theflyer

Very insightful thoughts, thanks a lot. Also, I agree with you that this is not a good transplant at all with thhis huge by,her of grafts! I may go for FUE to correct what happened. The only thing is that my crown is so bald so if I go with correction nothing will be much left for the crown. We are talking about almost 8000 grafts will be gone. Should I correct the front only and leave the crown? What are your thoughts? Also, I am still 30 so this means my baldness will grow more. What do you think?

Exactly, I am very frustrated that this number of grafts have been wasted. I will post it , The crown is so bald even when I discussed the touch up offer, I asked if I want to do a transplant to lower the hairline and to cover the crown since I am doing a surgery anyway. The answer that I cannot because my crown is so bald and huge area. Either crown and touch up or touch up and reducing hair Iine. Very limited options for me. The middle of head is acceptable but the hairline and sides are the worst.

Yes, it is not great unfortunately and if you feel my pain it is not even close to 0/10. Thank you Spanker for your med advice, i am now considering it to reduce the progress of the sides. The crown Now is so bald. THe first photo in my second post is pre-op. Yes, your assumption is right, all what I have is a transplanted hair. Side part is good idea and it is yes helping to reduce the lighting affect. However, nowadays, the sides are balding and when I do a side part, it becomes like I have hair in the top, then nothing at the top of sides, then hair sides. Kind of patches. This is why I put my hair style at the back to try hiding the sides as much as possible to have a reasonable look. Do you see how I am really left with limited option? If the transplant was good, I wouldn't be in this situation at all. What makes things worse is my crown is so bald. If I want to do a transplant, I am in the delima that should I use the grafts to correct the old transplant or cover the crown and the sides? There is not enough grafts especially I used a lot in the first op. I started to think to shave my head for bald look but the scar is taking this option out.

Thank you Matt for showing empathy. I appreciate it. Regarding your point about lost more hair, from front, I didn't have hair at all and all the hair that you see in front is a transplanted hair. Can you believe that I had 5400+ grafts and this is the outcome? My look was similar to your pre op and I am happy to see how successful yours was with less grafts than mine. Unfortunately, mine wasn't. My year post op, I was putting my hair to sides to hide the look of the hairline. I put my pre op and post op which you are seeing the first photo in my second post.

Thanks Spanker for your feedback and i hope you don't experience what i have been through. I got a feedback from different Doctors recommended by the network who said the transplant wasn't good at all with 5400+ grafts. I selected Dr. Rahal for his work and the talk about his work in the forum. but things didn't turn well. These things happen and i seek advise and guidance from experienced people. I am not on meds, i wasn't advised to take meds after the one year mark. you mentioned that my baldness has progressed. This is true, but can the transplanted 5400+ grafts be progressed as well? i am not concerned about my crown baldness. but can you look close to the hairline please? if it is you, will you feel happy with such a hairline with 5400+ grafts. I attached more photos for the pre-op and others as requested. Now you have 5 pictures.

Dear All, I seek your sincere advice after my bad hair transplant with Dr. Rahal. I did it in 2010 with more than 5400+ to resolve baldness degree 5. I am going to be 30 years old in March. Since then, i am suffering a lot, started to avoid social gathering. Emotionally i feet anger and isolated. even the simplest things like posting pictures of me in facebook and instgram cannot do it because of my weird look. Espcially now my options are limited, even shaving my head fully is not an option because of the scare!! not to mention that i already consumed 5400+ grafts!! What makes feel frustrated that the crown is so bald and my baldness will grow more with my age. Moreover, with 5400+ grafts, you expect a better hairline than what i got. it is like i dont have a hairline. people tell me you are bald from front and back, do a transplant!!! it is like i didnt do it in first place or even worse!! Now, my options are very limited with what happened. do you feel the pain i am going through? I seek your advise and support. what should i do? I approached Rahal, he offered a free touch up only but i have to pay for tickets and i am coming from the middle east which is a lot. Also, i am the one who has to suffer through all this experience. Also, i started to feel not comfortable going to Rahal after what happened. Because it may happen again since it happened to me. I feel the touch up is a temporary solution only. please help me with your guidance,