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He worked around my existing hair too--although I would not say the shave/not shave decision has any real relationship to my situation. I'm a diffuse thinner who had a whole lot of minituarized hair in the area--much of which popped back up after having used rogaine/minox for the last year and a half (just didn't get enough to avoid needing an HT). The shockloss risk was probably very real for me no matter what the surgeon did and was fully explained to me before I signed up. I'm sure in another six months it will be the last thing on my mind, even though looking in mirrors isn't as much fun right now as it has been at other times in life.

I also had surgery with Dr. Cooley, about a month and a half after Dewayne. I have had some shock loss, but mine didn't show up until a little over a month after surgery and has progressed over the last couple of weeks. I think everyone's different in that regard. Luckily I can still cover mine up with dermmatch, etc. I just hope it stays that way. As for everything else, like Dewayne, I have had absolutely no issues and couldn't ask for anything better. I don't notice the donor at all and had it shaved to a #2 earlier this week; I can barely make out the scar and I don't think anyone else can. I did eventually shed nearly all of my grafts (it took up until about the end of week 5 for this to complete). I do now, at 7 1/2 weeks, have what feels like a fairly close buzzcut in the recipient area that has to be new hairs popping up. They're still very short, not moving very fast, and barely visible unless you really look for them, but it sure seems like somewhere around 25% of mine are already at least making some small effort at growth.

I currently about 7.5 weeks post op (surgery was on May 7). So far, so good--except that since starting around week 5, I've been experiencing some pretty significant shock loss in the recipient area. I've been watching this forum for a long time now, and understand that this is likely temporary, and also know that shock loss can start anywhere from a few weeks to a few months post-op. But my question is, once it starts, does it usually occur all at once or can I expect this to gradually continue for the next month or more?