hairman4321

Looking way better than month 3

and update @Ramons?

from one hairman to another hairman, i have to agree

~5 week mark: I've noticed my forehead getting very oily this week - way more so than usual. I wonder if this is just apart of the healing process. My hair has been more oily too. I've had a pimple pop up in the area, but i popped it and cleaned it. I've also noticed at this point my recipient is basically back to normal in terms of feeling, maybe only 5% of the numbness remains but it basically feels like normal head skin. The redness is almost gone.

hey Dylan, how long did you try finasteride for? and what dose? it didn't slow your hair loss at all? if you were to describe your hairloss, would you say you have typical male pattern baldness or is it thinning all over? maybe showing us a picture of your hairline would help. i've heard sometimes people with diffuse thinning may have a micro nutrient deficiency or trouble absorbing nutrients. you have to think long term with this - if you get a hair transplant now but your hair continues to fall out, it will eventually look much worse (very unnatural) than if you just shaved it. so priority #1 now is to stabilise the loss, then you can think about transplant if its required. i have seen cases of diffuse thinning return back thick. more so than normal pattern baldness where the hairline starts receeding.

Awesome result man, I'll have what you has!

i think probably just the kind of personality that these people would be - big public figures who have a lot always going on etc. whereas for us we're probably all more private, analytical types more willing to research (as evident we've joined a forum etc looking for more answers).

Super nice guy, always very open about everything - his testosterone use too. I wonder who this clinic was? Are they recommended here? Personally i would've been way more involved in the hairline design! But maybe he was and they just didnt show it

Jk, yeah I wanted to keep it natural so it would age well. I think most europeans have this M shape naturally, the "mature hairline". My primary concerns were the lack of density and asymmetry. I also noticed that a lot more can go wrong when you lower the hairline too much in a completely bald area for the hairline - often just wasting grafts and not achieving natural density so it doesn't look natural.

I walked in with a print out photo of vegeta and asked for that

Its reassuring that we're on the same timelines with the same graft count. Mines shedding a lot now too.

looks good bro, especially like the layout of those singles in the front, very natural, and seems very dense behind them. great job

it will be interesting to see how the density turns out and if this will need another pass

Accidental double post

Looks like I've shed over half the hairs already. Some of the longer hairs at the widows peak I think are native ones that are growing in normally just from when the Dr buzzed them, but most of the area is looking pretty nasty and red and the hairs are weird and bent and falling out. Seems to be normal at this stage, maybe a little early. Hope that means faster regrowth too. The donor feels completely normal now. The recipient is feeling really good now too - the tiniest bit numb still perhaps but not painful and most of the feeling is back. The recipient was feeling number for longer. ~ 1 month:

haha yeah i was gonna say this. not enough baldness! although maybe if you did go bald in a low-balding population you'd feel more pressure to correct it. Japan also has really advanced skin care, so my girlfriend says.

holy moly that post-op! looks like his heads going to pop! why do some people get such extreme swelling while others are fine? some great looking hairlines regardless, and his turns out really good and natural looking too. Doing the lords work!

interesting that the dr said the patient didn't need to continue finasteride too. but, it does look amazing. super dense!

lets see a photo of your hair with hairline exposed, you can just crop out everything else to remain anonymous

looks like your donor area has recovered insanely well. and the redness in the recipient looks to be completely gone now too? or is it just the photo? very early for it to be gone totally if it is. hopefully just 5 more weeks to month 3 and you'll start seeing growth! 🥳

work looks really good. the skullet was a questionable choice though 😃

Aging in reverse!

Week 3 passed a few days ago, nothing much to report other than the hairs have started shedding. I'd say i've probably lost 50% of them by now, maybe a little less. I started topical minoxidil a week after the transplant, so its been 2 weeks of that now. My native hairs have been a bit shedding too. Hoping this means I will get quick regrowth by month 3 or 4. I'll probably just do photos at monthly intervals now. I also started 'nitrowood' 2 weeks ago as a blood flow supplement to try and help the grafts survival rate. Anyway, overall I feel like my scalp is getting pretty good blood flow - more so than before the HT. But just the HT alone would probably cause a lot of the bloodflow / healing, but it can only help. Recipient is a little itchy and still a bit numb feeling to the touch. Donor area i can be as rough with it as before the transplant, feels like its made a total recovery. I opted for non-shaven in the donor too, so i can feel where the hairs were trimmed - i've got a couple of rows of random short hairs in there. I think they parted the hair, shaved a tiny amount, did extractions, and repeated the process in different areas on the back and sides. I haven't had a haircut so I can't see it, only feel the shorter hairs. I'll be looking to experiment with shorter haircuts when this has all grown in - sick of the fringe trying to cover my dodgy hairline! I'll be very happy not to have to worry about the wind or water showing my hairline too.

insanely good. great hair quality for it too i think. seriously the grey hair is always the thickest / the best for HT. if you've got a HT that doesn't look very dense wait till you go grey!

results should keep coming until month 8. that is a lot of single grafts unfortunately, and very little 3's or quads. i have seen some good results with twice the doubles to the 3's, but haven't seen or heard of this many singles before. i thought normally they only take like 300-400 singles for the hairline.