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I take 2.5mg in the morning (9 am) and 2.5mg at night (9pm). Minoxidil has a 4 hour halflife iirc, so after 12 hours there is not much left in your bloodstream, so splitting it up like this keeps side effects to a minimum whilst also able to make the most of the drug.

Your donor looks good, has recovered well for 14 days post-op for your 2nd surgery. All the best with your progress! I have heard second transplants sometimes grow in faster, not sure how true it is but hopefully you see results by month 3/4.

Thank you for the insight Dr!

Nice work, very dense for 4200 grafts and such a big surface area! What was the size of recipient area and what sort of density was this implanted at?

Very nice result! Happy for you. Do you happen to know at which density Dr Keser implanted at (FU grafts / square cm)?

I would love for an opportunity for a consult with Dr. Zarev! But I cannot afford his off-schedule pricing so that's not an option unfortunately. I tried using ScalpScan but I am having troubles making it work, it keeps saying "Not Enough Light" so I just gave up on getting it to work! I think it needs to be in a well-lit room with a proper lighting setup. EDIT: Yes I am aware 90+ is rare, and I was very surprised myself. Dr Ferreira did say I have some miniaturisation in my donor but despite the miniaturisation he said it's easily 100 fu's per cm^2. In all honesty my whole life I've always been told by people that my side and back hair is very dense, so it's good to know the numbers back that up. I know I have enough donor capacity to provide full coverage, but I hope it can be done in a way to minimise FUE scarring as I like to have my hair as a short fade.

Everyone is different! I may be fortunate with a good donor, but I am a NW5 diffuse so I will need quite a lot of grafts for full coverage. 65-75 is very decent in terms of density, most people have a graft to hair ratio of 2.05-2.25 so assuming you're in that range you're looking at 140 to 160 hairs per cm^2. Remember other characteristics are equally as important to help with the illusion of density, such as as hair color, scalp/skin color, and of course hair thickness. Someone with thick hair but a bad skin/hair contrast will need more grafts vs someone with a white or pale skin and light blonde hair.

I would say less than 60 fu/cm^2 is poor, between 60-80 fu/cm^2 is average, and more than 80 fu/cm^2 is above average. I saw Dr Bruno Ferreira and was told I have a great donor area with about 100 fu/cm^2, I also have a lot of doubles, triples and quadruples so this would easily translate to more than 200 hairs/cm^2. So, if you want some photos on what an "above average" donor area looks like you can take a look at my consultation report and photos of my donor area on my thread - link below:

It's entirely possible you may never shed the transplanted hair, if so consider yourself lucky! This happens to maybe 5-10% of hair transplant patients (from what I remember), no ugly duckling phase for you!

@mr_peanutbutter this might be a good watch for you, Dr Lorenzo goes into detail how DUPA is diagnosed and what he looks for in terms of miniaturization in the donor (he mentions 15%): Full video below:

Exactly, this is why I never understand people who say there is no need for them to take DHT inhibitors like fin/dut because they've "lost most of their hair anyway" or "not going to lose any more hair because I'm in 40s" The reality is not all donor hair is DHT resistant, and over time DHT will work away and miniaturise some donor hair too (not necessarily all). I jumped on meds about 8 months ago and back then I went in for a consultation with the same doctor and he told me I have miniaturisation in the donor, but it was around 15% or so, still less than 20% and he advised to continue meds. So when I saw him again recently for a follow up he was very pleased to see that Dut has effectively reversed the donor hair miniaturisation, putting me in a better position for a hair transplant intervention.

My local HT surgeon informed me that anything less than 20% is considered normal and not DUPA. I have some miniaturization in my donor but the doctor said it's about 5% which is fairly normal and he said he wouldn't be concerned unless it was more than 20%.

Looking great, very economical use of grafts both the first HT and your second HT, nice work by Dr Keser!

Stellar result, very impressive @Dr. Ahmed Altan I have some questions: 0.7mm is a small punch, the donor site must be looking good with respect to scars? Is the patient on any medication? Could you share some photos at day 0 after the extraction and implantation?

Great results for only 6 months, the style suits you as well, looking like Harvey Specter now 😎