ILtrooper

I am 3month mark on my HT. I noticed my native hairs, which is a lot of them, at the recipient area is growing much slower than the hairs at the non-recipient area. Is this common? I only received HT to my hairline and a tad toward the middle of my head to increase density, and noticed the non-recipient area hair is much longer and stronger, healthier looking than my recipient area. Is this normal? 

Thanks

Doganay!

Legend says that if you use a hair drier after an HT, transplanted hairs will die and their souls will take revenge and kill just as many native hairs down with them and because of that, the remaining native hairs will be so scared and traumatized by these events, they will stop growing forever. 

Read the first few sentences and was like wow. I felt bad. Then saw the pics and was like okay it isn’t bad honestly. Donor area appears to be a bit patchy, nothing screams at me. Your hairline could be better but faaarrr from botched. If you can’t even name the doctor, I say you are very lucky and should be a lottery ticket.

i am sure there are many surgeons out there who can easily fix things up for you a bit. Consider SMP for the donor area for an easy fix?

Thanks buddy 

A bit close up shows these:

Tomorrow will be 2 months. So, the sides grew very quickly for some reason. They got pretty long. I m not sure what’s going on at the recipient area. Did I grow some hair there or not all of them shed?

i could swear the transplanted area got pretty much bald after my 1 month mark and I went back to how I was before. I had been wearing my hair pushed forward, covering the transplanted area, so I wasn’t following the process. I wasn’t even paying attention to it. Can someone help me better understand what’s exactly happening? Also why is my scalp still looking so nasty and like there is still scabbing at the roots of my hairs?

anyways, here are the pics (upon close up, I see some tiny little hairs poking through)

21 hours ago, Melvin-Moderator said:

By two months you should be fine to resume to all normal activities. The post-operative care differs a bit from FUE to strip. Strip takes a little longer to heal and you want to let the scar heal fully before strenuous exercise.

Thanks a lot! It makes more sense. 👍

23 hours ago, Melvin-Moderator said:

I wrote an article about this recently. There is factor x, which could be a genetic or underlying health condition responsible for poor growth.

Top 3 Reasons Hair Transplants Fail

Thanks Melvin! That’s a solid article. 

Are the any set guidelines on how to take care of hair post HT? Everyone seem to have different recommendations. Some say you can get back to normal routine within two weeks, right after all the scans have fallen off and others say you have to wait a couple of months. 

I m 2 months post op now and still feel pretty weird touching the transplanted area. It actually does feel weird too. I can tell the scalp hasn’t fully healed yet.

So, I have been going nuts checking out everyone’s progress and noticed with the same surgeon,  some people have great growth and some others not so much. What’s happening here? I know it is easy to blame the surgeon, but could it be genetics? Could be maybe us and the way we took care of ourselves post HT? I mean, I am sure some of them are surgeon related, but are they all?

I am really interested in finding out what’s really been the cause of this? 

I personally began lifting very light weights like a week or two post HT. Just a couple of pull ups, bicep curls with light weights. No sweating or anything. I didn’t drink any alcohol and was very gentle when I washed my hair. On my 4th week mark, I returned to my normal routine. I began lifting very heavy weights, went out and partied a couple of times with friends and began washing my hair like I normally did. 

I did take my vitamins and biotin everyday and I eat pretty clean for the most part. So my diet is solid. 

Thiughts?

35 minutes ago, Namsak said:

lol. I can easily understand, and without judging by any means, it id not something for me, I would rather go bald and shave, it's just personal.

But ILtrooper, you're bringing up a point I was thinking a lot about, and this is the question of higher price surgeons. Doganay is out of my budget right now, but could be within my budget in a year or two, after I graduate. So I have this dilemma, how worth it is it to go with a surgeon who charge more? Will I see a significant impact or not? I am not comparing with the very low cost clinics, but rather someone like Demirsoy who charges 1.25€ per graft versus 2€ I think for Dogonay. Do you have an opinion on that? 

I don’t really know what determines their pricing but from what I have seen so far, demirsoy is doing some clean work. I would obviously recommend Doganay because I used him and the work itself was very clean and I was happy with everything. However, what matters to me is the end result. If my hair doesn’t grow the way I expect it to, then all that means nothing. 

I am a firm believer of negotiation. Reach out and try and negotiate and see how it goes. 

On 12/8/2018 at 1:10 PM, Namsak said:

Thanks man. I do have a pretty thick beard. I don't rule out this possibility, but I would leave it as a very last resort I guess given how different beard hair and scalp hair are. Have you also done it in Turkey?

Yeah I got it done with Doganay. I am just waiting. Nearly 2 months now. I won’t be able to see any results for another 3-4 months. 

As a last resort, hairpiece. It’s insane how great and realistic latest hair pieces are.  You can even tell if you are looking very closely. If I ever went bald to a point where it’s bad, I would wear a hairpiece proudly. The old dead raccoon toupee days are over from what I see.

From what I have seen here, Demirsoy seem to do some real clean work. But I have no experience there.

Do you have bodyhair? How about some body hair, beard and some from the donor area? It would be a process but you can probably get a decent look out of it. I heard  Doganay is an expert in body and beard hair, but I don’t have that experience either.  I just did the usual hair transplant.

On 12/1/2018 at 7:41 AM, ATM110 said:

I feel sorry for the patients prior 2016. 65% regrowth and curved damaged hair

Yeah, but trial and error, adapt, fix and continue on applies everything. Those 65% results compared to surgeries performed in the 90s is like comparing a Honda Civic to a Lamborghini.

I say like 2k-2,5k for a nice dense hairline. I recommend Doganay. He did mine and I couldn’t be happier with how it all went down. 

Banged the recipient area? If grafts are still in there and not disturbed, I wouldn’t worry too much. Just take some otc anti inflammatory pills to reduce inflammation. Now, if the hairs are disturbed, slipped out or something, obviously that’s an issue. When I banged my head, I lost a ton of grafts, had to go back and redo that area. But mine was a major case. Any close up pics?

What about the crown? No shots of the crown?

^^^ same question 

11 hours ago, LordBaldwin said:

IMO, if the hair is noticeably better than it was before the surgery, it's not really a failure... especially not at 8 months.  It doesn't really make sense to expect to come out of one's first surgery looking like Khal Drogo by the 8 month mark, every time.   If you look at Payam's pictures, there's clearly been more and more hair every month.  If you look at his video (which shows his 'bad' side), it's actually quite a bit better than it was a few months ago.  

Concerning growth rates, I'd watch the 'Feller and Bloxham - Hair Transplant "Slow Growers"' video on Youtube.  It shows a case where a guy came back at 8 months with really weak growth, but it ended up thickening up very nicely by 18 months.

I've seen a few other examples on this forum (I can PM you a couple of them if you'd like).   

 

Huh? Based on your assessment, Hypothetically speaking So you take 5k grafts from me and 1k grows, which would equal to having 1k hairs more than I had before up front, but I am out of 4K grafts  and ontop of that those 1k grafts have poor density, which now looks worse than it did before because of that and this procedure isn’t considered a failure? 

Title pretty much says it all. I bought some dermmatch and wondering if I could use this in the recipient area until it grows? I have plenty of native hairs but it looks weird with hair transplant. Dermmatch seem to help conceal it a bit. Is it okay or would this damage the follicles somehow and negatively effect the growth?

thanks

Yes, I have done laser hair removal before. Laser kills the hair follicles and once the hair follicles are no longer under your skin, the characteristics of you skin will change. It will look like other areas where there are no hairs. In my opinion, laser is your best bet. Screw plucking hairs all the time. Painful and will not be a permanent solution for you. 

I mean look at all those people who lose their hair. The areas where they lost their hair is no longer a different color than the rest of their skin. It looks like hair never grew there before. Laser is the same thing,  just an artificial loss.

Very inspiring thread! The happiness in these people’s faces is priceless and the hope this thread brings to many of us! I love it! Fingers crossed I get similar results  

My brother’s hair loss is very similar to yours and he wanted me to show pics of his hair loss to Doganay when I was there. Doganay said 5k grafts minimum to have a decent coverage. I am curious to see what a 4K grafts will look like at your level.

Keep us posted and good luck!

Laser hair removal should do the trick

2 hours ago, JeanLDD said:

Dumb and dishonest thing to say. I don't think this is an acceptable result, the defences were against people who were clearly being disingenuous and making false or misleading claims. OP you should contact the clinic and see if they are able to offer a resolution.

and we got a biter folks....  

just relax bub! No need to get all worked up. We are all on the team here