Al - Moderator

I didn't see a graft price on Dr Gabel's web site, but I'm thinking $9000 would get you in the 1200 to 1500 grafts range which is around what you need,so you should be OK.

It could be. It depends. Some people get some pimples when the hair starts growing in and that would generally be in the 3 to 5 month range. If you are at 3 months then you'd be at the beginning of hat, so you could be experiencing a variation of the pimples or perhaps the pimples are just about to start and it's a bit itchy.

Works for me. Thank you.

Wow. The final result is going to look incredible. You look like a completely different person.

I would be going something more like this. See the red lines I drew. You won't use up too many grafts, but you will get a very good improvement.

I was going to say the same thing. I know @HappyMan2021 said he didn't want to lower the hairline, but I do think that may solve the problem and would be cheaper and easier to do than the type of repair he is thinking about.

If you press on the very lower right corner of the X where the mail is still partially showing underneath it, it will bring you to your messages. It's a very tiny spot, so it may take you a few times, but it works for me.

Wow. 14450 grafts total. This is going to look completely full when it grows in. You even got the hair line lowered a bit. I've always said for myself being a NW 7 I would need about 16000 grafts to look full.

This is elective surgery. It's an extremely bad idea to start telling Drs which patients they have to work on. The botch jobs will increase dramatically if you start forcing Drs to work on people who they declined.

You are only at 4 months so there should be a of of improvement coming. Yep. That's the illusion of density that always gets discussed.

Drs know how many grafts they can do in a day. They've been doing it long enough to know. That makes it pretty easy in most cases to know how many days to schedule. If they know they can do roughly 2000 grafts in a day and they estimate they will be doing 3500 grafts on you then it's easy to see that will be 2 days. Repairs are a lot harder to determine ahead of time because it's not always clear to see what the extent of the repair will be such as how many grafts need to be relocated. Repairs usually take longer to do than standard hair transplants. There is more planning needed as well, so they may spend more time discussing with you various options and strategies on what to do on the morning of surgery, so it may be later in the morning that they actually get started than if it was a standard case.

It's a little more than a month later. How is the redness and the bumps at this point?

I get these as well. On me they will either eventually fall out or some of them will just start growing. Generally by month 9 they are all gone.

You should be waiting until 3 days post op to pour water from a cup on your hair. You can very lightly put some soap suds on it by very lightly patting the soap/shampoo on your head without rubbing. Do that on days 3, 4, and 5. Then on day 6 you can let the shower run on your hair normally, but be gentle with putting your hands through your hair.

It could be lead poisoning, arsenic, or possibly a few other chemicals. Did you move into an old house just before this all started?

Yes. 6 days is about the time you should start showering normal. Just be careful. If you have a showerhead that has settings, then put it on a setting where the water doesn't come out too forcefully for days 6, 7, and 8.

He uses Artas. I wouldn't go there.

Transplanted hair can start growing in a bit coarse, wiry, kinky, extra wavy, etc and it sometimes sort of goes in all directions and doesn't stay when trying to style it. This is normal, but not everyone has this problem. It can take up to 18 months for the hair to match the rest of your hair and be more manageable.

It's possible for transplanted hair to not fall out and start growing immediately. A lot of people get a small amount of scattered hairs that don't fall out, but it's rare to get a lot of it that doesn't fall out. I've had a small area in one transplant that just grew from the start and never fell, but it was maybe a 200 graft area. I would say it's more likely with a smaller session spread over a large area.

Your temporal points look good from what I can see. They come very far forward. You have a lot of thinning area in front, top, and crown to cover, so I would concentrate on those areas and not worry about the temporal peaks for now.

I think he might just be talking about the whirl pattern which should be recreated as it looks more natural with it as everyone has one naturally.

If you are worried about it then just get a conservatively placed hairline. If you have a hairline, but it's receded and thinning then sometimes just reinforcing the current hairline without lowering it can make a nice difference without using up too many grafts. It can take up to 1000 grafts to lower a hairline just 1 centimeter. You can always lower it later.

It's normal for hair to go through lots of periods of increased or decreased shedding over the years. I imagine for people who are on hairloss meds they may not have periods of increased loss, or it may be subtle enough to not notice. With washing your hair, the reason you see more hairs falling out if you haven't washed your hair in a few days is simply because those hairs have been sitting there ready to fall, but haven't had that little push needed that a hair washing did. They were going to fall out anyway. It's like if you have trees growing in your yard and you rake the leaves every day you are going to have less leaves to rake than if you waited a few days to rake them. Don't get too caught up with 100 hairs a day. It's just a general guide. If someone with a full head of hair loses 100 hairs per day he may not even notice, but if a NW 6 is losing 100 hairs per day then that will be very noticeable because 100 hairs is a much greater percentage of the remaining hair on his head. As far as Covid causing hair loss a few months later, yes that's a possibility, but it's not just Covid. Any severe sickness, disease, or something that stresses your body and immune system can cause temporary hair loss. That loss shows up a few weeks to a few months later and then grows back. This happens to women who give birth for the same reason. Some of them experience temporary hair loss a few months afterwards.

It's only 3.5 months. Give it some time.

Since you had FUT one risk with a larger session is a wider scar. The Dr has to cut out a wider section, so the tension when closing is it greater which is what causes scar stretching. Smaller FUT sessions will have less tension and have a much greater chance of leaving you with a very thin scar.