anotherhairlosssufferer

Looks really good, I am sure this will be awesome once it grows back! Also regarding the donor - you're saying you had around 7800 left after your 5200 FUT = 14000 grafts available total? That's an insane amount! I thought the donor has around 6k at best - any explanation as to what about your case is different?

Man this is crazy good, happy for you!

If this was the question for me - it was over $10 per graft, he does a per procedure cost, not per graft though. So it's pretty expensive compared to other top tier prices.

Following, we got a similar number of grafts, eager to see how this turns out

The pics are not shown when you open the links: Access Denied. I find it better to just post the pictures here without the links - much easier to follow than having to open a link in a new tab.

I started shedding a couple of days ago, so around day 23 - by now there's lots and lots of hairs coming out when I shower and generally run my fingers through the hair. From what I read three weeks is a reasonable timeline, I really hope this is normal otherwise it's not good lol.

What is that? I found this when googling: https://www.hairlosslearningcenter.org/clasceterone-hair-loss-cure/3462

I do minox 1x a day and Nizoral (it's in my signature). I stopped fin due to sides. Fin worked really well, it was a great feeling to have more hair for a couple of months but then I had to stop and within a year probably I lost all gains It's a big issue for the future I know.

3 weeks Some random pics I just did at 3 weeks. I think overall this is going pretty good, let's see how it fares when the hair grows out longer. I think I am yet to start shedding so it'll get much worse before it gets better unfortunately. What do yall think? Front: there is definitely way more hair now compared to before but the area where I have native hair is clearly way more dense and darker. This is certainly to be expected and what matters is how it'll look once it grows to 2-3 inches. Front/Side - hairline has the lowest density but got the most grafts. Perhaps it's just that it has the least native hair? Side: I think it's obvious that the first inch in the temporal area where the hair was not extracted is more dense than the rest? I don't think it's noticeable unless you know what to look for, but will it get better eventually? Also makes me wonder what that means in terms of how much hair I have left in my donor. Donor and the back of my head: looks like it's more dense in the occipital area. Also a funny story: my friend took a picture of me from relatively afar and I sent it to another friend and his first comment was "wait did you do a hair transplant"? I was super shocked as I didn't tell anyone and my first thought was that he noticed something unnatural and obvious in terms of work (I can't tell myself and nobody else said anything) but when I asked him why would he think that he said it just looks way more dense than before. In his defense from afar it does look more dense. We'll see how other people react, so far nobody said anything (but I also still didn't show this to someone close enough to me to not feel bad about making a comment) and I kinda expected to keep this a secret but perhaps I'll have to either admit I did something or come up with a comeback if this happens more.

Good luck, hope something clears up sooner!

@Rossybop Moisture = liquid/water in general. Moisturizing = putting water on your recipient area via a shower, not using a moisturizer on it. Do not use a moisturizer on your recipient area (not sure if it would be bad but no need for it). I was also paranoid to shower my head with hot water so I used warm water. Basically I would reduce the temperature and then spend a minute at a time with my head under warm water and then resume with hot water without touching my head. Not sure if this is necessary but I did it, and I got a decent amount of water time that way. Really helps with the scabs if you do it twice a day.

Moisture is the key is what Dr. Konior told me and it's true. It's been 14 days now you can shower and just keep your head under the stream of water for longer, it'll help with the scabs. Shampoo the recipient area as well, and then rinse it a lot, repeat twice a day to make the whole process faster. I saw one of your (many) threads earlier and you seem to have started washing your hair too early (day 5/6/7?) but now at two weeks you should be completely safe when it comes to hair washing/shampooing.

Agree with @UnbaldEagle, you should keep everything in one thread - that way it serves as a great reference for people visiting the forum in the future too and they can follow the whole journey. Right now you're making a new thread every day and sometimes even more.

Looking forward to the progress pics, looks great so far.

Yeah just saw your thread, will be following your case closely too! Also it looks like our front thirds were super similar? Overall similar cases too and it'll be very interesting to compare in the coming months. Looks super clean as expected from Dr. K, happy growing!

I mean it's a relatively cheap Turkish hair transplant clinic and Floyd is like the best paid athlete in the world, I find it hard to believe this would make financial sense for either party. You never know though, the time will tell. So far he didn't disclose anything publicly. Also the timing is crazy, there's an active thread from a person who had such a terrible experience there.

I would, him (the YouTuber, not Floyd) and his brother are spoiled rich arrogant a**holes and I'd like to see them getting beat up in front of millions of people. I'd rather pay to see his brother Jake getting annihilated by McGreggor though, which is what they're trying to do now.

Yeah those hairlines he draws are too straight and too low and aggressive. He does seem passionate about them though, there's a video on his insta where he cleans it up a few times before he settles on it. Of course, naturalness and reality of the nature of person's hair loss are apparently not taken into account.

I was "impressed" by their profile and went through it. Looks like they have some relatively high profile people who went there like this guy that ended up happy apparently: https://www.instagram.com/p/B0dNWuAnKuo/. I am really puzzled as to what the deal is, perhaps they actually are legit and good at stuffing 3k grafts in the hairline, so if you are NW1/2 they can get you to that NW0, but if you have NW3+ hair loss then good luck? Did this guy draw your hairline: https://www.instagram.com/mfatihakdemir/ ?

2 weeks This is right after a shower so it's not really the best picture but it's better than no update. I know how much I appreciated people posting updates regularly when I was going through the research phase. There's still scabs left but they are slowly but surely going away. I am taking a shower twice a day and shampooing my hair but not too aggressively to not hurt the grafts as I am paranoid. I probably shouldn't be paranoid but everyone who has done the surgery knows the feeling. For comparison, and not a really good one, this is a pic from a few months back when I cut my hair short at the beginning of Covid. And this is the donor, the hair is still wet To me it's relatively "obvious" that the donor is less dense now compared to the areas around the sideburns/temples where the hair was untouched. But it's only like one inch of hair behind the sideburns that is a little thicker compared to the rest of the harvested area. The donor harvest is really well distributed and it's really not very noticeable unless you know what to look for, but even then it's not at all significantly different. So far I think this is going good? I don't see the redness in the recipient area although it spreads across almost half the top so perhaps it's there but there's nothing to compare against? We'll see where I stand when the shedding starts. (although when I look at that pic the hairline seems a little red, but it's not something I see in the mirror)

Stay away! I like how their about page has "in a hospital environment with its expert doctors" but then the three staff pictures are dudes whose jobs have nothing to do with the medical field. Not at all suspicious! /s Take a look at this thread that someone just created to see why you should do a better research and not trust their marketing:

I never heard of them. Their instagram page @hairofistanbul has 1.4 million followers? And the results they post look pretty good. Something there just doesn't add up. I am so sorry for the experiences you went through.

To be honest then the post Dr. K made is misleading as hell as everyone would think your crown improvement came from the transplant. How big was the last procedure you did with Dr. K? Looks like we're only a few days apart, so you can probably shampoo your head normally by now.

I can see that the meds work for you and that's awesome! I can't take fin and it's very scary knowing that when planning for the future. This is you before the 2012 procedure: This is you after 2012 procedure: And this is you recently, so the crown is worse than after the procedure: Are you saying the before/after when it comes to the crown is all meds? Your 2012 post doesn't show how far the grafts were implanted so it's hard to know what improvement comes from the meds vs the transplant. Also would you say this is NW5 or NW6?

I am looking at your pics: were you NW5/6 and then progressed to NW6/7? When you look at that before/after from 2012, your crown has improved dramatically (i.e. you don't see the skin any more) but your recent pics are showing it again, I am a little confused?