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coscanoer

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  1. What is the effect of occasional stress and sleep deprivation (during, say, the first six months post-op) on the outcome and success of a transplant?
  2. So sorry to hear it pal. Like you I wish I found this site before my procedure. All I can say is bury it; move forward, get another procedure with a Coalition doctor or just forget about it. There are other options besides HTs but it really would depend on your situation. Point is you can come out of this a winner in the end.
  3. In my opinion naturalness is just as important, if not moreso, than density in getting a good-looking HT. The thin singles in your hairline may be the bane of your existence now, but you might not feel the same way if your hairline had thick 2s and 3s in it, that would stand out to the eye when seen in conjunction with your overall low-density hair. If I were in your shoes I'd mostly leave the front two rows alone, and look to add density from the 3rd row back. This will make you look reasonably thick, yet natural. You have thinner hair and a bald-spot; a wall-of-hair hairline would look "wrong".
  4. If hats and concealers don't do the trick, you could try owning it with confidence, like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yokKYvbnktM...
  5. I got a lot of pimples in the recipient area, and I deduced it was from touching. I found that if I never touched the area except with freshly-washed hands, new pimples didn't form.
  6. Many button-up shirts that you'll wear for at least the first week or longer. Comfortable pants for sitting in the operating chair all day. Some light food to eat when you get back to the hotel room, depending how you're feeling, and/or for breakfast. A laptop could be very entertaining or useful; the hotel will have an internet connection.
  7. You also have the option to wear the casual clothes with a hat, and mention you are wearing it because you have "temporary folliculitis" or something to that effect.
  8. Good chance no one would even notice. Having said that, I'd trim the temple hairs down as far as possible and go in with confidence.
  9. I found that touching the recipient area was what caused all of my pimples. Don't touch it at all, or if you need to touch, wash your hands with soap beforehand. That resolved it for me.
  10. At various times I have heard of creams, oils etc. that supposedly reduce or eliminate scars. Would these not be helpful for strip scars, FUE scars, or recipient-area scarring? I can't recall seeing it discussed anywhere.
  11. I don't say this too often but this is a great result. I will keep this in mind 30 years from now
  12. I always had a high forehead since I was a kid, but I wore my hair fairly long and parted in the middle from age 10 to 17 before cutting it really short, at which point I noticed for the first time how high and vertex-y my hairline really was. Now that I look back, it's apparent that my hairline receded to a solid NW3 between age 10 and 14 or 15, in a pure recession pattern with essentially no diffuse thinning, and then just stopped. It never dawned on me until I was 25 that I had had MPB hairloss super-young. Weird.
  13. Why? The concern with doing HTs young is the fear of having more hairloss in the future. If this guy's already Kojak then I'm not sure what's the difference. I'm sure Dr. Charles would appropriately go conservative and there can't be much more to lose.
  14. Definitely wait. Look into Dermmatch or something like that to conceal the thinning, and maybe some thickening shampoo/hair-styling. With those you could look like you have a thick head of hair and you can wait and see if and how your hair loss matures.
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