Rc14

Thought I would do a 4 month update. I’m very relieved that my shock loss has recovered. 
 

As far as the actual transplant, I’ll be a bit upset if this is the majority of the results, it doesn’t look significantly better than pre-op, but I’ll be patient now. 
 

Lol, the same thing with me. They grew a bit, and now, completely gone. 
 

I’m not completely sure you should be this sure about Dorin. In the past few years, there have been a decent amount of bad results(like 3). 
 

True, there’s a sampling bias, but I think there’s a disproportionate amount of grafts not surviving for Dorin vs other doctors I think.

actually, look at the google reviews. Many people are echoing what you’re saying — friendly staff, but poor graft survival.

I wonder if perhaps True and Dorin are not that great anymore. I can’t see any new hairs growing at all on one side, and the other side has crazy shock loss, and very little hair growing, and I’m almost 12 weeks out. 

I got 1200 grafts…I’m extremely nervous right now. 

can I ask some questions about your surgery with Dorin? Did you retain your transplanted hair for a while after the surgery? But then once they fell out, they just never grew back in?

I think you may be right. I took another picture, and using where my skin is red as a proxy for where hair was placed, my hair is gone surrounding it. Even if the hair from the transplant grows in perfectly, I may not be happy with the result lol. The question then becomes, what should I do to fix it? 
 

The picture

Outline of hair transplant: 

I’m trying to stay positive, but man, I’m starting to wish I didn’t do this procedure. Things haven’t gotten better — they perhaps have gotten worse. I thought by 10 weeks things would start looking up.

Week 7 update, sigh. I don’t see any traces of transplanted hair, but I’m just worried about my native hair right now. I just want it to start growing like normal, but those bald patches are still super smooth. We’ll see what happens I suppose.

I just got a 1200 graft procedure from him 7 weeks ago, a couple weeks ago. Im still too early to be able to tell if it’ll be good or not, but Im worried about the shock loss. You can check my profile for how it looks.

25 minutes ago, Rahal Hair Transplant said:

@Rc14,

Shock loss can occur anytime hair is transplanted or implanted in or around existing hair. So at one month post hair transplant, what you were experiencing could very well could be shock loss  

short hair can take several months to grow back so at this early stage, I wouldn’t worry. Your newly transplanted hair will start to grow between 3 to 5 months after surgery and continue to grow, thicken and mature up to 12 to 18 months. Any shocked natural hair may also take up to that time to return.

Rahal Hair Transplant

Have you ever seen shock loss where they were essentially circles of smooth skin? You can check my other post: 

but I think that there’s a lot of overlap with existing hair. I wonder if this will cause a problem.

I thought I would update here about the status of my shock loss. It’s been 6 weeks, and, well, no change really. The bald spots are still extremely smooth, no hairs growing out of it at all. I’m very worried that I made my existing hair much worse after the transplant, but, nothing to do but wait.

I’ve actually never seen anybody else have shock loss where the bald spots are so smooth, which worries me more.

Let me know what y’all think.

Yes I agree, that’s what I’m nervous about. 

Do you mean temporal point or temple point? Because the temples is where I had recede prior to stabilizing on medication, and that’s what I asked for.

im concerned about the temporal points actually(as in, we filled in too much of it, since I already had hair there)

Hey everyone, 

As you can see from the before pictures, my hair before wasn’t bad. I just wanted to fill in some recession.

My mistake was following the pre-op directions by shaving the sides the day before, meaning that I had no frame of reference when the doctor drew the hairline. I think shaving the sides makes sense for people who are extremely bald, as it’s obvious where the hair needed to be placed, but in my case, it’s not so obvious. 

So when the doctor drew it on, I thought it was fine, and I went along and got the HT. It wasn’t obvious to me that I already hair a lot of hair there. 

Now, it’s a month after, and I went through the shed, and I’m below baseline. I don’t have hair in places I’ve always had hair, because of the transplant. Perhaps it’s shock loss, but I doubt it, because it hasn’t occurred anywhere else they implanted hair. I think somehow, they placed grafts in places I already had hair, making it worse in the process. 

So even if the hair they implanted will grow, I’ll get back to baseline, maybe. 

I’m pretty discouraged, because I would think doctors would know where I have hair or not, but, I suppose it’s my own fault for not measuring precisely where I already have hair.

I emailed the doctor, and he maintains that he didn’t go deep into the native region.

Am I missing something? 

Before left side: 

after left side: 

before right side:

after right side:

5 minutes ago, Gatsby said:

At one month you won’t know if the implanted hair has been transected. The ugly duckling phase can last three months or even longer. Speak with your surgeon but patience is required when it comes to surgery. 

Oh I’m not worried about my transplanted hair, I’m worried about my native hair’s transection. I’m just confused at how it forms literally a perfect line. And it’s smooth to the touch.

But yeah, I guess there’s nothing I can do but wait. It’s just a bummer that I’m one of the few with intense shock loss.

14 minutes ago, Gatsby said:

This is shock loss coupled with the ugly duck phase. Don’t be alarmed as it’s a 12 month process in all after surgery.

Why do you think it only happened to one side? The other side(that got more grafts actually) doesn’t even look like it had a hair transplant. 
 

I’m worried that my native donor got transected.

Hello everyone, 

it’s been one month since I had my hair transplant, and I’m experiencing extreme shock loss on only one area of my head. I’m concerned because the place its shedding, forms pretty much a straight line, and I see literally 0 hair growing out of it. As in, the skin there is as smooth as places where no hair grows out of it. 
 

has this happened to anybody? Is it possible the tech didn’t place the grafts correctly? 
 

Any thoughts/advice is much appreciated.

2 weeks after transplant: 

now: 

Close up or the white line:

I always had thick hair there too:

now:

I’m going to True and Dorin for a consultation next week. The consultation is 175, so it’s pretty pricy.

Are there any tips I should keep in mind? Apparently I won’t be able to book a surgery until may even if I like the surgery, which is a real bummer — I want to get this over with ASAP.

Can you negotiate price? How do I know if the hairline they provide is good or not? Is True and Dorin conservative with their approach or not?

Any answers would be much appreciated!

I can’t leave the country, and so I’m relegated to the USA, and I found Dorin’s results the best. Let me know if I’m missing something else in the US that might be better/cheaper. I do live in Manhattan though.