Steele114

very interested!

i sure hope this works on pre existing fue scars. my donor is spotty, tried smp on the donor but would rather grow the hair out which isnt an option now. dont want to have to get my donor restocked but might be my only option. 3 fue precedures and not happy with the growth or donor so hats have been my best friend for the past 2 years 😢

Hello ive had 3 fue procedures totaling about 4200 grafts. My donor has some patchy areas that i would like to fix snd was wondering the best doctors I could go to for this? I live in Massachusetts but willing travel but would love it if there was a good enough doctor in the east coast I could go to. Ive attached some pics for detial

@DJ001yea man heres his youtube chanel link. https://m.youtube.com/c/JohnHarper1443

I feel ya man! Its def tough, def is the last thing I wanna think about after dealing with hair loss for 10 years, 3 transplants later and still have thin hair myself. Stumbled on a video about derma rolling every other day with coffee mixed with distilled water. Been doing this for a month and a half and recovered a ton of hair so far. I did rogaine and dermarollibt before and had bad side effects. Have had zero sides with this and coffee is a natual dht blocker and superior then rogain for hair loss so def worth a try

Really hoping more doctors start testing this. Its not healthy how much i check for updates on here. Wish i could restore my donor area some how and if i can with this it would be a godsend. Literally put my life, career and dating life on hold in hopes i can repair this donor area. Hopefully i wont be checking this thread forever

@DrTBarghouthi This is amazing that youre conducting these tests. I really pray and am hopeful that this will regrow hair in the donor. I have been following all the updates in this thread and look Forward to seeing the results over time. I have some donor depletion from Fue and would feel like my life is saved if i can regrow the lost hair in the patches that im missing. I was going to do body hair but im not sure id be satisfied with the result of that. I was readying that there is a possibility of regrowing hair in fresh wounds, my trasplant is a year old at this point but im hoping that old scars can be healed and new hair can be formed. Im really praying on this and its gives me hope to see youre doing this!!

Really appreciate it man! I appreciate that before getting this third transplant i got smp on the frontal hairline and decide to get a tranplant over it but over time the smp fade as i derma roll. I feel like the my did a good job with smp on the donor but in certain lighting it looks a little patchy where in missing hair. Yea at this point im just trying yo do a final surgery if possible tl correct a few things so i can move on. Is there any doctors you’d recommend for this?

Hey man i shoukd have said i derma rolled on the post thats why it looks like that. Ive considered that but then you would notice the fue scars more snd feel like the transplanted hair cant be completely shaved. It looks a little rough not like a regular bald person so feel like i either gotta live with it or have it corrected

Its been two years now the redness is because i derma rolled the night before i think

Ive tried to grow it out a little longer and the frontal area looks alot thicker and coarse then the rest of the hair and feel like it makes it more obvious that i have thin hair so i just end up shaving it to even it out

Appreciate it man just a little critical of myself since ive had 3 transplant

Appreciate it man, ive been derma rolling so i think that is why its still red. But its been 2 years since ive had a transplant now. I think i might consider getting body hair or nape hair to blend in the donor more nad possibly fill the scalp more if i didnt run out of grafts

Thank you everyone! i used to wear my hair alot longer but feel that the hair isnt that full where i can get away with growing it out. My main concern is the donor area patchyness and the frontal hair line i would like to lower maybe a little more. How is hasson and wong for repair work? Is there anyone on the east coast that is good and does good repair work. I guess going through 3 hair transplants has made me feel even more critical

Hey everyone, ive now had a total of 3 hair transplants and about fue 4200 grafts extracted. My donor area is very thin and patchy in spots. My right side is less thin then my right but there is some noticable spots. Ive had smp on the fue scars so i can wear my hair at 1/2 inch or inch and try to blend things a little better. Only problem is i feel that it would be very noticeable to people. Ive now worn a hat religiously for the last two years and this has effected my career and have worked a job where i can wear hats and too worried to even interview . Also dating women im always wearing a hat unless im comfortable enough. Ive even heard from a women I was dating, you were so cute in pictures with long hair whyd you cut it so short. I didnt feel like explaining my situation with 3 failed hair transplants. I feel weird hiding behind my hat constantly but all i can say is thank god for them. At this point ive become tired of trying but want to be able to live my life to the fullest and this just isnt it. I dont want to hold myself back hiding behind my hat forever but i hate how my head looks. If i knew i had a ok head shape i would have just gone bald earlier but felt way too young and had gotten my first hair transplant at about age 22. Im 34 now and been through hell for 12 years concealing my hair trying to make it look the best i can with certain haircut, fibers and wearing it long to cover bald spots. Ive always had thin fine hair never really thick but started to really noticeably thin at about 20-21. I just want to look normal without my hat and not look like ive had all this work done, i want to live a normal life. Ive gone to therapy, take meds to deal with depression and anxiety but at the end of the day i just cant live with how it makes me feel. Sorry for the long rant but felt that i needed to get it off my chest. I hope i can find a doctor who can correct this in some kind of way, im unhappy with the donor and density and feel the hair looks a little pluggy and wirey compared to my hair which is fine and thin. Ive attached a few pics for reference. if anyone has someone they can recommend and doctors who specialize in repairs i am willing to pay anything to correct this or travel anywhere. Dont want this to hold me back from living a productive and happy life. Thank you in advance!!

Hey everyone over the past 10 years ive had 3 fue transplant first two were about 1000 grafts and last one was 2000 altogether a little more then 4000 grafts. All in all im not to pleased with the overall results and ive always worn my hair a little longer to cover up me balding. Recently ive been wearing hats none stop due to my donor looking depleted on the left side and I feel the implanted hair stick straight up and is a different texture so its hard for me to grow it too long without looking funny. I was just seeing if there is anything i can do now, i had alot of side effects on nizoral and minoxidil so finasteride is out of the question. Ive tried microneedling which idk if its working much. Just wanna be comfortable with my hair but dont feel it looks right. Any recommendations would be helpful. I dont know if I could get a repair that woulr fix this plus my donor hair is very sparse now.

Much appreciated man!! You’re right I tend to look at things in a negative light sometimes well especially with losing my hair. And as you know it’s a fight nobody can really win and lifelong battle and I didn’t wanna do the meds so this is pretty much my best course of action. I am happy that I do like the buzz cut look and Im to try to workout a little more and think that would help my confidence a bit. And I’m sure you’re fine my man a lot of people’s insecurities nobody really sees the same way that we do. If you consider rogaine and derma rolling I can def swear by its results and my hair was its thickest when I was doing it. Also used it on my beard for a short while and my beard really filled in but kinda went back to its old state when I stopped. Good thing about it is if you do it for about 4-6 months the beard hairs become permanent

Much appreciated man!! I know I’m my mind it was much worse then it really is. I was wearing my hair a little longer which I realized doesn’t look great I need to keep it shaved to an open blade for everything to match up well with the smp. I appreciate the positive feedback! I’ll have to just learn how to rock it I mean it does look better then before I got everything done. Hair fibers and combovers wasn’t my style once so ever

Yea I know it sounds a little absurd but rogaine works much like finasteride and is a Anti androgen and block dht. When people dermaroll it absorbs more into the block stream and is very much like finasteride when you dermaroll. I looked into it a lot minoxidil also raises prolactin level which can be determental to your sex drive. I have never had a problem in that department only when I was derma rolling and using rogaine did I experience that. I returned back to normal after. If you go on askapatient.com and type in rogaine you’ll see many people experience this

Really apprieciate that man idk I guess I just haven’t adjusted to this new look. I feel like this is the only way I can really wear my hair now as the donor area looks patchy and I have smp in the thin areas on my skalp. I guess I’ll just have to make peace with it

Thanks for the response man I think I may just be obsessing a little too much. I just never want anybody to spot I’ve had work done or have an unnatural Looking result. As someone who’s wants to look my best it’s just a little hard to adjust too. The left side of my donor area experienced a lot of shock loss which I hope will resolve with time

Does anyone know if you could get laser if say I did want to remove the transplanted area and smp. I’m just in such a terrible place all I do is worry about my hair all day and wear a hat it’s emotionally crippling at times. I wish I just went the bald route early on but I freaked out and got a hair transplant followed by another hair transplant and a third along with smp. Now I’m at the end of my road trying to figure out long term options for myself. I could prob be a Norwood 7 if I didn’t get the transplants but I notice the back of my head thinning out more and more which will mean more smp treatments. I just want to be done with this terrible experience in my life and be done with it. Would I just have to go over the scars in the donor with smp? Is there anyways to match the fue scars up with smp and blend with a completely bald head. I just don’t know what to do at this point but i am so done worrying about this. The smp doesn’t look terrible but in certain lighting I don’t like it and having a shiny inked up head just don’t look natural to me. I know I can be extremely hard on myself but I have never felt this bad in my life and if I can just find a final solution to this I would find peace again.

Looks like I’m prob just going to have to keep it real short to be even all the way around

Really appreciate the response man! Yes that is one thing I’ve always lacked besides hair is patience. You are right being that I’m in 3 months things arnt too bad. I think what I’m worried about the most is that people will know that I’ve had work done and I’ve always tried to hide the fact I had transplants before. Even my closest friends don’t know about my previous two but know about this one as the recovery has been much longer. Prob because I got 2x the grafts and I got shock loss in the donor especially on the left side. The doctor treated this with a steroid injection which helps the redness but I’m still waiting on hair to grow in. I guess more then anything I’ve just hated being completely anti social and avoiding social situations for the past few months. As long as thing get better I’ll be happy, in most areas of my life I’m happy but this has put some crazy stress on me. Even worried to date until I feel better and this was nothing I’d ever struggle with in the past I’ve kinda put everything on pause till I can get a handle on this and figure out my options. I know most people would recommend I get on finasteride or minoxidil but at this point I’m opposed to those as the side effect just arnt worth it to me. I’d rather be bald then not be able to get hard. But maybe that’s just me. I appreciate the advice I’m happy I’m not alone on this man and you’ve been through it first hand. You’ve given me some great advice 🤘