cool525

bump.............

Keeping in mind you only had 1500 grafts, I think its a good result. You'll be happy, though keep in mind, the next 2 months are going to be tough, since your lifestyle will become sedentary. Congrats.

Just wanted to get opionion of other than my own. My hairline is getting fuzzy, so I am not sure if I am experiencing shock loss, or these are the new hair growing? Its been 2 months and 3 weeks now.

Off course it does. When you educate yourself, as well you study about something on which you have made a sacrifice (i.e. your decision to do a HT), it is an important subject I would say, and it is something that you would enjoy knowing about and forming/finding out correlations such as these.

What. That has to be a first, 12-16 months to grow new hair ... and I dont think anyone would enjoy That!!! For all purposes, I believe it is 3-7 months to see new hair growth. What I am asking is about a "correlation", whether it has been studied between late-shedding and the new hair-growth periods. As well, I think collecting such data - you never discount, could provide some anatomy and advances in hair-care.

I'v been carefully watching but didn't experience shedding for first 3 weeks. However today was the first day that I noticed hair falling and I could as well see the grafted hairs starting to lay down over scalp (sign of shedding to come). In my estimate, I will complete hair to shed by weeks 5 (and more probably week 6). Theoretically I would say the sooner you shed the hair the more they get a chance to grow early. Does this theory hold in practice?

While I am not a proponent of checking like each 'n everything with a doc, but this is something that I would. You could just send an email with picture attachments. I did not experience this (but then I did not have scabbing either). The hair that sheds from grafted hairs is different - it should not have a root with it - it looks like hair you shed during hair cut. But either way, if these are merely few in that case you shouldn't worry.

That would be great. I did take a look at ingredients, and seems to have all quality stuff - no sugar, no cheap artificial sweetners etc.

I think it is very confusing, it seems like the doctor is alone in his theory of whey isolate (which he purports promotes hair-loss) vs. whey concentrate (which he says helps hair-grow). I to be honest want to believe in it, but if you think about it, protein is protein - you could get it from egg whites, meat, poultry or from his shake (and guess what he says, his shake only, lol). And then he posts his research merely on his own site and not in some printed journal. He has a patent 'pending' and not approved. Maybe others can chime in, as I would confess to not know much here, but other than that I do see that the product has very good quality ingredients and the price could itself justify as you wont be needing to separately eat all those needed vitamins.

they dont look hair. The might be scabs coming off or parts of suture?

Dutch: that is very interesting, so you retained 50% of your grafts by week4. And how long ago did you have the surgery? Are you saying the grafts that did not fell are the ones that grew longer from day1, and the ones that did fell had not grown long ... but that'd be difficult to tell

For first 7 days you should not sweat. After that grafts have completed forming roots so its no worry. As for me, I'm on 15th day, and I tried to run on my normal 2 miles track, but as I ran only about a 1/4 mile I started feeling a pain/heaviness at the back of my head. At that point, I just took a rest and headed back home. I felt a bit disappointing to see myself helpless, but I am hoping that I just need a week more to get 100% back to normalcy

I was curious about when did you lose a significant amount of grafted hairs, like 3rd week or 2nd ... (I need to prep for that eventuality, its my 15th day and all grafts are there)

You should definitely use a moisture rich conditioner. Had you used a post-op spray? The way Cooley advises is to wear a saran-wrap after applying post-op spray. That literally traps moisture into scalp/hair. (personally I found that technique very helpful as my hair have become a lot more healthier post-surgery)

Thanks everyone.

Well, I just went through a pleasant experience with Dr. Cooley. I had a receding hairline and a thinning crown. What do you all think? Is this going to provide a thicker coverage? Posting my before and after's. 3K grafts, 5600 hair. Before: Hair Restoration Journal -Before Surgery After: Hair Restoration Journal -Post Surgery - 15th day