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6 month update hair is filling in nicely and really happy with it. hoping it will thicken up over coming months in the midscalp and crown, which i think it will given other posters who had a ht with dr couto, but overall over the moon for 6 months and dr couto is fantastic ! thanks for all the other posters, this forum has been invaluable

yeah from what i saw he was fully involved he had one other person later in the day and was v present for my procedure and afterwards answering questions etc also his team were super responsive on whatsapp the evenings of the op when i was in the hotel answering questions etc

sorry should have said postponed which they kindly allowed me to do due to covid lockdown

this forum has been massively helpful to me in my decision to go for a HT so i wanted to share some of my experience to help others. i was on the waitlist for Dr Couto for about 3 years, had to postpone due to covid lockdown and was booked in again for may of this year. i’m at week 7 post op now and it’s going well although i am in the middle of ugly duckling which is hard but hopefully i think it’s stabilized now so i just wait for growth. i have to say Dr Couto and his team are amazing and i can really see why there is such a waitlist and demand. i was a bit nervous before the procedure because my hair had thinned since i last saw the dr (approx 3 years ago) and i was concerned that maybe it was too bad for a ht even though i was on fin and minox. i reached out to his office and he called me the week before and they organized a video call too where he spent a lot of time talking me through my situation which was DPA with very fine hair but he said he could do a good job and was confident i would get a good result. this was a huge relief to me. i stayed 5 days in madrid and the op was over 3 days for 4000 grafts. the strategy was to go for coverage rather than dense pack the front and i was really happy with that approach given my advanced hair loss. the team were super friendly and over the next 3 days they implanted 4k grafts. the procedure was fine i dozed in and out of sleep and the team did their magic. i had some popping and extra bleeding which made it more complicated as well as grafting between existing hair. some pics below from the procedure . first one is 3 weeks post op, then pre procedure, post procedure to 2 weeks post op and current 7 weeks where i am now highly recommend dr couto

why not hop on meds for two years to stabilize , save for a decent doc and your kids will be older by then and it will be less hectic

wow looks fantastic !

looks super, really filling in, congrats ! When you were deciding on the two phased approach addressing front and then crown areas, did you and dr couto look at long term planning if in the case some of your native thinned in the next say 10/20 years or you wanted to stop fin so that it still looks natural etc ? thanks

thanks a mill for sharing. you mentioned you are off work until mid april. how long did you take off in total for the procedure and recovery? i know people go back to work after couple of weeks but i’m trying to estimate when i can realistically go back where it’s not obvious ie less redness, through some of ugly duckling stage, some early regrowth etc so while it might look patchy it wouldn’t be noticeable to the untrained eye… also did you do prp , i heard couto recommends it beforehand to speed up healing process ? thank you

thanks for sharing ! looking forward to this one how was the shedding phase did you have redness for long ? could you go back to work after a couple of weeks or was it very obvious that you had the procedure ? were you able to wear a hat traveling through the airport ? did you do prp? thanks 🙏

thanks looks great 👍

thanks everyone!

yeah both for about a year

thanks everyone appreciate it! pic below looks worse than it is when it’s long and lights make it look very diffuse but it’s very short. not decided on doc but heard about the permanent shock loss and got me worried about it ...have had a few online consultations and they say 4k needed for front and mid scalp. thanks again

hi looking into HT and am wondering if permanent shockloss can happen or is there a percentage probability ? i have diffuse hair and concerned that if i do the HT and i have permanent shockloss it could be worse afterwards than it was before... many advice greatly appreciated !

yes please can we see updates?