6 months post 5000 graft FUE

[Rollo]

Hi forum members

i am 6 months post 5000 graft FUE with attached result and getting quite concerned. All I have heard advice wise is to wait until 6 months onwards for real results but this seems a very poor result so far and very patchy. Is there any hope ?

[NARMAK]

21 minutes ago, Rollo said:

Hi forum members

i am 6 months post 5000 graft FUE with attached result and getting quite concerned. All I have heard advice wise is to wait until 6 months onwards for real results but this seems a very poor result so far and very patchy. Is there any hope ?

I will be honest, for 6 months that's not very good. If that was the 2nd or 3rd month which is considered the Ugly Duckling phase, it would be considered normal. 

I think the first ref flag for me is that you said 5000 grafts. I'm going to take a guess and say you went to Turkey, so i have concerns about not just the fact your 6 months progress looks sub par but the fact that you may have had a lot of damage done to your donor to try and even attempt a repair. 

OP, things could turn around but you may want to prepare for the potential outcome being negative. 

[Z--]

Can you name the clinic? How long did the surgery last? Also, please post pre-op photos.

For 5,000 I'd expect there to be a lot more growth (unless you were slick bald before).

[BaldReaper]

We need better pictures

[Rollo]

Hi

Ive added more photos now . 

[Rollo]

13 minutes ago, Z-- said:

Can you name the clinic? How long did the surgery last? Also, please post pre-op photos.

For 5,000 I'd expect there to be a lot more growth (unless you were slick bald before).

Hi smile in turkey

yes was slick bald 

[civic]

Would be helpful to see donor area, to see if it look like 5k were extracted.

[NARMAK]

24 minutes ago, Rollo said:

Hi smile in turkey

yes was slick bald 

If you were slick bald, i think if you post a complete before your hair transplant picture, it would help greatly and also post-op so we can see where they were placed. Because if you were slick bald, i'd say the way that the hair looks, the survival in some areas looks well, but there's a lot of areas that haven't gone well. 

Thanks for sharing the name of the clinic. Unfortunately my fears were you went to a hair mill and the reality seems to be that's the case but let's not hit a complete panic button and let's assume there could be some improvement to Months 12 and beyond. 

[Z--]

36 minutes ago, Rollo said:

Hi smile in turkey

yes was slick bald 

Damn. Yeah this is a hair mill. Many poor results from them…

Can you post the pre-operation photos? This looks like typical diffuse but if you were completely bald it looks like at least you had some survival. It’s still very poor for 5k grafts; it should have way more thickness.