gobble

I stumbled across this website of Dr. Shapiro which claims to sell a shake that causes transplanted hair to shed faster, not go into dormancy, and regrow faster than the timeline you would expect from a hair transplant. Has anyone tried this? Does it work? I've never seen it discussed on these forums. If this was legitimate I would think hair tranplant patients would be all over this.

Here is the link:

Accelerated Follicular Restoration | Follicular Hair Transplant

Do pimples hurt the follicles? I had a pimple about 3 weeks in and when I popped it a little yellow thing with two tiny hair attached came out.

I flew the day after mine and it was no big deal. Bumped my head on the overhead bins so be careful about that.

I looked at options for going up to Canada because I've read good things about several of their clinics. Prices seem comparable with the US, BUT CANADA ADDS A 13% TAX! How do you get around that? Is there an option like when you travel to Europe of getting a tax refund at the airport? Or does this simply become an additional cost to an already expensive procedure?

I know I'm not supposed to do it, but I can rub the palm of my hand down my head and pick up all kinds of little white pieces of skin. It feels like I have sand on my head that I'm rubbing off. I'm 7 days past the procedure. Impossible these could be hair follicles, correct?

The worst parts are the anesthesia shots and the boredom. It's a pretty relaxed day otherwise except for the first hour or so and you can probably get up for the bathroom anytime if you give them a few minutes notice. Probably not a good idea to drink a lot before getting started.

I'm 5 days in and after this morning's shower it looks like I have a bad case of dandruff. Is this normal?

My doc prescribed bactroban for the scar but was very specific not to put it on the grafts.

If hair is transplanted into a bald head cuts are made and transplanted follicles are put in place. What happened to the old follicles that used to be up there? Do the doctors need to work around them or do they just disappear over time?

Wouldn't the beard hair grow faster than the other hair on your head?

No, if I had your hair the thought of a hair transplant wouldn't have even crossed my mind. You look great with the hair you have.

I think you look great. I've been concerned by the large number of graft numbers that are always thrown around and it's nice to see substantial your progress without one of those megasessions.

I wouldn't have looked at you and thought your hair was thinning.

Gobble, on my first three HTs I didn't have shock loss as they were quite some time ago and mostly focused on the hairline (that I didn't have). My last procedure I addressed my entire frontal, mid and crown area. I can honestly say I lost at least 80% of existing hair. Could be because of my age, I don't know. However, everything is coming in better than I could have imagined as I approach 6 month post HT #4.

Your #4 pictures confuse me a bit. The pre-op picture you posted looks great. You appear to have a full head of hair. It looks like a little work was done around the hairline then you proceeded to lose most of your hair on top. The current picture looks great again though. What did they do in the mid and crown area? And Why?

Gobble, on my first three HTs I didn't have shock loss as they were quite some time ago and mostly focused on the hairline (that I didn't have). My last procedure I addressed my entire frontal, mid and crown area. I can honestly say I lost at least 80% of existing hair. Could be because of my age, I don't know. However, everything is coming in better than I could have imagined as I approach 6 month post HT #4.

That scares me a bit. In your case, did the original hair grow back?

Here is the time line I tell people:

 

Today you will leave with a crew cut of new hair wherever we place it.

 

7 days from now you'll get your sutures out and most likely you won't have cleaned enough...but once you wash away any remaining scabs in the recipient area...you should look pretty good.

 

That hair will grow for one month and then just about all of it, AND any of your native hair in that area, will fall out.

 

Nothing will happen for 6 weeks, and then your native hairs will start to regrow. You'll think its our new hair, but its most likely not.

 

So from week 5 to 11, you will be balder than now, then at about 3 months you'll be back to baseline with your native hair.

 

At around 6 months, some of the new hair will be growing. Sometimes its earlier (luck) and sometimes its later(absence of luck).

 

1 year from today, I'd expect you to have pretty good results but its probably 15 months til you are max'd out....but no one can remember to come in at 15 months, so we do an even year.

 

If you are a revision of previous surgery, particularly a plug repair...add 3 months to the above timeline starting at the 3 month event noted above.

 

I hope this is helpful, and it seems to be pretty consistent at our office.

 

Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

ANY OF YOUR NATIVE HAIR in the area will fall out? I thought they always talked in numbers like 25% of native hair in the area?

I can't search titles by a search term. Would like to search for doctor names.

Why when I do a search in this forum does it only show a search of members rather then a search of title threads. I've used many web forums before and can't figure out how to search this one. What am I missing that's obvious?