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With the hair combed forward

Wow I forgot I had asked, but thank you very much, looks super dense!

Astaldo, thank you so much for the new pictures and the explanation of everything.

First of all, let me say that these new pictures make me feel VERY reassured and that was EXACTLY what I wanted to see. The length of your hair here is perfect to me, and it looks dense and totally normal. I would never suspect you had lost any hair at all, really. Your hairline, pulled back, also looks perfect, and that's something I was a bit concerned about with some of ADMED's patients. When I consult with ASMED I'm going to take your pictures with me and ask Erdogan if he can give me a result just like yours, I mean that literally.

Out of curiosity, since we talked about longer hair length, can you show an example of a length or style you would like to do but that you don't feel comfortable with with your current density?

Please let us know if you do consult with ASMED again about adding further density, I'd love to hear their input (which I hope is positive). Regardless, I think you have nearly infinite styling options available even now, especially if you're willing to use some product in your hair.

I'm sure you realize this by now, but you look like a different person from the pictures you posted in the first thread. Congratulations.

Yaz, would you consider taking a picture with your hair combed forward/downward over your forehead? I've been trying hard to find pictures of post FUE with a style like that because I'm concerned about how that might look with HT density, but I can't find hardly anything. Assuming you haven't cut it recently, yours looks like it's long enough.

Congratulations on an incredible result.

Any better these days?

The majority of the thickening of the mid-scalp is due to the PRP/ACell treatment.

:rolleyes:

I tried the topical finasteride in hopes of decreased side effects that I was getting from Propecia... I got all the same side effects with the topical solution unfortunately.

Was this Hasson & Wong's or another topical fin? If it was H&W's, what was the concentration percentage and did you try to get a lower concentration made?

Oh man, that sounds amazing. So not available in the US as yet, but it is available in Canada? Might be worth the trip up north if that's the case.

Just to clarify: it's available in Canada but only for Canadian residents. I offered to fly to Vancouver to get the prescription but was told they can't give it to me because I don't live there. Have to wait until they have a US pharmacy to supply it to US residents.

Amazing. Congratulations.

I've been waiting patiently for this. I'm in the US and called their office a few weeks ago. I offered to go in for the prescription, but the receptionist said they won't/can't give it to anyone in the US until they find a pharmacy to compound it here. She said that was taking longer than expected, and estimated maybe another 3-4 months until that happens. Unfortunately 3-4 months was what they estimated back in March, so who knows when it'll be available

As for efficacy, it's supposed to be roughly as effective as oral finasteride. I haven't heard of it being applied twice per day, in fact I think I read that it's used only a few times per week.

Blake, thanks so much for that thorough explanation. It means a lot that you answer specific questions without being roundabout.

I admit I can't seem to totally give up on the idea of FUE.

So IS it common for patients to come in 12-14 months after an FUE for a touchup? Maybe even expected? And most importantly, AFTER these touchup cases, how do the patients compare to FUT cases?

Like if, for example, I was dead-set on FUE, and basically expected that 12-14 months after that FUE I'd have to come in and get maybe 500 more grafts to finalize it, would I be as good off (as far as density) as if I had just gone with FUT once? Or would I just never have a hairline as dense as a strip procedure, touchup or not?

A few questions about that: honestly, what are my chances I WON'T be able to buzz down to a 3 with a strip scar? What percentage of patients are unlucky enough that they can't go that low?

Second, what do you make of Rich Piana's scar here? http://i.imgur.com/PYuF3hw.png

Would you say that's good, bad, standard for being visible at that hair length?

And lastly, I feel like I see more FUE procedures (than FUT) which look obviously, before the 12 month mark, like they're going to require repairs or "touch-ups" to get the yield to where it was supposed to be the first time. Do you think that's true? And I'm only talking about procedures with top clinics here.

Thanks!

Couldn't agree more regarding temple points. I brought this subject up with my doctor, and he advised against me getting mine done. Now that i am 5 months post op and everything looking great, i am really disappointed in myself that i didn't insist on him doing my own. Each temple point required up to 200 grafts each. That was an estimate of course. I think it would be less than that. Having to go back and get them done just seems like too much hassle.

What was the doctor's reason for advising against the temple points?

Yes, please! And glad to hear it -- things should still get better from here, but let us know what happens.

The top line may be from a small FUT. However, I think the bottom scar is probably unrelated. Almost everyone has little scars like this on their scalp. Bumps on the head and things from childhood! Most never realize it until they really buzz down (we frequently discover them during transplant procedures).

 

I don't think the bottom scar would be from sutures or anything like that. I wouldn't expect the top scar to look like that if this were the case, nor would I only expect there to be that single little one there.

 

As far as the length of the strip is concerned ...

 

Incision lines can be this short if you are going for a limited number of grafts. Most of the time they are longer, however, for two reasons: 1) seeking more grafts; 2) going "long and thin" on the strip instead of "short and wide" so it closes up well into that fine line we shoot for.

Thank you, Blake. I think you're probably right, because in his early 20s they probably wouldn't have taken too many grafts. Interesting consequence in that the scar doesn't look like much, I mean he can shave his hair to like a 1 and it doesn't draw that much attention like an ear-to-ear scar would, despite not having as much density as he probably wanted, yet still having good hair...

Looks good but damn, can we see some bigger/clearer pictures? Can't see the density at the hairline at all.

For people wondering, his hairline a few years ago: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AXU2v6jFTtI/maxresdefault.jpg

Thanks for explaining all that, jkm3. I've looked around at the dude's interviews and stuff a lot because I don't see a lot of people growing their hair out post-transplant and I wanna know how it looks. Seems like most of the time his hair looks absolutely fantastic. Unfortunately other times it's more like https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/thumbs/0116EA450A1104914742239490048_1e3effe0da6.4.7.11108401508039716392.mp4.jpg?versionId=pWetqbxHgoJPFdpN9e9hd8k58XN.MuPF

But he also was a norwood 3 by like...what, 21, 22? So there are a lot of factors we don't know, like continued loss, number of procedures, medication.

This guy's a rapper who used to be a norwood 3 and definitely had a transplant (or several). But what's the deal with this FUT scar? Don't they usually wrap ear-to-ear? And why is there another small scar below the main strip scar?

Can I ask how you were able to book a procedure only 2 weeks in advance? Their representative told me they book about 6-7 months out.

Update!

How are you doing this month, Danny? How's the other side's growth?

Wow, thank you again for the insight.

Can you tell me what you mean by "if I had been more cognizant, I probably would have fought back, but honestly, I think Dr. Rahal had the right idea for a hairline that properly frames my rather ovular face." Do you mean you were considering something different or more specific with the hairline?

Also what made you choose FUE over FUT? I still go back and forth about this constantly.

Did the doctor give the okay to use MSM, by the way?

Would also appreciate the post-op styling pictures.

Not to disappoint, but I experienced sexual sides at about 5 months on the drug. However, I had other problems before then, which began immediately after beginning the drug (change in semen texture, chronic feet pain, which was weird). Good luck.

Thank you very much for that, man. One quick question, this is something I've always wondered about: the state of your hair pre-op, at the front of your hairline where it was at its lowest point, was that receded or thinned at all? It's hard to tell from the pictures but it looks like it wasn't, but there is hair transplanted to that area, so maybe there was? I've just always wondered if the thick, healthy native hair that's among transplanted grafts grows back at its normal rate or if it grows more slowly like the new grafts.

Would love if you would update this as things progress, and I've subscribed to this thread, so I'll be back too. I really wish you the best of luck and I hope that things end up better than you ever expected.

Looks good. Unfortunate that the right side might need to be fixed, but it's happened before and turned out fine.

How does the left side look at this point? Looks solid from that one picture but I can't tell. Can you possibly get a few more pictures of that? Very interested because your situation seems very, very similar to mine (and have been trying to get comfortable pulling the trigger on a procedure with Rahal).