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Thanks for this tip, as I read on your other post about success in helping your scar. I am 10 weeks post-op and my scar remains very red (no pain, no numbness, no stretching), so I am looking for ways to help bring the redness down. Did you find this shampoo helped with the redness right away?

Hi Sad - I've been using Baby Shampoo 6 days a week plus Nizoral one day a week. My scar is still quite red, but it has not stretched in any area. It is still thin and it has no bumps. I had some shock loss around the ears by the scar, but the hairs have now grown back. It is disguised well with as long as I wear my hair (about 3/4 to an inch long), but I intend to ask the clinic about ideas to cut down on the redness. I am of scandanavian descent with a mildly fair skin tone, so slow elimination of the redness is not a big surprise to me. I am actually hoping what it may mean is good blood flow in my scalp and a possibility of better long-term result in the scar and grafts. I can bear hanging onto the red longer if it means a better long term results than I may have had with a quick tone change. Sometime soon I will post a pic over on my thread. I see one guy on the forum recommends Watermans Grow Me Shampoo for scar healing assistance. I am going to ask my Dr. about it.

I agree you should try fin. You will probably not only keep what you have but you could also have some nice growth/recovery. You have nice hair for 34. I think you are being too uptight about it. I had less than half your hair when I was 34! Try to keep what you have. If you must look at HT, you may consider econimcal FUE in Turkey by a recommended forum doc.

Thanks, Zup. I have done pretty well to put it out of my mind most of the time. I check it out after showering, and then move on with the day. Feb/Mar should be a good period. Happy Holidays!

That's great, Sunny! I also had some pop up over the last couple of weeks. I estimate I have about 300-400 hairs from grafts showing now, some as long as 1/4 inch in the mid scalp area, evenly distributed and very thin. I only have about 50 around the hairline area. I think the graft hairs can start growing any time, but I also believe very strict care regiment has helped in fostering growth. Rogaine and Proecia plus the right shampoo and lots of sleep. I also added a Biotin supplement, Zinc, and multivitamin about 6 weeks ago. Mine have stopped popping out in the last 4-5 days, so this could just be a tease with the real growth still being held back for a month or two. I only study mine after getting out of the shower in the morning, and then I move on with my day. I hope your growth continues without a pause!

Thank you for posting your results. Looks wonderful at 4.5 months.

Your post op does not look like 2915 grafts. No way. I think you have received the growth relative to the grafts you actually received.

3318 grafts

Good post, Jason. Always glad to hear from people who are pleased with their choice and the results. Often times they disappear from the forum and move on with a new and improved life (good for them!), so it is good to see someone like you giving back with your story.

Hi Sunny, I am not taking medicine. I only have 2 or 3 at any one time, so far. Time is moving along nicely now. The first month was a bit torturous, but once I realized I was going to not have much of an ugly duckling look, I have put it mostly in the back of my mind other than when I check out the forum every few days or so now. I should also mention my scar. The scar feels good (no pain, no tightness, no numbness) and is healing thin (no visible stretch), but it is quite pink/red still. Mine may take more than the average time to convert to scalp tone. I sometimes feel the scar's presence more at the end of a long day and my neck muscles recently felt strangely fatigued back there for a few days, but then that went away. Time is the scar's best friend. I know it is getting better now and will get much better in the next few months, but no one should ever be misled to believe that all scars will "heal" in less than a month...I'm sure it is a different timeframe for everyone.

Week 9: Still not-photo ready yet, but I had some growth and pimples in various parts of the scalp are more frequent now. Mid scalp and near crown are areas that are thickening with hair, but I think it is hairs that I did not fully lose during shedding that are getting thicker/longer and are being helped with Propecia/Rogaine. A few hairs (10-20) popped out along the hairline on both sides and the front a couple of weeks back, but they have remained "lone soldiers" over the last couple of weeks. I still take it all as a pretty good sign right now that a growth period is near. I hope by the first of the year I will have a photo where some difference from my-pre-op can be clearly distinguished.

I agree the pimples are a sign of growth, but watch to make sure you don't get too many. Doc may want to prescribe an antibiotic if you get too many. The pimples are not "necessary" for growth, so no need to put up with them if you get to many and they are an eye sore or just plain hurt.

Looks about as it should, Sunny. Those first 4-5 weeks are kind of stressful worrying about how it may look before growth, but now it settles out and we wait for growth.

Looking great. You have a home run in the works here. Cooley is in the top 5 in the U.S. In my mind. I don't know how he does it without shaving the recipient area, but that is also a nice plus for patients to reduce the ugly duckling period.

Hopefully your hairs shed. You really want them to shed and then follow up with vigorous growth. Best of luck

Very impressive result. Good that he went on Fin as well, so hopefully he will never have to worry about loss behind the transplant recipient area.

It's pretty easy for me to see because I basically had zero native hair left in the front 1/3 after the shedding concluded. So anything new is very apparent to me and it is easy to see the new growth. In the mid scalp it just seems thicker/fuller and that's about the only distinction I can make right now. Maybe in a few days I'll have enough up front for a photo to capture it well enough to post.

Agree. PRP is most impactful in supplementing an FUE procedure to help yield on the weak FUE grafts. Save your money.

Looks great. Congrats, and you still have several months of great growth coming!

Turtle, this is amazing and keeps getting better each month.

Looks as expected at this stage. Hope your donor scar also feels good at this point. 7 weeks in, I hardly feel mine any more. Literally each day it becomes less noticeable (feeling-wise) that it is even there. I think by week 10 or so I won't feel any remnants of tigtness or anything at all.

End of Week 7: I have some new growth of a few indiviudal grafts at the hairline and a couple of multi-hair grafts in the dense pack area behind the hairline. I've just noticed these in the last day or so and they are very small and sparse, but they are definitely new since my shedding period largely ended a few weeks ago. They are also not native hairs because I did not have hair that far forward before my procedure. Not enough for photos, but if more growth starts to show, I will start taking photos. Encouraging 7th week, but I'm not jumping for joy just yet or becoming mirror-obsessed.

Talk to your doc about it. Even if it helps your scabs or itching or anything like that, you just can't know what it might do to the delicate follicle at this stage. I personally believe it is a really bad idea to introduce anything topical that is not pre-approved by your Dr. I see it happen way too much on this forum, and I think people are taking chances that may negatively impact their results. You spent a lot of time, money and emotional investment to get a HT, protect it to the maximum degree, especially in the first 2-3 months.

David, I realize I may be an internet idiot, but I search aaron602 and your crappy search engine brings up nothing under hair loss sufferers.

Keep this in mind, the techs are people too who have ethics and most believe a great deal in their work as well. If a doc and techs are colluding to short-change or over-charge patients, this will come out sooner or later as there are many techs involved. During my procedure, there were 6-8 techs involved and they all knew my graft count as the day went along, as they needed to tally the ones, twos, and threes. I was talking to the techs placing grafts at the end of the day, and they knew my exact graft count (probably because they got 500+ and they had to be there way late!). Don't forget that a doc is risking his license by allowing any funny business in this regard. Medical boards are not fond of fraud. I wouldn't worry about the issue much in the U.S. but I wouldn't travel overseas and trust their laws would protect me in the same way.