Al - Moderator

Don't tell anyone if you don't want to. If you are taking a week off for the transplant then you should be past the swelling stage by the time you are back on the webcam. They'll see you shaved your head and they may see a lot of redness and scabs, but so what. If they ask then tell them you had a hair transplant. If they don't ask then move on and act normal.

The one that pops into my head is @azza786 who basically did this after several hair transplants that left him with very little hair all over. See below. You can go to page 5 to see the SMP results

I slept in a recliner for the first 3 nights with a neck pillow, so I couldn't turn my head very much or let my head go back to hit the back of the chair. That worked OK for me.

Ok. I see everyone is saying it looks like a poor job, but there could be some reasons for it looking the way it does. 1. Once it starts shedding it usually does look strange and can look like the hair is going in weird directions. (others have pointed this out already) 2. Dr Barghouthi recently posted a case like this where he had to follow the unusual hair pattern to make it all blend correctly I'm posting a pic below of the OPs hair with some green lines I drew to show that it looks like this person possibly has an unusual pattern and why it may be placed the way it is. I don't know if he had any hair left in the exact areas that were transplanted, but it could be that the Dr was following the natural hair pattern.

I have always used Just For Men and have never had a problem with it. I try to go about 6 weeks before dying it.

Lifting weights always made my hair fall out faster and that's without ever taking any supplements or any type of substance.

My guess is that he may have purposely went for a very high hairline, so it wouldn't be obvious that he had a hair transplant. It's hard when you have to be seen by lots of people on a regular basis and you know they will be criticizing you if it's too noticeable. I don't know when he had it done, but until recently it wasn't as acceptable to have a hair transplant.

He is right. You already have a FUT scar, so you may as well do another FUT. You won't get a 2nd scar. They will cut out the first scar and go along that same scar line, so you will still have the same scar you have now.

The problem is not that a low hairline can't be done. The main issue is usually that when you are younger and losing hair you can't really be sure how much hair you will lose over the years. You don't want to get a low hairline and then lose a lot more hair and run out of donor leaving you with a thick, low hairline and huge bald crown. I don't know how old you are, but you said your first transplant was about 7 years ago, so perhaps at that time the Drs were hesitant to go too low with the hairline due to your age and potential loss vs how much donor hair they estimated you had. Now that you are older, if you haven't lost much additional hair over those 7 years, you may get some Drs much more willing to lower your hairline a bit. You probably don't need to lower it very much if you say you can get a decent looking hairline on good hair days when your hair is longer, so it could be that just a minor lowering could at least get you where you are having a lot more good hair days and even the bad hair days won't be as bad as they are now.

There is some really good temple point work done here.

This looks very good. The crown is still a bit thin, but it looks very natural. A thinning crown is rather normal when both frontal and crown work is needed. You want to get the front filled in fully and then use whatever grafts are left to fill in the crown as best as possible. That usually gives the best overall look when you don't have enough grafts to cover everything. My guess is you wouldn't like it as much if the crown was filled in and the front was too thin. Crowns do tend to take a bit longer to grow in and mature, so while you may get some minor improvements in the next few months, it won't be a big change. You can go for a few hundred FUE to increase the density, but you may be better off leaving it alone for a while and see where your hair loss goes. You don't want to use too many grafts in the center of your crown and then have the balding area expand outward over the years and not have enough donor grafts left to fill it all in.

It looks like they used your entire beard area for grafts. How well is that all healing? I've been afraid to take out any FUE grafts from my cheeks and sideburns.

A lot of it depends on where they are putting the hair line. Just a minor lowering can use up 1000 grafts.

I am a NW 7. I was taking finasteride for 11 years. The first few years I saw some minor improvement. The next few years I was probably stable. The last few years I was losing hair again. After 11 years I was at the point where I obviously had less hair than when I started. At that time I stopped using it.

Numbness in the transplanted area is normal. It will slowly lessen and get back to a normal feeling, usually after several months, but it can take longer in some cases.

It also helps you save money for the hair transplant since you won't be spending it on smoking and drinking.

Over 8700 grafts. You will look completely different a year from now.

If you have a recliner chair, I found it easier to sleep in the recliner than it was trying to prop up pillows on the bed. I always end up turning when in bed, but it's much harder to turn on your side in a reclining chair. I do use a neck pillow which also helps to keep you from turning on your side and it makes sure the back of your head doesn't touch the pillows. EDIT: A chair like below is what I'm talking about.

It's definitely low density that can use another transplant through the area. Try not to worry about the pitting very much. It's very minor and it will probably smooth out over time, so that will probably be a non issue soon.

I agree with just about everything everyone else has said. I wouldn't use scalp hair. If you are going to do it then use some beard hair from below the chin. You won't have any noticeable scarring, you won't use any scalp donor that you may want to use for a standard hair transplant at some time in the future, and the beard hair under your chin will match the rest of the beard hair. One thing I noticed that I don't think has been mentioned is it looks like you have some lighter colored beard hair on your cheeks, either blond or possibly graying. The first thing I would do is try coloring your beard, so it's all the same color. This may go a long way to making the entire beard look fuller. See the photo below to see the area I circled. You can see there are some lighter hairs there that would give you a fuller look if they were darker to match the rest of your beard. Take a look at JustForMen hair color and go to mustache and beard and pick your color. I'm thinking M27 Light red brown seems to be your shade https://www.justformen.com/mustache-beard.html

This is the proper way to do a hair line. Notice that it is not a straight line of hair. It has irregularities which makes it look much more natural than other transplanted hair lines. Very good job.

Probably too late for Gatsby, but for anyone else, in the USA I can temporarily switch my cell phone service to an international service plan for an extra monthly fee. You just change it before you go and then change it back when you get back to your home country. Depending on when the billing cycle is and how long you are gone, it would only be a one or two month extra charge. I don't know if that is available in Australia.

Hard to say. That really depends on how many grafts you get, how thick the hairs are, how many double and triples you get, how far back they decide to transplant, etc. You have a bit of a base of grafts from previous transplants, so that will help you out a bit. They will probably go into temporary shock loss, but they should grow back in a few months. I haven't had any issue from shock loss of transplanted hair not growing back in. They are only planning on using 1000 beard grafts, but I think you have much more than that to use, so you may be able to do another session in a year later if it the 1000 from the first session seems to be growing well. You also have a lot of chest hair. I know Eugenix doesn't like using chest hair because it's not as reliable, but I tink in some people who have really long, thick chest hair it should act very similar to beard hair. I would ask them if they would be willing to do a small 100 graft test and transplant them into a specific area in the crown, so that area is only chest hair. Then you can see how well it grows. Then when you go in for another session, you will have some beard grafts to use and if the chest hair grew in satisfactorily you will be able to use that as well and hopefully get several thousands grafts total on that 2nd session which should give you some crown coverage. I don't use it either. I'm 54. I did take it for about 11 years, but I stopped because it was thinning out my body hair, so my feeling is if you are going to end up using a lot of body hair then it may not be worth holding onto or improving the scalp hair just to hurt the transplanted body hair. I don't think everyone experiences a loss in body hair with finisteride, but I know I did. Yes at least somewhat. You need to ask Eugenix what they prefer because some clinics like it to be longer and some clinics prefer it to be shorter (but not shaved).

You are in the same situation I am in. Shaving your head isn't ideal because of the multiple FUT scars and you don't have enough scalp donor to get any real coverage anywhere. You certainly have a good beard and it looks like you have some thick chest hair that grows long and somewhat straight. This could be useful if that's the case. I had nearly 6000 body hair grafts transplanted to my head. It was just about an even split of roughly 3000 beard grafts and 3000 chest/abdomen grafts. Most of what is growing on the typical recipient area of my head is now body hair grafts. I haven't had any issue with it not growing long enough. In fact most of it grows faster and longer than my scalp hair. It is slightly kinky, coarse, wiry, whatever you want to call that, but it's not anywhere near as bad as what some people think body hair grafts will look like. I'm not trying to match any existing hair because there wasn't any there to being with which probably makes it easier to accept any differences from scalp hair. I imagine if I had a lot of scalp hair and was trying to add some density and the beard hair wasn't quite as soft as the scalp hair then perhaps I would not like it as much, but when you have nothing to match or blend it with there's no issue, at least for me. Everyone's hair is different, so it's not like anyone can tell it's not my real scalp hair. It does soften up a lot over a period of 2 or 3 years to the point where it is just about as soft as my original hair was anyway. You just have to wait it out a while to get to that point. That's how it's going for me anyway. I don't have any huge "WOW" factor improvement because I was still losing hair as we were adding some over several years, so a lot of it just replaced what was falling out. However I know if I hadn't had any body grafts done I would be in such a bad place. I don't know how I would have been able to deal with it, so even though there is not a tremendous visible improvement from where I started I am so glad I did it. There is noticeable improvement though and some people have commented that my hair is looking a lot better and asking me what I'm doing to get it to grow in, so that makes me feel good.

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