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  1. Your question reminded me of a video by one of the members here, that aired one issue to do with transplanted hairs often being all synced to go into growth and resting phase within a couple of months of each other. It mainly counsels patience while the next growth phase returns. At 21 months for me, I would say I do notice a few more stray fallen hairs around the place.
  2. Resuscitating my thread for an 18 month check in. I took these on the actual 18 month day yesterday, when I also happened to have let the hair up top reach a similar length to what it was on the day it was buzzed right before the surgery. These shots are paired with right after a hair cut in the afternoon yesterday. A little bit of styling product was added by the barber for the post haircut pics. Then for a bit of self-encouragement, the last pic is a shot of me from around 10 years ago, well before I'd gotten on any medications or researched good hair surgeons. I guess it's also about 17 months since going consistently on the 2.5 minoxidil capsules, along with my longer term Fin at half the regular dose. Things go well. I'd always wish for it being little less diffuse through the mid scalp (where nothing was done). But styling choices can conceal all that pretty well I must concede. Hope that everyone else's journeys are going well.
  3. At last I've made a set that seems about right for a 12 month review. My well traveled laptop was playing up a bit the past week, hence I've been slow with the pairing and labeling. Decided to focus right in on the areas that received the actual grafts, more so than the full hair shots of previous entries. Probably haven't quite scaled the before and after pics to be exact matches, but the shape of the work does seem to be easy enough to pick out in this series. But give me a prod if anyone wants more global head pics.
  4. It's graduation day! Or the HT equivalent. I mark one year today. Annnnddd, I haven't gotten the pics done yet. But will get them done over the weekend certainly. Enough now to reflect that it feels like a good set of choices leading to Brussels and the crew there at BHR. Plus I tacked on a nice bit of travel winding my way back home in the weeks after surgery.
  5. Well I got my usual photo set mostly done. But not all the cropping, pairing and labeling. I'll revive that for May, when I hit the anniversary. Here's an experiment turning a quick phone video into a motion gif.
  6. Happy to post some reflections in this thread. Prior to Oral: November 2019 to February 2022 5ML topical 2 x per day, reduced to 1 x per day when I used a derma roller. Had a slight drying effect on the scalp, but not to the point of causing dermatitis. I was on a pre existing Finasteride regime. Feb to April 2022 was taking a daily capsule from an Australian compounding pharmacy with 1 mg + 1 mg Fin and Minox. In prep for a transplant I started ramping down the Minoxidil for a few weeks, by alternating the above capsules with a regular Fin tablet and back to topical every other day. Then stopped all Minox on 5 May ahead of the surgery until early June/July when I finished off the capsules. 20 July to the present (March 2023) changed it up to 2.5 mg capsules, from the same supplier, at 1 per day. Recognising we can't run two versions of our life for comparison, I feel fairly comfortable saying that my progress through peak ugly-duckling seemed pleasantly fast in the weeks following surgery. I don't notice a lot of side effects. Confounding the potential effects on other hair beyond the scalp, I was a pretty determined consumer of laser hair reduction treatments in the early 00s, so those follicles don't have a lot to work with now anyway. I think my eyebrows probably need more frequent trimming in recent times, and the gap between haircuts I've chosen to reduce a couple of times from 6 weeks down to a month. As to my take on what standard of evidence to rely on...well, I mean to find a point of hopefully commonality, we're all pretty comfortable with the notion that no form of invasive surgery uses the double blind placebo standard. Like, we didn't decide that transplants are X percent effective by putting real grafts in one part of some volunteer's scalp, and pretend grafts in another. Having practising surgeons iterate and follow informed speculation on the procedural side is exactly how it's meant to work with advancing the field. Having them iterate similarly with off-label medication, when there's little or no chance of getting large controlled efficacy studies, seems also like a pretty reasonable way to push the hair restoration field forwards.
  7. Celebrating double digits - month number 10. And right on the tails of a haircut for once. Things I like most about the HT as it matures include the realism of the singles along the (very slightly lowered) hairline. Things I'm still getting used to include the extra springiness of the zone with most of the grafts. It really wants to be styled and tamed with product, but I'm terminally lazy about reaching for styling or hold compounds haha. Here's yet another slight variation on the recurring themes of before-after shots.
  8. Presenting month number 9, including new treats from the vaults 🗝️. Thank you Zinedine, Hairlinedreamer and Melvin for the last round of positive feedback. Only observation this time I think is that longer wet hair is a little more see-through than when it was shorter. Due to getting more plastered down by the water, no doubt. Came pretty close during this past week to disclosing what I'd had done to a friend at work. He'd been on medication since his 20s and wondered what my 'regime' was. But so far I only went as far as talking Fin and minox. We'll see.
  9. I definitely like that shape achieved around your hairline. 👍 There are at least a few cases floating around of people in the NW5 range being able to replenish everything except maybe the epicentre of the whorl with 6-6.5 k total. If your harvest went well this time you can likely get there also.
  10. Looking all very natural and full, H-dreamer. It's an interesting thing with the darker tones being brought out by your being on Minoxidil. Though when the pics are viewed at full rez the lighter browns are still visible in the mix.
  11. 18th of the month means...it's update time 🎆 Following broadly the same set I normally include, just with a couple of different angles for sake of variety. All goes well for month 8. My hair's maybe a little long to get great comparison shots of the hairline at present, but wasn't due for a cut for a couple more weeks.
  12. I forget if this was technically flouting the post-surgery instructions a bit...but by about the fourth week I took to dabbing on a little bit of a skin blemish concealer where redness was most apparent. I picked a product that was light weight, rather than the more cakey compounds that are often marketed for same purpose. Note this is skin concealer, which is a different thing to hair loss concealer.
  13. Update-lite mode for December (month 7). Just three pics and a clip. The changes detectable to me, as owner of the head in question, are mainly subtle things like an improvement of the skin within the recipient zone. It's noticeably less sand-papery in texture as time goes on. It's natural but overcast daylight in the short video with the brush through, and hair is recently washed but not containing styling add-ins.
  14. Thanks Jayson Oh funnily enough, the wet hair shots are about the easiest of the bunch to do. That's just me with my phone under the bathroom light. For many of the others it's all tripod, 10 sec timer, wrestle with the autofocus of my digital camera to actually lock onto the damned hairline!
  15. Happy November. Just a couple of days past my 6 month milestone, with a haircut done yesterday to mark the occasion. I'm possibly going to do more basic progress photos for months 7 and 8, then a full run again at month 9. All seems quite satisfactory at this point. 1 Wet hair in indirect but bright light 2 Viewing the recipient from above at Day 1, 2 weeks and 6 months 3. A front shot with dry hair 4-6. Day minus 1 before treatment, and at 2-6 months from three angles 7. Close up right corner 8. Close up left corner 9. Donor
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