Anon94

Starting to see some visual progress. I'll probably post an update at 4 months

Hey guys! Maybe someone has a tip for me: I've got a bunch of grafts that never shed, but aren't growing either. The clinic says that I should try and pull them out, if they give no resistance. Is that necessary? I have tons of them in-between my native hair, and think I'd end up pulling out that on accident if I actually went at it with tweezers.

It'll almost certainly turn out great, but I think it's absolutely crazy to use that many grafts on what's really a fairly minor case. If this were posted from most other surgeons they'd get blasted about that.

If the plan was for a more feminine hairline (and appropriate medication to stop hairloss is taken) then both design and graft number makes total sense.

You're definitely not a fast grower. It looks like some improvement is happening still, so it might very well still turn out great. Some people just take a lot longer for the transplant to really develop.

She asked me what I wanted during communication prior to booking. I wasn't interested in a something more aggressive, so we never talked about it. I've seen more aggressive cases than mine from her though.

Right now I'm at peak ugly duckling. The top of my head looks worse than it ever has 😅 (Tried to take some close ups too)

Hey guys! After a looking time of reading up on transplants and inquiring with various doctors I finally had my transplant about two months ago. I ended up going with Dr. Patty. There were a number of doctors that I was interested in having my procedure with, but timing worked out very well for me with Dr. Patty, and the work I had seen (here and elsewhere) had me confident in that choice for my specific case. I've been on 1mg of finasteride and 2.5mg of oral minox for ages at this point, and had stabilized my hairloss for a while. Still, I wanted to be conservative with the hairline. For one I prefer that look for myself. I also didn't want a huge change in how I look. Future hairloss for me is unpredictable (my family has basically everything from none to NW7) --> every graft is precious. These pictures are: 1 - 3: Prior to surgery 4 - 7: Day after surgery 8 - 11: 13 days later

You really shouldn't move the hairline/temples/temple points at all. None of those are an issue, and your donor has already been thinned out a lot. Density is all you should be thinking of. Your available hair just isn't enough for anything more aggressive.

That hairline looks like it'll be DENSE

Unusual for a graft to come out this late really. Did you pull on the scab? From my knowledge everything should be pretty much secure by day 6. Had you actually pulled it out despite it being grown in it should have caused a good bit of bleeding. Either way it's one out of 2800, so it won't really have any effect on the outcome. You almost certainly won't be able to tell were it was in a short while.

I'd choose Gur over Yaman any day. Both have many good cases, but Yaman seems to have significantly more that don't turn out well.

How are you looking these days?

Doesn't matter which one you get as long as it's Minoxidil. How much of an effect it will have is important to predict. Might be nothing, might be tons. I personally try to stock up whenever I'm on vacation somewhere that sells it cheap (100pills in Thai were like 4€). I personally vastly prefer it to topical Minoxidil, and have definitely seen an improvement in hair thickness.

I was responding to a post that said Dr. Nader was recommending that in his post op instructions. And as I said it's not entirely unreasonable. I know some other surgeons like Bloxham say similar things