Sethticles

Hey sam, its average looking image & hard to tell what you are talking about, other than it looks good. what are you expecting to correct and how

I'll have to wait til i get home and check... i think 5mg tablets,

just wanted to share a moment I had last night and again this morning. I was brushing my teeth and like most nights had a good old look at my hair, prior to my last session I noticed a decent amount of thinning in a section towards left of my crown, i felt my crown was expanding, anyway last night i noticed it had filled in like it was a year ago, didnt think much of it other than different angle to the bright bathroom light but this morning after my ride to work (i shower in the office and the bathroom has horrible lighting) the scalp test was the same result. more hair in a place where its been thinning. im thinking to myself, ummm HOW? i know my last HT session no grafts planted there, so how? the only thing i can think of which is different to my daily treatment is BIOTIN, which makes me think i stopped taking it a year ago.. so for me BIOTIN is a must.

i hate to brag but I have had 3 surgeries - 4785 FUE and its impossible to tell the scarring. i shave down to #1 to #3 blend all the time, in fact on NYE my close mates were shocked to see how much new hair i had and they were all convinced i had a HT, but couldn't work out why there was no scarring. they all had a good hard look and came to the conclusion they took all the hair from my nut sack. true story, i later came out of the HT closet and announce I had had the wayne rooney treatment, they were all well impressed

just be careful and wash it out daily and look after your scalp mate

Hey man! Glad to hear you're feeling a bit better. You're a pro by now, sure you got the mental game down more than most

hehehehe - my mental game isnt that great... but i do try

Great news Seth, I reckon two more months and that hat will be collecting dust in the closet here's to more hair 2016:D

lets hope for a cap free year... thanks for the kind words

@David - thanks mate

@ esrec, hey mate i think 3 months is just too early, why? i tend to think your new grafts need clean healthy scalp or they just wont grow to their potential and you could run the risk of a poor result or low survival rate. i could be wrong

good news man I;m going to need a second hair transplant and to be honest I will be more worried going into that than the first one because of potential permanent shock-loss if I go for more density at the front so possibly i will avoid that and just concentrate on thickening up the mid section and maybe the crown, anyway great to hear you're on track again.

its been a big worry for me, so i understand how you feel

hey guys.... 2 months gone now and well things flipped around in the last couple of weeks, the shockloss already seems to have fixed itself, and i had some redness so i used some nizoral shampoo and that went away too, still get the occasional pimple which hurts, more like an in grown hair that gets infected. but just cruising along again.

truth be known, i was feeling really shit, back to living under a baseball cap all the time, until about a week ago when i woke up and saw a fair bit of change, the hat gets less use every day now...

if things stay the way they are and the rest fills in, id be pretty happy camper.

@Monty - yes its definitely just the cycle of your hair, i had the same at 7-8months try not to panic

Hi sethticles , How is ur 2nd HT going , I read your story about the Quake , seriously if I were you I wud have fainted thinking , that the results are not going to Great , as the quake might have caused Nervousness in the staff , anyways how is it going ?

The staff were pretty cool under pressure, especially the little one, she was the one who grabbed the grafts and held onto them, it all happened pretty quickly, and considering I was in a much stronger earthquake about a year ago I didn't think all that much of it. I remember I kept saying it only feels like a 6 or 5.5, turns out it was 7.5. the damage caused 200 deaths so i was well wrong. Hows is it all growing / going? well i copped a massive dose of shockloss, im now at wk 8 nothing major to report other than i feel shit i lost so much native hair and praying it returns in the next couple of months. we'll see!!

Definitely do not do 10 weeks, that's crazy unless the Dr is going to work on two different areas, i.e. the hairline and then the crown, although if that's the case, then surly he can do the surgery over 2 days. I.

2 days was the original plan and 2 different areas were indeed planted, hairline & crown followed by the mid section, lucky enough because i was at the ugly duckling phase of 10 weeks it was pretty bloody easy to see where the first session was and wasn't. would i do it again this way, simple answer is no, but i was left with little options

10 weeks...Rahal's office told me 8 months. Maybe I misheard. I would definitely consider two FUE sessions if the doctor is confident with a second operation at 10 weeks or a few months.

not going to lie it was a risk on my own behalf, would i put my grafts through extra trauma would i cause the first transplant to fail due to new trauma,

i pushed ahead anyway and hoped for the best, id say 99% of everyone on this site would have said. don't do it, wait a full year and if i hadn't done it myself I would suggest otherwise

look the reason I did do it 10 weeks apart was I had a new job offer and with virtually no chance of getting away from the new office in the near future, i rushed ahead and got all done before i started the new job. subsequently took another 2 years before i could plan another one, which now has caused major shockloss, currently looking worse than the ugly duckling, looking back I did the best in a tight situation.

but in your case you will need to assess the situation and know you are a couple of years of chasing your tail with hair restoration, step by step, its a long haul a long tiring journey of "i hope i really hope" will it grow, lots and lots of post op care, lots of daily treatment... lots of meds to take.

an option that i am looking at in the future will SMP to add some density which might be a suitable option for you.

also which hasnt been mentioned here is that you have very pale skin like me, which is great for FUE if you feel you want to shave down in the future.

@Jmorscha - yeah i had originally planned for 4000 mega session, but when i had a face to face consultation with Dr Bhatti he was concerned that he may damage grafts taken 4000 out over 2 days and sadly i had to settle for 3000 and insisted on waiting for things to heal before he could remove more, hence the 10 week difference between sessions.

Hey mate, I think you wouldn't be able to achieve the right look with FUE only, you hair loss looks up around NW5-6 range, thus i would think you need at least two sessions of about 3500+ per sess, over a 2 year period, may seem a long time but worth the long wait, all the best dude

Thought about Thailand once but not after seeing this. Anyone know what happened to this guy? He was supposed to get repair with Feriduni but disappeared

http://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/eve/172143-19-years-age-norwood-2-3-there-anybody-out-there-8.html

https://fuehairtransplantrepairferidunihairclinic2015.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/my-upcoming-repair-hair-transplant-fue-at-dr-feridunis-hair-clinic-in-belgium-2015-13th-of-july/

he should be about 5 months post repair job now

If you were to razor shave the back, would you see white dots?

can't say i've tried

well done happy healing happy growing

i also copped a decent amount of dandruff around weeks 2-3-4 finally got some nizoral and have been using that twice a week, i had some redish skin well away from the transplanted areas and donor areas and i think the nizoral has cleared that up too.

just sucks at this time of year with lots of luncheons and dinner parties to attend and all i want to do is hide under a hat...

Hey mate.... you are definitely not alone..... you've come to the right place.... feel free to PM if you need a chat

i was on 2% minox as per the Dr's orders for 6weeks but only stopped fin for about a week post op

hey buddy, ive said this before and I will say it again, FUE is designed for someone like you, why? get in early avoid the depression stage of going bald, do a little by little fix up and if as you already feel will want to shave down in later life, you can do so with virtually zero scarring, you have the perfect attitude and goal towards your hairloss.

many Dr's and other guys here will completely disagree with me, but I stand by my word, if I knew about FUE earlier I would have dived right in and got it done.

FUE donor area is alot less than FUT so I thinks its best to get the most out of your hair when you're younger when looks mean more to the opposite sex or same sex, i see too many times guys are told to wait and wait and wait , see what NW level you will go do. NAH i disagree, FUE gives what probably is the enviable hair loss a longer period of time. anyway Im rambling on

all the best buddy

Hang in there with the shock-loss, we've all been there. You're in that awkward teenage stage of the process but the results down the road will be awesome. Trust me...been there...twice.

thanks John, i guess i didnt really have any shockloss the first and second HT but this time a massive case.... baseball caps are my best friend now....