthy. BTW, have you been doing yoga since this HT? Last time I waited about 4 months before attempting to get back into it and I lost so much of my flexibility (which I lose very easily) I completely stopped doing it. But I want to again. Did doing it have any effect on your scar? That's the only thing I was/am concerned about with the yoga. Happy growing...we're getting to the good part soon enough.. teach77
  4. Hi all, So, it's already been 2 months and I can't believe how quickly the time has passed. I've continued to be considerably less obsessive. Well, at least I'm not looking in the mirror for any miniscule changes 20 times a day. I definitely touch my hair a lot, but not with the same compulsion as before... Not a whole lot to report, since this is kind of the dead zone time frame. My regular hair has grown back in from the number 4 buzz I got just prior to my procedure. The top/front actually seems thicker than I remember it being before that cut...but that was back at the end of July so who knows? Though I do feel like it has more volume, either because it's now 14 vs 12 months after my first procedure and the hair continued to thicken or if it's because some the transplanted hairs from the second surgery didn't fall out and just continued to grow. I have a feeling it's somewhere in between. I feel like with this one it's going to be hard to see the changes until much later because I wasn't covering hairless areas. The second filled in between existing hairs and those from the first transplant. Now that I am more aware that it's been two months, I have a feeling I'm going to be looking a little more closely over the next few weeks. I've definitely had the tingling sensation going on that I remember happening around this time with the last procedure, so that makes me happy. I'm hoping that with my physiology tested already, and keeping everything as similar as last time, I get another great result... The donor area is okay. It's healing up for the most part, and some areas are barely pink at all. Then there are a few areas that are still quite pink and look a little wider than others. Mainly in the region that I sleep on, which makes sense. I've found some small scabs in some areas that I don't remember finding last time, but I really didn't pay much attention to the scar last time. I looked at it a few times in the past 2 weeks because it felt a little weird and then I felt some small scabs. I think some of the dissolvable stitches were trying again to push their way through since time and again my body likes to reject them, no matter what kind of surgery it is. I know Dr. Dorin really spend a lot of time cutting them down so they wouldn't push through, but my scalp was really thin in a few places, so....I'm okay with it not being perfect. I doubt I'd even want to buzz my hair shorter than a 4 and I can't foresee this being any worse. In fact, it might be just a different healing time for different areas and so the pinkness is making it all deceptive. I didn't take any pictures of anything because I stink at taking pictures, and I can't really get good lighting in my apartment. When I actually notice things happening over the next 2 months, I'll take some pictures. Until next month...with hopefully some very good things to report, teach 77
  5. Hey Corv, To be totally honest, my thoughts went the way of mattj's with regard to sides. Somehow, Rogaine felt like a lot more work than the finasteride, and I really wasn't that into having outward appearing side effects after spending all that money on the hair transplants to look better. I also know, like you said, that the twice a day would have been a deal breaker for me. Not only would I have forgotten the night application, but I'm always rushing around in the morning so I'd never have time for it to dry. I know you didn't want to make the post about Fin, but relating it to the side effect issue, I only had a minimum of sides between months 2 and 4 of being on the Fin, as my body adjusted to the chemical changes. Then things went back to normal. I have a feeling some people get hung up on the problems when their bodies are adjusting and then it becomes a psychological thing. The only times I've ever had any "sides" since then is if I've had a few drinks and then get intimate...but that happened before Fin on occassion, so I definitely wouldn't correlate the two. At the end of the day, I think any medication with potential for sides boils down to whether you can relax your thinking about the sides or if you're going to obsess over them. When you obsess, you're far more likely to have them, whether they're real or brought upon psychologically. Anyway, that's just my 2 cents on the issue. I'll probably never do the Rogaine because I think it's a pain to apply. teach77
  6. I used baby shampoo for 3 months after my first transplant, exclusively, and I had a great result. And I've been using it every day since my second transplant. I haven't really had any problem with dry scalp at all. Hope this helps. teach77
  7. So I promised I'd update a little more with this transplant than I did with the first, so since today was a month out from HT 2, I figured why not. It's been a bit of a different experience this time. Not so much physically, but I guess, emotionally. I'm no where near as stressed out about every little thing as last time, so my anxiety level from the transplant is much less. I can't believe it's already been a month...last time the first month felt so slow and painful. Of course, between not having power from Hurricane Irene for a week and a family emergency the week before that, I have had my mind occupied on other things besides the HT. But, it was definitely nice to not be obsessively looking in the mirror 20 times a day. As I said in my post-op review, I healed incredibly fast this time. I had no redness after just a few days in the recipient area. My donor area healed very nicely this time, and because of Dr. Dorin's painstaking work, I did not have any dissolvable stitches poke through. I have one slight discoloration that's been there since the stitch removal, but the scar itself is uniform and thin. It's definitely still red, not that that is unusual, but there's no pain or discomfort. I still have that stubbly feeling all over my recipient area, so a decent number of the transplanted hairs are still growing, rather than falling out, but some definitely have fallen out. I've been kind of tingly/itchy the past few days...I'm assuming that the nerve ending reconnecting...I remember that from last time...though it's a really weird feeling, especially when it happens in the middle of a meeting a work and you just have to itch it a little., I've tried to keep everything as close to the same as last year as I possibly can. I've been eating healthy...although I always eat organic anyway...I started running about 2.5 weeks out, about 3 miles, 5 days a week. I haven't felt any pulling on the scar or anything. I'll probably wait until it gets cold before switching over to any other kind of workout, but more because I'm really enjoying running at this point than fear of stretching. Last year, I started getting some pimples around 8 or 9 weeks, so I'm guessing it'll begin in a few weeks if all things remain equal. So, I'll just play the waiting game until then. So far, patience has been easy, but we'll see how long that lasts...lol. I don't have any pictures to post since there's absolutely nothing new to see. I'll try to do an update every month and once stuff starts happening, I'll do my best to post some photos. The only thing on my mind is that because I had such a great result last time, I'm worried that I'm not going to get lucky twice. But I have complete faith in the work of Dr. Dorin and the technicians so I know I'm in the best possible hands to get another great result. This is a pretty boring update, but I though maybe it might help or interest someone... Enjoy the long weekend, teach77 HT 1 - 1508 FUT Dr. Dorin 7/10 HT 2 - 1008 FUT Dr. Dorin 8/02/2011
  8. Looks really good man! I agree with what everyone else has said re: wet/dry. It took me a good 6 weeks to figure out how to style my new hair and what products worked and what didn't, especially since I hadn't had the hair to use any product for years before that. Ha!
  9. Looking great Corv! Seems like we both got very lucky this time around with the healing and limited redness, which is pretty awesome given the blonde/fair factor we both have going on. Maybe it was our meeting in the office...ha! And, wow, congrats on the donor supply...that's really, really great news! We definitely differ on that front. I didn't even have that much to begin with, and I've already used up probably half of what I had. But, it's all good. Happy growing, teach77
  10. Joshelstad, T&D is a great place to have an HT. I would also highly recommend them. I have had 2 procedures there. My first, with Dr. Dorin, was 1508 FUT, and the 2nd, which I had done 3 weeks ago was 1008 grafts. I had a wonderful experience both times. Dr. Dorin is excellent, the techs and other staff are knowledgeable, helpful and kind. I can't say enough positive things about T&D. I had excellent results from my first procedure. While it was on the conservative side, I always thought I'd be doing a second one, and I'm extremely happy I went in that direction. First, for financial reasons, because it gave me time to save some money for the second one. And, secondly because I really actually had to think about whether I even needed/wanted to do the second one. Dr. Dorin was able to give me beyond just an illusion of density with the conservative first transplant, and, even though I had anticipated having the second, it took me a full month after my last consult to decide that I was actually going to do it because I didn't NEED it. I'm horrible about taking and posting pictures, but my results have been posted here by the clinic. You seem very well informed about HTs, so I would definitely suggest consulting with T&D and seeing what they have to say. They really are great! teach77
  11. Hey Corv, It was great to meet you the other day as well. Everything looks great with your number 2. It's pretty interesting that we both had the same experience of it being so much less of a strain both physically and mentally, the second go round. I was actually completely healed up, with no scabs, by the time I had my stitches out. I think we're both a testament to Dr. Dorin's strong knowledge and intuition of what his patients want/need, as we both had the experience of him saying what we were thinking before we did. That's what makes him so great. Stay in touch...I'm glad to see you posting again... Happy growing, Ken
  12. It's pretty cool to see part of your own procedure from the other side. Great job on the video, Peter. Ken teach77
  13. Thanks so much orlhair...happy growth to you as well
  14. Can'tdecide...Thanks so much...I am really happy with the results of the first transplant and hope the second one goes just as well. JayWalker...You're in great hands. I can't even begin to explain how wonderful Dr. Dorin and the staff are. Best of luck. aaron...Thanks man. I really think the Fin has helped. I've definitely not had any further loss and I do think that I have had some gains, at least in the quality of the hair at the crown.
×
×
  • Create New...