TheGman

Encouraging! I went to Dr.Demirsoy this summer too, a month before you, it's good to see more Demirsoy patients documenting their evolution. The shedding is coming, brace yourself. Why did you choose Demirsoy? How long have you been booked for?

Once again: I though grafts would bleed like crazy if you ever lost them! and that they'd be just as strong as the others after day 9. This is freaking me out!!

I thought nothing could have happened if there was no blood.

Day 40. Back to square one, and actually a bit further down. There is almost no hair left, some have grown, some have not. Will use toppik a few times a week now, without spray, and I'll wash it off at night. I had developped some early signs of pimples and my surgeon, upon viewing the pictures, recommended me to apply some antiseptic lotion. I have been applying the antiseptic lotion a few times a day, with a cotton pad, and left it on for several hours, sometimes before going to sleep. My recipient area looks slightly better it seems. Here are some pics of my current situation: And now with some antiseptic cream on, applied with a cotton pad. Switched to minox once a day, only until my scalp starts looking better, soon! Dr Demirsoy told me to wait one month and a half before I could get some impacts on my head, I'm a very active MMA/grappling competitor, so I still trained a little with very low intensity, I'm planning to start becoming more careless as of this week if that's okay. I forgot what the reasoning was behind so much caution, but I care about the hair more than about my upcoming tournaments! Here I am, back to my public life, the next months are going to be the toughest!

My surgeon told me to avoid shaving or buzzing for 3 months. Now that the shedding is over after 39 days my recipient area just looks ridiculous. Most of the transplanted hairs fell as expected. Some of the hairs have grown thicker than the natives, some never grew and did not fall either. I would love to buzz the whole thing for a while but I'll follow my surgeon's instruction to the letter. However I think buzzing as soon as possible is the most appropiate strategy to enjoy a natural growth, don't you think so? And why should I wait so long, aren't grafts supposed to be fully secure at 10 days max?

FUT is only better if you are very sedentary, and certain about keeping your hair fairly long for ever. The yield does appear to be still slightly more favorable. Don't count FUT out if you are confident you've stabilized your loss and enjoy long hair.

The first guys that were using minox also made their own mixture and it was part of the game. RU was not approved because of safety issues with pregnant women I believe. They didn't want to face the lawsuits in case of an impacted baby. Yes I'm maintaining just fine on FIN and minox, but I just had a hair transplant, so the stakes are higher now, would love to avoid a second one for as long as possible. I'm also planning on injecting some testosterone in the future, so I want to use a topical anti-androgen to compensate. I don't mind making my own RU I already make my own anti-aging creams and tbh I really enjoy it. Expanding my labarotory to topical anti-androgens is exciting. But of course if it's useless, I won't bother!

38 days post-op and some of the hairs didn't grow at all and didn't shed either. A few grew stronger and faster than the natives. Most shed. The most worrying is those hair that didn't really move.

About a year then? My skin has cleared a little bit. I'm using tretinoin against wrinkles and acne.

I can deal with this, but the anxiety of a poor result is clearly the hardest. I suppose the early stages of growth will be the most worrying.

I booked myself two weeks in a shithole in the London area to hide, and I was asked about my FUE by a group of Turkish guys who were very curious. It didn't bother me at all. But where I live it'd be impossible to be open about it. I have a very conservative family and I work in a macho environment. I can't wait for month 3, I should be back to where I was pre-op...

Man you can see how much balder I've gotten it's much worse than before the transplant, I feel like a nw5. But it's part of the game. I pretend I have a skin condition to the very few people that have seen that disaster. How about you? I know Rahal is very conservative with concealers. Demirsoy told me to wait for 2 months...

Yes I just saw your pics! Great choice, he's the one I would have loved to go to if I lived in North America. FUT is still a viable option as long as you don't buzz your sides, I was still hesitating at the last minute.

I just had a FUE hair transplant and now that I've joined the dark side I have to make sure I'm using the best treatments available. I don't want to book another procedure anytime soon and I would love to thicken up the thinning areas around the crown and mid scalp. Been on fin+ Minox for several years. Never been serious with niz, reluctant to stick with it because of all the sulfate(looking to have straight hair). I remember DecadeTwo advocating the combination of a systemic and a topical anti-androgen. It's easy to find the dozen of threads compairing finasteride and RU but how about using both in the hope to see some thickening? Thank you for your replies.

Finasteride should be your first line of attack. I'm wondering if adding RU to fin is a good idea personally. If you are after regrowth minoxidil is also a must!

This was me before the procedure 11 days after

Thank you for your thorough answer! How long should it take for me to get my maximum density in the donor area? I need to be able to plan a smallish procedure for the future(around 1500 grafts) while keeping a normal-looking donor area. One of my sides looks over-harvested but it's only been one month.

Gary Numan Bizarre godfather of synthpop http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2Fgp%2Fentity%2FGary-Numan%2FB000APVFHC%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref_%3Dsr%5Ftc%5F2%5F0%26qid%3D1272443530%26sr%3D8-2-ent&tag=baldingcelebr-21&linkCode=ur2&camp=1634&creative=19450 started losing his hair quite young and talks about it candidly in his autobiography. He had 2 hair transplants in the early 80s which he describes in fairly graphic detail. The hats he wore as part of his image around this time helped mask this. The surgeries didn't go particularly well and he claims to have had another procedure in 1993. But there is no way that he got his current density from hair transplants, and what you're seeing now is surely a hair 'system'. This still from 1993 shows his old hairstyle, which is an unusual looking mixture of 'plugs', dye and judicious styling. I have wondered why he appears to be so open about transplants but not the hair piece. Part of the reason may be that transplants are an expensive sounding, futuristic solution while there is still some stigma around wearing a toupee. source: Gary Numan | Balding Celebrities This has to be the worst toupee I've ever seen, noticed it right away on his facebook page(like his music) when I wasn't really educated about wigs.

37 days post-op, and I have seen some small pimples and bumps emerge on my recipient area. Muzaffer gave me an antiseptic lotion to use in case of this. I have started applying it to be safe, using a cotton pad, will do it once a day and carry on using minoxidil. Am I doing it right?

Awesome man who did you do it with? I keep wondering about the density, and I know the worst is to come: anxiously waiting for the first results to thicken up will be very stressful. I'll only be 100% relieved when I get a good haircut with a straightening treatment in a year from now!

I'm 37 days post-op, and I have seen some small pimples and bumps emerge on my recipient area. My surgeon gave me an antiseptic lotion to use in case of this. I have started applying it to be safe, using a cotton pad, will do it once a day and carry on using minoxidil. Am I doing it right?

Supposedely nothing bad can have happened if you did not bleed. By day 11 you should have removed your scabs though. The wrestling gear left a ton of crust during the shedding but it was dead skin. Not scabs.

Lewis Hamilton: That hairline is very straight and high, like most HT's.

How about Johnny Depp??

I just had a 3261 grafts procedure, and I'm considering my options for the future. It is said that a good donor area can hold as many as 8000 available grafts. But what does that mean? When does the donor area start looking thin? What's the issue when you start extracting that many grafts? Is the appearance of your donor area a good reason to refrain from further procedures? Thank you for your replies!