TK-421

5 hours ago, Tentpole91 said:

Thanks for following up on this! Reading your journey makes me feel better about my own experience, where there is definitely some thinning in the donor area that is noticeable three weeks after the surgery (here). My hope is that it improves over the coming months. 

You just need to wait it out and see, i would say your donor area looks better than mine did at 3weeks

Just thought I would post another update 

Donor area still looks good, even under fairly harsh lighting and quite a short cut.

Now at 4.5months my hairline has started growing really well

I bought a topical finasteride, Im not sure how effective or reliable the dose would be doing this

Im very happy now vs how I felt a few weeks after surgery

Ive noticed lots of pimples the last couple of weeks in my donor area, which could be due to some of the hairs coming back in. But it seems to be thickening up.

The other positive is that I am having a lot of growth in my hairline (recepient area) already and its growing in exactly the same direction as my native hair.

I will endeavour to keep this thread updated, and eventually do a full review on the clinic too once my results are in.

3 month update after my first haircut under my bright kitchen lights!

 Donor area update video

Here's an update at just past 2 months post surgery. This is under some fairly harsh lighting.

The area has continued to improve. 

I will try and keep this thread updated as it may help out others in the future to see how a donor area can recover.

So can I, but I did have some shedding.

I will update again in a few months, I suspect it will recover further by then.

I just though I'd post an update at 6 weeks post surgery

I have seen big improvements in the donor area and I'm fairly confident now that I will have a good final result.

5 hours ago, BlessUp said:

Dont let these guys scare you. I had a ht, my donor looked like absolute shit similar to yours. Its caused by shock loss. The trauma of the surgery made adjacent hairs freak out and shed. They will absolutely grow back in the donor area. Prolly about month 3 to 4 you'll be back to normal. Trust me you'll be fine I went thru it just give it time and dont worry about it. Wear a hat until in comes back if it bothers u.

Thanks

I did shed some from the donor area and had some transected hairs too it seems. I didn't react well to the anaesthetic and I also had lots of bleeding and swelling.

I spoke with the Dr at some length about it and he assured me the end result would be good. They used a 0.9mm punch but I was a somewhat challenging case because I had good blood flow, so I bled more than usual in the donor and the graft sites.

Tbh it's already looking better so I am optimistic.

On 10/22/2019 at 3:32 PM, BeHappy said:

 

Looking at this picture, I'm going to take a guess that it may have taken a lot more than 2400 attempts to get 2400 good grafts. What that means is they don't get the root out when they try to pull a graft out or they cut the hair under the skin before reaching the root, so the hair root is still in your scalp although you have a FUE punch hole there. If the roots are good then those hairs may start growing back again right away, although you have to give it a week or so of growth before you may see them as the tops of them are not at surface level. Let me know if you see any growth in a few weeks.

 

Interestingly I have started to see some very short hairs breaking through the scalp so I think your assessment is probably the most accurate

2 minutes ago, Giastro said:

@TK-421.. can you tell us where you did your transplant?  It's just a curiosity.

At a clinic in Istanbul

But I will wait for the results before I say where

2 hours ago, BeHappy said:

 

Looking at this picture, I'm going to take a guess that it may have taken a lot more than 2400 attempts to get 2400 good grafts. What that means is they don't get the root out when they try to pull a graft out or they cut the hair under the skin before reaching the root, so the hair root is still in your scalp although you have a FUE punch hole there. If the roots are good then those hairs may start growing back again right away, although you have to give it a week or so of growth before you may see them as the tops of them are not at surface level. Let me know if you see any growth in a few weeks.

 

Thanks for the response

I have spoken to the Dr at the clinic and he said what I am seeing now is no cause for alarm. He assured me that in a couple of months the donor area will fill in and look fine

I will wait it out and post an update

Could it be shock loss?

I had a lot of swelling by this point and it's not a great image.

I don't have any from the day of surgery just one from day 3

This is the donor area prior to surgery

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated

Hi all

I am new to the forum

I had a FUE transplant on 7th October 2019 (2weeks ago) with 2400 grafts

I had lots of swelling and edema in my donor area

Now the swelling has gone my donor area looks very uneven and sparse

Is this normal or has a bad harvesting been done?

Thanks