SeanT1

Why not go the micro pigmentation route?

No blood, no issue. Hairs come off with the scabs, perfectly normal, nothing is lost.

Did they take a look at your grafts in your donor area? Looks like you could get away with 2000 grafts to reconstruct your hairline. Also, Finasteride is definitely a must. It's definitely going to work wonders for your middle area as well as the crown. You've lots of hair that is miniaturizing that finasteride will restore. Don't worry about side effects, it's less common that people make out. Your hair looks similar to my situation 10 months ago before I started finasteride. If the clinics have concern with the donor looking thin, you could always go for micropigmentation 6 months after surgery. I personally got 3700 grafts, take a look at my log thread for reference if you're curious.

Thank you for your kind words, I'm very heart broken. I hope you've found resolution to the laid off issue you experienced. Glad to hear your hair transplant is doing well! Thanks sir, The day after he passed I definitely had more shedding, a solid 20 or so hairs fell out, some that were longer also. Lots of tingling too. Beforehand I was only shedding a couple of hairs a day as I think my shedding phase already passed.

Hi everyone, I'm going to keep this short. My pet was in an accident last night and he passed away. I'm going to miss him so much, there are a lot of emotions between myself and my partner. He was family, like our child. I'm aware stress causes hair loss, I'm wondering if such stress could have a negative impact on my FUE transplant? I'm coming up to two months post operation. Thanks. -Sean

You'd be fooling everyone but yourself if you don't tell people. People are more accepting than you think.

I've noticed some say 1 month, some say 6! I wonder why each clinic gives different advice.

Hi! I'm 45 days in thus far and am currently in the ugly duckling phase of a FUE transplant. Would it be safe to use electric clippers on my head at the 2 month mark? Hoping it would help with the ugly duckling look haha, thanks!

1000 grafts is no where near enough for that area! At least you have a lot of nice singular follicles along the hairline. I'd recommend you get another 1200 or so to increase density. I'm no doctor, but I assume DHI would be the best option to fill in the gaps.

Anxiety is worse than the procedure itself. Follow your doctors instructions. Castor oil will not harm you in any way, I assume your doctor recommended it so it would soften up scabs?

1.5 months, I've a thread here that follows my journey. Will be updating it at the two month mark.

Thanks sir, I agree. Although, do you think I could get away with using an electric clippers to cut my hair after two months?

I made this yesterday in regards to shedding, just some of the common hair shapes I found while shedding. The bulbs themselves are expected and very normal.

I thought this too, can't imagine why anyone would want to expose a recipient area to such UV Rays so soon.

Hello again everyone! I'm 2 weeks away from reaching my 2 month milestone. After around day 28 of a FUE procedure I begun the shedding phase. Over time, I noticed shedding hair had all kinds of interesting shapes. Shedding is perfectly normal and a part of the hair transplant process, bulbs are expected to be at the end of each hair (Don't worry, It's not the follicle itself!). Here are some common shapes I found in my experience; I hope someone finds this resourceful. Thanks.

Hello everyone, As this is an open forum I was wondering if we could discuss your thoughts on what you can and can't do with your hair weeks/months after a hair transplant. This document was given to me from my clinic, what do you think of the timeframes? Do you think the restrictions are accurate, too soon, or perhaps too long? In addition to this, they also mentioned no derma rolling until 2 months post operation. I'm personally looking forward to the 3 month mark so I can use clippers on my hair! (Although I think 2 months may be safe) Regardless, I hope others find this document helpful!

What ever the case man, it will be for five minutes then no pain for sure. My procedure used a 'pen' of sorts that definitely hurt! But it'll be worth it.

It's perfectly normal. Having shock loss so soon means that your hair will grow back sooner rather than later. Most people say shock loss is between 4-8 weeks and hair growth begins by the second month. Check out this guys 7 weeks vs 3 months;

Thanks! And having the derma pen only go as far as 1mm means it would in no way reach the dermis layer, is this correct? I've made a monthly update thread in the review area as you suggested sir. Thanks.

Thank you, Interestingly... when I woke this morning I noticed that the "pinkage" color of my scalp has faded A LOT. I wonder if this is a result of the PRP derma pen treatment. Curious. I replaced the images above to ones that had better lighting for reference. Let's go with the assumption that the hair that fell out during the derma pen treatment was expected to fall out at any moment anyway and it simply forced them out and no damaged happened to the transplanted area itself.

Thank you Gatsby, my thoughts exactly. I think I'm panicked due to the fact that a lot of hair fell out during the procedure, but again this hair is expected to fall out regardless as I'm only a month post operation. Do you know how deep a graft is planted?

The post above will be edited as time goes on. A little bit of background; I take biotin supplements every day, Other than being vegetarian I have no dietary restrictions. I've been on finasteride 6 months prior to the surgery. I personally didn't notice any hair growth but at the same time I didn't notice hair loss either so I think it was working its magic. If anyone knows how deep transplanted follicles are placed into the scalp please let me know as it'll help ease my conscious from the mistake I made with a dermapen!

Hello everyone! This thread will be my log of my hair transplant progress by Elithair ( Dr. Balwi ). I will update the first post regularly with new images and updates as time goes on. This will be an interesting Journey as the clinic is considered a Hair mill on the forums. I'll leave a full review in a year's time in the correct forum location. Background: I naturally have fairly thin hair, I have been on Finasteride 6 months prior to the operation with no side effects. Minoxidil gave me a bad reaction. Being only 25 and having a receding hairline was an insecurity of mine. I chose Elithairtransplant based on videos from a youtuber called "Follicle Freedom" and another called "Hairline Confessions), both YouTubers had similar hair to me and had fantastic results at this clinic for the price. Trip to Istanbul and the clinic itself: I was quoted 2000 Euro for FUE 3400 grafts (similar to the Youtubers mentioned above), hotel pre-paid as well as breakfast. I stayed a total of 5 days. They also sorted out transport between the airport/hotel/clinic. The clinic itself was inside a hospital which was comforting, met a lot of nice people too. Staff were quite friendly and the clinic itself looked professional. Dr. Balwi did an analyses on my current hair situation prior to the surgery. He recommended FUE for the hairline and DHI where I had existing hair, this costed an extra 400 Euro so be cautious of this. The procedure: Dr. Balwi did NOT do the procedure itself, instead it was done by technicians. This is seen as a red flag by some people understandably. Regardless, the 8 hour procedure went smoothly, I literally slept through it. It seems they correctly put single hair grafts in the front and multi's in the back. I'll get to this later. Post operation Images (1 month prior to operation): Post operation Images (4 months prior to operation): Day of operation: During operation: Day 1 post operation: Swollen as expected, but the swelling never went down to my eyes, awesome. 5 Days post operation: Most of the blood has came off, now it's just crazy scabbing. It seems the transplanted follicles swell up after interacting with water. 6 Days post operation: I thought this would be worth mentioning, due to the crust; the hair began to split and make canyons. This is normal and should not affect the final result. 10 Days post operation: The scabs all came off without ease, simply by rubbing the area gently. Awesome! ______________________ MILESTONE 1 ____________________ 28 Days post operation: Shedding has just begun, we're losing around 20-40 hairs in the shower. I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner. 30 Days post operation: Aha, now this is where I made my first mistake. I went to a clinic to get PRP treatment, I've never had it before. However, they used PRP micro-needling. Essentially they put plasma all over my scalp and then used a derma-pen between 0.4mm-1.0mm. More shedding occurred as the procedure was taken place. My hair was certainly thinner. When returning home elithair told me that dermapens shouldn't be used until the two months mark. I worry that this has damaged my grafts. If anyone has any feedback please let me know! (Update due in one month's time)

Anyone? I might just be over reacting, just need some confirmation that the grafts are safe haha.

Thank you for your response! I hope this image will help. They basically poured PRP onto the area and used a derma pen afterwards. When they did this, quite a few hairs did fall out. Probably more than I feel comfortable with. But again I am shedding around 30-40-ish hairs a day anyway so it's likely that the derma pen just forced out hair that was due to fall out in the next couple of days. I assume we're told not to derma-roll so soon in case of risk of infection while the scalp is healing, is this correct? Do you know how far a hair follicle is implanted? The derma pen went up to 1mm I believe. Thanks!