Sam23

I did FUE using 0.75 mm tools The issue is in the hairline, even if i shave my head a line will appear with empty head it is not right And now my head is full of white dots Believe it or not, i do not have issue in donor area, under 3# some gaps might appear but no big scars or injuries so far, and i feel almost normal in donor area, sometime it is itching but nothing like the receiving area When i asked other doctors opinions, they told me the harvest technique was done in professional way and it all good But it seems Implantkng was the problem and not that good in addition to wrong estimation when they draw the hairline A lot of variables in hair transplants, and you cannot assure that everything will go 100% right

Thanks Spanker for your opinion , i appreciate that and what you said is true that i m not prepared for such surgery and i did not know where i jumped However, that does not mean there is no problem, if the problem is only in me, i will not hear comments from people they even do not know that i had HT The problem that i have are 1 - Ridging on hairline which give feeling like stone on your head 2 - Chronical inflammed skin that prevents me to expose to sun or even any sport activity, always burning sensation 3 - The appearnace of the skin is not normal, alot of white dots under each hair follicle like cobblstonning 4 - The hairline position that does not suit my case and looks so artifical, a hairline for nw5 /6. With large bald spot, it looks like fence of weed on the head, i cannot even shave it All what i asked for from first day, hairs on the middle without hairline, just to give impression i m not bald. But the doctor convience ld me and fooled me with the number that he will implated more than 7000 hair so it can cover everything, even he told me the tools are so small it will not create any problem and it is micro needle And i end up with this disfiguration, everything they told me was lie My target now is improving the skin as much as possible and make it normal again, remove the artifical hairline and keep thinning look, so i would be able to shave it in the future without a silly round line around my scalp I saw cases here, people removed their transplant hair and the skin back normal so why you say it will be worse ? It is nightmare every day, i m isolated from all people and all activities, it is totally ruin my life I want my healthy skin back, i want to get back to the gym and do not worry about my scalp anymore

I tried electrolysis on one hair 2 days ago, and i m watching it But how i can enhance the skin ? I m thinking to take the surgery route to remove the whole problem, but i m afraid from the results and skin reaction I found 2 to 3 ridgin on my head i treat one with cortison injection and it shrinked but it is still there so i need more injections i think A lot of problems that i face due to this surgery, it is nightmare that i m living since Aug-15 til now

I m not used any minoxidil or finestride I m thinking now if i lost all the hair and only kept with hair on hairline, this is a serious cosmotic problem and better to remove it I m not rush into anything but i want solution, maybe remove the hair and redistribut it in better way than dense them at the hairline, so it can gove thinning look better than perfect hairline But if i can remove it all and back to where i start and forgot all of that, i will be the happier person in the world

A doctor called catagay suzgin What are my options now ? Can i remove it ? Can the head back normal again ?

Hi I m post 10 months now and my scalp is pink, inflammed and tight i want to shave my head but i cannot due to that This hair transplant cursed my life Also my all native hair has fallen and there is only transplant hair now with small scars and redness the hairs are only on hairline area making like fence around mybald head Can someone help me, is there a doctor here can remove the hair and enhance my skin appearance ? Really i m totally depressed

BTW i m using the following creams now to treat the skin Elidel (pimercolimus 1%) Fuccicort (corticosteriod) Daivobet (calcipotriol/ betamethasone) Elocom (mometasone furoate) The pic above is after 3 months of using those creams i see maybe 30% improvements so far

Thanks Blake I want to test electrolysis on couple of hair to see what will happen but before that i want to treat the skin as much as i can So far i have like ridiging or internal scar maybe on the left side of the hairline like edge, it is hard to show in the picture but you can sense internal bump like stone that happen because failling to dense the hairline i think (nw5 with dense hairline !!!!!!) Also the cobblstonning under the hairs, tiny dots under each hair ( have the same shape of the incesions at time of surgery) Finally the misjudgement of drawing the hairline which does not suit nw 5 at all it super curved, broad and no place for any improvement as it is lower even from my original hairline So i see all the curses of hair transplant happened with me except of FUT line scar I will be the happier person in the world if i can back like before or at least remove the fake hairline This is a pic under light shows the small tiny dots in the skin Is that consider normal thing ? If i was able to remove the hair can those tiny dots being removed also if the hair stop growing, how i can treat them ?

Seeing other doctors meaning traveling for only consultations I already saw Dr Bisanga and he advise against electrolysis and recommend Fue punch out However, the cost is so big with travel cost back and forth Dr Cooley advise me if i only want to remove the hair so the FUE is not the way and it should be electrolysis or laser and any irrgularities in the skin can be treated later So there is no firm or one opinion here and no one will now what will happen next if i go in any way

Hi I do not want to do any step without sharing opinions and experiences I m planning to try electrolysis on couple of hairs, my target in this stage to see my skin reaction and see if the hair will become finer or it will be totally removed so at least i can redfine the hairline in the future Before that i m afraid from skin irrgularities Under harsh light, the scalp skin seems totally different like i add a new skin layer on my scalp and it has many small dots, so i m assuming if i remove the hair i can remove those dots Also, the left side of hairline is hard like a stone and it is higher than the right side, so i m thinking of cortisone injection it can help Any experience? Should i start now after 10 months or still there is a time for skin enhancement so should i wait ?

I know it is tough and i cannot know should i jump into this or not I took opinion of most of the doctors - Dr Umar: against any removal. However he can do it on my responsibility - Dr Bahatti: against fue punch out and he told me it make disaster. However laser is bedt option to remove the hair Dr Rahal: was ready to do it but becuase he is in Canada he told me it will be so expensive to me and recommend som other doctors Dr (who i can put his name here): need around 70k usd to do it Dr epstien: ageed to do it Dr: cooley: was nice to advise me to try electrolysis first and laser and then last resort is the fue punch out Dr: koray: ask me to wait 14 months before decide and refuse to comment now Still have not received all the opinions so far What i should do now i start thinking there is a hope to remove it,

I met Dr. Busanga, he completely understand my situation and he confirmed that the hair does not look natural at all and it should be amedended espeically the hairline After he examined my donor area he gave ve me a 60 and said with large bald spot that i have, i should not have any hair transplant again, the only solution is even to repair the hairline with medicationso i told him i wll not use propecia at all so he advise about removing he can remove the hair and he will use punch size 0.75. To 0.8 he said i need from 2 to 3 procedures and he can reimplant the hair whether at the hump or return the hair to donor area, of course the survival rate will be lower than usual he support my opinion about removing the hair and he was confident that it will look good but may i need a resurfacing session to remove any remaining traces after all but with time the skin will back healthy again like nothing happen at all He gives me hope that this kind of procedure it can be done in these days He advised against electrolysis as it ischance to give scar is more and i loss the hair I showed him the bump that i have at the left side of my hairline, he said this a micro internal scar and can be removed by cortison injection as it is small I m still reluctant about the hair removal thing, i mean i want to remove the hair and see myself without this stupid hairline but in the same time i m afraid that i will put myself in a more difficult situation Should try all other options before fue punch out

I m waiting Dr Bisanga opinion before doing anything with the clinic BTW, the clinic do not want even listen to me before hit 12 marks and doctor consider it is not his fault My dermatologist is ready to help me and prepare a report and get it certified but she need a biopsy and she said it is enough what i already have on my scalp no need to make more harm, and asked me to try with the clinic first I was doubt first i had LPP and i consider that i have cobblstonning, then Dr dermatologist confirmed that LPP can give same effect of cobblstonning with pluggy look The hair can grow but if the LPP is not controlled, all the hair would be lost after 1 or 1.5 year and it would leave scars on the scalp So she put me under extreme program to apply 3 types of powerful creams, no stress, no smoking, no sun or dust exposure, no sweat and no physical activity and this will be for a long long period 2 months so far i barely go out just locked myself in home and apply those creams ( i finished many of PS4 games) and it seems it works somehow and the cobblstonning effect become less and the burning sensation is reduced Anyway she told me she did not expect such results after short time and now she think there is a chance now of full recovery and she will not give up, i asked her about removing the hair, she said, you are thinking this way becuase of hairline look perfect for your case "even is not totally wrong" and the pluggy look which due to LPP, so if we control the disease the hair should look normal and you can soften the hairline by another surgery to raise it al little bit or even by using laser to make the hair finer on sides and create some ziczac she is ready to help me with that and we can do a small test spot to see the reaction But now the most important is to rid off of LPP and inflammation ( despite of that i still insist to remove it, as i hate it after all of that and cannot accept it anymore after all of this suffering) And then she wanna prescribe me a weird thing " arithritis drug or cream" which something new has been studied in USA this year and show so promising results to treat LPP and now they start to gather candidates to make it offical and get it approved. However the drug is come with side effects and i should see a specialist doctor before start using it LPP let the immune system attack the follicles until kill them and leave scars later, so the best way to treat it is reduce the ability of immune system in the scalp and i think this is what the drug do, However, the risk here if during the treatment time if the scalp exopse to infection, bacteria, etc i would be doomed imagine my feeling after all that, i m living alone, away from everything in life now and maybe in the future and all of that because my stupidity to do such procedure, i start with " i do not like the hairline " 8 months ago and end up with a disease on my scalp resulted from hair transplant, i cannot recognize myself anymore

Thank you all the good thing i have an appointment with Dr. Bisanga so at least an expert can judge on my results and my options My surgeon did not show any interest to help me even the clinic, they gave me the required service and that is it he said there are no options and that what it is, he can do only more hair transplantation Regarding LPP , he said that l signed a paper that i decleared i do not have any disease so if i have any, it is my responsibility to tell, and i m not awar that i have such disease before The doctor should be well known in his area and not one of unethical surgeon as the clinic claimed in his CV and works I asked him about the hairline he said i asked for it And the truth is he shaved my head and then draw the hairline and then told me to look in 5 seconds, i was naive at that time and i could not judge after i saw a clean shiny scalp i was not able to know where the hair start or end, so i told him you are the expert But i showed him an old picture for me, and i told him i want like the hairlin in the picture Then he said it will be better than that, i trust his opinion to end up with this results If i came here before that and just read and educate myself and wait maybe i will not do the whole operation or be more careful But what is fooled me is that the clinic is near to my home and when they offered me the operation they said they have the best technique ever apply "the stem cell fue" and it is something so new and no one start to apply it and they are using so small needle which will not leave anything on the scalp and can you shave anytime you want, i did not think about hair transplant before this offer and i wish i did not listen to them Then simply i start read about hair transplant and each time find a case i said to myself this is an old technique the one they are offeringme it is a new one, so it should be different from other cases Typical story for a fool uneducated patient who became a victim to serious cosmetic procedure and end up a disfigured man and a repair case I cannot say the hair did not grow but it does not look 3500 grafts maybe 2000 or less All my hope now is to remove everything and restore my life, i would be the most happier person ever but i cannot know if i still have this option as when i look on my scalp i see a war territory

Thank you all for your replies For sure, i do not have a healthy mentality anymore after i put myself in this pressure for 9 months the pictures do not reflect the reality, when i see the pictures i see it also good but under shadow, light in mirror it is totally different I have a colleague in my work who had a horrible hair transplant, when i saw his picture on facebook, believe me i was surprised it looks very good and normal but the truth it is disaster My problem started with the hairline in first day, and you can see my first post in this forum was related to hairline, it is totally wrong and my original hairline was in different shape It does not matter if it looks good or not on pics, in reality it so artificial It is like a fence of trees around a desert Also i put it under test many times with people, strangers, doctors. All confirm that i m right, it looks artificial 3 days ago, a cap driver, from nowhere asked me if i had a hair transplant, He was able to detect it from his mirror, and even he dare to ask me that Should i be happy with his comment? It creates more pressure on me My solution, after treating the skin is to remove the hairline and make it higher or remove the whole things Should i start with electrolysis, laser or leave it to doctor i need a doctor who has experience and can guid me Maybe i will see Dr. Bisanga next week

I m writing this to take a breath in the middle of the storm that i m facing now Maybe it is an overreaction for a simple thing but this how i feel It has been 9 months now, and everyday it is like i m living in black hole I can say now, the hair transplant that i had is wrong and disaster and totally ruin my life I tried to fool myself and say it is all in my mind, then i took many opinions from friends, strangers, doctors to see if it is really only in my mind or really there is something not normal Most of the people said at first glance it looks ok then after a while it does not , specially from side maybe in front it does not give that attention but from side it is more clear that it is not right It was the hairline, the hairline is disaster and not suit my case as nw5 not receded at all and it is so curved wide, also the hair directions not right, 2 to 3 hairs in the hairline, a huge contrast between the hairline and skin and cobblstonning on each follicale and finally a huge hard bump on left hairline which i think it is ridging, it is totally disaster, all the damn things When i go out i always feel like a burning sensation on my scalp and it bother me a lot when i see myself on window reflection or under normal shadow i see an artifically ugly things on my head and a line on my forehead and start thinking that everyone see it, it gives feeling like i m walking naked in front of people, then i feel i want to vomit from this look When i look to people, i envy them, whether they are bald or not, they do not have this problem they can go out and do whatever they want, Enough is enough i decide to remove this things on my head, then the next surprise came I went to dermatologist who told me u have LPP and your skin did not handle the operation and you are not candidate for such operation in first place, she told me if i tocuh your skin it become red, she was surprised how they operate on me? I get back to the doctor and explain all of that to him he kept silent and then told me you cannot do anything, this what it is and you should live with it, and you should know that you have LPP and it is not my fault i told him this a disfiguration and you want me to live with it that easily like nothing happen, there is nothing you can do, I felt he was happy that i ve been dignosed with LPP as he found an execuse to run away from his responsibilty i get out from his office and my eyes are full of tears thinking what i did to myself, how i will continue in my life with this, i do not know how i arrived home, close the door and never going out or anyplace except work Then i start with the dermatologist a program to rebuild the skin again and save what it can be saved I start with 3 type of creams, no sun or dust exposure, no sweat, no physical activity, i gain weight more than 10 kilos because of that And after 1 month i start see improvement, the redness has reduced the cobblstonning become lesser also the ridging has shinked a little bit and best think, the burning sensation stop The doctor was happy with this progress in one month and told me we could control the disease at least and now we hope it would be ok after couple of months she prescribe me a new cream and increase the dosage of the old ones This is like a curse to my life, i want stop worrying on my head, just a one day, every dream i have before has stolen from me, this operation converted me to isolated depress person, a waste of skin and take me out from any social life, i hate going out now, i hate to be in front of people, i hate taking picture, i hate anything remind me with the old me and i cannot sense anything good in this life anymore Everytime i talk to someone if i noticed he start starring on my hairline i feel like like a knife on my chest, he see something abnromal but he cannot know what it is or maybe he knows People compliment, people notice, peole talk, people joke, every chat with somone know about my operation, he should mention something, it is not normal to have permenant talks about your head whether good or not, i hate that. Before nobody dare to say anything, now everyone want to say something Now i m searching and asking all the doctors in the world to undo the hair transplant, And there are 3 options - FUE punch out - Laser - Electrolysis I m living in a hope there is a way out and i can restore my old me but the ugly truth is that is mpossible now Maybe if i remove the hairline i would be happy or not maybe i have to remove the whole transplant hair, or maybe the skin problem i cannot know What i can say is by this operation i broke the illusion that i was living in before that i have hair and i m accepting myself with the old normal look and after the operation, i cannot restore the same psychic status that i was with before and always feel i m not normal person anymore, The transplant hair does not give the same sense of normal hair Even if i have a full of hair now i doubt i will be happy, becuase it is not real,

No i m not 3 week post op, I m almost 9 months post op, and i forgot the gym as i always not feel normal anymore ont scalp so the sweat make it worse

After 9 months, i want to remove it It is totally smashed my confidence and i cannot live properly with this fake hair on my scalp I m totally shamed and embarrased about my stupidity to believe the hair transplant work I lost my spontaneous, and my smile, i lost interest in everything in life, i cannot feel and sense anything now, I feel i was fooled by commercial clinic, they did not tell me the truth , they just talk about results and mislead my thinking by claiming they have the best technique in the world Nobody told me it is one way ticket and no return, nobody told me you have to sacrifice your skin to have hair instead they said it is so small injections plike needle 0.6 mm and it will not leave a trace and you can shave your hair in the future And as a fool i believed them One day has totally changed my life, i hate myself so much

Do you think can i bring a suit against the doctor because of this ? And let assume i remove the hair can this be resolved or no this is permenant

After 8 months they become smaller than before, but still abnormal, I do not know if removing couple few hairs by laser or electrolysis to amend the hairline, those tiny things will go away or will remain

I did not see him for a while, i will see him in the next 10 days, last time he said everyting is fine but you need time I hope you right and this is not cobblstonning, but what you describe is cobblstonning (receipient sites < graft size ) if laser resurface can help i will do it, right now as per my dermatologist i m using a cream for eczema (atopic dermititis) with moisture and ice pack pressure everyday it helps me to reduce the pinkness and itching also the sizes of those dots are smaller now and i notice also my hair is become fuller with this cream

Hi Can you check the pic? After 8 months i still have small things under each root, they are smaller than before but they are still there, try to zoom it, they are less than size of acne but as they are so many they give an ugly effect, totally ruin my hair transplant Are those cobblstonning ?scars ? Or because of the thickness of the hair they look like this ? Is there any solution ? What i should do to remove them? If i remove the hair can the skin back smooth again They are so small there should be a solution

Does the skin back normal and smooth again and the scars are flater? the pics cannot show that Can the same being done for a modern FUE? if reversing the old plug can give such improvement, then removing a modern FUE should not shown anything

- You will find bumps like cobblstonning but it might become bigger And it will give pluggy look as the bumps on the hair root also and not only the transplant hair but in the whole area - You feel your scalp are on fire, inflamed. Itchy - The skin looks irritated, hard, shiny and dirty under light not smooth due to internal scarring under the skin - At the end the transplant hair will fall due to body rejection and each follicle fall will leave scar different from hair transplant scars. So you end up with two type of scars - you cannot do transplantion again as the skin will be so fragile and inflamed Best on what i understand, most of the hair that fall after hair transplant is due to this disease, cuz might the early baldness in first place was due to LPP and not normal baldness. At the end you are screwed

Today i went to dermatologist, she was shocked by what i have She dignose me with LPP and she put me under urgent treatment and prescribe me a so expensive foam called Luxiq She told me you have not an ordinary scars for life now your scalp will not look normal again and even a transplant hair is not an option again as your skin will not handle to be broken again I should stop minoxidil and nizoral and mesotherapy and forget anything about hair for time being as the skin can create more problem if i continue My hairloss was due to LPP and not normal balding so i was not a candidate forc hair transplant. And what is happening now is the body start rejecting the follicles and that is way it look like cobbblstoning and at the end they will fall and i will be left with scars BTW she was a hair transplant expert before and she stop doing it as it will create more problem than benefits and this is one of them She said do not even think to cut your hair short or remove it, your appearance is acceptable now I m disfigured for life, one day.... 10 hours in 31/7/2015 change and destroy my life completely how i will continue being a normal person now