marcus6838 Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 I was six days post H/T, driving home from work, talking on my cell. The scabs (one in particular) were driving me crazy. So I picked. Very bad move! As I dislodged the scab (which I practically did not feel because of the shock loss) all of the sudden I felt a warm ooze down my face. I quickly hung up and realized that blood was pooring all over me. My shirt was drenched (this is while I'm doing 85 in the left lane). I was lucky enough to have had a role of paper towels in the car. I quickly tore of a couple of sheets and applied it with pressure to my scalp. Within a couple of minutes the paper towels were completely soaked with blood. After a couple of more minutes the bleeding stopped. Blood was everywhere. I did not expect this from a harmless pick. After all this I still had the bulb lodged in my finger nail. It was nasty and pretty thick! Moral of the story - DON'T PICK!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcus6838 Posted November 6, 2003 Author Share Posted November 6, 2003 I was six days post H/T, driving home from work, talking on my cell. The scabs (one in particular) were driving me crazy. So I picked. Very bad move! As I dislodged the scab (which I practically did not feel because of the shock loss) all of the sudden I felt a warm ooze down my face. I quickly hung up and realized that blood was pooring all over me. My shirt was drenched (this is while I'm doing 85 in the left lane). I was lucky enough to have had a role of paper towels in the car. I quickly tore of a couple of sheets and applied it with pressure to my scalp. Within a couple of minutes the paper towels were completely soaked with blood. After a couple of more minutes the bleeding stopped. Blood was everywhere. I did not expect this from a harmless pick. After all this I still had the bulb lodged in my finger nail. It was nasty and pretty thick! Moral of the story - DON'T PICK!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Spitfire Posted November 6, 2003 Regular Member Share Posted November 6, 2003 Pick your nose next time. (-; Just kidding, yes the scalp tends to bleed alot. Hope everything heals up ok for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Teddw2ds Posted November 7, 2003 Senior Member Share Posted November 7, 2003 Yeah, I had a similar experience, but fortunately I was asleep while it happened or else I probably would have really panicked. I woke up one morning to find blood all over the pillow! This was on day three. I felt a little bit of pain right at the very top of my head and so I felt it, and there was a huge mound of scabbed blood. I had evidently picked at it somehow in my sleep and did it ever gush all over the place. As I showered upon waking up, I found the dislodged graft floating in my hands when I shampooed. It definitely freaked me out, but I was certainly far more careful from that point on. I ended up losing only that single graft. Tedd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcus6838 Posted November 7, 2003 Author Share Posted November 7, 2003 Tedd, How can one know how many grafts they lost? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Teddw2ds Posted November 7, 2003 Senior Member Share Posted November 7, 2003 I guess it's possible I lost more than than, but I only found one when I shampooed my hair the next morning. There could have been others that I just didn't see. That was the only incident of bleeding I had though, so I know at least that was the only occasion I would have lost any. Tedd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcus6838 Posted November 7, 2003 Author Share Posted November 7, 2003 I guesss what scares me is that there can be lost grafts without bleeding if they are single grafts. The one I lost was a larger one (3 or 4). That's why there was so much bleeding. On the single hair grafts, the bulbs are much thinner, thus, less or no bleeding. I think I might have picked 1 or 2 in the front and dislodged them. I saw the thin bulb. I know. I'M AN IDIOT! But they were driving me nuts! HOwever, after the major bleeding incident, I was much more careful. Thanks for your response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member C. Smith Posted November 7, 2003 Regular Member Share Posted November 7, 2003 I was talking to my girlfriend of the moment and not thinking about my new grafts when I absentmindedly began to pick at the pesky scabs that remained at around day three or so. Moments later, I felt that same trickle of blood like you, which ran all the way down to my neck. I threw the phone down and rushed to a mirror and saw how I had stupidly pulled out two very dear units from the middle area of my scalp. I stopped the bleeding, then tried to put the one I could find back in. It is impossible to do. Then I proceeded to fight back tears! Shortly after my second procedure, I stupidy went before a mirror and thought that my hair would look better if it were combed. I learned, after disloding one dear trooper, that one should NEVER comb his hair until the scabs are long, LONG Gone. When I do my third, I plan on losing none. We'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 7, 2003 Share Posted November 7, 2003 Driving 85 with, while having a cellphone call, may result in much more bleeding than picking at one scab if you ask me. "There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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