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Bluebird

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  • Gender
    Female
  • Country
    United States
  • State
    WA

Hair Loss Overview

  • Describe Your Hair Loss Pattern
    Thinning on Top only (Genetic Baldness)
  • How long have you been losing your hair?
    10 years +

Hair Loss Treatments

  • Have you ever had a hair transplant?
    Yes

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  1. The recovery instructions I received after my 3rd hair transplant had me wash my hair with Head and Shoulders. I am pretty sure if Head and Shoulders promoted hair loss my doctor wouldn't have specifically instructed me to use it
  2. He doesn't sound like that good of a businessman. A good businessman would give his patients the best possible results, knowing that there are website such as this one where their patients would happily post their results for the world to see. A good businessman would take advantage of the free advertising.
  3. @SadButTrue It would be nice to see more women post images and their stories. I know there are women out there like me who have PCOS and suffer from male pattern baldness. Hair loss isn't a condition that women are told could happen to them and when it does it is a big surprise.
  4. @MCS Thanks, I definately will only schedule appointments with Doctors who have the equipment to take 50x images. I am hoping I also have enough grafts for a 4th procedure. I am past the 5,000 graft mark now.
  5. @MichaelJames, I am definately going to have a second opinion on my results. I have spent the past 3 months constantly on this and other websites trying to find answers to my questions. I want to know why I am experiencing a BIG time hair transplant failure, with very low yield, after I have had 2 successful HT with a different doctor. I keep reading online the reason for most HT failures are either caused by the doctor or the techs. I want to know why most of grafts that I do see growing are the one's that never shed. Out of the grafts that never shed most are in the area where I had lost previously transplanted grafts. I haven't had my haircut in over a year and in July I personally trimmed about 1/2" off the top. It would be easy for any Doctor to access my 3rd transplant. Long hairs were there before HT, short hairs are either, shock loss and natural regrowth of hair or transplanted hairs growing. I would have never thought a year after having 2,600+ grafts transplanted I would be wondering where my priceless, irreplaceable grafts are. Then coming to the realization that I have wasted the last year and that I am going to have to have a 4th hair transplant to accomplish what the 3rd should have....
  6. From my understanding shockloss is caused by trauma from the procedure. The hairs that were programmed to miniturize will never grow back, but the rest of the hair will. I have previously transplanted grafts that were done in 2002 and 2003 fall out a few days after the procedure and after 10 1/2 months have not grown back. The area of the loss is obvious and on my hair line and not all over my head. I can not find nonlinear too much about previously transplanted grafts falling out and not regrowing. The only thing I can find is the follicles being damaged and the hair not growing. Does anyone know of any reason grafts transplanted in 2002 and 2003 would have problems in a procedure in 2011?
  7. @MichaelJames I would not consider my loss as shockloss. From my understanding shockloss is either hairs that are not programmed to miniturize fall out and then regrow or hairs that miniturize and not regrow. Since mine were previously transplanted grafts that Dr. Sword transplanted in 2002 and 2003 i expected them to grow back months ago. Why would previously transplanted grafts fallout and not regrow? The only explanation I can find is the follicles was damaged during the hair transplant. Since there are grafts that were done in 2011 that did not shed and continue to grow in the same area where I lost previously transplanted grafts, the suggestion of immune system seems unlikely as the grafts would have shed and not regrown along with the previously transplanted grafts.
  8. I also have PCOS and suffer from male pattern baldness. Since I did not know that male pattern baldness was a symptom of PCOS I never really paid much attention to the volume of my hair and if I was losing it until it was too late. It is possible not to notice any hair loss, especially in women as we do not expect it. We are told that men lose their hair not women. So, when it is happening it is easy not to recognize. Pictures of me in my early 20's shows a woman who has very thick hair and a decade later I had hair but not as much volume. Since, I always changing my hair style from perming to wearing it up etc., I didn't see the change It wasn't until a hair stylist I have never been to before told me my hair was thinning. Since, she had never seen me before I did not pay her much attention. A few years later, I noticed a small area on my part line had disappeared, I figured it would grow back. It never has.
  9. I did email Rob a month ago, August 18th, along with my 9 1/2 month updated photos. I have yet to see a reply from them.
  10. @MichaelJames My HT's 2002 for 1,200 grafts exactly a year later in 2003 for another 1,200 grafts and in 2011 for 2,600 grafts @MCS Right before my 8th month mark I emailed over my pictures to the founder / owner of the clinic so they are aware of my situation. I was emailed back they would revisit this issue at my 12 month mark. The 12 month mark is fine if I had sprouts and fine hairs and was waiting for them to thicken and mature, but I don't. I see my 12 months being the same as the 10 month marks and the 8 month mark.
  11. MCS, I know exactly how you feel. I too have had 3 ht procedures. The first 2 were done in 2002 and 2003 and were both 1,200 grafts. As schedules the grafts shed, sprouted, grow, thickend and matured. I just hit the 10 month mark of my 3rd HT of 2,600+ grafts and do not see anything close to the results of just one of the 1,200 graft procedures. I also have had previouly transplanted grafts shed and not grown back. From what I have read online Shockloss hairs will regrow if they were not programmed to miniturized and shed, therefore transplanted grafts would regrow. In the area that I suffered previously transplanted graft loss, I have a few grafts in a patch that never shed and continued to grow, not as many hairs as was lost though. I also have a few of those types of grafts on the other side but not in a patch, more single strands, here and there. I did not have any noticable shockloss with either of my first two HT's. After 10 years I have never seen my scar, I can just feel it. My hair is about 10" long and pretty much covers up the area. I do know that I only have one scar and for the 2nd and 3rd ht they used the scar line to cut on. Your scar looks like it is above your ears. My scar is a lot lower and runs inbetween my ears.
  12. I have only seen the doctor, the staff and the owner/founder the day of the HT procedure. 2 months ago, at the 8 month mark, I emailed over my images and they know my situation. I was told they would revisit the issue 4 months later on the 12 month mark. My results are at the 3-5 month phase, still waitng for growth. From what I have read the 12 month mark are for people who have had sprouts that turned into fine hairs and they are just waiting for the hairs to thicken and mature. That will not be me, I will not have a magical 12 month mark as I did from my first two procedures.
  13. I have had 3 HT procedures, two of them I had done in 2002 and 2003 for 1,200 grafts each . The third I had 2,600 grafts done 10 months ago. The two procedures I had for 1,200 grafts in 2002 and 2003 I could see the difference and would consider both procedures a success. With my third HT, so far I do not see any indication that I had 2,600 grafts done. I am not sure what could have gone wrong. :confused: In 2002 and 2003 I was a smoker during recovery, today I am a non smoker. I followed the directions exactly as written after all three hair transplants. In October 2011, I went to my personal Dr and everything was fine, so I am healthy. I do have PCOS, which causes my hair loss. But, I have had PCOS since the early 1980's. What could have gone wrong?
  14. EJl7 How many grafts did Dr. Chao transplant? I had 2,600+ and I got there at 6 am and was on the road by 1:45pm. Seemed quite quick, I thought the reason I needed to be there at 6 am was it was going to take all day long. The procedure was with twice as many grafts as the two I had with Dr. Sword. When Dr. Sword did both of my procedures, they were for 1,200 grafts and I was there from 9 am to 4 pm. There were just as many girls working on my head with Dr. Sword as with Dr. Chao.
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