BoomerSooner

10 days post op

Yeah I'm really curious to see where I will be in a years time. I don't know how to add my blog to the bottom of my posts but I added a more clear picture of 1 week post op

GNX, I am not for sure yet. I'm going to see exactly how this one turns out and then decide from there. He did mention that about 1500-2000 would make it completely full

One week plus one day post op.

Ahmed, I just recently had one done for 4440 grafts with Dr. Wong on the 17th Jan 2013. I was instructed to wear a loose hat for the first 5 days (which they supplied to me) and then after those 5 days that I could wear my hats that I had worn previous to surgery. As for as office hats and stuff, I'm really not for sure what you could wear. Today is my 1 week post op and it is red and still shows scabs. The staples wont be removed until next week, so that's another thing you would want to consider. As far as being to go out without a hat and look okay, it will for sure be many weeks, if not a few months.

Alright KO, I definitely will do that

Moose, I had 4440 total units: 1579 Single 2561 Double 300 Triple/Quad

KO, he didn't seem too worried about it at all. He said it should turn out to be a pretty good set of hair and he now has me taking proscar, which should preserve most of the hair I currently had. Unlike Propecia, you only take 1/3 of a pill of proscar 3x per week.

Thanks guys, waiting for the results to come always seems like it takes forever. But its all downhill from now, I just have to get through that ugly 2-3 month phase I hear about

Cim, Was it pretty easy and painless to remove the staples? I know they told me that it should be but if you didn't wash around the staples real good leading up to that, than it could make it a little more tough

Haha I'm not going to disappear. I think that the more people that post their experiences that the more it will help others decide to undergo the procedure. Today is 3rd day post op and I still have swelling in the temples and forehead but overall I'm still very comfortable

Stagger, I am leaving out today (Sunday). They do 1 hairwash for you the day after and then instruct you how to do it the rest of the time. My wife and I went and did a little trail hiking up around Grouse Mountain and such. What a beautiful area

Moose I am not for sure. I will do some checking up on that and let you know

So I'm on day 2 post surgery now and the pain has definitely started to go away, not like it was a whole lot anyways. I have started to develop swelling in my forehead and temples which has made it a little uncomfortable but not too bad. The top of my head has started to develop some dry skin, which is completely normal I.believe

Here are the before pics and the day after surgery

They estimated me for around 4000 grafts and were able to get 4440. I have pictures and will get them uploaded soon. Let me just say that Dr Wong and his staff are great and made the process as smooth as possible. I am now on my 2nd day post surgery and am feeling pretty good overall. I can feel it around all my staples but it really isn't that bad at all. I was labeled as a NW6 and they were able to get my whole head covered, including my crown which they didn't think they were going to be able to do when they evaluated me on the online consultation. Overall, the whole process start to finish took over 12 hours which for me was the worst part. As far as the pain, there really wasn't much at all. Those dreaded numbing shots that some talk about were nothing more than little pricks and pinches. After around 11 hours, some of the shots began wearing off but after I told him, he gave me a shot in each of my eye brows and it completely killed all pain. I would suggest Dr. Wong to anyone that is debating on which Dr to go see. We (my wife and I) didn't have the best of luck once we arrived in Canada and they were tremendous on working with us. Some examples were that our GPS didn't work once we started driving after we rented our rental car. We weren't able to find our way back to the airport rental services so we had to do without. We called their office and Daria guided us to their office and said it wasn't any issue if we were a little late. Dr Wong than proceeded to let us borrow his until we were able to get ours fixed at a Best Buy. Another thing that happened was that my wife parked in the dental parking garage and after surgery, we went to leave and they had locked our car in there. One of Dr Wong's staff members, Lovely is her name, stopped to help us. She got a hold of someone that worked for the city and she waited over an hour and a half for them to show up, only to realize that this guy didn't have the key either to open it. So Lovely said she would drive us to our hotel no matter where it was, and she did. If anyone has any questions to ask me, please do it. I know there are some people that are bordering on pulling the trigger and taking the plunge. Go for it!

Thanks cimbom, it did go well. It took around 12 hours and got 4440 grafts done. How are you coming along?

Congrats cimbom, I'll be going in to Dr Wong in a matter of hours. Glad to hear all your experiences went well!

Here are the ones from today. I go in tomorrow for surgery for approximately 4000 grafts.

I went and visited Dr Wong today and was completely satisfied in every aspect of the way business is handled. I am confident he will do great work and Ill keep trying to post pictures as I go. I'm on a terrible wifi network right now which is preventing me from uploading the ones of me currently