Al - Moderator

Your face will be swollen for several days after the hair transplant. Usually it's the worst between days 2 through 5 afterwards, so I don't think it's a good idea to be scheduling any kind of surgery for the facial area for at least a week after the hair transplant.

Looks good. The donor area looks like it's really improving well.

I don't think this is a smart move long term. As you get older your scalp hair is going to thin, while the body hair (especially beard hair) will basically grow forever. You can end up with thinning hair on top because it was all scalp donor and you'll have thick hair on the sides and back because it's now all body hair. So you eventually end up with the same problem you started out trying to fix. Lots of donor area hair and thinning hair on top. If I had done this I would have looked fine for a while and then end up right back at NW 7 again since most of my donor area hair is pretty much gone.

I did that in my teens. I started out with crown loss, so at first I tried combing my hair back to cover the crown. I only got away with that for a few months before the mid scalp and temples started going. At that point I had a lot of mid scalp loss, crown loss, and temple recession, but still had a good frontal tuft and high sides, so I was able to comb my hair over and make it look like I only had crown loss. This only worked for about a year. I remember in high school all the guys were talking about getting a mohawk cut if the football team went to the championship and I was freaking out because I didn't have any hair through the entire center strip. There was no way I'd be able to do it. I would look completely bald. I got lucky and the team lost the next game.

It looks like it improved over the last few weeks.

This looks and sounds to me like at 48 years old he got tired of chasing his hair loss and decided to just stop (at least for now), but feels like he has to come up with a reason why he's not doing anything about it when anyone asks him or points out that his hair is getting bad. Saying "Hey it's not me. I tried to fix it, but the Drs can't do it" probably makes him feel better and is an attempt to get people to just leave him alone about it.

I think you may have too much hair still in the crown to be worth transplanting into especially if you need a lot of work on the front. My suggestion to you is to focus on the front for now and get that taken care of, continue using finasteride for the crown while the frontal transplant grows in and the reevaluate a year later once the front is grown in.

Technically it's doable, usually over 2 or 3 sessions, but is it the smart or right ting to do? You aren't adding any more hair. You are just moving it around. You take it from one area and place it into another. You are just thinning out one area to thicken another. If you don't have much hair loss then you can do it, but what happens if you lose more hair? It's a very tricky game that can have some very bad consequences.

You still have to go to someone who knows what they are doing. Trying to cheap out and get a pluggy, unnaturally angled, too low, rounded at the corners hairline is not going to look good with a short cut.

Sure. I was at NW 5 by 20 years old, so I absolutely get that, but this kids hairline is now too low and pluggy and it doesn't look like he did anything other than lower the hairline a bit. Why? Where was the hairline at before? It doesn't look like he is/was thinning behind that. I wish we could see what he looked like prior to any surgery. When I was young and losing my hair, surgery was the last thing I wanted to do.... because it's surgery. I just don't get why anyone would rush into it without even thinking about it at the first sign of a few hairs falling out.

It's normal. It can take a few months for the numbness to completely go away, but it can also be much sooner than that.

They will also let you move or get up for a break if you need to.

They will give you valium at the beginning to relax you. It's not like you are in a enclosed place. It is just to let your head rest on something without your face being smothered.

This kid looks like he had a perfectly full head of hair before he did anything to it. I don't understand why people rush to get surgery at the first sign of their hairline changing.

It's the B vitamins and zinc that are probably helping your nails. The same vitamins that are good for hair are good for nails as well. Check your vitamin D levels. A lot of people are low in D and that helps your nails and hair as well.

There's no real answer to this. Everyone loses hair differently. Mine was most aggressive between ages 18 to 25. I went from about NW 3 Vertex at 18 to NW 7 at 25. My brother went from full head of hair at 40 to NW 6 at early 50s, so his really speeded up tremendously after age 40.

No. It is possible it could even look worse with short hair because it will be impossible to hide any of it by combing over the area. Hairline design and graft angles are very important. Too many people new to hair transplants think they can go anywhere and just get more hair and it will automatically look better.

That's what I did. I got a card with 0% interest for a year. I put the cost of the HT on another card first and got the cash back, then transferred it to the 0% interest card and paid that off over the next year. Once I got it paid off they actually offered me the same 0% interest for a year deal on the same card, so I did the same thing for the next HT.

I had some minor erection problems, but I would have kept taking if it actually worked well. I was on it for about 11 years. It helped a bit the first couple of years, but after that I was losing more hair anyway and since I was a NW 7 there was just no point to continue. Some people may say I should have stayed on it to keep my donor area good, but for someone like me who doesn't want to be on any kind of medication, I just felt so much better once I stopped taking it.

What I find crazy is the guys who drink, smoke, and use drugs who then say they don't want to use Finasteride because it has side effects. I'm there thinking - Huh? You obviously don't care what you put in your body, so why are you so worried about something that may actually help you? I just don't get those guys. For me, I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I have never used any illegal drugs. I don't even like taking an aspirin or tylenol. So I really hated taking Finasteride and I'm so glad I stopped years ago.

2 to 3 months seems normal to me.

In the several months after a hair transplant most people will look like they have either cobblestoning or pitting or both. Sometimes it can look pretty bad. It's part of the healing and it will usually completely clear up and smooth out once the new hair grows in, so if you look like you have any of that and you are still in the first several months then just wait a few more months to see what happens.

When the scabs start coming off some of them will have hair attached. It's normal. Most of the hair will all fall out.

That is so true!

I was very visibly thinning in my crown by age 15 (which means it probably actually started at around age 13 or 14). I was a NW 5 by age 19 or 20. My mom thought I was too young to be losing hair too at 15, so she blamed me for it thinking I must be pulling my own hair out and yelled at me for my balding for several years. Don't listen to anyone who says you can't be balding yet because you are too young. It's rare and you may not be balding from MPB, but it's not impossible.