1300+ w/ Dr. Feller

[Foundation]

Real quick, here's my story. I was 23 years old when I decided I couldn't stand my hairline anymore. I have always been one of those guys who expressed himself through his hair. Growing up there were mohawks, spikes, shaves, bleaches, coloring, long hair, short hair etc. So at 23 years old, I made a decision to get a hair transplant. Because I was 23 years old, and I didn't know any better, I headed over to good ol' Bosley NY. It was there that I was told 500 grafts was all I needed. Sounded good to me! (Please remember throughout all of this I was quite uneducated in terms of HT's, young, and desperate too look my age). Now I would get into my Bosley surgery in great detail here, but I am going to make an entire new post dedicated to that, as this is already running long. They gave me about 700 + b/c I had so much donor hair, and I was on my way. Well, almost four years later I am 27. I also have hair grafts that you can drive a truck through, in the front of my head (once again, I'm going to make an entire post about the experience). Well, with age comes experience. Today I received my surgery with Dr. Allen Feller, which we planned for 1200. He summed up my situation pretty well, "They didn't do a bad job, they just didn't finish it". His goal was to finish their mess, and catch me up for a while.

 

I am fortunate enough to live about 15 minutes away from his office, so I left work with a "stomach ache", and headed over at 11:45. At 12:00 I went in to speak with Dr. Feller. I told him that my biggest fears were shock loss, and my students finding out about what I did when I return to work in 5 days. He eased my worries, and we were on our way. Dr. Feller is completely hands on, quite different from my Bosley surgery (who was my doctor again?). The whole thing took about 3 hours, which is ridiculous considering for half the grafts, Bosley took twice as long (LITERALLY!). My experience was great, but man are those nurses rough with that tape! I think I may have lost more hairs from the removal of tape than I got put in (kidding obviously, but ouch!). I don't know how to feel right now, as those of you who have had these things done know that the hours, days and weeks following an HT are rough. I will say this though, Dr. Feller is one of the realest doctors out there, in any field. He told me it looked great, and guess what? He even threw me an extra 100 + grafts with no extra charge. Anyway, I'm pretty much high from the vicodin right now (I haven't taken so much as an Advil in 5 years), so I figure this post is all over the place. Anyway, I'll post pictures when I get around to feeling better. For now, I figured I'd put this out here and see if anyone has any comments or questions. Ok my brothers in bald, talk to you soon.

[Foundation]

Real quick, here's my story. I was 23 years old when I decided I couldn't stand my hairline anymore. I have always been one of those guys who expressed himself through his hair. Growing up there were mohawks, spikes, shaves, bleaches, coloring, long hair, short hair etc. So at 23 years old, I made a decision to get a hair transplant. Because I was 23 years old, and I didn't know any better, I headed over to good ol' Bosley NY. It was there that I was told 500 grafts was all I needed. Sounded good to me! (Please remember throughout all of this I was quite uneducated in terms of HT's, young, and desperate too look my age). Now I would get into my Bosley surgery in great detail here, but I am going to make an entire new post dedicated to that, as this is already running long. They gave me about 700 + b/c I had so much donor hair, and I was on my way. Well, almost four years later I am 27. I also have hair grafts that you can drive a truck through, in the front of my head (once again, I'm going to make an entire post about the experience). Well, with age comes experience. Today I received my surgery with Dr. Allen Feller, which we planned for 1200. He summed up my situation pretty well, "They didn't do a bad job, they just didn't finish it". His goal was to finish their mess, and catch me up for a while.

 

I am fortunate enough to live about 15 minutes away from his office, so I left work with a "stomach ache", and headed over at 11:45. At 12:00 I went in to speak with Dr. Feller. I told him that my biggest fears were shock loss, and my students finding out about what I did when I return to work in 5 days. He eased my worries, and we were on our way. Dr. Feller is completely hands on, quite different from my Bosley surgery (who was my doctor again?). The whole thing took about 3 hours, which is ridiculous considering for half the grafts, Bosley took twice as long (LITERALLY!). My experience was great, but man are those nurses rough with that tape! I think I may have lost more hairs from the removal of tape than I got put in (kidding obviously, but ouch!). I don't know how to feel right now, as those of you who have had these things done know that the hours, days and weeks following an HT are rough. I will say this though, Dr. Feller is one of the realest doctors out there, in any field. He told me it looked great, and guess what? He even threw me an extra 100 + grafts with no extra charge. Anyway, I'm pretty much high from the vicodin right now (I haven't taken so much as an Advil in 5 years), so I figure this post is all over the place. Anyway, I'll post pictures when I get around to feeling better. For now, I figured I'd put this out here and see if anyone has any comments or questions. Ok my brothers in bald, talk to you soon.

[yankeesfan]

Foundation,

 

I am in a similar situation as you. My hairline was starting to go on me as well around the age of 19 or 20. Around the age of 23 I ended up going to Bosley to try and correct this(bad mistake on my part as well). They suggested that I get around 800 grafts put into my hair line. The result was ok(i didn't know any better) but now at the age of 26, almost 27, my hair loss has increased and I now have the grafts from Bosley in which look bad. After doing a little research this time I came across this website and ended up getting a consultation with Dr. Feller. He recommended around 3000 grafts in my frontal 1/3. My surgery is now scheduled for March 2009(the earliest I could get). I hope it turns out ok