Henry

Congratulations my man, we had our ht's in about roughly the same time and we did it, we finally won a battle against hair loss, hopefully we can win the war eventually with medications.

Here's the hairstyle that I'm trying to pull off at the moment, 9 months post HT.

I can now reasonably pull off different hairstyles that i could only dream of 1 to 5 years before. I'm trying to grow my hair out like really long to see of it looks good.

People should just use beard donor as a last resort. If the doctors say you still have enough donor hair in your scalp, use that first. I didn't use beard hair in my transplant though, and regarding Dr Path saying you needed 2 sessions. I don't know the exact reasons and I'm just guessing here, but he might have just been going for the conservative approach, or it could also be that hes not as good with higher norwoods. I've seen people make that statement before in here. I think it really just depends on the hair type and the when it comes to results with this proven doctors. An FUE at your age is a little bit more favorable though since you are probably done balding, but i wouldn't be 100 percent sure about this, I've heard accounts of some people progressing in their 60s and 70s to higher norwoods. It's important to note too that I'm maintining this hair with propecia and oral min. Medication is equally as important.

The scar completely eliminates the flexibility of choosing a shorter hair style, but it's basically a non issue if you choose to wear your hair longer. My scar didn't turn out great, i think it's a little to thick but Ill go Fut still if i had to do it all over again. I'll attach one very noticeable pic of it with my hair short and one now where i couldn't even find where it is I chose Fut because one, i could still have a lot more donor hair in the future if i needed an ht, and two, dr. Path and his team specializes in the FUT technique. In terms of recovery, the first month really is the worst of it. There was a little bit of pain in the first 2 days but nothing i couldn't handle, i didn't even take the pain killers he gave me after the first day. I can walk around no problem, but the worst of it is the anxiety of thinking about too much of the scar, not bending down too much, not lifting heavy or, after maybe 2 months i just didn't care.

6 months This is gonna be my last update for a while, I'm completely, 100 percent happy with my result, I only think about my hair in a positive way this time. It feels awesome. If you're a norwood 3 or 4 like me, don't hesitate, go for it, make sure it's with a reputable doctor though, and Dr Path and his equally awesome team have proven they can provide a good result for a norwood 3v like me. Good luck everyone.

It certainly does look impressive compared to pre ht, although one caveat is, my hair is much shorter at the moment so it is styled differently.

Thank you dude. I can't wait for it to grow longer.

5 months, amazing hair growth. (transplants and native hair) what a difference for just one month. I still don't know how its gonna look with my usual length before ht though, and, like everyone else who's had a hair transplant, one side is thicker than the other.

You should consider adopting a different hairstyle, like a crew cut.

Congratulations 🎉

You may have been cursed with the balding gene but you have been blessed by the follicle gods. It seems like a hair transplant was your destiny all along. Damn 6.2k hairs for 2.6k grafts, thats amazing, no wonder your results look incredible.

Wow, just a complete and utter success by all accounts. You are probably this doctor's peak achievement. Congratulations guy.

Very disappointing. 🤦‍♂️

I think if you trim your hairs on the side, you'll have a much better, much fuller looking head of hair. Just a suggestion. I wouldn't really jump to any conclusions yet though sir. It does look pretty thin now but 5 months is still a lot of incoming hair growth, I've been watching time lapse videos of hair growth from people without hair transplants and let me tell you, the difference on the thickness and volume of their hair for any period of 5 months is amazing. So even if there wasn't any new hairs sprouting for you at this point, those hairs that you already grown could still have a chance of thickening and blending in better with your native hair. If it didn't improve though, i really think finding a hairstyle that's thinner on the sides and longer on top, would be your best course of action.

Yeah it looks good in a buzz cut. I'm a little nervous on how it would look when i grow it out though.

To be fair though, some doctors can achieve the same amount of density with an FUE as they will with FUT. I've seen lots of cases where that was the case.

Very disappointing from a "Senior Member"

Yeah but if a clinic transplanted in an area where there was a lot of minitiurized hair it could also be confusing which one is which during the early days.

What's even worse are pictures of 3rd and 4th month post ht already looking like it has reached full density because of certain angles and lighting. Guys come on this is not instagram, we want to inform and educate people, please show us your best and also worst possible angles and lighting when updating your own posts.

It's a 12 months process, but if it doesnt work out, i think the buzzed cut looks great on you.

Thanks, it looks good now with a longer buzz cut, now I'll wait and see if it looks good with longer hair, hoping it does. 🤞

4 months

Great positive attitude. Good result considering where you came from. Let's hope for some more thickening up until the 16th month, people are saying it happens.

Man, i hope they poop more and more hairs too. Lol just kidding, i know what you mean, yeah my hair right now is still a buzz cut, I cut it every month since i hope to have the transplanted hairs density to catch up so that i can grow them all at once without the transplants just catching up, plus i like the buzz cut look.