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SeizingFate

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  1. SeizingFate
    This picture was taken on September 15th before I hopped out of my car to take care of some errands. In this shot, you can definitively see the improvement from the day of the surgery up until now.

     

    Now when I look in the mirror, the area almost looks like myself back in the day when my head was shaved down, only up front. The area is shaded in nicely and if you look at me from the front the illusion of density is starting to form.

     

    For not being at the full mark of month 4 just yet...I'm pretty happy with the progress thus far. I'm kind of hoping that the growth will continue and of late have been looking in the mirror constantly for any new growing hairs. It's just hard to tell really. So, I guess I'll have to be patient and just check on the full date of month 4 and then on Month 5 and on.

     

    But thus far, I don't regret the surgery one bit. I feel that overall so far, I am seeing excellent progress.
  2. SeizingFate
    These photos are a little tricky. One of them you can't really tell much difference from the past month. The other however, you can see that there has definitely been some positive growth. At this point I was able to look in the mirror and definitely see some definitive improvement. Slow, but steady improvement. Which is a good thing.

     

     
  3. SeizingFate
    Now, I'm not sure if this is just implanted hairs that have not shed and thus fallen out, or what. I'm going to err on the side of caution and say that these were implanted hairs from the donor area that basically did not shed. But I personally felt that starting month two, especially at the end of the month, I was already seeing improvement.

     

    These pictures were the best I could get with the lighting, and you can see that the area on my head is still quite pink. The numbness lasted for quite a while too, I believe towards the beginning of the 3rd month it finally went away as the nerves repaired themselves. But it was a slow and gradual process.

    Looking in the mirror, I honestly did not see any shock loss. I was basically put on Propecia so I honestly felt that helped. However, what I felt most of all was that I was actually starting to see progress. Or at the very least, hairs that were staying put from where they were transplanted. As well as hopefully some hairs that were starting to grow.

    Now, the first picture is from the 9th of July. This is basically just a little over one month post surgery at this point. The hairs in the photo actually stayed put, and, it appears from the progress of the photos from the 9th to the picture that I took on the 25th of July, that some of these were indeed growing hairs. I'm honestly kind of surprised myself. Had to double check the date of the photos that they were taken in both windows and in Exif on my iphone just to make sure.

    Regardless, I'm not going to complain. I haven't really checked or even heavily researched what a person's progress is after surgery. Everything I looked over my year of research before I even decided to get the surgery was basically an answer of "Your mileage may vary". So, I pretty much just threw up my hands and decided to not worry about it.

     

    I do want to state something though, and maybe it might help explain things. I bought a hat for after the surgery and since the surgery I have worn it EVERYWHERE whenver I go outside. Period. If I let the sun touch my head at all, it was only during very brief moments during my 2 hour long morning walks when I took my hat off during a rest to wipe my brow. I read about the damage a sunburn can do, and thus since I walk out in the sun for so long during the summer hours, felt it was just prudent to wear it everywhere.

    Working 3rd shift also, I think helps keep me from the exposure of the sun. I really don't see much daylight besides my morning walks after work before bed. Something I push myself to do for the sake of my health. I'm not sure whether the walks, the hat, or what has helped in any of this, but felt regardless it was worth mentioning.

     

     

     

     
  4. SeizingFate
    Work has had me insanely busy since the Surgery. Today is the first real day I've had a chance to actually sit down and relax enough to update this. Which is, long, long overdue. After taking multiple pictures every day I decided it was simply best to take a few pictures each month and then select the best one representing the Progress thus far.

     

    Stuart fired me off an email asking to see an update on the scars and if I could send photos. I had enough time to send them off to him and he said they were healing very well, but then work once again caught up and I was unable to post them up here.

     

    My Hair is long and covers them very so I haven't really kept up on Photos of the scar tissue from the surgery. Add to that fact that I had to get a friend to take these photos with iPhone4s (Which, by the way, all of my photos are taken with as it's all I have for a Camera) and well, you can understand the difficulty. Long Hair + taking photos of the back of my head with an iphone = not really feasible.

     

    So, here we are. Three shots of the Scar and how it's healing.
  5. SeizingFate
    Sutures were removed on Tuesday of June 12th.

     

    Was very glad to have them out. Marked a milestone for me in the process of the hair transplant. Surprisingly, I still had 40% of the grafts remaining and they have been growing. I do however, expect them to shed as time goes on.

     

    The recipient area looks good, and Stuart and Dr. Panine said that the Donor area healed great, and that in 2 months the scar will be feint and difficult to notice.

     

    I'l update on Tuesday the 19th again for week 3. But thus far, a lot of the hairs in the recipient area are still lingering.

     

     
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