One day post op FUE / 2000 Grafts total

[Nicki8000]

One day post OP.

2000 grafts total.

500 in crown,

1500 in front. 

No significant pain. No significant itching etc. 

Advise from clinic was 48 hours waiting before doing anything on the recipient area (except maybe once or twice some saline solution but not required). At the third day gentle wash with baby shampoo once a day. 

Any feedback on the one day post up results in terms of how it looks so far?

Any other advise would be welcome. 

 

Cheers.

 

Pic 1 - Before procedure

Pic 2 - Post op front (24 hours after)

Pic 3 - Post op crown (24 hours after)

Edited April 24, 2021 by Nicki8000

[kramer79]

Do you have clearer pre-op pictures?

Where did you have the procedure done?

[Nicki8000]

Here you go. This is 24 hours after the procedure. 
 

i terms of the clinic I would like this not be public at the moment. Just trying to get feedback on the current situation. I’m neither unhappy nor concerned as I have never had a procedure done prior to this one so I have no baseline for an opinion. 

Edited April 24, 2021 by Nicki8000

[Nicki8000]

 

and another one pre-op 

 

 

[WhiteyUK]

To my untrained eye your new hairline looks like your old one tbh and lacks a little density 

[Nicki8000]

I purposely didn’t want to go too extreme on lowering the hairline in the front area. I had them fill in the sides/corners and add more density in the mid section of the front as it was thinning. 

Edited April 24, 2021 by Nicki8000

[WhiteyUK]

Yeah I can see that with that picture, hopefully adding new grafts with your native hairs will give you a nice dense hairline.. good luck

[Nicki8000]

Thank you. That’s my hope as well:)

never had a straight hairline. Always had pretty noticeable corners . Therefore didn’t want to go to for the drastic lowering and end up looking like Silvester Stallone these days. 

[Melvin- Admin]

Where did you go? 

[Nicki8000]

I do not like to announce the clinic. 
just looking for feedback and suggestions and trying to keep everyone updated on my regrowth journey. 

[Nicki8000]

I do not like to announce the clinic. 
just looking for feedback and suggestions and trying to keep everyone updated on my regrowth journey. 

[Nicki8000]

Does the scabbing look normal for 24 hour post op?

[swats09]

It looks way under 2k grafts more like 500 on front and 100 on crown. And large punch size? 
 

scabs look normal 

[Nicki8000]

I don’t think it looks like 500 and 100. 
i think it depends on bleeding etc. on how many grafts you can see better . 
i spent 8 hours in the chair and they pretty much spend most of that time working (2 nurses at a time). For 600 grafts it would have taken 4-5 hours 
 

Edited April 25, 2021 by Nicki8000

[EvoXOhio]

I hate to say it but there’s nowhere near that many grafts. Since each graft has a unique scab, it’s fairly easy to count. For example look at the crown, do you see anywhere close to 500 scabs? I concur with the person who said it looks more like 600 grafts. 

Edited April 25, 2021 by EvoXOhio

[Britanium]

Unfortunately I have to agree, this is not 2000 grafts. Maybe 2000 hairs at a push yes. Sorry but I dont think this is very good work. The grafts have been spaced far apart and I don’t think you will notice much difference when the results mature. 
 

Edited April 25, 2021 by JohnAC71

[WhiteyUK]

That was my thoughts yesterday, there really is no density 

[Nicki8000]

Here is the donor area at 2 day post op.

[swats09]

24 minutes ago, Nicki8000 said:

Here is the donor area at 2 day post op.

Why don’t you count them and see?

[Nicki8000]

Healing is progressing well so far. No swelling just a bit of annoying itch. 
In terms of graft amount I’m not going to stress out about it for now. They did say that I had a greater than normal amount of 4’s as donor so that was encouraging I guess. They were mostly placed in the crown area they said. I’ll bring up the count and ask for the count sheet during my one week follow up in a few days. 
either way it’s now about the healing and the annoying waiting period to see what will come out of it at the end I guess. 
overall the entire process was less severe or dramatic than what I anticipated. 
donor area is already extremely clean and almost no discomfort at day 3 with not many scabs to worry about. 
appreciate y’all’s input/feedback (albeit a little worrisome at first). Time will tell. 
 

cheers! 

[ITA]

@Nicki8000 Live the post procedure in the best possible way, do not stress yourself, the process is long, be calm, in the end, you will see how it went.

[Nicki8000]

That’s my thinking exactly. Some of the feedback about the graft count was a little worrisome. However, after “cleaning” the recipient area a few times with saline it appeared that it is actually more crusts (smaller ones) than initially seen. Although it doesn’t look like 1500 in the front but I won’t drive myself crazy over it. Probability some were crusted over in pairs maybe. Anyhow as I said, I like the current shape of the hairline (similar to what I had 10 years ago) and the healing process. 
Never had a crazy thick full head of hair (always had fine straight hair) and I’m hopeful that this one will bring some more fullness back to work with. 
 

Edited April 26, 2021 by Nicki8000

[Nicki8000]

Day 4

[Nicki8000]

Day 7

[TrialAcc]

The work should blend into your existing density and look pretty natural, however are you on finasteride? If not, I would 100% speak to a doctor about trying it out because you will 100% need another pass on the front to add density if you lose your natural hair there. 

On the graft counts, I don't think this is 500 and 100 as some poster said, but I would say there is about 300 max in the crown and maybe 700-1000 on the front. I would defiantly ask for that graft count and possibly even literally count the dots with MSpaint or something to verify. 

Good luck! Happy growing!

Edited May 1, 2021 by TrialAcc