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Minoxidil Post FUT
baldforalongtime replied to Bluestar66's topic in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers
I'd ask your doctor. Mine recommended starting after day 7 -
I'd give yourself a lot of wiggle room as people have different reactions in both the donor and recipient. You need to plan at least two weeks to get the scabs and peeling to be gone from the recipient and then the redness will persist for months. For the donor, you need to anticipate how long it will take to grow back and then shock loss is a real possibility.
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Recovery Post FUE - Advice Needed
baldforalongtime replied to afrz's topic in Hair Transplant Reviews
Agreed - I changed to the foam and it is substantially less oily. -
Am I a suitable candidate for 2 fue procedures
baldforalongtime replied to Radiogaga's topic in Hair Transplant Reviews
Do you have pictures of your hair grown out more? If the hair is thin in the donor area, you may have a difficult time covering scars sufficiently from any procedures. -
Donor area too weak?
baldforalongtime replied to HairGone29's topic in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers
Are you looking at FUE or FUT? Also, have you only been consulted from the pictures? No microscope to detect miniaturization? I'm dealing with this same question but on the after-HT surgery side. Honestly, I'd kill to have your donor area, but am interested in what the community recommends. -
I'm 44. The excess bleeding made the surgery take a little longer and led to a lot of scabbing, but nothing else adverse that I've identified so far. I'm only two month post so the results are still unknown. Since I had a few larger scabs, I was hesitant to remove them after the 7th day. The staff recommended I scrub a little more vigorously when they removed the stitches, so I did in the shower after soaking the scabs in Neosporin for 30 minutes.
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60 day update: Supplement routine: Finasteride 1mg daily; Rogaine twice daily. Biotin 10k mg once daily Started microneedling three weeks ago with a Dr Pen A6...I'm only doing the donor areas and crown. The recipient area is left to heal. I'm definitely seeing hairs on the crown that weren't in the earlier pictures. Starting to see hairs come up all over the recipient area Got a fairly aggressive haircut two weeks ago as I wanted to see how low I could go while still working from home in quarantine. The barber said she couldn't see the line, but my iPhone picture definitely showed it. I'm going to grow now with no cuts until 90 days The donor area is so thin below the transplant scar...I know there is some shock loss, but at this point I'm on the fence about any future surgeries. What are your opinions? The hardest part of this process is cutting off all dating. When I go places I always wear a hat. All of my old dating profile pictures were of me completely shaved bald, so I don't have a good set with friends, etc that I can use. Have people found success dating through the ugly duckling phase? My original plan was to wait six months completely off the market, and that is still the plan, but quarantine is getting to me a bit.
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30 day update. No side effects from the medication and the shedding is slowing down. I knew my hair was thin, but I'm not sure I'll ever be able to cover the FUT scar. We'll see how things progress though. The shock loss under the scar seems to be lessening a bit, but is still glaringly obvious. I also think the hair line is going to end up really high; it seems like I have a lot of forehead still. The plan is still to do two more surgeries, one to fill the crown and another to lower the hairline if I have the donor hair. But wow the donor area is thin. People say the ugly duckling phase is difficult and I'm definitely finding that to be true.
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Self tanning lotion post transplant
baldforalongtime replied to baldforalongtime's topic in Open Hair Loss Topics
I started using self-tanning lotion on my face last week and the contrast with my scalp is noticeable. I don't want to risk anything, so I'll just wait and hope the transplant hair grows in. -
When is it safe (if ever) to use a self tanning lotion on the scalp post transplant? I'm 1 month post and starting to use Jergens Natural Glow on the face, but the front scalp is starting to contrast in it white glow.
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Dr. Blake Bloxham FUT 1986 Grafts
baldforalongtime replied to Tbcruz's topic in Hair Transplant Reviews
I'm wondering the same thing! Still super early to tell but sometimes I wonder if it will ever cover with how thin my donor area is. -
End of week 1. Random details: Only needed pain killers for sleeping the first three nights At the end of the week, the stitches were removed. During the follow up, I was instructed to be a little more persuasive with head massage while showering. This successfully removed the scabs Started fin+min on day 8
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Surgery results. The procedure went well. I arrived early in the morning. The procedure took around 9 hours, with a break for lunch. The only complaint I would have is partially my own fault. I was having discomfort during the procedure, but was managing my way through it by breathing. This ended up wearing my down a bit and the stress was causing bleeding. The staff straightened me out and I was more communicative about pain after that. They kept me numb and finished the procedure. The night after was not fun. It was hard to sleep as there was no side of my head to lay on. I tried an airplane pillow, but only ended up with about 4 hours sleep.