Beebz

what are your thoughts

Being as wet wounds heal faster could I fill the bottle my saline solution came in with water just to keep the area constantly moist? Or would it be pointless at that stage (5 days post op)

Yes I"m very excited to how it progresses, I know they have 1 or 2 more signed up for the study but I"m not sure if they post here or not. They still have a few spots open so if others on this board want to take the plunge and get a transplant from top notch doctors with a huge discount we can follow them as well

Great experience all around, I was nervous as hell of course but the tech staff, Dr Ron Shaprio, Dr Josephitis and everyone else involved made it so much easier. They created one half of my hairline with strip and the other half with FUE. I"m extremely happy with the hairline they came up with as well and the work looks really clean as far as I can tell. I was relaxed the whole time watching movies and/or listening to music while they doctors and their staff did their thing. They took a ton of pics so maybe Janna sometime when she is online can show some of them. I'm back at home today now and feeling pretty good, the strip scar doesn't feel too bad and the recipient area honestly feels great, that saline spray really helped a lot. I believe they got roughly 2300 grafts, just wanted to share with everyone! I"m looking forward to the coming months to see the progress

well I imagine one of the biggest cons would be having to keep it a secret for the rest of your life, you couldn't tell anyone. What if you find the love of your life and one drunken night after many years together you confess and she comes to terms with the fact she's been caressing your pubes and kissing you and touching the pubes....I don't think many women would stick around after finding that out and I don't know if a lot would be interested if you were up front about the pubes on your face. What if you have a little too much to drink one night and spill the beans to even your best buddy, he would be hard pressed to keep something like that totally secret. It would spread around like wildfire the moment a 3rd party found out.

I would go for scalp hair dude

Who's your surgeon?

 

I agree, the calming meds should help. Let your doc know about it though.

Dr Ron Shapiro and Dr Josephitis will be working together on my transplant

Not sure how many grafts you are getting, but surgeons won't knock you out because it's not good to "be under" for such an extended period of time for an optional surgery.

 

However many hair surgeons will give you Valium if you ask. Most people seem to get their surgery procedure anxieties under control with the Valium the hair transplant surgeon will give you.

 

I suffer from claustrophobic panic/anxiety and knew being in the chair for several hours would most likely trigger an attack. So I discussed it with my surgeon and he allowed me to control my anxiety via Xanax. I was in the surgery chair for like 10 hours and basically slept through or was major groggy through 90% of the day via my own RX for Xanax.

 

You should contact your hair transplant doctor now and explain your surgery day fears. I am sure this is not uncommon and the doctor will gladly offer you something to take that will calm your fears on the day of the surgery.

Ha I have the same thing! I don't care about them cutting me open, excessive bleeding etc but I am worried about being stuck in one spot for the whole time and panicing lol. Good ole anxiety but anyways the doctor called me and I talked to him about it, due to me having a ride to pick me up he said he can give me valium and coax me through the day

hopefully the drugs they give me will knock me out and I won't even be awake for most of it, I don't even care about the post op difficulties or ugly duckling phase at 2-3 months just please let me get through this surgery lol

If the crown has expanded to half of the donor area, if the lateral humps show miniaturization and thinning if the side temples have receded and show a lot of thinning then most of the time you can assure Norwood 7. Can you post pics?

here are some pics, not my house I swear I"m not that messy lol

I hope so

is there any way?

For example they take the grafts out first and are doing some stuff and it is down time for me, can I go to a different floor of the building far away and use the bathroom because I will be inevitably physically ill and anxiety ridden? What are your thoughts

What's the best way to tell if a Norwood 6 is going to become a 7?

I see Dr Bernstein has been working on it along with Columbia University, maybe they will be ready to experiment of people with low donor density soon!?

100 follicular units per cm2 is average so 80 is slightly below average.

hmmm I see, well that's a lot better than what I originally thought it would be, I remember posting photos here when my head was buzzed and people thought I was SOL (as did I )

nice, yeah I have that retrograde alopecia so the bottom of the back of my head is thinning, there is just that one sweet spot in the back upper middle that luckily has stayed pretty well then, that was the number they gave it anyway

Is 100 the best??

From what I read from people online who have it a lot of them think it is related to mental illness, depression/ anxiety etc and has nothing to do with DHT

I'm not worried about the pain too much but what if I have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the surgery!? If I was knocked out it would be so much easier

that would be a lot less stressful lol, I'm more worried about the surgery than I am the recovery

It's kind of short notice for me and I only have a week of vacation. I bit the bullet about 10 minutes ago and went and talked to my boss, was upfront about everything. He seemed interested and offered to talk to HR with if it would help WITHOUT disclosing to them the actual reason. He checked his calendar and there is open space for the timeframe my schedule is tentatively scheduled for. Just really glad he was understanding and I'm looking forward to the next step whatever it may be.

I have to try and take time off here tomorrow and I"m debating on coming up with a story or just telling him the truth. He is bald too so maybe he would be intrigued lol

There are numberower density.

I can't stress growing out your hair enough. My donor area looked horrible when I had my hair buzzed and posted the pic on this message board. Grew my hair out for a month and I have a clear good zone to take hair from even with the alopecia.

I met with Dr Ron Shapiro and Dr David Josephitis a few days ago, from what I understand they were given a grant to perform a study that will use FUT on side to create a hairline on my basically bald front third of my head, and FUE on the other side to compare and hopefully confirm there is basically no difference. I feel very comfortable going through with this being as Shapiro Medical is so highly regarded and Ron Shapiro is referred to as the hairline guru. Just wanted to let you guys know!