Hi guys
I m new here 31 norwood 5 with above average donor area bald front scalp and so thinning in vertix and crown, recently i had a hair transplant with well known clinic and famous ISHRS surgent with 20 years experience in FUE and hairline design. In my session he could use 3650 graft to cover the front head using a new method they call it in the clinic StemCell FUE (i think it is same directed automated FUE) using blades between 0.9 to 0.5
Now i m in my 18th day and so depress, actually after i made the procedure and during recovery and healing time, i start read extensively on the hair transplant, and each time i read a story on the internet i found myself i made a follish decison and i ruin my life because this decision and i cannot back normal again. I found many things that i wish if i had pay attention to them before the procedure then maybe i would not take the risk. I only checked before and after pictures and being surprised with remarkable results that the hair transplant can do, really it is media effect. I ignored the details and real stories
When i looked for clinic i did not want to go cheap and save money but also i look only for a name and some recommendation from people, cv's and experience of the Surgent, i think i should have made more research about hair transplant
I want to share with you the points that are make me so depress, paranoid and skpectical. i cannot think straight anymore
- When i disucss the procedure i only discussed it with the clinic representitvie and she explained everything verywell but because of heavy demand i could not see the doctor till the time of procedure. Now after reading i know this is not the practical way to do it and there should be a master plan with doctor first. This is make me nervous because i did not do it
- Each time i read a story i found complications, and the hair transplant it is still not succefull and if it gives a good look in first year it will not after many years and the hair will thin and look fake and ugly. I put myself under the surgent mercy and what he did to me which something out of my control
- Even if the transplant area would not be thin in the future, I forgot totally the issue of hair loss progression (maybe because i already lost much hair) and now i feel my self like i will be a slave to my progressive baldness. medication and many procedures in the future as the transplant hair will not fall.
- i m afraid that i already used so much grafts in first scalp 3650 grafts and i used some of them for hairline density. I did not think about capacity of donor area to cover the rest in the future and i hope the surgent took this issue in consideration when he design the hairline.
- how my baldness pattern will continue it will make me norwood 7 with my front transplant hair ? if i decide to have another procedure in the future what will be the situation of donor area, can i use around 2000 to cover the vertex and a little on the crown?
- if i decide in future to stop and not continue in any hair transplant and i want to shave what i will see, will i see scarrs and white dots in my donor area (when i made my decison for procedure i asked about this point and they told me no more scarrs with the advance fue methds), will i see pumps, points redness in my receipient area, so that means the shave is not an option in the future also
After thinking about all of that for 15 days, i concluded going bald is much better than expose my self to all of those variables and headeachs whether now or in future. Just accept the mother nature it would be easier.
i wish if i shaved all my head before surgery and accept the appearance of Walter White all i hope is just look normal now.
Can someone help me here with some ideas and experience because i m thinking too much now ?