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You can see my post op pictured at dr Ron Shapiro's page.

I don't know how to make the link to my page to show at the end of my postings. Does anyone have an idea?

Thank you wb280. Yes, the hair loss occured right behind the grafted area. So the doctor is confused to decide if it's shock loss or alopecia areata.

My guess is that it is at least related to alopecia areata, as it happend all of sudden (all those hair fell during a few hours)

I have experience similar but less hair loss on the other side but not on the fontal area as I observed. Hopefully it won't profess further.

I stopped taking propecia for the moment and will see how it goes and keep them posted as things change. Thank you.

My understanding is that shock loss will eventually come back. But i may be wrong. Did you call Dr. Shapiro to discuss the same? Were your hair transplanted between the native hair and if so, did you have a lot of native hair. I know i was turned down by Dr. Bernstien just because of this reason as i had a significant amount of native hair..But dont panic, please call the doctor. He is top notch and will address your issues

I just talked with Dr. Ron Shapiro on this. He says it's usually unlikely to have this much shockloss where I didn't get grafted hair, cause I didn't get new hairs where I am now losing my hair badly. So he suggests it might be one of rare cases called Alopecia Areata. It's the case where my immune system react to external stress(HT for my case) and attack my own hair. For that case, the doctor will prescibe me a medicine.

What is so wierd is, I am losing my hairs but it's not where I got my new hairs implanted, and it happened all of sudden so it was fine until yesterday but now the whole strip is almost gone.

I hope it will go well and oh my god, why does this happen to me? This seems to be very unusual case.

Hi everyone,

I had a HT surgery on Aug 3rd with Dr. Ron Shapiro. It was 1325 grafts. So far I think I have been healing well. I started propecia from a week ago and I removed the suture last tuesday. And I didn't experience any serious shedding or lossing of my hair.

But today after noon, when I saw my hair in mirror, my old hairs (not grafted ones), especially on my right side, are falling like... crazy in a way that never used to. I am very shocked because I have never experienced such huge hair loss in such a short period of time.

They just... fall off even though I didn't touch them, I guess I saw more than hundread hairs falling just today afternoon. As I remember it was fine until yesterday.

I am attaching a photo. It is very shocking because most of my hair on pretty large area on my right side are gone, as it can be seen from the photo. It is not where I grafted new hairs.

Can this be due to propecia? or is this shock loss? If this is shock loss, is it commong to loss this much hair on one day afternoon?

I am so worried and paniced now. I now even worry about getting another HT to cover those newly balded area. OMG..

Many thanks to your opinion and experience.

I have been researching various doctors and I am impressed by Dr.Keene's performance.

The thing is, I sent her an e-mail yesterday and didn't get a reply yet. Of course I will wait a few more days but I would like to ask you if you have had a procedure with Dr.Keene, how did you contact her?

And I am living in Wisconsin and I can't visit her clinic for consultation. Does the doctor do any phone consultation?

Thank you!