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  1. BigP, granted I had fewer grafts than you and only in the hairline, but I buzzed the rest of my head a week after the transplant (in fact, I had to, because I looked absurd with hair on my head that was inches long and then the implanted area of stubble on my hairline). I was careful not to touch the transplants though and just buzzed the untransplanted areas - fortunately it all looked roughly the same length when I was done. My doctor told me that a few weeks after the transplant, all the grafts are permanent and you can have your hair cut because even if transplanted hairs fall out during the hair cut (and they likely will) you're not affecting the grafts underneath the skin. 6 months is a shockingly long time not to be able to buzz your hair - is your doctor suggesting you don't cut your hair for six months or you just can't buzz it (I don't see any reason for the difference)?
  2. utley7 - yes, I buy the generic form of propecia from costco (it's dirt cheap there compared to other pharmacies) and I use a pill cutter to split the pills in half. I had some side effects from a full pill, which have largely resolved from a half pill (sometimes my libido fluctuates but I think that's more likely just the normal fluctuations that coincide with mood, a busy work week, etc. instead of the drug, although I'd have to stop taking it propecia completely to be sure of that). It also doesn't seem to have hurt the health of my hair, but everyone is different of course.
  3. pkipling - thanks for your post. I looked over your photos and you and I are in similar situations regarding our age, the area transplanted, size of the operation and relative health of our surrounding hair. Your 4 month photos look great - I'd be thrilled if that's the coverage I have at four months. In my mind everything up until 6 months is just small random stubble and/or whispy fine white hairs growing in the transplanted area so that it looks especially obvious that there was a transplant, but your photos give me some hope I'm exaggerating things. I also know what you mean about using longer hair to cover the receding hairline, which is why when I shed all my new hair transplants I'm worried it will look obvious I had a transplant because suddenly my hairline will be receding in the span of a week and I won't have longer hair to cover that up. But oh well, I doubt most people would notice and even if they did they'd just think maybe they are incorrectly remembering how my hairline looked a week ago. Voxman - thanks for the laugh. I'll make sure everyone sees my first edition.
  4. I've been searching high and low and haven't found a discussion about what seems like an unavoidable pitfall of hair transplant surgery: how does one avoid looking stupid when their grafts begin to grow in at a shorter length than the rest of one's hair? I had a procedure two weeks ago. Right now, the grafted hairs are still in place and I buzzed my existing hairs to match their length, so it all looks uniform. But my transplants will shed soon (some have already) and the rest of my hair will continue to grow. Not only am I worried this will make it obvious I had a hair transplant, as my hairline will go from full to receding in a matter of days once the transplants fall out, but it seems unavoidable that my hairline will look unnatural when the grafts being to grown in again. It will look like someone cut only the front hairs to a very short level and left the rest of my hairs long. Has anyone been through this, especially with a transplant in the receding corners, where it's hard to hide that area? Is the only answer to just keep buzzing your head over and over again until you're confident all of the new hairs have grown in and you can let them all grow out at the same time? I would like to make it as inconspicuous as possible that I had a transplant, so any advice on how people handled blending in the growth of the transplanted grafts would be much appreciated. Thanks.
  5. A bit about myself: I'm a 32 year old male and I've had a receding hairline since I was about 24. I jumped on propecia (half a pill) and rogaine relativitly soon thereafter, and either because of that or just because of genetics, the rest of my hair is actually quite full and healthy. I'd say I'm an aggressive Norwood 2 on my left side and a Norwood 3 on my right side. I became adept at using my forelock to cover my hairless but even that slowly became less effective and it was also annoying to have to worry about strategic hair placement all the time. Most people, if they found out I had a hair transplant, would say I didn't need one, and it's true I never felt I needed one, but now that I've had one, it only validated my belief that a modest change to my hairline would make a significant aesthetic result. Now onto that: I had waffled with the idea of having a hair transplant for years. Being relatively young and having most of my hair in tact, I juggled feelings of doubt (would I regret filling in my temples if all the rest of my hair falls out in the next ten years), money (hair transplants are not cheap!), guilt (with so many balding people who would love my hair, was I being shallow in wanting a relatively minor area filled) and even basic philosophical questions like "given I can't stop my body from aging, isn't it better to just accept aging as it comes instead of trying to fight it, which is a guaranteed losing battle?" But recently I decided to stop overthinking things and adopt the theory that if I did my research and gave myself enough time to reflect that this is what I really wanted, then I could go forward with the surgery and live with whatever consequences there were, knowing I educated myself as much as I could at the time. Thus, I met with a number of doctors and did an insane amount of research, to the point I became an untrained expert on hairloss, and ultimately I decided I did want to proceed, but I wanted to proceed with the best doctor I could possibly find. That ended up being Dr. Konior. I had 1230 FUEs, and granted I'm young and healthy, but the work was so well done that 7 days after the surgery I was able to buzz my head so my existing hair was the same length as the new grafts, and nobody noticed I had a transplant - they all only complimented me on the new buzzed look. There were no visible scabs in the recipient area and no visible scars in the donor area that shortly after surgery. Dr. Konior and his staff are utmost professionals and are very good at being available. Dr. Konior has a reputation as being a perfectionist, and everything I've seen thus far has lived up to that. Not only were my recipient area and donor area extremely clean (even Dr. Konior's staff remarked at how unusually clean they were), I had very minimal pain afterward and it was only for the first few days. Granted, perhaps my age and overall health, along with my relatively small number of grafts, led to such fast healing, and I have yet to see how the grafts will actually grow, but so far every expectation of mine has well been exceeded. Dr. Konior is an artful FUE doctor, and while pricey, worth every penny if you can afford it. If you're looking for the best, you might find equivalents, but I doubt you'd find better. I'll update this, and hopefully my sentiments will not have changed, when the grafts grow.
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