nightman

hsrp10, Thank you for your comments. I went to a very reputable clinic that has a great track record with standing behind their work. That being said, if I don't have the growth from this procedure I wouldn't feel any better getting a full refund or even twice my money back. We all have limited grafts and my main concern is a dwindling supply at this point. I have been in contact with my clinic so far and their response was to continue to wait, I mean it's good advice and there really isn't anything else they can do currently, but I started this thread to try and draw from the community some better evidence of slow growers to put my mind at ease and hopefully others who are slow growers. Garageland and Cant Decide, Thank you both very much for your links. I hadn't seen either profile yet. Upon reviewing them though, I'd like to play the devils advocate and say I'm not so sure if their problem was slow growth or if it was more the short hair cut. Out of the pair, I'd say the redman's progress at 6 months was a little weaker, but I'd argue that JohnnyBs results at 6 month were pretty good. There are definitely better results out there at 6 months, so technically they could fall into the slower growers category, but they both had the framework for a good result at 6 months. But obviously for both individuals they look night and day better after 1-2 years then at 6 months. I wanted to wait until my HT had time to mature and then post all my progress pics at once, but I suppose now is as good a time as any. I'm going to flesh this out more with some comments and my thoughts, but this is mostly just the pictures. Hair Restoration Site for nightman

Slow Growers... is it a real thing? I've gone through about every picture gallery of a hair transplant that I can find online. From what I can tell, a successful transplant will start to grow in around 3 to 4 months and by about 6 to 7 months the new hairs have grown out enough that the transplant will look really good and will only improve from there. However, for about every good profile of people saying they are happy at the 6 month mark, there is another person or two who is worried about lack of growth, lack of density or no growth at all. Sure enough, this community or a representative from the clinic will say to not worry, that he or she is a slow grower and you can expect some magic to happen between 6 months to a year and that person leaves a little less worried, everyone's happy. That being said, I have not yet seen one hair transplant timeline gallery that shows anyone who had underwhelming results at 6 months, show great results at a year. People will say that they were slow growers, or they have seen pictures of someone else who was one. But I haven't personally seen any photographic evidence of a slow grower. Maybe I'm not as good at searching through the internet as I think, but if someone, anyone, has a link to a photo gallery that clearly shows this I would be really interested to see it. I do understand that there can be positive changes from 6 months and to a year and almost always there is, but if you aren't showing good growth at 6 months, I think that it seems to a valid time frame to warrant some concern. Obviously, there is nothing anyone (you, the doctor, someone from this site) can do at that point and you are going to have to just wait it out, but I find it a little misleading to almost give false hope to some. I really hope someone, or many people, can prove me wrong and I will gladly eat my words. I'm just about at that 6 month mark with my second HT, my first HT being what you can only describe as a complete failure. I have it pretty well documented so far, but I'm definitely falling into the slow grower category for this one, which has me very concerned due to my bad track history. If after a year I have great results, I will be so overjoyed not only for myself, but so my results can be viewed by others and prove that slow growers are real and help others relax. That is what I'm hoping for at least, without any photo evidence to date of a slow grower for myself to relax.... Anyone able to help ease my mind?