Regular Member SinTPA Posted July 16, 2007 Regular Member Share Posted July 16, 2007 Here is an album showing my experience with my first transplant with Dr. Jeffrey Epstein on April 13, 2007. Please feel free to comment. Thanks. My Hair Loss Weblog 1st HT with Dr. Jeffrey Epstein 2,599 Grafts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member SinTPA Posted July 16, 2007 Author Regular Member Share Posted July 16, 2007 Here is an album showing my experience with my first transplant with Dr. Jeffrey Epstein on April 13, 2007. Please feel free to comment. Thanks. My Hair Loss Weblog 1st HT with Dr. Jeffrey Epstein 2,599 Grafts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member SinTPA Posted July 16, 2007 Author Regular Member Share Posted July 16, 2007 I notice that a lot of pixelation on the camera shots so I attempted to post here instead of the web log.... same result. Thanks for looking! My Hair Loss Weblog 1st HT with Dr. Jeffrey Epstein 2,599 Grafts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member its752 Posted July 16, 2007 Senior Member Share Posted July 16, 2007 SinTPA, I'm Happy for you!! You are offically on "Transplant Highway". Good luck on figureing out how your going to keep from staring at your soon-to-be hairline! I'm sure you'll be puting up some photos in the near future to show better placement of the grafts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill - Seemiller Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 SinTPA, Do you have any immediately post op pictures? How many grafts did you receive? Dr. Epstein does good work. At 3 months, you are where I'd expect you to be. You should start seeing new growth now in the next few months. Happy growing! Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member SinTPA Posted July 17, 2007 Author Regular Member Share Posted July 17, 2007 Originally posted by Bill:SinTPA, Do you have any immediately post op pictures? How many grafts did you receive? Dr. Epstein does good work. At 3 months, you are where I'd expect you to be. You should start seeing new growth now in the next few months. Happy growing! Bill Hi Bill, Unfortunately I traveled to Miami for the procedure and didn't bring my camera. I regret not taking immediate post-op pictures. Per Dr. Epstein I had 2,599 grafts. He did not provide a breakdown any more detailed than that. He basically decided to fill in the front 2/5ths of my scalp. I will still have the receding hairline but I'm hoping the front are shown in the pics fills in. I'll post more pics at month 4. Cheers, Sin My Hair Loss Weblog 1st HT with Dr. Jeffrey Epstein 2,599 Grafts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wanthairs Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 Hey Sintpa....... Im also an Epstein patient at 10 weeks post op. I was a shiny NWD 6 but now I have growth occuring all over my front and mid which started about 3 weks ago into my 7th week post op. I dont know if this helps, but I drench 5%minoxidil twice a day from a spray bottle all over my reciepient area. I threw out the applicator. According to Epstein, rogaine will speed up the growth by one month ahead of schedule......Are you using it to on your recipient area? BTW your growth looks good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member SinTPA Posted July 17, 2007 Author Regular Member Share Posted July 17, 2007 Originally posted by wanthairs:Hey Sintpa....... Im also an Epstein patient at 10 weeks post op. I was a shiny NWD 6 but now I have growth occuring all over my front and mid which started about 3 weks ago into my 7th week post op. I dont know if this helps, but I drench 5%minoxidil twice a day from a spray bottle all over my reciepient area. I threw out the applicator. According to Epstein, rogaine will speed up the growth by one month ahead of schedule......Are you using it to on your recipient area? BTW your growth looks good Hi wanthairs, Thanks for the reply. Per Dr. Epstein's instructions I have been using Minox on the recipient area. I believe his instructions say for the first 3 months only but I continue to use it at night. I don't really like using it in the morning. I also switched to the Rogaine foam which makes it a lot easier to apply. I'm not sure if it is reducing the effectiveness but the convenience is worth it. One way or another, the hairs will start to grow... just need to have more patience. My regimen looks identical to yours except for the Biotin. Cheers, Sin My Hair Loss Weblog 1st HT with Dr. Jeffrey Epstein 2,599 Grafts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member MrJobi Posted July 17, 2007 Senior Member Share Posted July 17, 2007 Hi all I am almost 4 months post op and seeing ( and feeling) some results.. Yup , waiting sucks but the best is yet to come. I don't use minox due to the life long commitiment and messiness. JOBI 1417 FUT - Dr. True 1476 FUT - Dr. True 2124 FUT - Dr. True 604 FUE - Dr. True My views are based on my personal experiences, research and objective observations. I am not a doctor. Total - 5621 FU's uncut! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member SinTPA Posted July 17, 2007 Author Regular Member Share Posted July 17, 2007 Originally posted by Mrjb:Hi all I am almost 4 months post op and seeing ( and feeling) some results.. Yup , waiting sucks but the best is yet to come. I don't use minox due to the life long commitiment and messiness. JOBI, The minox is only intended to accelerate the growth of the transplants. I intend on discontinuing after month 5. My Hair Loss Weblog 1st HT with Dr. Jeffrey Epstein 2,599 Grafts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member SinTPA Posted August 9, 2007 Author Regular Member Share Posted August 9, 2007 Just posted 4 month pictures. I'm starting to see some real growth. My guess is that the 5 month pictures will start to show a lot of visible growth. My Hair Loss Weblog 1st HT with Dr. Jeffrey Epstein 2,599 Grafts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member SinTPA Posted September 29, 2007 Author Regular Member Share Posted September 29, 2007 5.5 month photos posted. My Hair Loss Weblog 1st HT with Dr. Jeffrey Epstein 2,599 Grafts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill - Seemiller Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 SinTPA, I also posted on your weblog as well! It looks like things are slowly coming along. The next few months should be really exciting for you. Keep us posted my friend, Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member SinTPA Posted September 29, 2007 Author Regular Member Share Posted September 29, 2007 Thanks for the comments Bill. I'm indeed looking forward to the next few months. At this point I am satisfied with the HT but of course I'm still hoping for significant improvements in visual appearance of the HT. If I could figure out how to take a decent picture in natural light, you would be able to see a better indication of the actual progress. My Hair Loss Weblog 1st HT with Dr. Jeffrey Epstein 2,599 Grafts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wanthairs Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 sintpa.... It look like you are a slow grower, like me. Although my growth started at 7 weeks post op, I look like someones glued a few pubes to my scalp.....as it seems slow. Could just be my total impatience. I think (hope) that things change dramatically between week 20 and week 28 so we will all see...... Good luck...keep us posted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member SinTPA Posted September 29, 2007 Author Regular Member Share Posted September 29, 2007 Originally posted by wanthairs:sintpa.... It look like you are a slow grower, like me. Although my growth started at 7 weeks post op, I look like someones glued a few pubes to my scalp.....as it seems slow. Could just be my total impatience. I think (hope) that things change dramatically between week 20 and week 28 so we will all see...... Good luck...keep us posted Wanthairs... thanks for the comments. I see that we had a similar number of grafts, etc. from Dr. Epstein and that your HT was about 2 weeks after mine. I hope your right that I will see some significant growth in the next 6 weeks. I think I'm convinced that I'll wait until the 14 month mark to make the final eval. He didn't give me the breakdown that you have in your signature. From what I've read on the forums, the larger grafts take longer to grow so that could be the situation in my case. Keeping my fingers crossed... Sin My Hair Loss Weblog 1st HT with Dr. Jeffrey Epstein 2,599 Grafts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member MrJobi Posted September 29, 2007 Senior Member Share Posted September 29, 2007 Sin Be aware that any benefits you have received from the minoxidil i.e. additional growth of native hair or thickness will be lost when you discontinue it. If I were you I would continue on it if you don't mind applying it. This is why I never used it post op. You will be in for some nice growth my friend in the next couple of months!!! JOBI 1417 FUT - Dr. True 1476 FUT - Dr. True 2124 FUT - Dr. True 604 FUE - Dr. True My views are based on my personal experiences, research and objective observations. I am not a doctor. Total - 5621 FU's uncut! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member SinTPA Posted September 30, 2007 Author Regular Member Share Posted September 30, 2007 JOBI, I bought a 3-month supply of the Minox foam and will discontinue it as soon as it runs out. I've only been using it at night with the sole purpose of accelerating the growth of the new grafts. Since I really didn't have much hair in the transplanted region I don't expect to regress when I stop using the minox. I also don't expect to lose any of the new grafts. Maybe I'm missing something with your comments but it seems like the recommended regimen from Dr. Epstein of using Minox to accelerate the growth of new hair can only help. Thxs, Sin My Hair Loss Weblog 1st HT with Dr. Jeffrey Epstein 2,599 Grafts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Glock08 Posted October 2, 2007 Senior Member Share Posted October 2, 2007 SinTPA: At 5 months I thought I was getting some serious growth..until I look back and see that it was really nothing compared to my 11 month. My hair didn't start kickin' until the 10 month and is still thickening...hang in there. I'm figuring 14-16 months for a final result on mine. TPA--Tampa? I'm SRQ--part-time. Grow well. Glock08 My Hair Loss Weblog Dr. True 9/22/06 4326 grafts 2129 1's 2168 2's 6545 Total Hairs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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