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  1. Awesome. Thanks for the update! I'm at 2 months, 5 days now. No growth for me yet 🙂
  2. Looks good to me, man. I'm 1 month and 2 weeks in now. I shaved my head again with the 1 guard, so it wasn't so uneven. Almost all of my recipient hair has fallen out now. Still definitely have that pink coloring in the recipient area like you do. I'm excited to see how your hair looks when you start getting all the tiny little hairs popping up out of the scalp. I think you'll be about 3 weeks ahead of me. I started Rogaine at week 3. Thanks for posting your update and good luck!
  3. Got it. Thanks! I'll hold off on shaving then. What I'm finding interesting is I'm concerned about 0% as to people I don't know seeing me with this weird hair cut, but care far more about seeing people I do know, like in-laws, and even my own parents.
  4. Hey everyone, here's my 28 day post op. I'd say 99% of the little scabs are gone. I think I'm losing some of the recipient area hair. Not a ton, but I've noticed some of it is falling out. A lot of the numbness is gone. I still feel a little, but it's slowly going away. I think I have a little bit of shock loss, but it's tough to tell since I've never had my hair this length before. I'm curious, do you all think I'll keep the recipient area hair at this point (day 28 in), or is this pretty typical where I'll shed it all in the next couple of weeks? And secondly, I'm considering shaving the other hair down shorter, so it'll better match the new area. Is that a bad idea, in terms of screwing up the grafts? Thanks.
  5. So good to hear. Thanks for posting. I plan to start using Rogaine as soon as the little scabs are totally one from the recipient area. They're starting to fall out now (Day 15), but have about 50% to go. Are you using Rogaine and if so, do you notice any side effects? I've never taken it before and am curious if it's been worth it for you?
  6. Oh man. Sorry to hear that about the wound. I would imagine everything will heal up just fine in the end, but can totally understand being nervous about it. Being that this was my first (and hopefully only) HT, even with just 2200 grafts that I got, and the fact that everything seems to be on track (knock on wood), I'm still a bit nervous and don't know what to expect. Def keep us/me updated on how things are going over the next several months. I guess we have about 3.5 months left before we start seeing new hair.
  7. Oh, nice. Here's what Dr. Konior said this morning about the exercise stuff after I asked this "Can I workout 100% normally now without worrying about grafts falling out or being damaged from sweat etc? I'll be sweating a lot. And I suppose I'll have a towel handy and will just pat the towel and not rub. Is that what you'd suggest?" His response: "Hello Brad, Full workout is fine. No worry about sweating or towel drying." My guess is it's a bit dependent on how many grafts and the type of procedure (FUE vs FUT). I got 2200 grafts and FUE.
  8. Thanks! That's awesome (re the day of surgery). How are you feeling post procedure, and did you do FUT or FUE? I did FUE, so I'm wondering if maybe that's why Dr. Konior is saying on day 14 I can get back to 100% normal exercise? I emailed him this morning and he replied and said it was totally fine. Yeah, I'm totally ready to get back to working out. I definitely feel like a slob.
  9. Hey guys, I'm officially at 2 weeks post FUE with Dr. Konior. I'm feeling better than day 7. Tingling and numbness is slowly going away. Above I mentioned a strange "water flowing down my head" feeling and that is also going away, slowly. I think the grafted area is looking pretty good (although I don't really have anything to compare to, being this is my first experience with an HT). I have the little scabs still, and the grafted hair hasn't fallen out yet. I'm hoping to start exercising 100% normally tomorrow morning, which will be the day 14 mark (being surgery day was day 0). I'm also hoping to shampoo normally in the grafted area, but am a little hesitant on that, still. When do the grafts become fully part of your body, so that you can't knock them out by shampooing normally? And secondly, if I did knock out a graft on day 14 (and beyond), how would I know? Given I still have the scabs, and it feels like all of the transplanted hair (it's not fallen out yet), I'm wondering if that means the grafts aren't settled into place yet? Any thoughts on that? Thanks!
  10. Dang, new hairs after just a month and a half. This is going to turn ourt great! I'm eager to shed the little scabs and transplanted hairs so I can shower 100% normally and not even think about scratching/toweling off/bumping my head and so on.
  11. Looks so good. I’m also curious how the head is looking today?
  12. Ok, day 10 photo below. Starting to get the crusting. Have less pain than day 5. Definitely still pain, but I think it's primarily from the places where the shots went in for numbing. Those things were crazy painful. Head is also still pretty much exactly as numb as I was on day 2. Still water running down head sensation (I assume nerves healing?). Not painful, just annoying (and wondering if this will happen forever, so lots of self talking going on inside my head). Overall, I think it looks really good. Any thoughts on anything I mentioned above? Thanks everyone.
  13. Hey, how long did it take for any of the pain in your head to go away? I’m 7 days post and definitely still have pain pretty much all over my head. Not unbearable at all, and I’m likely just a big baby, but am curious what the typical time frame is to feel normal without head pain.
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