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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?

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.

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".

If hats and concealers don't do the trick, you could try owning it with confidence, like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yokKYvbnktM...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Doctor name?

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.

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.

I don't say this too often but this is a great result. I will keep this in mind 30 years from now

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.

Originally posted by dakota3:

Dr. Charles,

Did this reasonable plan include a HT? If so why? That bald, that young should be turned away IMO!

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.

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.

A hypothesis I just came up with: If a strip scar can stretch over the year following surgery, could not the small FUE dot-scars also stretch in the same way, resulting in slightly-larger dots that overall leave a thinner overall appearance to the donor region? Even a 10-20% increase in the size of the dots would result in significantly fewer FU per cm2.

Possible?

Insanely good looking hairstyle, considering it's a transplant. I will have to try your styling regimen. Just curious, whereabouts do you live? I only ask because highlights and funky styles fit better in some areas than others.

It's definitely the smart decision to play it conservative with the crown. You will be thankful down the line. I think that you can get decent coverage with like 10 FU/cm2 and, combined with some concealer, make it look like you more or less have a reasonably thick crown. Or you can leave it altogether. Also, transplanting hair is a one-way action. If you add less hair to an area, and you find you are satisfied, then you are done. However if you add too many grafts or a ton don't grow, you can never undo that.

Regarding the thick HT hairs in one's hairline that don't match the soft hairs one would expect; is it possible to pluck the hairs repeatedly until after a few cycles they come in much thinner and softer?

Regarding the thick HT hairs in one's hairline that don't match the soft hairs one would expect; is it possible to pluck the hairs repeatedly until after a few cycles they come in much thinner and softer?

Yeah you're nuts, you crushed it, about as good a result as is possible.

Dr. Lindsey, how do you "not stress" the sutures? I'm trying to picture what exactly about weightlifting causes scar stretching. Can you give examples of exercises that would be appropriate?

I think I would get FUE into the scar if I were you. 1.5 inches is too long.

RTC, there wasn't any shockloss. There's my old hairline, then the transplanted area, and the part of the transplanted area that borders my old hairline just doesn't have many hairs in it.

PGP, with regards to those links: .

Wantego, thanks for the link, I'll read it now.

Thanks Wantego. By all means, share any threads you want. I agree with you about the need to vent and discuss, it just feels like some clinics invite discussion and questioning while others shut it down. If there are a bunch of guys who are upset and had bad results, why are they not posting? I'm not saying I will end up with bad results when all is said and done, but I am willing to discuss my progress and outcomes and let's get these guys to add to the discussion here too.