Hi,
I am 1 year and ~1 month into my hair transplant. I have gone through all the usual steps of losing and regaining the hair, although it does seem I lagged by about a month.
My left side of the hair looks pretty much flawless -- I love it, it is natural and dense (of course not as dense as it originally was, but the coverage is excellent enough to provide the illusion).
However, my right side looks significantly worse. Hair is fuzzier and seems to be taking much longer to grow both in length as well as diameter. Harsh lighting makes it look terrible. Oddly enough this is also my good beard side.
Is this normal? Could I expect an improvement over the next few months or is it probably going to stay like this? I believe I may be missing a final "growth spur" but I'm not sure if I'm just trying to be optimistic either.
I'm using topical finasteride 0.25% + minoxidil 5% (+ some other compounds like caffeine etc which most likely have little to no effect IMO) once daily as I had a bad experience taking them orally. Dosage is about 200 µL as recommended. Eventually I also use ketoconazol shampoo and skip a day of applying the meds, but I have no skin issues nor dandruff.