anotherhairlosssufferer

Did you do the procedure eventually? I can't find the thread

I was told to wait for 14 days but I am too paranoid and will probably wait for longer My recipient area is relatively clean though.

Saturday 1pm PST I presume?

Yeah I do have donor pain. It's been a week and I pretty much have to take 400mg advil before going to bed. I tried not taking it two days ago and it was really painful during the night. Also even when I take it I wake up throughout the night feeling the pain. During the day it's ok, it's very mild and almost not even noticeable. Hope this gets better soon, and it's also annoying to not be able to turn left or right when sleeping.

No I am in your backyard and I flew to Chicago. I guess I referred to the AirBnB as "home" as it was a condo nearby and not a hotel. Yeah I am still in the very early stages, still have the scabs and all so there's a long way ahead. Agree, the timing of this is great just as you said so hopefully by the time everything goes back to normal the hair starts growing back!

I would consider it if it doesn't have systemic side effects. I haven't done a ton of research but last I remember I heard Hasson & Wong were giving it out after their procedures and some people were just taking the tablets and mixing them with minoxidil and applying it that way. Is there a topical finasteride as a standalone topical product?

As some other people said here as well he prices per procedure not per graft, but let's just say my per-graft breakdown was similar to yours.

Yes that's what I was thinking too - it's a small number of singles for hairline. I can ask him via email.

2120 grafts total 120 singles 1644 doubles 356 triples

I've been visiting Dr. Konior's office every day and they took good care of me - washed the donor area and reapplied the bandages. Day 2 - Major swelling and feeling feverish I woke up in the middle of the night feeling super feverish and that is not a good feeling in the middle of pandemic. I freaked out, but I was able to go back to bed and in the morning they checked my temperature and it was fine and I also felt good so that was a major relief. SWELLING - I also had MAJOR swelling that started at my forehead on day 0 but during day 2 it went into my eyes and I couldn't keep my eyes opened in the evening. You can imagine how that felt. The swelling moved down by the morning of day 3 so now I can see but still look like a monster. In retrospective I should have spent day 1 in my bed at a 45 degrees incline to make the gravity pull the swelling down and to the side - Dr. told me that but I didn't take it super seriously although I did try to keep my head tilted backwards often. I sent a few emails to Dr. Konior regarding all these issues and he was very prompt in responding and telling me where I stand and what to expect. Five stars for patient care for sure. Day 3 Today they washed my hair for the first time and removed the bandages so this is the first time I can see the donor area and you be the judge but it looks almost pristine. @jimcraig152 I'd like your comments on this. Donor under bathroom light: Donor in the car: Two pictures of the recipient area under bathroom light:

FUE Still wearing the bandages, will update once that comes off and I get the grafts breakdown.

Settled on hahaa my bad

I honestly think it was no more than two weeks?

My journey and how I got to decide on Dr. Konior Started losing hair roughly 10 years ago around the age of 23. Finasteride worked really well but had to stop due to sides. Now I only use Nizoral/Minox but I don't think those are helping. Initially I decided to go with Dr. Diep but after reading @jimcraig152's post here and searching through other Diep's topics, I decided to shop around a little more and settled on Konior. Luckily due to Covid there was a cancellation very soon after I contacted him, so it all worked out. Day of procedure Got there at 6:30 am, filled out some paperwork and ordered the lunch (Jimmy John's) and then from 7am until about 8am we talked about the hairline and my plans etc. The procedure started around 8am-ish. I was given Valium so I slept through a huge part of the procedure. At 1pm they finished the harvesting and I got lunch, and then they continued implanting the grafts until around 7:30pm. I was able to drive myself home after the procedure (had to sign the waiver). Below you can see the pics from before the procedure (6am-ish that day), one with my hair buzzed and the hairline drawn and also two pics after the procedure. I will keep updating this thread as the time passes.

There are a lot of cancellations due to Covid. I got mine with Konior 2 weeks after my first email to him.

Also 3500 grafts for what looks like an inch of the hairline? Perhaps there's some grafts on the crown too, otherwise that ear to ear smile might turn sour real quick. I hope for the best for the guy of course but some reality assessment was not done.

I am doing FUE fwiw. Ok so looks like I probably need to just live with exposing it for the first two days and that might be ok - I'll be in a different city where nobody knows me anyways. I also decided to stay one day longer so I'll be traveling back on the 5th day after surgery so the risk that comes with wearing a hat is even lower.

Did you go back bare-headed, i.e. no hat or anything on your head?

Thanks for starting the thread about your experience! The donor seem much less bloody than usual so I assume he used less than 1mm punch size and also the punches are distributed evenly across the donor. I wonder if @jimcraig152's complaints (and if I may say gaslighting) worked?

This is not very clear to me - Dr said I can fly back the day after with the loose fitting baseball cap but he also said I shouldn't wear anything on my head for a week. Not sure how to interpret this. I was thinking of doing the HT on Monday and flying back on Friday - in your experience is that risky?

I might be flying out to do the HT. What about the day of procedure and the day after - do I just have to suck it up and go around all bloody bare headed for the first 3-4 days? Also I read conflicting into about a loose fitting baseball hat being ok on the plane home - what are the risks of it and how did you go about it? p.s. I couldn't find a similar question asked although there are plenty of youtube videos that give good info about the first few days.

I understand the rationale but there is no way of knowing which hairs is Minoxidil helping with and if you stop and those fall out that they'll grow back once you restart Minoxidil. So probably safer to stick to it until the surgery and resume after it's safe to use it again.

@jimcraig152 - the results are looking good so far! Waiting to see if the widow peaks fill up!

Can you please start a new thread for your experience? It would be another Dr. Diep's work data point for everyone else to see and could really help us compare against @jimcraig152's experience. More pics pre-op and post-op donor would be great! @jimcraig152 agrees with me!

When I read this I was like wow that's a HUGE area, so big that it doesn't make sense. So I re-did the math and I don't know where you got the conversion from, but the difference is 565 square mm which is 0.876 square inches, so less than a square inch distributed over the harvested area. This is still a decent number, as 0.8mm punches give you a 35% smaller scarring area. I have never seen a healed donor/hair transplant in person so I don't know how much of a problem is scarring vs the fact that some grafts are missing (which will always happen with FUE) but I wouldn't complain about 35% less scaring, assuming that it doesn't come with some consequences like fewer grafts surviving due to the higher risk of hurting the graft root with a smaller punch. @jimcraig152 - are you saying that the graft survival rate for Dr. Diep is 75%-55%? That sounds way too low, you can argue about many things but not about his yield.