EricD

Hello! Thanks for the comments. I did trim my donor area after a month and began cutting all of my hair in the 3rd or 4th month. In the 4th month, things were a little thin, but from then until month 6 was transformational. Best of luck and try to be patient! 😉

I honestly can’t remember how long the wait was. I believe it was 4-5 months if I remember correctly. Whatever it was, it was worth it! Highly recommend!

Attached are some pics so you can see a little of the waviness. It’s the end of day and hair is a mess, but hopefully you can see. It’s very wavy when wet after morning shower.

I’m 42 years old. I’m taking finasteride daily and have been since about a month before the transplant. My crown seems to have recovered a bit of lost hair and seems full enough for my satisfaction. I’ll stay on finasteride long term as I don’t have any side effects. I’ll try to get a picture of my donor area in a few days. Traveling for work now, in a hotel, and tough to get good pics. I will tell you that it remains thick with no evidence of surgery even with a #2 guard. I’m amazed actually. They say I should have 5000 grafts left even after over 5000 used in first surgery. Based on the condition of my donor, I can believe it! My surgery was three days. The first two days were full as I recall and were 9-10 hrs in length. This was split into multiple sessions as they like to minimize time between extraction and implant.

I have much more density than I was expecting! Maybe the multi-grafts get the credit, or perhaps I just had low expectations. Either way, super happy! I’m glad you mentioned the native hair comparison. My hair had ALWAYS been straight as a board. Many of the transplanted hairs are now pretty wavy, even at the nine month mark. Wondering if this will remain? If so, I’d be happy as it styles much nicer and gives a more textured full appearance.

Sorry for the lack of updates. The pictures below were in the 5-6 month range. I am EXTREMELY happy with the results….life changing! Ask questions if you have them. Would be happy to answer!

Our HLC transplants look very similar in terms of number of grafts and hairs per follicle. I’ll be following your story as you are about a month or less ahead of me, it seems. Good luck!

Here is mine for each of the 5 sessions, totaling 5182 grafts.

Sharing a photo from day 13. Expecting shed to start soon unfortunately, but so far, I’m thrilled with results.

Oh, and here is the final tally on grafts for each session including singles, doubles, multiples.

Thought I’d update with some photos of the completed surgery and now 8 days later. Not sure anyone is following the thread, but will continue to update anyway.

Update on 2nd day. Went through two rounds of extractions and implants. Total of 2100+ grafts completed today…almost 4000 total. About 1200 more to go tomorrow!

I haven’t considered Cialis, but will look into it. Started finasteride a week before surgery. Kicking myself for not starting years ago, but what’s done is done I suppose! BTW, I checked out your thread on your HLC experience. I hope to get the results you achieved. I see many similarities in our cases.

Cengiz has been primary doctor doing work so far. He is also allowing a younger doctor to work as well, under his supervision….wasn’t able to catch the name. I have two days to go so we’ll see if others become involved as well.

Adding photos of grafts from day 1.

Hello, I’ve just finished day 1 of what will be a three day hair transplant at HLC Ankara. I’m from Georgia in the US so this was quite a leap of faith for me hopefully get my hair back after many years of progressive hair loss. Im 42 years old now and started to note some recession at temple in early 20s. Things were pretty mild until my mid 30s when the hair loss really accelerated. I’ll post of pics of before and then also from day 1. I’ll wait to share my review of the clinic until the process is finished, but so far I’ve been very happy. For what it’s worth, my head is apparently very large, which means it takes a lot of grafts to cover, but also have a large donor area with approximately 10k available. Also learning donor area is mostly multiple hair follicles (see photo). More to come…