Is this type of shock loss common?

[Rc14]

Hello everyone, 

it’s been one month since I had my hair transplant, and I’m experiencing extreme shock loss on only one area of my head. I’m concerned because the place its shedding, forms pretty much a straight line, and I see literally 0 hair growing out of it. As in, the skin there is as smooth as places where no hair grows out of it. 
 

has this happened to anybody? Is it possible the tech didn’t place the grafts correctly? 
 

Any thoughts/advice is much appreciated.

 

2 weeks after transplant: 

 

now: 

 

Close up or the white line:

 

I always had thick hair there too:

 

now:

[Gatsby]

This is shock loss coupled with the ugly duck phase. Don’t be alarmed as it’s a 12 month process in all after surgery.

[Rc14]

14 minutes ago, Gatsby said:

This is shock loss coupled with the ugly duck phase. Don’t be alarmed as it’s a 12 month process in all after surgery.

Why do you think it only happened to one side? The other side(that got more grafts actually) doesn’t even look like it had a hair transplant. 
 

I’m worried that my native donor got transected.

[Gatsby]

At one month you won’t know if the implanted hair has been transected. The ugly duckling phase can last three months or even longer. Speak with your surgeon but patience is required when it comes to surgery. 

[A_4_Archan]

Yeh it seems to be a shock loss and you are into the shedding phase and the next month would be the same so don't worry it will start to grow once you come out of this phase. It can happen that one side gets more shock loss and the other side don't get at all and it looks as if like it doesn't even had a transplant because of the shed..you will start feeling the hairs there once you come out of this phase and the hairs will start to sprout out

Edited June 29, 2023 by A_4_Archan

[Rc14]

5 minutes ago, Gatsby said:

At one month you won’t know if the implanted hair has been transected. The ugly duckling phase can last three months or even longer. Speak with your surgeon but patience is required when it comes to surgery. 

Oh I’m not worried about my transplanted hair, I’m worried about my native hair’s transection. I’m just confused at how it forms literally a perfect line. And it’s smooth to the touch.

 

But yeah, I guess there’s nothing I can do but wait. It’s just a bummer that I’m one of the few with intense shock loss.

[Rc14]

I thought I would update here about the status of my shock loss. It’s been 6 weeks, and, well, no change really. The bald spots are still extremely smooth, no hairs growing out of it at all. I’m very worried that I made my existing hair much worse after the transplant, but, nothing to do but wait.

I’ve actually never seen anybody else have shock loss where the bald spots are so smooth, which worries me more.

Let me know what y’all think.

 

[Davies]

Very strange though worth waiting to see what happens.... 

[Rahal Hair Transplant]

@Rc14,

Shock loss can occur anytime hair is transplanted or implanted in or around existing hair. So at one month post hair transplant, what you were experiencing could very well could be shock loss  

short hair can take several months to grow back so at this early stage, I wouldn’t worry. Your newly transplanted hair will start to grow between 3 to 5 months after surgery and continue to grow, thicken and mature up to 12 to 18 months. Any shocked natural hair may also take up to that time to return.

Rahal Hair Transplant

[Rc14]

25 minutes ago, Rahal Hair Transplant said:

@Rc14,

Shock loss can occur anytime hair is transplanted or implanted in or around existing hair. So at one month post hair transplant, what you were experiencing could very well could be shock loss  

short hair can take several months to grow back so at this early stage, I wouldn’t worry. Your newly transplanted hair will start to grow between 3 to 5 months after surgery and continue to grow, thicken and mature up to 12 to 18 months. Any shocked natural hair may also take up to that time to return.

Rahal Hair Transplant

Have you ever seen shock loss where they were essentially circles of smooth skin? You can check my other post: 

but I think that there’s a lot of overlap with existing hair. I wonder if this will cause a problem.

[Rc14]

Week 7 update, sigh. I don’t see any traces of transplanted hair, but I’m just worried about my native hair right now. I just want it to start growing like normal, but those bald patches are still super smooth. We’ll see what happens I suppose.

[Al - Moderator]

It takes months for it to grow back in. You just have to wait for it. Shock loss is normal.

[Rc14]

I’m trying to stay positive, but man, I’m starting to wish I didn’t do this procedure. Things haven’t gotten better — they perhaps have gotten worse. I thought by 10 weeks things would start looking up.

 

[Turkhair]

> Unnecessary transplant chasing perfection

> Hairs don’t grow in one month. 

3 months at least for one hair cycle. And shock loss seems to take even longer to recover from what I’ve seen on people here in this forum (5-8 months)

You should check your status after October 

[Rc14]

I think you may be right. I took another picture, and using where my skin is red as a proxy for where hair was placed, my hair is gone surrounding it. Even if the hair from the transplant grows in perfectly, I may not be happy with the result lol. The question then becomes, what should I do to fix it? 
 

The picture

Outline of hair transplant: 

[Rahal Hair Transplant]

@Rc14,

Shock loss can occur anytime hair is transplanted in between and around natural hair.  It is also possible that one side can be affected more than the other. In other words, yes what you are experiencing can certainly happen and is considered normal. That said, what you are experiencing looks more like the shedding of your transplanted hair along with some nominal shock loss to your natural hair.

Either way, this is normal and even in your update at four weeks, I wouldn’t expect there to be much change.

to be honest, shot natural hair typically begins to grow back around the same time transplant hair be in this to start breaking through the scalp which is usually between 3 to 5 months. It can take up to 6 to 12 months for the shocked natural hair to return and contains up to 12 to 18 months for your transplanted hair to fully mature.

I hope this helps.

Rahal Hair Transplant

 

 

[Rc14]

Thought I would do a 4 month update. I’m very relieved that my shock loss has recovered. 
 

As far as the actual transplant, I’ll be a bit upset if this is the majority of the results, it doesn’t look significantly better than pre-op, but I’ll be patient now. 
 

[mojones]

How is it now? I’m going through something similiar

Edited January 9 by mojones