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bman3082

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  1. so my stuff just doesnt get posted now?
  2. You know what in the spirit of honesty and all that, i really don’t understand why you felt the need to comment on my thread? You blatantly told me to “please stop messaging you” after you promised to send me some pics of rahal patients at 5-6 months since I was concerned with progress. I asked for them a few times, since your opening statement was that you’d send me them, but was consistently met with variations of “you need to relax” as if my asking for something you promised was evidence of some sort of restlessness. I literally said “you gonna send them or not” and you told me to “stop messaging [you]” which at 5.5 months was great to hear. Other members happily obliged, but it was somehow a huge issue and personal fault of mine for asking you, though u stated multiple times u would? It’s just off you trying to cover all these bases when everyone is entitled to their opinion. Man, it’s a forum. No comment can make or break the rep of an esteemed clinic with 20+ years in the game. If you truly believe the hype you create around rahal, then you would be far less defensive literally ALL the time. Not trying to incite you, just logically wondering why you’d want relation with me publically after completely disgregarding me in private.
  3. Hey Aftermath, Just want to say you have never once in this thread made me feel anxious or bad, quite the opposite actually. I really appreciate the support. Not to pick on anyone, but im really not sure what mentor is talking about here. Kind of seems like any ‘negative’ rhetoric about rahal (though i’d hardly call it that) is taken as a personal attack on mentor’s character, and that he is using it to distract from your honest opinion earlier on. Feels devisive, and that’s why I feel strong posts like mentor’s that actually do more harm than good to any said clinic (just my honest opinion that im sure is shared). It’s obvious I relish your positive thoughts and outlook greatly. As well, knowing you have the result you have starting off with more loss gives me solace and peace no matter the outcome. cheers, b
  4. I appreciate the feedback on my thread. I agree, Dr. Rahal is good and genuine, there’s a reason i chose him. The density seems to be pick up so im just letting the play out. A main concern for me at this point however is the design. I will wait obviously until everything is final to see how it looks styled, but i know my face and know its very angular and looks better with recession. I should have pressed more for that, as we all have individual preferences. I am hoping there is some may to add some sort of angling with minimial scarring. However i will say that your posts come off very strong and defensive. It will obviously incite negative emotions so i don’t understand the thinking behind it? Super strong posts like that actually make any clinic look worse imo (not that anything in this thread makes rahal look bad as I’ve mentioned many times, i am super optimistic but for a hopefully small refinement in hairline design) so your intentions thought obviously genuine become shrowded. Just food for thought.
  5. Sorry i mean removal of improperly placed grafts. Will there be noticable scarring?
  6. Thanks for the kind words i really appreciate it. Will deffs keep u updated and good to see you are progressing well!
  7. Why didnt dr hasson wanna do your temple points?
  8. Thanks for the kind words, very much appreciated. You are most definitelty right there IS hair where there wasn’t and that itself is a blessing. And I agree, money is not my motivator here. I think i’m gonna take a break from the forum for a while until somewhere between 10 -12 months post op unless something appreciable happens before then. I want to thank everyone for they’re honesty, constructive criticism, and support. Those reasons are why i made this thread in the first place. The best thing to do is give it time to materialize into whatever that may be, and constantly looking at other results only proverbially elongates that process. I do assure however that I will at the very least sum everything up in complete detail when the time comes. B
  9. Man honestly idk what to think at the moment. Going to see him next week but im pretty stressed about whether this is fixable. I really don’t know why i didn’t push farther for more recession, i really hope its correctable and i can just move on because 7 months later, my situation is probably worse off than before
  10. Your right honestly i pressed the doc to go low in the middle but i knew i wanted it to not be straight like this! I have a long face and look much better with an angular hairline. Honestly im gonna need to repair it and angle it off, i completely know that, but honestly those pics make it look a hell of a lot lower than it idk why they look compressed but tbh ur right i would much rather have recessed temple. I told the doc this and he said “but this is going to show more recession” and since im not a doc doing this for 20+ years i trusted his gut. Idk if u can move grafts without scarring but if i have to, ill bite the grafts and go use electroylsis because it is too straight atm. I feel like i was heavily thrown off by that stupid middle line drawn through, makes it look more narrow than it is, and if u tell a patient to take the night and change it the morning of the surgery, the patient is 95% not gonna alter it because a million other thoughts are going through their head and they don’t wanna screw it up at 5am. I appreciate your honesty and have two choices: bring my temples down farther down to my brows to elongate it or narrow it out with fue (if i can gaurantee minimal scarring) or bite a few hundred grafts and just electrolysis them out. I know now to trust my gut because i absolutely knew i didnt want such a straight hairline, but in the moment it ALWAYS feels better to go with the doc. I am hoping this is possible, ive read multiple docs that do a hairline raising/repair everyday for older transplant patients but feel bad just wasting grafts.
  11. I agree, checking the forum does make thngs harder. A few silver linings to all of this: if i can get 20 grafts per cm sq (rn at about 5 per cm), then a touch up wont be that monumental. As well, my individual hair shafts are really thick so i can get significant coverage with a lower number of grafts. I only have a few more months to wait before i know the final result which in itself is reassuring. And i know that my hair doesnt change colour of texture after transplanted (doesn’t become too course), so i dont need to worry about that. Also, i seem to have a bunch of new very fine hairs so hoping those mature and provide some help. As well, the hairs thay have grown are very fine in appearance so it could be possible i’m just an extremely slow grower and will attain the density im after.
  12. Thanks for posting. Indeed that is failed by rectifiable so worry not
  13. yah my hair is very course so 40 grafts per cm would definitely put me to where I need to be. I know that much for sure. I know the 6 months look bad, and your probs right. I do appreciate your honesty. However, top class docs are producing excellent, consistent results, and doc rahal himself even told me that less than 1 % of his surgeries attain less than optimal results, so I believe one should expect 90+ growth in most cases. I cite konior because I know now that I prefer a surgeon focused procedure style, and have yet to see a bad result. Sure he does not have that many posters, but has the hands of a surgeon which imo are more reliable than a tech.
  14. hey man thanks for the vote of confidence, always appreciated. I really hope it does thicken up. When did you go with konior and how has it turned out?
  15. rahal does have strong marketing, but so do so many others on this forum. I'd say the only surgeon who could care less and has more business than anyone is konior and that speaks volumes. Again, obviously rahal is a great surgeon, but there is more to a surgery like this than just the surgeon...
  16. honestly man if you can just wait until im at about 10 months (which would be in June). At that point I'll know with certainty whether it was a success or failure. Like I stated originally, I am still optimistic since ive honestly only been in the growth phase for about 3-4 months but looking at JohnRoss is really deflating to be frank
  17. 1000% i really don't care about a growth guarantee if the first one didn't work out. I would be way too stressed out the second time around and can't afford to waste any grafts. Like 3000+ grafts, 5000 hair should provide an effective hairline result, that I'm sure of! Thanks for the comment, I really do hope things turn around as well. Approaching 7 months and can honestly say if it stopped here, I'd be devastated. My thoughts about this whole website/industry atm are: Some clinics market better than others, this forum clearly has a bias for some clinics over others. Some members are treated unfairly when trying to find a solution for something as stressful as a bad ht (looking at recent asmed threads for example). Amazing results from overseas surgeons are not nearly discussed enough because they have no interest in this forum, and are thus discarded as being "the best in the world", a title given to surgeons on this forum rather easily. if this doesn't work, I will probably not go with a clinic where the surgeon does not do 95% percent of the work, even though your result with hasson and a few others are the best I have ever seen period. I am too afraid of techs ruining my super fucking precious grafts.
  18. Honestly if it doesnt work i would not go back to the same surgeon, regardless of who it is. It’s funny because i was literally ‘warned’/contacted by SeanFUE (im sure we all know who he is) before my surgery and i dismissed his concerns since he went with fue. Knowing he’s done repairs with rahal that have not worked are the only lesson i need that if it doesnt work the first time, go somewhere else.
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