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Update. I just started living my life and not worrying about hair so I forgot about this thread. These are pics at the worst possible angle, but I'm very happy. Could use a tiny bit more but it's good enough and the scar is way way better (although I still want to get it filled in)

I would highly recommend not going back there. We now have multiple documented cases of poor results from this clinic. Really sorry to hear you're having to deal with this.

Almost back to normal. It was about 1800 grafts. I had him prioritize making the scar as small as possible over getting a ton of grafts.

4.5 month update: Hair is much better but there are still some small gaps I feel? Hopefully by 6 months it fill in more. My scar is still healing so I am still limited in how short I can cut it, but it's def. better then my first one.

After getting a hair cut today and deciding to do a 2.5 month update, I was feeling pretty depressed overall about my transplant and wondering if things are on track. I saw your comment on my thread and went to look through your story.... and WOW! At 2 months, you donor area, transplant and electrolysis looked just like mine! Amazing results at 7 months and gave me a lot of hope for my own results. Time to move on with life for sure, I hope to get to that point as well, thank you for posting your results.

@vinzaf19 They are simply destroyed, you can't reuse them. If he extracted them like FUE for reuse it would create an FUE scar in my frontal hairline Here is an update at 2.5 months (10 weeks). Nothing much yet as expected, slowly healing. Hoping some of the shock loss in the donor + hair from underneath the skin (double tricho closure) grows back through. As you can see it is pretty wide at this time. At least it does not hurt much and there are minimal keloids forming unlike my last transplant. I also hope that the electrolysis area continues to heal, at 2.5 months I still need to cover it. I am using a scar cream on it 3 times a day called Serica to help speed up the process.

Appreciate the feedback guys! Thank you all very much. Yes, I have tried my best to stay level headed, accept what happened, and figure out a solution. There is nothing else I really could do, other then continue these post and hope others learn from this. 2 month update on Dr. Cooley transplant: Donor Area: Scar has healed a lot more, and is very flat, I have a hard time finding it now vs my old one which had keloid issues and hurt even a year after surgery. I barely feel this one. The downside is that even though I have been very careful and followed Dr. Cooley's instructions, it seems to have maybe stretched a bit? It is a double tricho closure though, so maybe in the next 2 months hairs will grow through. Transplanted area: No hair growth yet that I can find, this is to be expected at 2 months. All transplanted hairs fell out at around 3-5 week mark. I think by the 4 month there will be noticeable growth. As far as the electrolysis, you can see my head does still slightly noticeable markings, but it is healing nicely and I expect it to be completely healed by month 3. Feel free to ask questions if you have any.

2 month update: Donor Area: Scar has healed a lot more, and is very flat, I have a hard time finding it now vs my old one which had keloid issues and hurt even a year after surgery. I barely feel this one. The downside is that even though I have been very careful and followed Dr. Cooley's instructions, it seems to have maybe stretched a bit? It is a double tricho closure though, so maybe in the next 2 months hairs will grow through. Transplanted area: No hair growth yet that I can find, this is to be expected at 2 months. All transplanted hairs fell out at around 3-5 week mark. I think by the 4 month there will be noticeable growth. As far as the electrolysis, you can see my head does still slightly noticeable markings, but it is healing nicely and I expect it to be completely healed by month 3. Feel free to ask questions if you have any.

Thank you UKLad, I can only hope after my last experience. Newest update at 5 weeks out from surgery. My thoughts: I had hoped the electrolysis marks would heal sooner, but Dr. Cooley says I am right on track. I had to go to a pretty formal conference this week and it was not fun trying to hide the redness under my hair. My hair is a bit thin in the front and even with combing it forward, you can see through a bit in direct sunlight. (see pictures) So, keep in mind if you get electrolysis it can take some time to heal. I am thinking it should be fully healed around the 2 month mark. I am applying something called Serica 3x a day to the area to help accelerate healing. Hair growth seems to be starting already? I see a few small stubble hairs showing up, surprised it's happening so soon. I also had a fair bit of shock loss in the rest of my hair from the prp I received, hoping that can reverse and thicken up the rest of my crown. Will update again in ~1 month as things progress. Feel free to ask me any questions

It was 1750 grafts. Great to hear at PeloDinero. Don't get wrapped in by Steve like I did.

Update, showing my donor scar only 1 month after surgery with Dr. Cooley vs my donor scar 8 months after my previous surgery with Dr. Mcgrath. The second picture is the 8 month from first surgery. I only had my sutures taken out 1 week ago and feel it has healed extremely well. My old scar was still very red at this time period and had hypertrophy starting to take place, this scar feels far flatter and I can feel little hair growing through slowly on account of the double tricho closure that was done. Not much to update on the front, going through ugly duckling stage and waiting for hairs to come in. The area with 200 or so grafts removed via electrolysis is still healing and a bit red. Dr. Cooley gave me a solution called "Serica" to help with healing and it has seemed to help accelerate the process, I am confident it will heal with no skin issues or deformation.

Update, showing my donor scar only 1 month after surgery with Dr. Cooley vs my donor scar 8 months after my previous surgery with Dr. Mcgrath. The second picture is the 8 month from first surgery. I only had my sutures taken out 1 week ago and feel it has healed extremely well. My old scar was still very red at this time period and had hypertrophy starting to take place, this scar feels far flatter and I can feel little hair growing through slowly on account of the double tricho closure that was done.

Yeah, so far none have regrown. We'll see though, Dr. Cooley said the hairs can be stubborn and may need a second pass.

2 Week Update! See pictures. A bunch of my grafts have begun to shed. I had minimal to no scabbing of any kind. I have also taken a picture of my donor to show the strip area. I still have sutures in for another 1 week or so before I will travel down to have Cooley take them out. I am amazed at how the donor area is barely even red. Amazingly this hurts less then the donor area from Mcgrath did at 3 months, and it was extremely red, as you'll see if you check my other forum on him. Very happy with the progress and highly recommend him again!

Hi, I looked through your pages. Checkout my story and see what I did. I would suggest you do something similar and start consulting with your current surgeon and other to doctors recommended on here to help figure out next steps