I am considering having a 3rd Hair transplant but the hair I have lost in the years after my transplants makes me reluctant to do so unless this is normal.
It would be great to hear other peoples experience of how their hair has fared in the 10 years or so after their Hair Transplants were performed.
A brief background:
I had an HT in 2007. I was around a Norwood 6/7- and the first HT took me to a 5.
I was happy with the result and it continued to stay the same with no shock hair loss despite bleaching, etc.,
In 2009 I had my second HT and the final result (almost 5,000 hairs in total by now) was super- a Norwood 4. I would have been happy to leave it at that however my hair has got thinner in the last 2/3 years.
I can't find any answers to this except the 2nd HT doctor did say that any hair lost through 'shock loss' will almost always grow back. So then why is my hair thinner. Could it be general hair loss?
I find this hard to understand since if the hair I started with before any HTs all completely fell out would I not expect decent coverage still from the transplanted hair especially since this almost never falls out according to the doctor?
I would like to work out if a 3rd HT is worth my while if the result is I may end up having more hair fall out again- even though I believe most of the hair I have now is 'transplanted hair' and therefore- according to doctors- can not fall out.
Has anyonelse experienced the same? And what are your thoughts on whether to go through a 3rd procedure which obviously will make the back of the scalp very tight and uncomfortable for some time if not permanently when the risk is that the initial result is great and after 3 years or so I am back to a Norwood 5 as I am now.
Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts on this.