give me the truth Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 I have had my second HT (2500 last year and 2000 last week). Each time, after gently washing hair, the plugs appear to extrude from the skin (kind a like the play dough toy head when you press play dough through the holes). My HT team says it is normal and that the skin/tissue connected to the hair follicle will often let loose and extrude to ultimately come out. But, they say, the follicle remains in place....only tissue comes out. What is the truth? Is it normal for "tissue" to extrude and come out? I am not talking about the normal scabbing/flaking effect. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
give me the truth Posted July 7, 2008 Author Share Posted July 7, 2008 I have had my second HT (2500 last year and 2000 last week). Each time, after gently washing hair, the plugs appear to extrude from the skin (kind a like the play dough toy head when you press play dough through the holes). My HT team says it is normal and that the skin/tissue connected to the hair follicle will often let loose and extrude to ultimately come out. But, they say, the follicle remains in place....only tissue comes out. What is the truth? Is it normal for "tissue" to extrude and come out? I am not talking about the normal scabbing/flaking effect. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member thanatopsis_awry Posted July 7, 2008 Senior Member Share Posted July 7, 2008 Well, I hope you didn't actually receive "plugs"! I've really never heard about what you are describing, unless your talking about that sheath/bulb effect that surrounds the hairs and seems to really show after a wash. It doesn't sound like your grafts have been hurt, though, in any way. ----------- *A Follicles Dying Wish To Clinics* 1 top-down, 1 portrait, 1 side-shot, 1 hairline....4 photos. No flash. Follicles have asked for centuries, in ten languages, as many times so as to confuse a mathematician. Enough is enough! Give me documentation or give me death! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
give me the truth Posted July 7, 2008 Author Share Posted July 7, 2008 Originally posted by thanatopsis_awry:Well, I hope you didn't actually receive "plugs"! I've really never heard about what you are describing, unless your talking about that sheath/bulb effect that surrounds the hairs and seems to really show after a wash. It doesn't sound like your grafts have been hurt, though, in any way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
give me the truth Posted July 7, 2008 Author Share Posted July 7, 2008 Thanks for the reply. My situation is not a bulbing. After a wash, many of the cuts will allow a short column of wet tissue to extrude directly from the cut area (kinda like 1/32nd inch of thin pasta) . They do not suck back in...rather they dry out on top of my head and flake off later. Some of them actually have the hair in it...I do not have a microscope so cannot identify if the follicle bulb is in this tissue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member FacelessMan Posted July 7, 2008 Senior Member Share Posted July 7, 2008 This sounds familiar -- in the first month or so after my own transplant, I also saw soggy bits around the grafts. I wrote it off to part of the healing process, and everything grew in just fine. That said, I'm sure that a doctor, if not your doctor, could shed (so to speak) some more accurate medical light on exactly what that is. Benjamin My Blog -- Hair Transplant with Dr. Feller My Personal Hair Transplant Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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