MONTH 1
The surgery, while long (I was there approx. 8 hours) was generally comfortable and a fine experience. I was diligent about my post op instructions and never really experienced much pain or discomfort. The area above the FUT scar was numb, but that is normal and something I was used to. The first month was actually awesome. While thinning, I still had a very decent amount of hair, and I loved seeing and feeling the "reinforcements" and envisioning how good things would look once they grew in. The transplanted stubble didn't actually shed until into month two, and I had no noticable shockloss after one month. I had no shockloss from my prior procedure, so I thought I was in the clear.
MONTH 2
By the end of month two, my "reinforcements" were all gone and I was starting to experience shock loss to the point that I was balder than before surgery. I mainly believed it was just the transplanted hairs falling out, so I thought; "Yes, progress!" My first real clue that I was losing native/prior transplant hair was catchng people at work staring at my hair during meetings and conversations. Then I actually began to pay attention to the number of hair I was losing in the shower as well as my comb afterwards. Yikes! Shortly after that I had to attend an out-of-town funeral and saw a handful of family I hadn't seen for about 3-4 months. Same story...no one could resist looking at my hair. What I didn't realize at that time was it went beyond just thinning. Those 90's HT's had left a fair amount of pitting and cobbling in my recipient area that I never realized was even there. I'd always had enough hair (until now) to cover it. Furthermore, those old HT's were placed at 90 degree angles, so that hair sticks straight up for almost 1 cm before laying back down (I wear a longer style), leaving a nice open window to view the scarring. Needless to say the close of month two wasn't quite as awesome as month 1. Crap!
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