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Irishstreak

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Country
    United States
  • State
    OH

Hair Loss Overview

  • Describe Your Hair Loss Pattern
    Thinning on Top only (Genetic Baldness)
  • How long have you been losing your hair?
    In the last 5 years
  • Norwood Level if Known
    Norwood IV A
  • What Best Describes Your Goals?
    Maintain Existing Hair
    Considering Surgical Hair Restoration

Hair Loss Treatments

  • Have you ever had a hair transplant?
    Yes
  • Hair Transplant Surgeon
    Dr. Robert Haber
  • Current Non-Surgical Treatment Regime
    Rogaine Foam

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  1. I would limit the biking and basketball for a few more weeks. In biking when you are slouched position you are taking up all the slack of the posterior tissues and fascia aka the thoracolumbar fascia that connects up to the cervical spine, then your skull. Staying in the slouched position could easily create a slow prolonged stretch which could cause lengthening of the tissues. Basketball would likely be fine, as your head is up and you're not straining the tissues much. In this case I would use the feeling of a pull or sharp pain as a reminder of when you're doing too much. Easing into basketball and starting casually would likely be fine. Thats my 2 cents.
  2. Irishstreak

    3 months Post op to 12 months

    Time to see the results
  3. Irishstreak

    Post Op Day 8 - 2 months

    This should be a nice healing time and I'll show how the grafts fall out (if they do)
  4. Orlhair1- Thanks for the post. I just started to see the tips of some hairs coming through which is exciting. Your 2 month 1 wk posts look nice and I look forward to getting to that point. Happy growing to ya. Cheers.
  5. Considering1- I'm sorry I can't give you any information concerning his opinion on this topic as we did not discuss it. If I am experiencing any it can't be much. I feel like I'm pretty much back to where I started and now just waiting for the grafts to start to grow. If you want to contact his office to get some info concerning his opinion the number is 1800 374 2237.
  6. I'm finally catching up to posting again. I took these Tuesday morning on post op day 14. The hairs from the grafts are starting to fall out as I was educated would happen around this time. Its a bit of a bummer, but knowing this was to be expected allowed me to be at ease as it occurs.
  7. Dude513- Thanks for the message. Though things are happening as expected, I'm a bit bummed out watching all the hairs from the grafts fall out. I can't wait to see the results at 6 and 12 months post op. Glad to hear from others who are happy with their end results!
  8. Fellas- Hope everyone is doing well. I just had another thought that might put some at ease... de-training effects don't occur for 8-10 days in weekend worrier type athletes and may take up to 14 days in elite athletes or olympic level athletes. I ran my 5k on post op day 11 in 20:50 which was only a few seconds slower than the one I ran a week before my HT, but it was also a different course. Best of luck to all the athletes out there in taking some healthy rest time post op and then getting back to their sports and peak performance quickly.
  9. Great response Rich91403. If you want to know how long you need to take off of intense aerobics and intese weight lifting stay away from all the opinions and look to human physiology... Look at the processes of wound healing (i.e. Inflammatory, proliferative, remodeling) and the timelines. With that known and pending you are healthy and took good care of the wound then you are likely well outside of the inflammatory and granulation processes of the wound by days 8 or 10 and its safe to return to activity. So, between a good diet of veggies, good proteins, and plenty of antioxidants (i.e. tea, coffee, pomagrante joice)... then keeping with wound clean and covered with antiobiotic ointment, etc. You should be quite confident in going back to heavy workouts after about 10 days (which is what Dr. Haber recommended to me). When getting my staples out today I asked if the scar looked good (Pos Op day 8 for me) and they said it looked great (a byproduct of a good surgeon, good diet, being healthy, and good wound care) so I will be competing in a 5k this saturday (post op day 11) and going back to heavy lifting and long runs next week. Taking off 30 days or 2 months is extremely unnecessary and is without any science. If I feel pain (often your first indicator of tissue damage) then I will back down from something, but otherwise I plan on going full go next week. 10-14 days is all you need to rest before going back to full go and a healthy life style which will assist in the healing process as well. (FYI I am a Doctor of physical therapy and do wound care in my practice)
  10. Exercise notes- So I'm a bit of a health nut and exercise frequently. Prior to the HT I would run 3x/wk and lift 3x/wk. I was in pretty good shape and even ran a 20:30 5K recently which I think is respectable. But I wanted to share my return to exercise for those in a similar situation. I was advised that after day 5 I could return to light cardio so on post op day 6 I went for a short, slow run. After day 10 and with the staples out I was advised I could return to intense cardio and weightlifting. I've read a lot of people being concerned about stretching the donor area and other concerns. I'm going to run a race on saturday and return to weight lifting at about post op day 13. I know some people have said they advise taking 30 days off heavy lifting and thats just rediculous. If you want to know when you can go back then forget about looking up oppinions and just look at human physiology. Look at the process of wound healing (i.e. Inflammatory, proliferative, remodeling) and nkow that you are healthy and took good care of the wound then you are likely well outside of the inflammatory and granulation processes of the wound (usually are well ended by day 10 in a healthy individual) and its safe to return to activity. So, between a good diet of veggies, good proteins, and plenty of antioxidants (i.e. tea, coffee, pomagrante joice)... then keeping with wound clean and covered with antiobiotic ointment, etc. I feel quite confident in being able to go back to heavy workouts next week. When getting the staples out today I asked if the scar looked good and they said it looked great (a byproduct of a good surgeon and good wound care) so I feel confident I will be fine to get back to exercise soon without damaging the donor area scar.
  11. Post Op Day 8; Staples removed- The staples came out without a problem. Special thanks to the people at Haber Dermatology who worked around MY schedule to allow me to come in early to get the staples out today. I'm supposed to work long days tomorrow and the next day so someone from their staff came in early so I could get the staples removed before work today. I greatly appreciate the care and flexibility given to me by everyone a Haber Dermatology.
  12. Post Op Day 6 FIrst day back to work- Most of the scabs have come off and I was able to go to work with barely any noticable scabs. With my hair flat and kind of messed it wasn't too noticeable that I had a HT. I was pretty excited about this b/c while I wasn't going to hide that I had a HT if someone asked, I didn't want it to be glaringly noticeable. I received a letter from Dr. Haber and Doreen at Haber dermatology confirming the number of drafts placed (2703...awesome), the number of single hair grafts used (779), and the expectations. I was impressed at how quickly they mailed me this info.
  13. Irishstreak

    Post Op Day 6/ Return to work

    I returned to work on day 6. Instead of doing a spiked/ messy look I just kept it flat and kind of messy which I would do once in awhile too. The flat/shaggy look covere up a lot of the grafts and with the grafts below the hair I already had, it really looked pretty natural. I was prepared to tell people I had "some work done" if asked, but the only thing I heard was "nice hair cut" from a few people. I'm not saying others didn't notice, but I was pretty comfotable walking around knowing it wasn't extremely obvious I just had work done.
  14. So I went back to work and instead of doing kind of a spiked messy look I just kept my hair flat and kept it down. I kind of fluffed (not a word I really like but it fits) the hair back and forth around the donor area. Can you see any staples?? I couldn't. I followed Dr. Habers recommendation on having the back of my hair at least an inch long prior to surgery and that has seemed to work out pretty well. Pretty much I cut my hair with a #7 and #8 with the clippers I had about a week and a half before the surgery and that seemed to be perfect. You couldn't really see the staples at all. In the 2 days I've been back to work I haven't recieved any comments except form 2 people who said, "new hair cut,... I like it". I'm not saying that my colleagues haven't noticed that I had a HT, but I haven't received any comments asking what happened. I was prepared to tell people "I had some work done" if they asked, but I haven't had to go there. I think just being honest with people makes it easier to clear the air and feel confident about your decisions. I think because the redness is gone and you can't really see the scabs, it is likely hard for most people to tell a major difference since they haven't seen me for a week. You can compare the pics on here and on my page and judge for yourself. Again, sorry for the ones comi
  15. I received a call from Dr. Haber checking to make sure everything was well. He really is a great guy and its been a great experience working with him. Post op day 2 I felt pretty good and only took pain medication to sleep. Post op day 3 wasn't too different than day 2, except that I can see that most of the redness has gone away and the few small sandy scabs that there are have hardenede and will start to come off soon. If you want to see more detail go to my personal page for more blogs and pics....
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