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Fantastic result man! Your hair is so versatile and however you style it, it looks great and natural. I'm following your journey with interest and good luck in your next procedure to get that crown filled. You’re starting from a tremendous place and there isn’t much left to get back to a full head of hair. Stay the course!

Thanks for reading!

My pleasure! Thanks for reading. I am certainly happy with the result.

Thanks Melvin! Yes I was happy that the donor looked decent short. Another kudos to HDC.

Steeeve, thank you very much. This is the best comment I have received on my thread and I appreciate your words and compliments. You picked up on something that my family members have frequently said, that my hair looks very natural, and almost exactly how I looked like 10-15 years ago. The “unremarkability” and how natural the result came out, was the biggest success factor in their eyes. You made me appreciate that even more with your comment. I am definitely giving the crown a few more months before passing final judgment. Best wishes to you on your hair restoration journey!

Hello fellas following my thread, here are some photos from mid-August, at 8 months post-op. At that time, I tried - unsuccessfully I might add - to give myself a fade haircut at home. There is some small improvement from the last update. I don’t know if density is going to improve much further but I’m satisfied so far. I’m also strongly considering taking finasteride based on the recommendation by Asterix0 and Melvin, and I’ll be talking to my general physician for a prescription when I see him later this month.

Thanks man! I’m not on Finasteride. I figured since the hair in my front third and vertex was basically gone before surgery, there is not much native left to protect, so I didn’t think that it would help me much. Based on my limited reading about it, it would not help much with hair from the donor zone, as that hair isn’t as sensitive to DHT as natives. HDC didn’t particularly say that they recommend it but they did caution that in 15-20 years I could be looking at further long term hair loss. Would you recommend I consider it?

Thank you Bjorn Borg 🎾! By the way, he (you?) still has a great head of hair at 64 years old.

Thanks man, it sure is a big difference from 2-3 years ago. I look at my old photos and the big improvement keeps me grounded and sensible, and not too picky about the density in every little area of my scalp. I hope that the thickening helps cover the crown sufficiently that I don’t need any further transplants, but like you said, there is enough reserves for further touch up. The clinic said that I have another 2000 grafts left for a third surgery, and my plan for now is to save them for further hair loss in the side humps.

Thanks man. 1380 grafts went into the crown area.

It’s been 6 months since my second hair transplant and I’m continuing to see improvements. The frontal half is filling in nicely but the crown area is still visibly bald. My hair looks best in indoor environments without harsh lighting, which is what I understand to be the norm with hair transplants. I tried to capture some photos in both soft and harsh lighting. The donor area is recovering well and is showing less signs of the over-harvesting that I was concerned about in my last update. In one of the photos below, I circled in red the areas where I would like to see improvement.

Hi SOW, I’m posting my 6-month post op update shortly.

I don’t. I didn’t take any for the first week after surgery, because I never figured they’d be useful. There were some scabs and crusts left at 5 days. I recall that at 7 days, I was overall in good enough shape to leave the house and visit friends, and only a little redness was left.

Yeah not being able to fade it down is exactly why the overharvest is bugging me. Fades are all the rage these days.

Oh thanks man. I should have just gone with thank you haha. The core of my donor zone in the back is still healthy (added a photo), and I think that in their effort to preserve that as much as possible, and spread the extraction around the entire donor, they might have extracted too much from the sides. I have not brought the small overharvested area to them yet. I wanted to see first if some folks here would agree that it was over harvested. I would appreciate your opinion on this one.