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Yes, when they took out the stitches 5 days after the operation he mentioned that I should put rogaine on this area. As far as I remember my hair has always been kinda fluffy at the back whenever I let it grow for a few weeks. I think it has been like that long before I noticed any hair loss. I thought reterograde alopecia did not commonly occur until NW6/7 but I suppose hairloss does not always stick strictly to the scale. I'll try to dig out a few pictures of the back of my head before I started losing hair to compare.

thanks. i already got the staples removed on the 2nd. there are still dissolvable stitches/sutures there that take 3-4 weeks i believe.

here's some pics. ImageShack® - Online Photo and Video Hosting this is 3 days post-op. seems fine Imageshack - dsc00453qj.jpg Imageshack - dsc00460g.jpg these two pics are 6 days post op. Imageshack - dsc00529im.jpg Imageshack - dsc00523il.jpg last two pics are today - 9 days post op. seems early for shock loss but it must be. i originally thought it was a bit of unevenness from shaving around the site and maybe from wearing a cap too. on the 6th night (think it was the night after 'day 6' photos are taken) i woke up after scratching it on the area where the hair is lost. could this have done anything. i'm pretty sure the patch was there before that night though. with shock loss does the whole hair go and it needs to grow again from the root? so it'll take 3-4 months to get to the surface? or does will it start growing from my skin now? hopefully a few weeks growth and dermmatch will do the trick. when would dermmatch be ok for this area?

First post. Suppose this is an introduction as well as a question. Started viewing these forums over a year ago and gradually have increased my time on it month by month. Spent lot of time researching though it seems there are so many differing schools of thought here and I often end up with more questions than answers! Anyway, after much lurking I decided to make a start with my own specific questions. I'm now 1 week post surgery. Things going fine so far but so many questions and worries. I havn't started a blog yet but will get working on it in the coming months and will get more info and pics up. Had my surgery with Dr. Path in Bangkok after great recommendations here and so far, so good. I got 2,076 grafts. I'm a 29 year old caucasian male. Started noticing myself thinning about 3 years ago. Pain has been pretty minimal so far. Redness virtually gone. Just some questions and worries at the moment. The hair just above my neck seems to be quite fluffy (check my pics). I think it has always been very much like this around here and often gets fluffy and curly like this when I havn't cut it for over a month but I have read about reterograde alopecia. I know this usually occurs within Norwood 6 or 7 so not sure if I could have it. I'm guessing I'm a 3 (opinions? - I'll try to upload more pics when I can. Seems to be such a big difference between the wet and dry hair!). However, we know hair loss can deviate slightly from the Norwood scale and not follow an exact direction. Dr. Path recommended I put rogaine on this part anyway. This leads me on to my next point and question. I'm probably in the minority in that I havn't started rogaine or propecia yet so fearing bad shock loss. I intend to begin rogaine in the next week. I am quite against propecia for the side effects and am reluctant to take it. Hopefully rogaine will help and I won't need to go near propecia. My balding was mainly at the front so went for the ht to combat that as the drugs aren't so effecive there. Thinning a bit near the crown now. Dr. Path didn't want to transplant that as he didn't think it was too bad yet and hopefully I have a decent chance of fighting that with the rogaine. I'm wondering though......if i begin rogaine next week will the hairs affected by the shock loss from the rogaine be the same hairs affected by the shock loss from the ht? Or would it mean I could likely lose double the amount in the same area? should I risk the shock loss from both near the same time or wait till I get over the ht shock loss and then begin the rogaine. I assume the shock loss I could get from the ht will be in the weaker hairs in the front 1/2 or 1/3 of my head and the shock loss from the rogaine would affect the thinning hairs nearer my crown. I know shock loss is unpredictable but I should probably prepare for the worst. I'm hoping toppik and dermmatch will cover whatever I lose. Used it before the ht and my thinness on top was undetectable with it.