Mike's 3rd HT

[MikeTheDane]

My plane left for pakistan early in the morning. My visa was ready the day before my departure, but since the trip to the embassy was expensive, and the airport only minutes away, I stayed a day in Copenhagen having a good time, FINALLY went to see Avatar and so on. Since I had no time to sleep, I pulled an allnighter and decided to sleep in the plane. Well, bad idea. Not only did I have 2 stopovers, all 3 flights had terrified babies crying their hearts out the entire 13 hours of flight. After an hour of waiting in the Benazir Bhutto airport customs, I was finally let through and escorted to my hotel at 4 AM after not having slept for 48 hours, passed out and woke up at 5 PM.

 

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15 months after my procedure with Dr. Devroye, I was very happy with the result. My frontal 3rd, and the mid section pretty much look like a full head of hair except when wet. That's the perfect illusion of density.

 

My hairline however, was lacking. I say this as someone with realistic expectations, and having seen many hairline photos I knew I hadn't achieved the norm of a good hairline.

 

I decided to go to pakistan to have a procedure with dr. Mohmand. Due to shortage of funds, I couldn't have afforded another round with Dr. D. Not implying that Mohmand is an inferior surgeon, just that since he was the only one I could afford (and would be able to afford for years) was enough motivational factor for me to spend 25 hours travelling each way.

 

Initially, the plan was to densify the hairline for around 1500 grafts, and if possible fill in my slightly thinning crown. Unfortunately, although I had okay laxity, due to my scar it wasn't possible to get enough grafts to restore both. There was also the issue of permanent shockloss to the crown, so it was no-go.

 

Ultimately, 1429 grafts were harvested to the hairline and temporal peaks. Judging the density from the stubbles and the existing hair, I feel confident that this is it, but only time will tell and I shall pass no judgement yet. After all, this is the most important part.

 

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My way home left something to be desired. Perhaps it was the fact that I had only slept 2 hours before my HT, followed by 4 hours of (non-consecutive) sleep on the night after my HT, and finally another 40 hours of insomnia thanks to a harem of dreadful babies; or the fact that I managed to catch explosive diarrhea the minute I set foot in the aircraft forcing me to hit the loo twice an hour for the entire flight (much to peoples dismay as I had a window seat); or that I had to reassure the flight attendants that an emergency landing was not nessesary.

 

At any rate, Humayun Mohmand and his staff are very friendly and professional. So in terms of being taken care of, I can only give a 10 / 10. I'll admit it felt a bit awkward to being the only guest in a hotel with atleast 6 employees, your own resturant, iron gate, fence around the building, outside guards - but after befriending the staff I kinda got used to it.

 

No pics yet as my camera is broken, but I'll updating the first time I see a significant improvement..

[youngsuccess]

Mike,

 

Congratulations on your recent procedure with Dr. Mohmand and thanks for posting in detail about your experience. It sounds like you had quite an adventure.

 

Perfecting the hairline is the key component to a successful restoration in many ways, so it sounds like these grafts were used wisely. I'm looking forward to your pictures.

 

Best,

 

Anthony (youngsuccess)

[MikeTheDane]

THanks anthony

 

Btw, I saw no less than 3 people in the airport who have had HT's. The first was a flight attendant on my way over. He looked like he had gotten the grafts to the crown, but instead decided to shave down.

 

The second was a fullblown NW7 in the airport on my way home, who had plugs to his hairline and temples, something that looked like he had it done 10-20 years ago. I wonder why he didn't buzz it off, because it looked atrocious.

 

The 3rd was a young man on the plane who looked like he has his first half of the scalp grafted, but the result was scarse, wiry and he had a big fat smiley.

 

I've never seen so many HT's gone wrong in such a short time.

[JohnWidle]

Hi Man,

 

I am planning to go to Dr. Devroye in August this year. My thinning is quite severe.

 

I will need the crown and almost full frontal area done.

 

Were you totally satisfied with Dr. Devroye work, sorry for asking, but, why didn't you go back to Dr. Devroye to have the density completed?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

John

[JohnWidle]

Me, again,

 

I know that funds at the time were an issue, but was there any other reason not to go back to Dr. Devroye?

 

John

[MikeTheDane]

Nope, funds were the primary reason. My results were good, dr. mohmand confirmed that I had a nice (although thin) hairline.

[Julius]

I think it was a wise decision not to touch the crown just yet. Also I think you hair is going to be killer in twelve months time!

[MikeTheDane]

Thanks Julius, but in all fairness the decision was not mine to make. Due to the size of the scar, I was left without a choice.

 

But it was probably for the best.

[Romeono1]

Mike what age are you now? Do you have any post op pictures? Dr Humayun took before pictures for me and Shahid was kind enough to take 1 day post op pictures for me. I will be creating my hairloss blog soon.

[MikeTheDane]

I am 23 now, turning 24 soon. No post ops, as I had to leave for a flight the next day. But rest asured it looks like any other hairline graft post op.

 

Good idea with the blog. I'll personally be updating around month 5 or whenever I see reasonable growth..