pb-resurrected

Originally posted by kg007:

It doesn't look that bad. I think you would need roughly about 3000 grafts (100 sq ft X 30 grafts/cm2) ~ $10k - 12k.

100 sq ft !? His head doesn't look that big to me

Congratulations You are no longer a bald guy. Surely people you know must have noticed that you have more hair? Have people commented?

Sorry that you had to find out the hard way

Didn't you research his results before you went for the surgery?? Can you afford to get repair work done (with a real HT surgeon)? I think your hair is going to be very sparse and dolls head-looking once that grows

Originally posted by Bill:

When was this done? This looks pretty old school to me, and the punch holes look huge compared to the latest surgery techniques.

Feb 15, 2006!! By Dr. Ashok Reddy in Hyderabad, India. I thought they stopped doing M&M HT's decades ago - looks like "Dr." Ashok Reddy is a bit behind the times...

What a mess Whoever was responsible for that should be shot

Originally posted by Gorpy:

I added a couple of comparison pictures.

I see your hair has changed color as well as becoming more abundant

No, just the slight pain of the anaesthetic injections - after that you don't feel a thing. The donor area is painful for a day or two (with strip) after the HT but painkillers take care of that. Then if you have strip surgery, the sutures/staples cause some discomfort until they are removed but not really any pain. I've experienced much more pain at the dentist than the HT clinic ...

PB

Sorry to hear about your poor experience. If the work is done by a "top-doc", you don't have the problems you have experienced. I don't have any impression scars in my recipient area, you can't tell anything has been done even under bright light under the closest inspection. I have a scar at the back, but it's impossible to feel, although it would be visible with very short hair. Excellent results are possible, just not with the likes of Bosley. Who did your last HT?

PB

I'll be 4 months post-op tomorrow (2700 strip). Hair started sprouting at 2 months 3 weeks and has really taken off during the last month so that the whole recipient area is populated with hair of variable length... and the next batch of stubble just appeared .

PB

11/17/2005 2700 Strip Dr Feller

Excellent! And best of all you don't need to worry about losing this hairline

PB

Even though you still have a lot of growth to come, the improvement after only 5 months is obvious:

Congratulations

PB

Originally posted by ifloss:

Originally posted by pb-resurrected:

I also go to a female doctor and dentist ??“ I find they aren't as arrogant as their male counterparts - probably better at their job too.

 

I like Dr Keene's work too.

 

PB

Bashing females vs their male counterparts wouldn't be politcally correct, but bashing males is acceptable. Your post made me laugh . BTW, I employ two female dentists and one male dentist. I'm a male dentist. In my opinion, gender has nothing to do with the quality of work. It's the qualities of the human being that matter. Just my two cents.

Sorry, I shouldn't generalize; I'm just going by the experience I've had. But aren't women's smaller hands/fingers better for dental work ? I don't suppose the size of the doctor's fingers makes a difference when doing HT work though.

PB

I also go to a female doctor and dentist ??“ I find they aren't as arrogant as their male counterparts - probably better at their job too.

I like Dr Keene's work too.

PB

I had my hair cut with a #3 guard 6 weeks after my HT and the scar was still visible at the sides. It wasn't visible at the back where the density of my hair is about double that of the hair at the sides, so I think it depends on how dense your hair is around the donor scar.

PB

Originally posted by ethebuilder:

Has anyone kept all there hair after a HT ?

For about three weeks... then it started to shed - by 6 weeks all the transplanted hair had shed.

No shockloss around the donor area except for a very small area (an area about half the size of a finger nail) at the top corner of the smilie by my left ear (as hairbank explained...) where there was more scab than on the rest of the scar. This probably wasn't shockloss as hair began to grow as soon as the scab came off - growth was just temporarily prevented by the scab.

PB

Originally posted by Bill:

 

Thoughts?

Looking good Bill! What happened to the sides though!? Looking at the full sized pic of your hairline I can see a lot of new hairs still coming through on your hairline.

PB

Originally posted by bro66:

I had the procedure on Dec 5th 2005. Some of the transplants look like pimples, mainly on the top and the back of my head, never in the front. I break them open and either blood or pus comes out. Is this normal? Should I break them open?

I'm 10 weeks post-op and just over a week ago I had an outbreak of pimples - each pimple had a hair sprouting out of it. I applied distilled Witch Hazel and it seemed to dry the pimples up almost immediately so there was no need to break them. Since then the pimples have calmed down and I only have a couple at one time.

PB

Good luck!

Originally posted by dhuge67:

 

For me, I'm mostly concerned about the recovery time, as I am extremely into weight lifting and working out. I hope that I'll be able to get back into my routine after about 10 days off at the most.

 

What are your thoughts, experiences, and opinions on this?

 

 

To answer your original question, I had strip surgery (2700) with Dr Feller and he told me that I could exercise as much as I liked after the stitches were removed and that it wouldn't make any difference to the scar. I removed the stitches 9 days post-op and returned to my daily routine (including heavy weights, training at anaerobic levels and deep stretching (including my neck)) on the 9th day without any problems. My scar didn't stretch and has remained just a 1 - 2 mm wide white line. The sweat I built up from training cleared all the scab from my recipient area and I was scab free by 11 days post-op - before my first work out the recipient area was covered with scab.

Although the scar has healed as well as a scar could possibly heal, it is visible with short hair, as Gorpy mentioned, and I can't cut my hair any shorter than 1 inch without the scar being visible at the sides.

PB

Originally posted by Gorpy:

Yes, this is the first.

Great to see an update, Gorpy. Your hair looks to be growing nicely. It won't look so "mature" once the hairline kicks in. There appears to be more hair already than you had pre-op so that's good!