PRP after transplant

[Runitback]

Wanted to get opinions from others that have done it and felt it helped hair grow faster or better?

[Pephair]

I had it on my last of 3 days but I am only 8 weeks out. I can say I didn't have shock loss in recipient area and  have had quite a few grafts (especially my beard grafts) not shed at just continue to grow.

[TorontoMan]

Waste of money imo. 

[Rooter]

I have the same question, undecided as well. After all it will be again a (very minor but still) trauma from the needles happening to the transplanted grafts. On the other hand the "health power" from PRP (not just for HTs) seems to be valid especially if blood flow is increased. There are reputable HT Docs who say they dont offer this as they havent seen any benefit for patients, other Docs do say its good. I would imagine if its universally a good option most if not any top clinic would offer it along the procedure (what they dont, so there likely is a reason but I dont know)

My biggest hold off currently is I believe we wont get any 1st hand experiences that actually lead to real life conclusions because ultimately no one can tell if you would have had the same healing experience with or without doing the treatment as there is no A/B comparison possible + each ones healing factors are different.

What also puts me off is that one part of the extraction are cytokines. As you all know one - if not the most dangerous - trigger for a severe Covid case is that the body develops a cytokine storm. Maybe not that good to boost cytokines artificially even if just in skin layers but I am no medical expert. (I am referring to you might carry covid, vaccinated or not which is handled fine by your immune system at the moment so you dont notice it on the day of the PRP treatment but the injected cytokines do actually trigger something. Please dont laugh at me, just some thoughts that came to my mind)

Piggybacking on the initial question however - if one would do a post PRP treatment, what is actually the best time frame ? There is a wide spectrum on the net of what people have done, ranging from pretty much after the op to several months later.

Gonna call a PRP provider in the area just to hear their pitch, am interested generally what they say. (yes I know how to distinguish snake oil sales talk to reasonable input