Plucking transplanted hair

[RTC]

Hi all,

Six weeks in. Today I plucked a hair on the corner of my hairline which I believe to be a pre-existing hair but could also be a temple hair implanted by Dr Mwamba.

Would there be any harm in plucking a transplanted hair six weeks later?

[mafpe]

don't think there is. the hair on transplanted one would have "died" and the follicle would be on resting phase. unless it didn't go on the resting phase, then you did pluck an active hair.

as far as i know, if you pluck an active one, it would just be on resting phase prematurely, while if you pulled a "dead" hair, it doensn't affect the graft as it's resting anyway.

plucking though does fasten the miniaturisation process if i am right since miniaturisation occurs per cycle and you're shortening the cycle.

 

also, i did use a tweezer to gently pull on the transplanted hair to pull the to be shedding hair on a few spot, and one of them is already appearing. might be an isolated case but that one graft is growing early despite me tweezing that graft to pull the shedding hair.

[Gatsby]

1 hour ago, RTC said:

Hi all,

Six weeks in. Today I plucked a hair on the corner of my hairline which I believe to be a pre-existing hair but could also be a temple hair implanted by Dr Mwamba.

Would there be any harm in plucking a transplanted hair six weeks later?

No. 

[Rahal Hair Transplant]

RTC,

My first question is why did you pluck the hair in the first place? In my opinion, regularly plucking hairs from your scalp is not a good habit to get into whether it’s natural or transplanted. While plucking your hairs likely will not damage the follicle underneath the surface of the scalp, continually doing it may eventually result in permanent loss.  Hopefully this is just a single hair you plucked because you felt it was out of place and didn’t want the hair to be there in which case there is no problem. But it will likely grow back and you will have to pluck it again if it’s something you want to be removed.

Again however, I would not get into the habit of rarely plucking hairs unless you want those Prego hairs permanently illuminated over time. Regularly talking or pulling hair is referred to as trichotillomania which is a hair pulling condition where a man or a woman will tug on their hair as a result of stress or some other negative feeling.  Although typically, those with this condition typically pull on clumps of hair rather than plucking single hairs.

I hope this helps.

Rahal Hair Transplant 

[WhereIsMyMind]

Someone got OCD triggered 😄

[RTC]

1 hour ago, Rahal Hair Transplant said:

RTC,

My first question is why did you pluck the hair in the first place? In my opinion, regularly plucking hairs from your scalp is not a good habit to get into whether it’s natural or transplanted. While plucking your hairs likely will not damage the follicle underneath the surface of the scalp, continually doing it may eventually result in permanent loss.  Hopefully this is just a single hair you plucked because you felt it was out of place and didn’t want the hair to be there in which case there is no problem. But it will likely grow back and you will have to pluck it again if it’s something you want to be removed.

Again however, I would not get into the habit of rarely plucking hairs unless you want those Prego hairs permanently illuminated over time. Regularly talking or pulling hair is referred to as trichotillomania which is a hair pulling condition where a man or a woman will tug on their hair as a result of stress or some other negative feeling.  Although typically, those with this condition typically pull on clumps of hair rather than plucking single hairs.

I hope this helps.

Rahal Hair Transplant 

They were poorly implanted grafts from my Turkish operation, very unsightly and ugly. The only reason I'm concerned is because they were close to the temple work Mwamba did so hope I didn't remove some of them.

I definitely don't have a psychological problem, I think you have the wrong end of the stick lol.

[gillenator]

Well, the main thing to keep in mind is the final result, meantime try to refrain from plucking any more…👍

[LookMaxx]

The things I read on this forum sometimes 😂

[RTC]

5 hours ago, LookMaxx said:

The things I read on this forum sometimes 😂

Hi Karen 🤣

[harryforreal]

I have plucked MANY hairs in an attempt to remove weird, unnatural hairs at the front of the hair line or conversely to get the hairs to grow back less thick and more soft and natural.

 

I literally have BAGS of plucked hairs labelled by month over multiple years so I could monitor changes to these hairs over time.

 

To be clear, I never plucked hairs before my HT.  Just was not happy with the "aesthetic" result and literally decided to take matters into my own hands.

 

 

[RTC]

1 hour ago, harryforreal said:

I have plucked MANY hairs in an attempt to remove weird, unnatural hairs at the front of the hair line or conversely to get the hairs to grow back less thick and more soft and natural.

 

I literally have BAGS of plucked hairs labelled by month over multiple years so I could monitor changes to these hairs over time.

 

To be clear, I never plucked hairs before my HT.  Just was not happy with the "aesthetic" result and literally decided to take matters into my own hands.

 

 

Did it work?

This whole theory that plucked hairs come back thinner seems to be false completely

[sukh123]

1 hour ago, harryforreal said:

I have plucked MANY hairs in an attempt to remove weird, unnatural hairs at the front of the hair line or conversely to get the hairs to grow back less thick and more soft and natural.

 

I literally have BAGS of plucked hairs labelled by month over multiple years so I could monitor changes to these hairs over time.

 

To be clear, I never plucked hairs before my HT.  Just was not happy with the "aesthetic" result and literally decided to take matters into my own hands.

 

 

That’s straight up weird ngl

[gillenator]

There probably should be a study done on this to see how plucking might affect future growth, any changes to the hair shafts, etc.

[harryforreal]

On 8/13/2022 at 8:27 AM, RTC said:

Did it work?

This whole theory that plucked hairs come back thinner seems to be false completely

The transplanted coarse hairs do not look like the soft hair of a beautiful maiden (which is what I thought I was getting as part of the HT, being quite naive), so probably fair to say no.  On the other hand some hairs seem a bit softer - but that could just be testosterone whittling away the hairs over more than a decade now. Or it could be that plucking some did affect the coarseness a bit.  But the worst hairs just seem bizarre still, even if they MIGHT have softened a little....

Edited August 27, 2022 by harryforreal
fix spelling typo

[harryforreal]

On 8/13/2022 at 8:36 AM, sukh123 said:

That’s straight up weird ngl

Hair transplants are straight up weird, ngl.  Watch a video on youtube!  ^^