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why couvre first?

Ice cream, there is no way to know how much better your scar would have been had you not lifted. Jogging does not feel to me to stretch the scar. But weight lifting even tiny weights makes the scar feel like it is stretching.

I have been using Toppik for years. Just added Couvre to my routine. Which one should be put on first?

Why is it better that the transplanted hair shed? Why is it better that the scalp be clean?

I had the transplant 41 days ago. I can still feel the short donor hairs. They aren't falling out. Why aren't they? Is this bad or good?

Well, there is nothing herbal or natural about nizoral, zinc, or copper peptite. Anyone who has done research knows that there is overwhelmingly more evidence that minoxidil and finasteride work, as opposed to shampoos. Why did you quit finasteride? Sexual side effects? That got me to use finasteride on a very limited basis.

How come Taking the Plunge does not use any of the other shampoos that claim to reduce balding, like Tricomin, Revivogen?

I googled Elvive. It is not voluminizing, and does not purport to diminish balding. Shampoo Elvive Damage Care from L'Or?al Paris: shampoo for damaged, brittle and dull hair

My doc is one of those doc's who say you can do anything after 7 days. But I know other doc's say to wait much longer. I feel stretching when I just sit around. ANY weight lifting at all gives it more tension. Yes, even a curl does it. When you do a curl, you stilll tense your neck a little.

I get nervous when I hear such wildly divergent views: 7 days vs. 2 months+ .

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I understand that there is no good data on whether any particular shampoo deters hair loss, much yet data on which one does it best. This website sells Tricom, Nizoral, and Revita. One doc told me that Nizoral does nothing, and I should use any shampoo with 2% zinc, which is what Head and Shoulders has. I am most concerned with a shampoo that deters balding, but would also like one that voluminizes. Anyway, does anyone know of any study that is good evidence one particular shampoo is best?

I will probably get another FUT, and they will cut the first scar out. Does this means there is no reason to use Mederma on the first scar? Or perhaps Mederma will make the first scar smaller, and this will let them get more grafts for the next time. How do you even get Mederma on with all the hair?

How do you know bending your neck and lifting weights will stretch the scar? Has there been any study on this? Do you have a link to any doctor's web site saying this? It is a pretty big deal not being ablt to lift weights for 3 months. I am probably getting a second FUT. Does that change anything? They will cut this scar out anyway in the second FUT.

ok, I will.

I have been informed I will have 9,000 donor grafts, and I am about a Norwood V who will eventually be a Norwood VI. I am 40 now. Should I transplant all 9,000 of my donor hairs? (I don't mean in one session. Probably in three.) Is there any reason not to transplant everything, or is 9,000 too much for a Norwood VI

How much is the longest time it can take to heal? It is still pretty tight after a full month. I am starting to think a mega session really is better than 2 small sessions so that you don't have to go through this twice. Do some peopel feel tightness their whole life? Can I make the scar worse by bending my neck and stretching after a month? What about the recipient area? It is really numb. Is this normal after a month?

I am one month post op. The day after the op, my donor area was real tight. Thing is, it is still pretty tight, even if not entirely as mucn as it used to be. How long does it take this tightness to go away? Does it ever go away? I am afraid to do things to stretch the donor area? I'm afraid to even lift weights. Do I do any damage by doing things that stretch the area?

Coming right out of the surgery, the scar felt extremely tight. Now, 2 weeks out, it is better but still really tight. I can't really dance, it is so tight. I can't move my heard around much. Does tightness that is still here 2 weeks later go away?

The nurse took a look. She told me that the doc indeed recommends neosporin immediately after the transplant, and both on the scar and on the recipient area. I can tell you the scabs almost all came off at day 5, and maybe the neosporin helped with this. I can also tell you that most of the tranpslanted hair stayed on and started growing pretty quickly. She said the short hairs are all transplanted hair and when they put them in, they were very short, but they quickly grew. I can finally tell you that I could not even feel it when they were taking off the stiches because neosporin causes numbing. So IMHO neosporin should definitely be used on the scar immediately, and it should be used on the donors only if you can deal with the great mess. It is really hard to get neosporin out of hair.

My doc's written instruction said to put on Neosporin both on the scar and on the recipient area. Is this unorthodox advice? I understand scars are supposed to heal better when you put neosporin on because it keeps the area moist. Neosporin is really hard to get out of hair by the way.

Wow. At my clinic they do double sutures. They remove the first sutures anywhere from day 5 to day 7. The nurse I saw on day 5 told me the grafts are already anchored and can't be yanked out. She shampooed me pretty aggresively. I am a little nervous now that I hear other clinics take sutures out later and discourage aggressive shampooing for much longer.

At only five days out, I have had a lot of shedding. Maybe some is shock loss, but a lot has been from new grafts. Also a lot of the new grafts started to break, meaning the hair used to be 2 inches and is now 2 milimeters? Is this normal? Did I perhaps shampoo to vigorously or apply too much Neosporin on the grafts?

My doc said to lightly shampoo the hair 24 hours after surgery. His sheet said shampooing twice a day will help with scabbing. I did. And now I am understanding opinions vary, and it seems to me that some docs believe this immediate shampooing might have cost me grafts. My doc also said to apply Neosporin 3 times a day to the recipient area for the first 5 days. I thought maybe this was to keep the area moist and this will preserve more grafts, so I did. But now I am nervous this force so soon killed off some grafts. I don't see why you can't just leave the scabs in for months till whenever they fall out on their own with no physical pressure, if this might give a higher yield.

I just don't think the doc has a rigorous protocol or strong beliefs on it. His normal protocol is to remove the first sutures 7 days after and then the second sutures 14 days after. He scheduled my first removal for 5 days after. I came into the office to learn that the nurse does it, and he was not even in the office. The nurse could not figure out why he scheduled me for only 5 days and said it must have been a mistake so rescheduled me for 7 days after. She did not even ask the doctor to confirm the change. I asked the nurse if we might schedule the first suture removal a little later than 7 days, and she said there was no harm is waiting longer, and i would merely have more discomfort. (But I know there is harm in keeping sutures too long in the sense that you get scars in holes that the sutures make, which of course is probably not a big deal underneath hair.)